Good performance tonight by the lads.We should've had 70!! Again.well done!!!

Wouldn't get too excited, it was only against a poop team like hull.

Still fancy you to miss out on a top-two finish.

Brent Webb'll have you boy!!

Hull made you look good to-night: how they are as far up the league as they are is beyond belief.

You keep dreaming the bubble will burst!!

Lol.

Who's gonna get above us apart from saints? hull kr per chance?

We were consistently better in all departments...however Hull were so poor that this wasn't difficult.

I can just about see that we are playing okay (defensively we are certainly looking as good as I have ever seen us)but in all honesty we have looked and continue to look pretty ordinary in attacking terms.

For me the jury is out on the Buderus/Diskin dual hooker combination, we look flat and lacking sparkle in the half backs (Mc Guire looks injured to me), the right side of the threequarters Smith/Donald looks some way short of world class although there are glimpses from both that they could click and become a real force but it ain't happening yet. The left side is looking better although how long Senior can keep playing consistently at a top class level for is a worrying question Hall has the makings and is as good on the flank as anyone else running around the league at the moment. Webb beginning to find the form we saw for big chunks of 2007/2008 but again nothing very consistent.

Still we are in good enough shape to mount a real challenge although the failure to land Eastwood and or another world class threequarter could easily come back to bite us as the last half of the season unfolds

Quality post HR

Best performance of the season so far at home. IMO of course. Still plenty to work on, thought Smith went very well at centre though. Hall is improving week on week, and Keith rolled back the years big time. Thought Sinny was good in the absence of Burrow as well.

Trolling aside

I think you miss Ellis big-time - in a way I didn't think a second-rower could be missed...

It was a better performance but hulls defence was sheeite.

With better defence they could have stifled us and forced some errors creating a closer game and people would be on here saying leeds were poor blah blah.

Some really soft tries conceded from hull tonight.

Is that us turned the corner need to back it up with a victory in Perpignan not a easy place to go.

It was by no means fantastic but i thought we looked really sharp and played at a pace we are used to seeing.
What i don't get is whenever we have played well in spells it's been the other team that's poor


We had this against catalans(both games),wigan and the giants match aswell.
Whilst i admit theres plenty of improvement in us give the lads some credit maybe these teams weren't that good because we didn't allow them to be,maybe we played at a pace and got a momentum they couldn't stop.

The giving away of penalties is still a major concern. Another count lost again tonight and comfortably so at 7-11. A better team than Hull will punish such indiscipline somewhere down the line.

That aside the errors were down tonight at 5 knock ons, 1 forward pass, 1 intercept pass, 1 kick out on the full. A big improvement on the last few games.

TBF though any penalty count when M.Allibert is reffing should be classed as null and void as soon as the FT hooter goes



I thought a few were harsh to say the least and when do I ever come on here and say that?



Bailey's springs to mind.

Are you kidding.

a solid display,although hull were awful.we played at a good pace which was good,peacock was immense as were all the forwards bar bailey who was dire. he passed the ball rather than take it up on more than a few occasions.defence was ok but going forward he was gutless

Was it me or was Donald 'bottling it' at every possible opportunity ?

It's been the story of his season so far.

He doesn't physically have the build or technique to break a tackle, and his confidence looks completely shot.

In fairness to the guy, anytime he has actually received a pass when in an attacking move, he's usually been inches away from the touchline and has had to check back inside.

Maybe a season too far in Leed's colours

Given Hall's development this season is there now not a case for swopping the wingers again?

Donald showed last season he is a quality player the swop of sides should give him the confidence he desperately needs.

You know I have been quite critical of the side this season, but you have gone beyond me.

Earlier in season we were winning games, which IMO the oppossition was much worse than Hull last night.

I thought last night was a terrific performance, were the scoreline actually flattered Hull.

You are correct on the Buderus/Diskin situation. It did not work the last time we tried it with Millard and Diskin, and it does not look right this time. IMO Diskin should not be in the squad.

I dissagree on McGuire, who was simply outstanding last night. Best performance he has put in in last couple of seasons for me. And for me it is simply that both him and Burrow play better when they are not together. I have said that for years, despite winning 3 titles with those halfbacks.

I am a critic of Donald this season, but thought the combination of him and Smith looked superb. Smith is once again proving that you can play the lad anywhere and he will excell. New position, been out for weeks, but put in a top effort.

But like you, I still think we need another forward to see help us regain that title. I was certainly dissapointed in the amount of miss tackles from Kirke last night.

Worries me too. Most seem needless for infringements at the PTB as well which is easily solved.

I would like to see that quantified.

Because from what I saw, the majority of the penalties I thought we conceeded were for offside.

That been the case, and I repeat what I have put most times this season, it is completely open to refs interpretation, which is near always inconsistent.

Who wouldn't miss a player of Ellis' quality? With HKR and Saints to visit Headingley and recovery time on Challenge Cup weekends a top two finish seems highly probable.

I can think of three separate incidents off the top of my head for stuff that happens after initial contact has been made.

Maybe its just because of the way I react to them, rather than offside which you kind of accept will happen once or twice in a game.