My take on the game is we were very competetive for most of the game, showed some good passages of play and our forwards were on top for long periods in the first half and with a bit more composure (which should come after a few games of playing as a team) we could have scored a few more. Regarding the penalty count, leeds did hold down as long as what we did, it just looked neater and less of a struggle than some of ours so more unlikely to get penalised.
What bugged me about bentham was his eagerness to stop the clock and hurry up our drop outs but allowed brent webb to throw the ball away and wait 30 seconds before stopping the clock, while also things he pulled up as knock on's in the wigan friendly were ok in a super league game.

He didn't affect the winners as leeds proably edged it over 80 mins but I feel 18 points flattered. My view of leeds is they looked a better team when Peacock was off the pitch and Burrow looked sharp but think a few more teams will attack there right side this year. Good game to watch, both teams will go well this year if that was anything to go by and the game as a whole does not deserve Bentham been the main talking point.

It will be interesting if hall continues to impress at 6, when green comes back, would sandercock consider dropping murrell and playing hall/green at 6 and 13 as this could be one way of getting the best out of both players however that appears to be a long way in the future so onwards to Wakefield and feel that we should avenge last years defeat after watching there game back on sky.

Dont blame u cos we feel the same

Well done to Leeds though for playing for 80 minutes. We need to learn to do the same.

Just watched the highlights and thought your ball movement was good with lots of runners causing the defence issues. To beat the top sides regularly you'll need to start finishing some of those moves off directly - the two first half tries from close to the line shouldn't have been scored as they were down to really poor defence from Leeds - and get your own defence a bit tighter.

so ok what are persons overall views on the first game, things will get better im sure.

Didn't the first game used to be a repeat of the GF most years?