Half Time 10-14.

Scorers?

Ablett and Sinfield tries. Sinfield 2 conversions plus a penalty.

Warrington tries - Briers and Higham. Hicks goal.

My take from the game.

I saw a lot of tired body's. We started extremely well. Two quick fire tries in the first 6 Min from Ablett and Sinfield. Couldn't see the first try but, leading to the second was a excellent kick from the play of the ball for a 40-20 from McShane, who had a fantastic game at hooker.

After the two tries Leeds struggled to gain any territory and handling errors cost us field position. Warrington ran harder and a better side would have scored more points against an under strength Leeds. Warrington equally had their problems with handling errors.

From our starting 13 it was only Scott Donald who had not come through the Leeds academy. Any attacking moves we tried went down the right to Watkins and Donald. Gibson and hall on the other wing were just bystanders for large periods of the game.

Warrington came back at Leeds with tries from Briers and Higham and their try just before the half time hooter was not a good sign. They were in the ascendancy. After half time for 20 Mins we were camped in our own half struggling to make any ground largely due to a tired pack. Peacock took a knock in the first half and did not return for the rest of the game. Our stand out forward was Bailey, apart from a bit of scrapping, had a very good game.

Our defence held and what looked like try save tackle after try saving tackle ensued. We had one attack in this 20 Mins after half time, a fantastic break from Sinfield who at the crucial point decided to kick forward instead of passing on the inside to our supporting players.

The pressure finally paid off for Warrington and Hicks crossed for their 3rd try. A massive over lap allowed him to stroll in. But he again missed the conversion taking it to 14 - 14.

We then started to play, we were running from dummy half and our forwards were making the ground we needed. Our kicks were turning their full back Riley and on the 70th Min it paid off. A fantastic chase and tackle from Lee Smith (I think) caused Riley to spill the ball to McGuire who was almost through and looked to be tackled. But the Warrington tacklers fell off and he was free to scamper to the line! Sinfield kicked the extras and at 20 - 14 it set up a tense last 10 Mins.

Our defence held out and a win when we clearly were not at our best is always encouraging.

My man of the match - Ryan Bailey.

Did we play well? Good result tbh. Happy also as Everton won


Why were Diskin, Kirke and Senior out btw?

Can you tell the difference between Watkins and Gibson?




Diskin (Neck), Kirke (Ankle) and Senior (Shoulder) apparently and none expected to be long term problems at this stage.

Still not been persuaded that Hall deserves a sub 17 shirt number.

He has a great work-rate and good strength but the skills are just not there yet.

Reading the report in the YEP reminded me to add another entry to the Ganson rule book - kicking the ball direct at another players face is deemed to be the opposing player playing at the ball and 6 more tackles.

I think the rule Ganson applied was ‘attempted charge-down’ although I don’t know if Smith knew he was ‘attempting a charge-down’ at the time.

That was also in the old Russell Smith version of the RFL rule book when the Leeds full back in question was Gary Connolly.

Surely two of the very best can't both be wrong.

That was one of the worst calls i've ever witnessed!!


Oh did anyone else notice that morley's high tackles are now legal in our sport??

One skill that is there is the ability to get cleaned out by Adrian Morley and manage to (firstly) hold onto possession and (secondly) continue to contribute thereafter.

To be fair Mozza is showing his age a bit nowadays – he constantly ran a Bailey who seemed to deal with him without too much trouble, in fact he didn’t really trouble anyone yesterday.

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I couldn't remember which centre player where so took it from the Leeds site. Apologies if I got it wrong tvoc, though you could have just said it politely and made comment on the rest of my match report. Each to their own though.

He's 2nd on the SL meters gains stats on the super league website

Where was I impolite?

I asked the question having specifically and deliberately highlighted your comment [i'Any attacking moves we tried went down the right to Watkins and Donald. Gibson and hall on the other wing were just bystanders for large periods of the game.[/i

Having attended the game I'm surprised you sought to find a teamsheet to form your opinion. On the face of it it appears a valid question.

Sorry if I've offended your sensibilities.



Highlights where other teams perceive the weakness to be.

Don't want to appear to be a know-it-all but I said before the game kicked off that Riley would commit at least one howler during the game.
Sure enough he did in the 70th minute to present us with the chance that McGuire took excellently. Not a fluke & one that very few other players would have taken.
Maybe only Richard Horne based on the try he scored for Hull on Friday.
Good to see him back firing on all cylinders too.

Just ignore it TVOC. He's a sensitive soul. I picked up on something the other week and he started crying over it.

You weren't impolite, some people just need to get a grip.

I was a bit tired and hung over on the monday morning after the game, so sue me. Can you explain the purpose of your question?

Certainly. To see if you know the difference between Leeds' right and left centres on Sunday.

Certainly do. I explained I couldnt remember who played where so got it from the Leeds site. I got it wrong. Oh well it's not something that is punishable by death.

Good, that's reassuring to hear.

You've been getting a few wrong recently haven't you old chap?

I have, it's all this aclohol. Damn it killing my brain cells. Anyone have a cure?

Orange juice!!