What?

You tell me I don't bother with the trade papers anymore. Still a legitimate topic for discussion on here I'd have hoped.

I appreciate you posting them TVOC. It's hard to check them in the League Express. Morrisons get a bit sniffy if you spend too long looking through it.

I was just bringing it to the attention that they are available with the match report in League Express as well.

At the CD bit or the cigarette bit? At the cigs bit they get really sniffy. I swear one of them was about 3 seconds from shouting 'This isn't a library!' at me. The CD workers don't seem to care. I read all kids of mags there for hours on end.

Me too, sadly they don't always have the League papers at that bit.

I don't buy the trade papers (or indeed any other papers).

Its' an electronic era and thanks goodness TVOC brings such information to this sub site where 90% of the stuff posted is guff not related to Leeds RLFC.

I know. They usually have them at the cig bit though. Are most RL fans yellow fingered freeky smokers or summink? Imagine if they were! Euuuurgh!

Could we have Lee Smiths and McGuires by any chance tvoc?

Are there other player stats available?

I think Peacocks look good, especially defence.

Leuluai was involved in a lot of tackles considering his proportion of game time

How many errors did Burgess make? Can we see his stats.

Upsetting the big man.

Stats across other criteria are available (as per the SL website) but these are the categories that interest me and it helps to keep them concise.

As requested:

Player: Metres - Carries (MT/Carry) - Tackles - Misses (Efficiency %) - Errors - Penalties.

Leeds: 1163 - 168 (6.92) - 335 - 19 (95%) - 16 - 8

Smith: 43 - 7 (6.14) - 7 - 0 (100%) - 1 - 0

McGuire: 86 - 8 (10.75) - 14 - 2 (88%) - 0 - 0 (+ 1 Try Assist - for his own 2nd try)

Burges: 69 - 9 (7.67) - 15 - 1 (94%) - 2 - 0

To complete the forwards on the night:

Jones-Buchanan: 70 - 11 (6.36) - 38 - 4 (90%) - 0 - 1

Sinfield: 77 - 12 (6.42) - 31 - 0 (100%) - 0 - 0

Lauitiiti: 57 - 10 (5.70) - 18 - 1 (95%) - 3 - 0

Kirke: 43 - 8 (5.38 ) - 35 - 2 (95%) - 0 - 0

I presume the Lauitiiti error count relates (in the main) to his ball stripping tackles.

Webb, Donald, Hall, Burrow and Ablett available on request.

Hall please matey.

Go on admit it he's one of yer favourites now!!

Yet again JP is carrying the side,pretty impressive stats considering the conditions

Just interested to see how he compares to a centre mate

Player: Metres - Carries (MT/Carry) - Tackles - Misses (Efficiency %) - Errors - Penalties.

Leeds: 1163 - 168 (6.92) - 335 - 19 (95%) - 16 - 8

Webb: 85 - 16 (5.31) - 4 - 1 (80%) - 1 - 2

Donald: 22 - 4 (5.50) - 0 - 0 (%) - 0 - 0

Hall: 85 - 15 (5.67) - 8 - 1 (89%) - 2 - 0

Burrow: 19 - 2 (9.50) - 3 - 0 (100%) - 0 - 0

Ablett: 41 - 6 (6.83) - 17 - 0 (100%) - 1 - 0

That's every Leeds player (on the night) listed now.

Carl Ablett was another player that came in for some post match comments on here while the stats show he more or less equalled the Leeds average on the night going forward (and surpassed it in defence) and his only error (presumably) was from the Burgess offload. Interesting that the OPTA system lays 100% of the blame for that error with the receiver as it did with Hall from McGuire's poor ball from acting half in the first half.

Out of Interest. Does anyone know what Castlefords Metres made were in the match? Not the individual but the whole team?

Probably about twice that of Leeds based on my recollections.

As an aside, are meters made stats made purely from ball in hand, or do kicks and penalties count in there too?

I believe they are purely ball in hand.

And if your first statement is correct, even if 50% out, it highlights once again where our problems lie this year. The inability to get up field without a penalty.

Cas total meters 1358 from 197 carries.

Missed tackles 10

To who?

So they actually made less meters per carry than us.

So the issue on Friday was down to how many times they had the ball for why territory was so much in there favour. Rather than the forwards poor meterage.