...were immense tonight, to a man. Brilliant effort - and certainly helped by the quick distribution from Lunt and his defensive efforts up the middle. Our muscled and out worked a highly thought of Catalans pack

Cannot fault any of them. Really stood up well tonight. The usual suspects got through tons of work as per usual.

Personally was impressed with Moore. Seemed a poor signing at first when the news broke, but he ran hard made yards. Added some aggression and his defence (for which was particulary bad for crusaders) was solid with some big hits.

agreed. The entire pack looked up for it in defence and attack. Hard to pick out an individual although I think delaney has looked outstanding all season. A real handful. This ball playing, try scoring, kicking loose forward we have developed looked handy too.

Was very impressed the way we set out our stall early and never really let Catalan have a look in all game. We started to fall off it in the last 10 minutes or so but that was to be expected as it got pretty scrappy. Our Defence at times was brutal and we were pretty clinical in attack as we didn't have that many clear cut opportunities. Burrow will go very well with Lunt I think, their games compliment eachother perfectly with Lunt giving consistent distribution and if used off the bench Burrow can run from maker and make us more unpredictable. I feel more optimistic after that.

Just want to add my total agreement..Catalan were never in the game, I was thoroughly impressed with every single pack member

Couldn't fault any of the players. Delaney especially was brilliant, a deserved MOM.

they were good but we never tried to take them on down the middle. we moved them about and hit them on the fringes.
lunt was very good. his distribution very quick

Is it me or does Lunt have a look of Buderus about him?

No i was thinking that as well

impressed with bailey tonight, leeds were great keep it up be great too see them in the grand final again

Agreed our forwards were immense and imo it was Thaler and his flag waving cronies that kept Catalan in the game they were always fecking about at the ptb ,moving off the mark and the penalty count in the 1st half before they score was ridiculous imo.

Great team showing, not just the pack but all 17. Its been pointed out before even by McDermott himself that we often try to win games through individual brilliance so to see a whole team performance like that is really good and encouraging.

There was an urgency and desire about the Leeds forwards tonight that makes a total mockery of those who claim we only care about the play-offs. Delaney's workrate and leg-drive was immense but all the forwards excelled against one of the best packs in the league. Another great effort from the prolific try scorer at loose forward.

Can I ask why the flag carrying pr1cks miss so much, but see things that are'nt there. Is tonit what happens when you give 2 referee wannabee's a flag each???

Our coach had some entertaining comments regarding some of the decisions when interviewed on Sky tonight.

Have to agree

It was a very good performance particulary in defense, however I do think we played within ourselves with the ball and would like to see us play with a bit more tempo in attack. I thought Delaney, Lunt, Sinfield (brilliant kicking game, although not as good as Bailey's

), Webb and McGuire were the stand outs. I liked how our props shared the workload (stevoism).

They will miss a blatant high shot right infront but spot an obstruction from 60 yards through a crowd of players. This has always been the case.
The penalty against Delaney was rediculous, it was not foul play and the kicker had no chance of getting anywhere near the kick. Ridiculous. Yet the same flag waver missed Pryce smacking someone in the face right in front of him.

It was a great game plan. We moved them all over the first half, Ablett was fantastic. Then battered them on defence up the middle.

His work for BJB's 2nd try was great, he no longer looks like a 2nd row covering at centre, he just looks like a centre now when he plays there.

Also a lot has been said lately on here about RL, especially the regular season, that teams like Leeds were going to go through the motions until Playoff time and questioned the effort of players during weekly rounds I recommend those people watch a replay of this game.
Some as well questioned the quality of today's game and whether its good value for money, well i tell you what i definately feel like i got my money's worth last night with....
- BJB great catch and finish for his 1st try.
- Ablett's effort for BJB's second.
- 3 great Sinfield cross field kicks that lead to tries. If an Aussie had done that these boards would of melted until volume of praise. But it was only 'average' Sinfield so meh!
- Lunt playing like he's been at the club a few years not a few days.
- BJB kick return after about 70 mins when he looked like he was going to be trapped in goal and somehow managed to work his way to around the 30m line.
- A great team effort from the WHOLE pack, one which has been heavily criticised in the past.
- Ian Kirke making a break just after half time and for a split second looking like he was going to go all the way.
- It getting quite tasty in the final 10 when it could of just easily petered out instead.
- And last but not least, England's new number 13 Ryan Bailey, scoring again and then producing one of the best kicks you'll actually see from ANY player this season.

And all without JJB and Ablett in the SR

Far too positive for this board



Seriously, there were many encouraging aspects from last night. If I had to pick just one I might opt for the confidence displayed by BJB throughout.

Some great points Printer and i also think Delaney is turning into a rael "Machine2 in the BR and with Jjb and Ablett to go back there aswell we have some real quality in that BR.

Yup.

Ablett - looked like Richie Blackmore, body going in one way, ball moving the other. made some damage when shifted to his more effective SR position. But a real talent.

Lunt - you are not kidding. How well did he fit in. So much energy and willing to impress. Lad.

Bails - The kick is only as good as the chase, he did both. He is loving the additional responsibility. maybe getting a little 'mainstream' for me now though.