Seems like Saints might be losing to all the relegation candidates. A weaker team than the one that lost to Toulouse named. Rhinos surely going to win.

One to look at if anyone fancies a last minute bet.

Nah, I'll stick with Saints by plenty.

Jack Walker playing for Leeds or for Saints?

Nice easy win despite being decimated by injuries. The difference is, Leeds first choice props are the equivalent of St Helens back up props.

Not only that, Leeds have wasted a load of money on a back rower In Bentley who is absolutely gash. He looked good when Saints carried him.

Was watching the game with a slight delay… woke up late… but it seemed to me that almost every Leeds set drew a penalty or repeat set… was it just the sleep in my eyes?

Correct. James Child tried to help Leeds

Though Leeds put a lot of energy into their defence in the first half but the gaps opened up out wide in the second half. Morgan Knowles is a tackling monster by the way he held things together when Leeds had a lot of possession.
The biggest problem for Leeds is the attacking structure is just not there far too lateral and not enough creativity.

Saints losing to Toulouse and winning at Leeds means those two teams are in a dogfight at the bottom of the league now.

And people would rather have Westerman and Yates over Morgan is laughable??

Nilled at home. You love to see it!

The Rhinos really are in the doldrums at the moment and it is clear to everyone, Hetherington included, that the interim coaching staff and a large proportion of the players are not up to the task. The Rhinos have made turning attack into defence an art form.

2022 is over, we now have a battle on to avoid relegation and unless we can win both games against Toulouse then we could be in a heap of trouble in twenty rounds time. Now is the time to start to rebuild with a coach who will focus on the youth in the same way the Tony Smith did and start to build a new Golden Generation.

It´s a shockingly sad state of affairs.

I dont know where to start with Leeds woes, almost like a literny of recruitment mishaps across the board.

It often starts like at saints by thinking ex olayers can instantly be top class coaches.

That is rare.

Thought they played with a decent amount of intensity last night. Saints had 6 players missing similar to the no of players missing from Leeds, but Saints have more squad depth and play with structure.
Leeds were a bit too lateral last night and allowed the Saints defensive line speed to move up with agression, they missed Dwyer last night with his quick scoots to break things up.
The best teams have good pivots in 1, 6, 7 and 9 Saints have real quality there other teams struggle in that department and. Leeds are one of them at the moment, Sezer and Austin are playing like donkeys.

Oledski apart, Leeds pack is bang average (maybe not even that good), Austin is stealing a wage and they desperately need Myler back in the side for some creativity.
It's bizarre to think that pre season, many people were tipping Leeds as a top 4/5 side - maybe in the Championship they would be

I watched the game with the sound down thanks to that base drum, so I don't know what interpretations/excuses were given, but i thought Child was very charitable towards Handley twice, the stiff arm and the up ending were both sin bins in my eyes.

Without getting into a discussion over Agar and his tactics or lack of, I for one thought that Leeds might have been a lot better than they are, you can blame injuries but most teams have those, but the players recruited for this season have let him down badly for my money.

There were a couple of incidents from both sides which were an automatic yellow card a few weeks ago.

Flakey Blake was stealing a living for the last 2 years, trust me.

I can't believe Sean Long is still there. They're absolutely horrendous with the ball. I think 3 sets in a row they just died with the ball on the 5th, then the next set they kicked on the 1st tackle...?

Sean is getting a nice wedge so hey ho.

He looks miserable now similar to when he was assisting Cunningham, not a happy chappy will he go to Union for his future.

I take your point, never the less if it was a sin bin 2 week ago it should have been the same on Friday, surely it's up to a clubs coaching staff to get in line with the rules, and not the other way round.

That was the only consistant thing in the Leeds cupboard to be fair.

On this occasion it should have been James Child to apply the rules with a yellow card to make the offending player think what they are doing. Sutcliffe and Sironen incidents should have been yellow, the latter offended again and will probably received at least a 1 match ban. There were quite a few border line incidents but it seemed as though the zip on the refs back pocket was snagged and hence didn’t address the issues.