Id hope that would be the case too, I think people are usually more unforgiving of the more senior players if they don't step up.

Fair enough Seth, I think it’s easy to make assumptions without all the facts, and even though I do have a moan about reactions sometimes, I think however we all disagree sometimes we do (or at least the majority of us) are just wanting what’s best for the club) that’s why we get over emotional (for want of a better word) about things.

Personally I think Austin has been a prat and landed his team mates in it a bit, If the move was to Castleford for more than the rest of the season, I’d buy it that he was looking after his future. Anyway he’s gone now so we have to look at what positives come out of it and that means looking beyond what happens this season IMO. Id absolutely love is to win today then go on a bit of a run but if it’s our season over I can live with that if the younger players get a run which will only benefit them.

Hopefully we get to see what players like Hooley, Sinfield, Roberts, Edgell and Ruan are all about.

I'd love to see both Sinfield and Hooley get a shot today. Sinfield will offer us a far better kicking game than young Johnson and would probably be our best bet at a drop goal should it be required. Hooley needs to find out about himself at the top level for the rest of the season. I don't buy the argument some have made about resting him for next weeks big game. This is the big game, and they'll be plenty of Leigh lads today who'll be risking missing the CC Final next week.

I wouldn’t even mind it if Sinfield started on the bench with Cam Smith doing the first 20-30 mins today. Happy for RS to ease Sinfield into the team as long as that is the direction of travel! Same with Edgell. If we see Cam Smith being the main stay of the halves for the rest of the season… my dwindling faith in RS will be dwindled…

Hooley starts. Sinfield on the bench. Johnson starts in the halves.

Relatively happy because it’s avoided both Handley at fullback and olpherts playing.

Happy with that and it makes sense to ease Sinfield in

No Walters?

Nope, injured.

It gets worse for Austin, apparently he picked up an injury in his last leeds training session and may well miss their crunch match with wakey. He wouldn't have played today anyway.

Best of what we have available by looks.

We are starting to look very barebones

That’s convenient for him

The side we put out is almost irrelevant, its how the team performs that’s important, better teams on paper have failed to perform, so lets see how we go.

Come on Leeds, time to show us what you’re made of.

Struth that band is awful. Ruins any form of radio listening. Do they ever come up with anything new?

Struggling to complete sets as expected

Well we managed 22 mins before they scored, but it’s been coming for the last few minutes. For all the ball we’ve had, we’ve not really offered any threat at all, they have been comfortable in defence. We don’t seem to be making enough ground when we have it to be able to spread the play out.

Let’s hope that we can fight back.

Our pack should be doing better but we seem to drop the ball or poor 5th kick if we get there.
Should be looking to trap them in goal and force repeat sets. Instead we seem to be starting sets deep.

Sounds like Hooley is doing better than last time which is good

Why the hell did Handley tap that back instead of catching it and dropping to score?

Brain fart/ lack of concentration I'd guess

Nice reply, not giving up

Far from a classic performance, we’re just in front but how much have we got left? Leigh look more dangerous with the ball I’d say, but we’ve got our noses in front.

Think Hooley and Roberts have gone well. Sezer and Smith have tried to step up and lead.

We’ve been close on a couple of those last tackle kicks.

All in all not bad. Just need to offer a bit more threat.

Hooley is looking ok.

I think Leigh will tire in the second half they’ve done a lot if defending and our Bench forwards should get over them.

How much work is MacDonald getting through!

I think our attack was always going to be a bit clunky without Myler, but we need to be offering more than we are

This game looks like a late January pre season game, with players lacking game sharpness after hard pre season