I'm guessing that by achurch's latest tweet that he's not playing - twitter.com/#!/MitchAchurch/stat ... 5951267840

I'm guessing that by achurch's latest tweet that he's not playing - twitter.com/#!/MitchAchurch/stat ... 5951267840

I know it was his first game back. I wouldn't have gone to the extreme to say he played well. I thought he did ok in his first run out.

I think Moore has been under used in his time at Leeds. He brings an offloading game to the forwards and can add impact from the bench. For whatever reason Mac doesn't seem to have much faith in him in the games that count. While he only seems capable of short stints that is all Griffin was asked to do in the main part last season. I hope he gets an extended run in the side to at least give him the chance to see if he can command a place in a top side.

Our team...
Lomax
Gardner
Turner
Percival
Meli
Wheeler
Wilkin
Puletua
Roby
Laffranchi
Manu
Soliola
Clough

LMS
Jones
Greenwood
Walmsley

Achurch playing for Hunslet.

Good.

Looks delighted:

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I had that face on when he missed that tackle on Bromwich.

M62 not expected to re-open until 6.30pm!

Same as last week with the only change Moore on the bench in place of Achurch. Bailey doesn't make it.

Defence has been good, still slightly messy in attack at times. If we avoid soft penalties in the 2nd half we can win this, if we make Saints have to go 80m to score they'll struggle. Not getting as much joy in the centres from Ablett & Moon as expected but stick with it especially on the left and get more joy hopefully. Hall and Delaney standing out so far.

Well played tonight. A good spirited performance for you to sit back, relax and enjoy the weekend. It was a game of attrition and one I enjoyed.

Agree regarding Delaney having a good game. He gets through some work and peacock put in another good shift. Think the pack In general had a good game

Thought the forwards as a unit had a good game instead of just maybe 1 or 2 stepping up (even though Peacock got MOM). The use of subs helped, all 4 got decent time (work load shared), although I don't agree with having 2 hookers on when we are 20-4 up with 15mins to go, an extra forward would've been better since we had all the points we needed and Saints did make better yards down the middle in the 2nd half when McShane came on for JJB.

Ryan Hall must be so pleased that we got Joel Moon, but not only that but I think Hall also ran the ball in strongly when starting sets in our own half.

We didn't get as much joy from Ablett as expected but you've got to credit the young Saints lad Percival for a great game.

Defence was very encouraging. Delaney flew out of the line to force a knock-on on Saints' first real attack and Hall's stoppage of the 40-20 was great work. Watkins postioning for kicks looked much better as well, granted he had help from the people pressuring the kickers.

We probably should've scored an extra try or two but considering it was an away game against tough opposition that we usually struggle against then it's just about getting the job done.

A great win after last weeks efforts and the most pleasing thing imo was how we defended after errors/penalties conceded we showed some great line speed and aggresive tackling.
Of course there's the "if only" moments which imo cost us a minimum 3 tries but we've won away at ST's for the 1st time in a few years and put a great shift in after a WCC.
I also agree our forwrads did a good job and JP deservedly got M.O.M with delaney very close imo.

2 poor teams out there tonight. At least you have the excuse of the WCC last week.

Great performance tonight but the sooner we get Hardaker back into the back line the better.

Not sure what the right option is - whether we stick with Vickery or bring another youngster in but with Huddersfield and Wigan coming up, it's a tough decision to make.

Agree RE Vickery Didn't offer much in attack and made a couple of silly errors in defence, Don't know what the options could be? Watson on the wing???

What did Vickery do so wrong FR??
For the 1st Meli effort he simply followed the right side defence in and picked up Manu in the tackle whilst for the 2nd Mcguire went walk about and left him exposed 3 on 1.
I thought he did ok with the ball and was in no way to blame defensively so why change him?

He didn't do much wrong and I know he's only had a few games and the alternatives aren't that big an improvement. Just throwing a few ideas about.

Great win tonight. Everyone stood up. Well done lads.

Saints were poor, Leeds were workman like. Did what they had to do (as illustrated by Sinfield going for 2 points twice) we could've clicked better in attack but perhaps a more concentrated effort in defence hampered that. It wasn't as bad a game I thought as it was made out to be, a quiet crowd not helped by a disappointing home performance meant it was played in a lacklustre atmosphere that made it come across as poor.



I don't think Keinhorst would've done any better on the wing, that leaves bringing in another inexperienced player like Watson and that's not a guarantee of an improved performance. He probably stuck too much to the whitewash in the 2nd half whilst the rest of the defence got sucked in for Percival's breaks but more to do with being softer in defence in the middle with 2 hookers on, Ablett wasn't in place for those 2 tries as a a result.

I don't think Vickery was shocking. He didn't blow any chances neither was he a massive liability in defence, but neither did he show anything overally encouraging to suggest he'll ever be anything more than just solid rather than spectacular.

Whilst i agree he's not looked like the next Offiah i dont think he's done owt wrong worthy of dropping so imo i'd keep him in for now at least.

Solid performance

Not brilliant but the job completed

vickery is slow as fook and his defence was all over the shop, he got a few lucky breaks when he came shooting in field but they were anything but good defence reads, as show by the amount of times he made the wrong choice.