Proud of the lads today thought up until 50 mins we were in the game. Gaskell our most experience player kicking it on 2nr or 3rd when we needed hold of the ball but TBF he was quite inventive but nobody expected the kicks.
The young lads excellent today Corey hall and Murphy looked quality. Bowes tackled great.
More impressed with fitness and not giving up. They did well.
We still need another prop tho.

Enjoyed the game.

Bowes has a bit to go with his distribution as you’d expect a at his age but defensively excellent. He has one hell of an engine.

Hall and Murphy looked good but a season or so in the reserves. They did seem to have a rapport though.

To be honest they all played well within reason, the senior players did a stint without over doing it which allowed the kids to have a go.

Poching must be happy, he’s got more depth there than he thought. Even his own lad didn’t look half bad.

Hall supprised me looks like he could be quality.all youngsters did them selves proud

Leeds fans getting on my nerves not sure if people are aware they won league today by been fantastic in beating us

That’s what they do.

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I agree. Liked the look of Hall. Think he'll turn out to be a good signing.

Couldn't make it today. Out of curiosity, what position does Willie's lad Kobe play..I know he was initially at Huddersfield, then went down under for a bit

I thought we had a good defensive and reasonable attack first half, two mistakes let Leeds in for 2 quick trys. Second half we struggled to get out of our half, our last tackle kicks were poor, ball was either easily taken by a line defender or straight to a downfield defender, with time to return, whereas Leeds kickers got the ball past the last trinity man, and tackles made on the trinity line.
I thought Leeds had worked on the runaround move with a neat inside ball to a man on the angled run, I’m sure most teams will be able to deal with that.
Trinity certainly seemed enthusiastic, and I’m sure they will be fairly satisfied today.

I agree another prop would be nice, but I also think Aydin is going to more involved this year and he certainly doesn't look out of place. I still think we're light at hooker, Bowes did okay but is nowhere near ready for regular SL and I think a stint out on loan would do him good. As it stands Brad Walker would be my choice for interchange 9, I don't think he has the creativity yet for the halves but reads the game well, is a strong tackler and his passing is pretty accurate. He needs to cement a place this year and hooker looks the most likely for me.

Hes a hooker mate, his passing looked spot on and got stuck in.my lad trains wirh him couple times a week and he says he a really good lad

He’s his dads double.

Hooker but long term I’d say LF.

Does anyone know if o’donavan, eseh or windrow were out with COVID/injury? Suprised not to have seen them given a run

To say we had our whole back line sat out we competed well in the first half whilst not causing leeds too many headaches. Second half leeds stretched their legs and showed some class touches with sezar and Newman stand outs for me . Great to see our youngsters up against much more accomplished opposition and making a good fist of it ,and will have done them the world of good ,as well as seeing exactly where they are in their development moving forwards .

I think Hall look ready to me would do a job Arundel could and more.

Looking at YouTube since the Leeds game, I noticed there’s at least 5 videos by the Leeds club, highlights from the coach and various players re this game. I haven’t seen anything from Trinity, it’s disappointing that Trinity media team seems lacking in this department.

Hall looked good, and as for the Leeds fans they never change, most of them are still as odious as ever.

Unfair I suspect.

Leeds paid for the production costs yesterday so I doubt they are willing to hand them over to us just yet.

More importantly our HB partnership. Mason and Lino were starting to hit there stride last year. Makes a huge difference as to how the team gets around the pitch.

That’s a fair comment Vasty, I forgot about the copyrights.

Are you still half asleep, Mason and Lino?

They are so in sync they play like one player.

Don’t know. I suspect WP looked at the strength of the Leeds team and decided to balance it enough to ensure we didn’t get a whooping.

Also, I expect senior squad members to be fully available even on Boxing Day, even though we only used half of them. With youngsters I’d be temped to be a more open minded. If you want to play you can but if you want to enjoy Xmas before life gets too serious then do so. Don’t think any of them would have made much difference tbh.

The Fev game will possibly see a bigger bench as that’s a pure trial game. Strong opposition but not a SL contender. Much more opportunity to mess around.

Doh, Miller

I am very optimistic after yesterdays performance. I thought all the team put a shift in. Yes we didn't create much going forward but I thought the defence was pretty good for the vast majority of the game. The atmosphere at Heading ley was pretty good. I have to say that Austin looked like a cart horse moving with the ball not taking away the kicks he put in though. If we can sort our attack out then things look very promising. The young lads did themselves proud yesterday up against an almost full strength Leeds outfit. At one point I think we had 2 half backs and 3 hookers on the pitch. It was a good run out, a bit more composure and a little luck the score line would not have been as wide as it was. That said the score line was not important the important thing was the experience some of our younger players got from it. I think the whole team played with pride and passion to the end. A big shout for Dave who put his hand up at the last minute to play as ever he was full of enthusiasm and a great man to have the younger ones playing alongside. also T who worked tirelessly some real good things to look forward to. Leeds its early days and obviously some ring rust but they made some big yards, I am pretty sure that was our lack of size in the main and of course people with brains like Sezer and Austin are no mugs on the pitch.

Listening at the game to some of the comments going round and reading Willies comments those who played are those that we had, I am pretty sure that some of the senior players were told they would not feature however back to the rumour squad injuries and covid.