First of all, fair play to McDermott for bringing Sinfield back in.
Secondly, well done, played us off the park in every area. Sinfield played better than Brough. We never got a look in.
Good luck for the rest of the competition.

how come y'all never started a danny brough dummy spit sweepstakes, to replace the lee briers one?

It's only the 2 grand final wins the world club challenge win and the challenge cup win that can take away from the pain of not beating you in those 5 years.

Because not everyone can have the first minute.

To be fair to Danny Brough, it was, again, all about the forward packs really. Yours doesn't get too many a**e kickings, but it got one on Saturday. Brough got the ball on the back foot with defenders closing him down. Not much most halfbacks can do in those circumstances.

To be fair to Brough he didn't go hiding. Unlike some international HBs he kept trying to the end. He just wasn't allowed the space & possession to create much by a far better team.

spot on. We all know your half back can only perform on the back of a good pack, as I said we got dominated in every department.

Certainly no issues with Brough, even the best have an off day now and again. He had an off day due to how leeds played rather than a poor personal performance.

And fair play to you for the gracious comments as well.

To be fair after the winding up I did last week, it was only appropriate I ate some humble pie.

Due where it's due.

This is often the case but is equally as often a lazy cliche.

The Huddersfield pack was well on top in the early exchanges. Brough had the ball on the 6th, near the Leeds line, with time and space, when he took a poor option and gave Grix a nope hope ball that got him dominated and lead to his off-load for Watkins. Grix was expecting Brough to loop around for that pass and having got Grix dominated with a lousy option and a poor ball Brough made him look a fool by giving up.

Whilst we were the better pack, I don't think we can say 'dominate' apart from the 15 mins spell we rack up that early lead. Better yes, dominate is pushing it. Brough might've have been behind the pack who were second best but it wasn't like they were so battered throughout he couldn't do some stuff.....and apart from Hudds last try he came up with nothing.

As I've said before when recalling the 'mare BJB had at FB against him last year at Headingley, having Hardaker back there to deal with those kicks is a huge difference. Put BJB there for some of those very tricky high bombs and people are going on about how Brough's kicks have gotten Hudds back into the game.

Regarding our first try though I would say he didn't actually have that much space and time with the ball, Ablett did very well to get into his face on that play and a few others too carrying on from the good work Delaney did a few weeks ago against them.