going by the squad, i would keep the same 17 with Leeming in for Robbo.

question is would he be brave enough to start Kruise and leave Ellis on the bench or would you rather see Ellis start and leeming on the bench?

yeh prob same 17 with johnson and broughton dropping out unless he swaps mullally for johnson.

leeming to come on from the bench

I think Kruise could be an asset to us on Thursday by coming off the bench against Leeds' slow and ageing forwards, don't think i'd risk him from the start though as it's been a while since he played Super League.

Agree with Daz, when he came on against Cas last year he caused problems against the 'chubby' team the tigers were.

Leeming or ellis off the bench??? Either sounds good to me!!!
Ellis gives us something extra in terms of kicking-so utilise that early on to tire out Leeds tgen let kruise do his stuff!

He'll be tested against a winning slow and aged pack who have been slow and aged for years. They still do there business and win trophies.
I think he'll do a great job coming off the bench against them.

i wouldnt expect too much from leeming, not really played much SL and only thrown passes out from hooker when on the field for 10mins here and there, got a try too though

So brings the same as lunt then....

been an amendment to the 19, cox comes in for johnson... not sure whats gone on there, maybe johnson pulled up injured in training

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Well the best side drew...

Ukuma lifted the whole side second half when he came on. Best I've seen him play.

Thought Leeming was excellent. Speed of the play the ball was much quicker when he was on and he played big minutes.

Yes, his passing was excellent as well. Bruno looks more mobile and dangerous ball in hand for trimming down a little.

I was really impressed with the way they fought back into it tonight. They never gave up and their heads didn't go down. First half we made opportunities and, once again, failed to take them and Leeds were clinical combined with the odd bit of sloppiness from ourselves. Second half, after the first ten mins and when Ukuma came back on along with Huby, we were faster, ran harder and looked generally really potent.

A fair result and a great game.

Looked at the key refereeing decisions and the penalty on the line and leeds man into touch were correct.

Rob Burrow's comedy fall was classic. A bit like Aiton in the first game but at the wrong moment.

Could have gone either way.

I think Leeming was the key for me.

When Robbo is back one of Ellis or Wood will be dropping out.

He looked like the best and quickest passer of a ball we have had at Dummy half for ages.

Seems to have bulked up a lot from when i last saw him.

Would like to see him running more from Dummy Half but really impressed with him.

It was really pleasing that we didn't capitulate after going in well behind at half time- and even better that we didn't allow them to cross our line in second half.
Connor getting better each game, leeming looked good- was praying for him to run from DH more though- Leeds were clearly tiring in 2nd half. Taai is having a great season.
Murphy was very quiet and I thought he looked nervous opposite watkins- would have liked to have seen him take him on.
Lawrence looks better each game, Eorls later stints were better than his first. Kopczak ran very well - but those penalties!!!!!!!!

cost us.

The Leeds board is full of people moaning about the ref, complaining about an obstruction, and.... Calling danny Brough.... I take it they haven't noticed maguire is still in the stadium looking for his dummy!!!!!
Oh and one has said we are the worst team they've seen this year......

i haven't seen the game back yet, but during the game there were a couple of incidents that really got the fans' backs up, not least the "in touch" one which gave them an easy 2 points, it looked OK from where i was but not going to comment until i've seen the replay.
there were a couple of penalties which i thought were inconsistent, but i don't think silverwood had much of an influence on the game really.
yes Broughy did have a moan as usual, but from what i saw, as captain he is within his rights to question the official, didn't look to be any dummy spitting though...but for leeds to call anyone on that is amusing!

i come in peace.

Meast, the in touch was apparently for a held call and then players continuing. i didnt hear the held call on sky. something i noticed all night, not hearing refs calls.

well i wasnt happy with the ref, lets leave that there. our defence was fantastic. what would you guys do without Brough though? seriously?

What Hudds fans thoughts on the bite?

if youve access to the footage i would love to watch it again. if not, it was a clash of heads on my first view and without footage i wont change my mind.

That it didn't happen and and Hardacre should have been penalized for punching

Hth

Was a good game, I didn't expect us to build up a lead like that in the first half, then I didn't expect you to come back so well in the second half, Thought a draw was a fair result.

Bite? It looked to me like Hardaker was daft. Could've been penalised for it.

If the ref has called it and the players haven't heard its taken back and play the ball- not a penalty!!!!! The cheer from the crowd at that side may well have drowned out the refs call- and no you couldn't hear it on sky.


I think Leeds fans are hallucinating if they think that they can see a bite from the sky footage. Jakes head goes into his chest and that's all you can see- except I saw a frustrated hardaker lashing out- that's clear.