Currie went off with concussion after the first hit on Leuluei. He played on after the hit but Joel called the trainers on to take a look at him as he knew the lad wssn't right. They took a look and took him off.

To play most of the game with 16 players and play like that was amazing.

Chris Hill - Leeds simply couldn't handle him. He always made yards. Up there with Bridge and Monas and Ratch tonight. (Ratch played in 4 or 5 positions tonight!! and didn't look out of place in any).

Bridges best performance too - he seems to have matured a lot since his first spell in the halves many years ago, but he's still someone who holds onto the ball too much for a 'half' imo

Compare that performance to cas v wire a month ago. A world apart. Superb tonight. Scoreline flattered Leeds.

I started writing down all the plaers who had top games and it was worthless as I ended up with 16 names.

Still: Harrison in that first 15-20 minutes... Benny and Trent who?

Atkins tore Watkins a new ringpiece. Ormsby and Evans were genuinely all over Hall and Briscoe. Russell could have lost his head after that early cock-up, but ran strongly and beat people all night.

Bridge, MMonas, Higham, Ratch and Myler just took the line on all night and played at a pace Leeds couldn't match.

Then there was the pack, which was.. more than ok! Chris Hill is my deputy favourite for when Westwood isn't playing. Evans, Laithwaite and now England impress me more every time I see them.

Positives from tonight.

Laithwait’s first 20 was the biggest positive. If he is as good as that, what will TS do when the two doubleyous are fit? Could he be our answer at 13?

Second place for me was Ryan Atkins, showed aggression and was well up for it.

Ben Harrison had his best game for a couple of years. Looked like proper prop tonight. I think we all knew he would end up there, but injuries have hampered his progress.

Bridge actually looks injury free. I’ve long suspected he is not playing at full tilt, and rumour has it he has an underlying knee problem. He looked good running at the line.

Myler came off the bench, and created. I’ve never been a Myler hater, unlike some on here, but he’s not been at his best when he’s played this season. Was good tonight.

England showed some promise, at full fitness he could turn out to be the player we thought we were buying.

Currie put in a couple of good hits before going off. I didn’t see what was wrong, anyone know?

Top performance by your team tonight.
Totally outplayed us in every department. Your line speed and play the ball kept you on the front foot all game. Our half backs were clueless and our forwards were totally bossed by your pack.
Hill was immense and Michael Monaghan controlled the game.
Even Atkins looked good


Your only weakness was for me Asotasi who would have fit in well alongside Clarkson and Kirke for us.
Well deserved victory for you tonight

We've come to expect that kind of performance from the likes of Hill. But the rest stepped up to the mark tonight.

Can we get one of those charity pages going and pay of Asotasi's contract, I reckon we could have the money before the sun rises

Yed, you're a moderator, can you go back and have a look at what people were posting on here about King and Monas a few years ago?

I sincerely hope you find a shed load of humble pie.

I'll go to my friends, put his wigan shirt on and have it has my profile picture for 1 whole season if he comes good, that's how sure I am of how garbage he is and will continue to be.

Bookmark it, everyone that reads this including Wigan fans and fans of all other clubs, remind me the instant he starts to look the part consistently.

Yed I love the way you bag Roy, it's hilarious! You could clearly see him not trying tonight and chuckling to himself every time he made a mistake. I hope next week his place is taken by a tedious arris that has never played the game! Smith out!

I so hope that happens!

Perhaps TS deliberated signed an over-the-hill gash player, so that we would lay off the rest of the team, and boost their confidence, psychological genius. How do you think the contract negotiations went?

TS: 'Roy, do you want to come over to England and be our whipping boy?'
RA: ‘No’
TS: ‘But we’ll pay you loads, it will be like a massive long holiday’
RA: ‘Yes’

I posted a month ago that we should give him time but I have to say he looks dreadful. He must be totally embarrassed sat in the changing room with the rest of the side who gave it their all.

Oh yeah, how bad was the Ablett hit in Joel Monaghan at the end? Was "on report" a cop out for a poor effort at a tackle? and should we have has an eight point try for it?
(I couldn't tell fro over the other side and can't see on the screen!)

Ablett tried to kick the ball out of Joel's hands as he placed the ball over the line. He missed and kicked him in the head instead, so it was a bad one and he will certainly get suspended for it. No real malice though, and he did apologise.

Thought last night was our performance of the season. One "failure" that I thought summed up the teams attitude was Rhys Evans backing himself to around the outside of the Leeds defence only to get knocked into touch just before the line. Two more yards and that would have been one heck of a try. 10/10 for at least having a go.

Very harsh to call it a failure, I don't mind h I'm backing himself but hardaker did a good job covering the supporting runners.

It'll be part of Rhys' learning process, he gets in that position again in future, he'll cut in earlier or know to throw himself at the line in the air.

I would like to see Laithwaites play loose, he's got great hands and his tackling is unbelievable with the amount of work he puts in. Don't see him breaking the line as a busting second rower more of a link loose. Apparently played all his junior rugby at Crosfields as a loose fwd.

Nice post.

"Failure" was simply referring to the fact that he didnt make. I thought it was great that he had the belief to go for it. Had he made the line it would have been awesome.

On Ablett and Joel, did I hear right that his defence to the ref was 'I was trying to kick the ball'? Isn't that illegal as well? Do players actually know that, it seems to happen a lot across the league.

I think that's a little unfair. We seem to forget that he was injured mid May-January. I have no doubt he will come good. It really says it all when a young lad making the step up from part time to full time footy is getting starts over a former test captain.

I wasn't actually being critical in England's case. It does look more promising for him, he was running hard at the Leeds line, didn't seem to drop anything, didn't get involved in any confrontations and from what I can remember, got through a reasonable tackling stint. But he needs to make better use of his size and gain more yardage when taking the ball up, and lets not forget he is not a young lad at all, he is 27 yrs old - a prime age for a prop. With a bit of luck he will stay injury free to the end of the season and we can see if he makes the transition or not.

If England can stay injury free, the game time will do him good and he will end up a decent SL prop.

The problem England has, is that we are trying to compare him with Hill... who is a FREAK and head and shoulders the best prop in super league.

we cant expect any signing to come in and be as good as hill, as its not going to happen.

If he can be half as good as hill, I'll be happy. However at times it does look like he's coming to terms with SL, the handling errors are disappearing, and were using him in a very specific way in attack.

I like the way England runs the ball in with everything he has.... he is a maximum effort player.... hopefully he keeps on improving and does us proud.

He has improved no end over the last 6 games.... you can see every aspect of his game getting better. I think we will be looking at a solid prop before the season ends.