What a sad, boring comment that was. We were brilliant tonight. I called the “gamble” with Gale paying off, he generalled that game very nicely. Lui played his part with Gale nicely aswell and it worked. Dwyer has his point to prove last nice and it was proved, he was great. Prior is a defensive demon, enough said. Luke Briscoe should not be dropped for Tom at all he is developing and stepping up a great deal. Hurrell was very good but he needs to stop thinking he is SBW with these cheeky flicks because they never come off. All middles were great and dominated the field. Myler again is proving the point of why he deserves to be in the team and that he isn’t a 7 and better support/running player. Handle was good too and our wingers are a lot smaller than theirs by a long way and they could not keep up the pace. Shame about Walker because he is developing into an England no.1 easily. Hope he comes back strong. Smith deserves his place and should be our 13. but I see why Agar went big tonight and it worked perfectly. Martin is one of the best 2nd towers in the league easily, enough said. Donaldson tries his best all the time and it’s a credit to him. But Harry Newman, how good is he going to be? Easily going to be on a par with a top form pre injury Watkins and the best of Senior, he is class. But a great tactical set out from Agar and the team, we dominated Warrington going big and lettting the halves direct us. Our defence, desire and team spirit really worked. Warrington were never given the chance to play and that’s the jist of it, they got suffocated. Overall fantastic performance. But I have to say Widdop is garbage, I’m so glad we didn’t get him. He is past it now and did nothing. That Warrington team should be top of the league unbeaten with the caliber of players they have.

Great performance.
Early days but we look like we are capable of competing with the top end of the table instead of the bottom this season. Much tougher tests ahead but our attack has improved out of sight with Gale, and the defence has been much better since Agar took over.
Dwyer made the comment after the game that the culture changed when Agar came to the club. He deserves a lot of credit for the team spirit that has returned and the fact that they all look to be playing for each other again. I'm sure there will be plenty more bumps in the road but at least we are going to games thinking that we may have a chance again.
Well done.

The interview with JJB and agar before the game on sky was v interesting with regards to how they’ve brought back the spirit of the rhinos. Should try and watch it if anyone missed it.
Also, been so impressed with myler. Got to say I’m not so sure where leering will fit in at the moment.

Great to see a fully fit Gale again, I did wonder whether he would get back to that level again. I'm not sure why so many Leeds fans dislike him.

Myler is undropable at the moment. Very difficult for Leeming to get back in but hes out until summer and theres a long way to go yet.

I think they're in the minority now. Hes class

The Village has called it wants its idiot back..

Don’t know if you saw the feature with Agar on Sky in the pre match build up? It was a really interesting piece about how much work they’ve done on creating team spirit including each member of the squad burning something that meant something to them, the ashes then went into a resin that covers the rhinos head that they touch before coming out onto the pitch!

I know, I was being ironic. It seemed a large proportion based their whole opinion of Gale on one jig he did after scoring a try rather than the his performances through the season.

Handley will score some tries this year if your left edge stays the same.
Everyone knows about gale and hurrell, but as a giants fan the lines that Mellor runs really causes problems, Austin got caught out by Mellor 2/3 times last night which led to tries.
You're in for a good year this year

I know I’m Ava’s biggest fan and all that but he was awesome again. Goes under the radar a bit but he is real quality.

Makes such a difference having real half backs both sides, and able to double up (three with Myler), very hard to defend at times and kicking game out of sight compared with what it was.

What is really pleasing is the youth of the side. We have a few more good uns to come through too.

I think most pundits thought the conditions would suit wire better.
I don't think they rated Leeds defence before kick off and they thought our pack wouldn't be able to match theirs set for set.
It's easy to get carried away after a win like that but boy does the future look bright now.
It seems like we still have space in the cap to bring in another player and we have a fair few kids on the verge of making the first team.
I think Cameron Smith deserves a huge amount of credit. Many on here were writing him off before the season but for me he's probably our most consistent performer.
Leeds played a great down the middle game last night but I also think they have enough in their armoury to play an expansive game when the conditions improve.
Sad news about Ward but he'll recover and come back stronger.
For me we still need another prop in the squad whether that be a signing or the emergence of Holroyd or Mustaphi.
Even though it was a 36-0 scoreline I don't actually think there was too much between the teams.
I think the first half was set for set but we had slightly better ball control. We then got a bit of a lucky try early in the second half which meant Warrington had to chase the game and their continued errors gifted us an easy win. I think if the first score of the second half would have come from wire they could have steadied the ship a bit better. I still think Leeds would have won just because I think from minute 1 until minute 80 Leeds were the most focused.

How do the grapes taste in Warrington? You're not a true reflection of Wire fans they're usually decent

Good point, really enjoyable game to watch as a rhinos fan. As above I thought the team were very good and a number of individuals were also very good.
On Mellor I was super impressed. In com they mentioned he missed a lot of tackles last week. However, this week he looked right on it, quick, powerful and a menace all game. It makes the people who said he was rubbish, average or shouldn’t be playing look silly. This is a in essence a new, growing and developing team. Players like Mellor have come in, trying to settle, understand and improve. We as fans need to support that, not just when we win but also when we don’t. We aren’t the finished article, we aren’t going to play well every week but if the culture has and is improving as it appears then over time we will get back where we want to be.

I think our defence especially down the middle made them look bad, to go with 3 props to start with Prior at loose was a very shrewd move, also the desire to tackle second phase play really threw Wire off their game plan.

It’s easy to get carried away after such a good performance, I still think we’ll have quite a few Hull and Salford first half performances throughout this season, but the difference is I don’t think we’ll throw in the towel this year and that’s down to team spirit, look at when Myler made that mistake early on you could see that his team mates wanted to make sure we defended that next set. I also like what Hurrell (so glad weve got a character like him in the squad) about headingley being their Homeland and they have to protect it, that os a fantastic attitude to have.

We will pick up some injuries like any squad, but we do have some decent players waiting in the wings and I think we are putting decent structures in place that they can come in and fit in with how we want to play, Im hoping to see Mclellend get a few games to see how he goes alongside lui or gale

There's a number of potential reasons.

He was a good player playing for another team.

He is a bit of a cocky one which is great when he is in your team but annoying when he is in someone else's.

The main one for me when he was rumoured to be signing was his recent injuries.

The first two go away now he plays for Leeds and he is answering the third on the pitch.

Is this fickle? Sure.

Very glad we have him now though.

And are you going?

Well done Leeds, you outplayed us in every aspect of the game. In the long run you may have done us a favour as you should have hastened the departure of Price.

Really happy with that, the commitment and defence are night and day better than over the last couple of years. With some big players missing, plenty of cap left and some top quality youth both in the side and coming through...Things are looking very good going forward.

Have to say, Price is clearly under pressure but I don’t like the overly aggressive style of Brooks (or Carney) in questioning on Sky. You can ask good questions without being so blunt. I’m not sure if Clarke hasn’t run his course too actually. Off topic.

Wire have too much talent in the team to get into real trouble this year (bar injuries). Thought Chris Hill was immense last night in a beaten side.

The sides haven’t really settled down yet.

Hopefully the Myler critics from last season will realise any poor performances was down to the rest of the team performing badly and he not being used as he should have been.
Even the best players need quality around them,I have watched Widdop in the NRL and he has looked a world beater at times,last night on that performance he would not be in our reserves.Same applies to Dwyer as to Myler who was excellent last night and has performed much better this season so far.

Add Cameron Smith's hands to what we have in the halves and it's like an extra pivot

Very good performance tonight with a mixture of us stopping Wire playing and Wire seemingly no longer playing for the coach.
Their team on paper should have beaten us last night but feel Agar out coached Price last night.
Newman Hurrell and Gale best for the backs along with Myler.
All the forwards played very well especially Dwyer.
Leeming is going to have to take aback seat unless we have an injury.
For me Luke Briscoe is a better winger than Tom and should keep his place.
Walker is now getting on a par with Golding


Listening to Agar after the game was he eluding to playing L. Sutcliffe at FB next week?

You first sweet cheeks

Myler is playing better because he has got Gale to organise the side, something that he has shown he is incapable of doing. That said he has done a great job in his new role of interchange hooker and then fullback last night. He is in the 17 on merit.