Ellis has been brought in to help out Brough with the kicking duties so might not all be coming through brough this year.

if we cant complete our sets, which we have struggled to do carrying on from last season into this you should have a field day against us!

Ref: P Bentham.
Video Ref:J Child, M Thomason.

Personally I hope Ellis does more of the kicking, I really don't rate him and I was surprised Hudds took a gamble on him. He's no better than Tommy Lee IMO.

ellis can do no worse than robinson previously did at helping brough with the kicking duties! ellis likes to take on the line too with runs, not a bad player, will give him time yet still early at hudds for him.

i liked tommy lee! at hooker..had some nice touches to his game.

will sutcliffe be starting for leeds?

Hello mates

Why is the squad on the YouTubes and no on the website?

They blockings your access to the YouTube due to your internet browing habits BR?

Hei Kone Rä

Hei Kone Rä? I'm sure I've backed that in a Grand National before.

No, he's just signed for the Reds, on Tim Sheens' recommendation.
He's a big lad.

Anyone else concerned/surprised that against one of the bigger sides - pack in particular - in the competition, we have reverted to possibly 2 small guys on the bench viz. Burrow & Walters?
Or if Burrow starts, Aiton & Walters.
With Sutcliffe also a potential sub.
Are we expecting to run them ragged with pace around the edges?

Why, have you heard some team news?

I expect the same 13 as against Widnes with a bench of Singleton, Leuluai, Achurch and either Sutcliffe/Burrow.

I'd say the same. Given the size of this Giants side right across the park, I'd be tempted to go with Sutcliffe over Burrow. Can't see us winning too many collisions when we've got the ball to generate the quick play the balls that Burrow needs to be effective.

Hopefully we can continue the solid start but Huddersfield do seem to be our bogey side.

Slightly off topic does anybody else think its a bit strange we are on sky 6 weeks in a row?

Nah I just think it's how the fixture have landed. Looking at this week most neutrals would say this game should be on Sky, plus games bs Wigsn and Wire coming up are shoe-ins every year. Catalans obviously have all their home games shown and the Cas game is part of the Easter weekend. Only one you could argue with is Hull but they usually like to show Hull/Leeds clashes.

No. Fully justified we weren't sky material for the first 2 rounds. Pending few fixtures should make good viewing and saves me another trip to Hull ! bonus.

The sky schedule was always going to throw up runs like this once the Teams were cut to 12 that's before considering our AWAY fixtures are considered t.v games for part of Skys coverage for the respective Home side.

Confirmed - Leuluai back in, Burrow and Walters miss out from the 19.

Seriously?? Lee is rubbish, agreed, but I like Ellis a lot.

Well we got the 2 points but we were woeful in defence at times until we stepped it up near the end.Ruck is so messy and our goaline effort needs a serious work over.

As a neutral, I thought that post match whinge by Brian Macdermott to be very disingenuous, Both teams were messing around at the ruck. For me MoM was Ward.

Brilliant at times, and woeful at others.

Aiton, Ward, Briscoe, Hall had brilliant games, and a good effort from Achurch. Not sure on some of the others. Thought Hardaker and Sinfield were really poor.

The positive for me is that we found a way of taking the 2 points, on that evidence we have rediscovered our previous ability to edge a game where we weren't on great form. something that eluded us last season. My concern out of tonight's game was we looked defensively frail and that Zac seemed to have a mare. 3 from 3 is a good start, but we need to tighten up in defence if we are going to continue that winning start into the next few games.

Not sure it would have made too much difference, but Hudds should have definitely had a pen on the last break.

Hall was given the credit for keeping the winger out in the corner, but while I thought Hall did a fair job in defence, in truth we just got very lucky that his elbow touched the line just before the ball was grounded.

achurch hesitated when the line was gaping. poor play.
hardaker had a mare.
game looked to be too fast for peacock.
McGuire took the leadership role as sinfield wasn't there either.
cuthberson looked good again.

we looked great on the fringes and down the middle but looked lightweight down the middle. that's one area that needs addessing

Our goal line defense and line speed were poor, and our discipline at times was very poor.
From an attacking perspective we're getting better and some of our combinations our coming together.
Individually, Aiton was (one bad defensive read apart) outstanding and hopefully if he can stay healthy and consistent he could finally be the solution we've desperately needed at dummy half. All the back rowers had very good games, Ablett had his best game of the season, and Achurch and Ward look so threatening, I could Gotcha jizz in his pants from my sofa when Ward offloaded to Briscoe for his try.
I also think JJB deserves a lot of praise for the way he's started the season.

Some of the negatives, as already stated, our goal line defense was poor and all of the trys we conceded were very soft indeed. I actually thought we defended on OK in Hudds half but whenever they got within 40 metres of our line we seemed to hang back and give them too much space to play.
Our organisation on the last play and our kicking game in general needs a lot of work, it just seems so speculative, surely they must have seen how effective and dangerous the NRL sides were in this area and the variety they have to their kicking game.
Individually, Hardaker probably had his worst game since moving to FB. and he still doesn't pass the ball enough IMO. Jake Connor on the opposite side was excellent for Hudds I thought.
Sutcliffe's inclusion was pointless in the end, and when he did come on our right edge was thrown all out of whack.

Overall, it feels good to get that one in the bag especially given our terrible record against them in the last few years. We will have to improve though because I'm sure Hull will have watched that and I doubt they'll be quaking in their boots.

Thought we made much harder work of that than we should have. Really poor decision not to go for goal under the posts at 22-12 after a long spell of really good but tiring goal line defence by us. Instead of 24-12 and a breather, we bomb the try and Hudds go upfield to score for 22-18 and game on.

Alton, Ward, Cuthbertson very good.