Sao and Manu will be instrumental in us trying to achieve anything this season
Taylor will look a better player this year now he’s got others to share the load.

Complete performance, bigger faster, stronger, was we that good, or were Leeds that poor, Ligi, Sav, and our young hooker, some engines there. Team selection spot on, second half atrocious conditions, but just about error free, get Ratu signed up.

Some stats to demonstrate the dominance.

We had 19 missed tackles vs 55 tackle busts.

We had 13 offloads, Leeds had 3 offloads.

We had 6 players over 100 metres, Leeds had 1 (Jack Walker 102)

Johnstone was our top tackler with 38. Leeds had 4 players make more than that.

Penalty count was 10-4, Error count was 16-8. There aren't any GLDO stats but we won that too.

Basically, you name it, we bossed it.

Edit, I've just noticed that Sao isn't listed in the stats, so you can add a few more tackle busts and offloads for him.

Had a quick look at your talking points.

1. Clock was stopped at 39.20 for a scrum after Sutcliffe was being bundled into touch and released the ball to Griffin who put his foot on the touchline hence feed to Leeds and 6 more tackles. Subsequently ref then called play on but clock was not started for about 8 secs. Leeds mucked up their passing movement and Hull regained the ball and broke away to be stopped near halfway when TV clock reached the 40 mins mark and the siren sounded. As I understand it the game clock is not the TV clock.
Now -what is your question again?

2. Hurrell as soon as he was seen reeling/ stumbling should have immediately been taken from the field for HIA as would have happened in the NRL, where an independent doctor monitors a screen to ensure protocols are met. Super League are just not up to scratch in this area of enforcement.

I believe people saying that Connor is not good enough to play No 6 are going to have to eat their words during this season.

Also I do concede my short term memory is on the slide but didn't Radford make a statement last year that Connor would have the No6 jersey this season at the time Kelly was in great form and there was talk of him returning to the NRL?

We had a massive weight of possession so I would expect our stats to be better than Leeds. Good to see the workload being shared fairly in the forwards with all 4 props making double figures in number of carries

Also good to see that none of our tries came from kicks.

The sun is just breaking through from my Hilton bedroom window
Its good to be alive in Leeds this morning.

Think the points you mention are fair, it was a complete a performance as we have seen for long time and for the first game of meaning in terms of league pts. No doubting the team is bigger,faster, stringer and probably fitter than before so big improvement. I thought we were pretty good and the 17 did what they had to do. Radfords 17 & game plan was proven correct and don't think we got out of 2nd gear. Leeds were pretty poor to be honest and although I was confident we'd win I expected them to be better than they showed.

All in all they did what was needed to get off to a good start and all the players performed well and as a team. Still room for improvement as to be expected at this early stage but looking miles ahead of were we have been at this point the past 2 seasons.

The try came on the same wing that the 2nd try could easily have come from
On the first try I could see them scoring from the play the ball
Naulago was too far in on both occasions

That Needs addressing Asap

indeed, watched few times and he did nothing wrong, comparable to pretty much all the ptb's that went unpenalised all weekend. Either tidy it up, consistently, or leave it, the half way (half ar53d) approach in thefirst round games was shocking.

You mean Naulago who was pretty much outstanding?

You are the only person I have ever read posts from who could find a bucket of diamonds in a bag of coal, and complain about the dust!

Glad to see our coach Radford called it right and a lot of the experts on here got it wrong.

About what?

He was overall great, but I have to agree, he got caught out twice, luckily he got back with help to stop Handley in the first 10 minutes, certainly something to work on as teams will target him, Rovers with Quinlan and Linnet will be a threat there on Friday.

But haven't we "carried" wingers with questionable defence before, he may need some work, but he is hardly an RL veteran. (not a dig at you as I think you'll agree)

Yesterday I saw a team playing as a team, and it was good to see.

If Faraimo gets pelters for rushing off the wing, then Ratu needs to be questioned when he is caught to far in as well. Luckily, he had the pace to get back twice. Rovers are going to target our wingers and try to get round them. Quinlan is dangerous and we need to be aware and prepared for this

Are you ok ? Stable ?
I’m delighted with the win

Talking points ? - Leeds exposes that wing pretty easy and Leeds are a bang average attacking side

Great start. Encouraging.

First one did!!

Good completion rate,Better discipline,and not too many errors.
This also made a big difference

No doubt HKR will move the ball fast and wide on most occasions and use the crossfield kick to Crooks.
As you said Quinlan is a class full back and very dangerous runner so needs to be hit hard early.
HKR will score first but we should have too much for them over 80 mins

Very good solid start , Also pleased for Savelio , I hope this season we get to see more of him throwing in performances like yesterday .

Great Sunday afternoon day out. Savelio the pick of the bunch for me, really impressive, Ratu is quality. Don’t get the need to put Griffin in the 2nd row, he’s a class really dangerous centre with awesome stats, unless his form dips, he’s first choice at centre for me