Rhinos team;

1.Webb
2.Donald
3.Smith
4.Senior
5.Hall
6.McGuire
7.Burrow
8.Leuluai
9.Buderus
10.Peacock
18.Ablett
11.Jones-Buchannan
13. Sinfield

12.Lauitiiti
19.Burgress
21.Worral
23.Burgess

No Diskin in the team.

Looks interesting with Watkins on the bench, perhaps Senior will have a stint or two in the forwards tonight.

horrible 10 mis

No Diskin or Bailey, have they been dropped or are they injured? It's taken us 13 mins to complete a set.

On this first 13 mins, what the hell do they do all week?????

Warming up niely now, Leeds really must be the slowest starters in SL!!

looks a bit better now, the forwards are standing up to them and giving the backs a bit more position and time.

Getting beat in the penalty count again...

where's watkins, i see burgess twice. but no watkins

Best performance of season, if buderus stays fit Leeds make it 3 in a row.

worst 15 mins followed by the best 65

If Sean Long stays fit though…

This could go round in circles

Thought Buderus was brilliant. Some great hits in defence, and guided us round well

I will second that, Great driving tackles, and his passing from the play the ball had improved big style from last week.

just got back to the hotel. quality performance from leeds. fans in great voice. top players - buderus, burrow, sinny and mcguire. totally bossed the game with our forward laying an excellent platform. fans in great voice with plenty of new chants being sung.

were the team they call the rhinooooooooos
we got scotty and ali
peacok and kylie
sinny and robby burooowwooowwoooww!

great job all round!

and what a shame we didn't hit 50. Phil Clarke was a very relieved man.

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Better from Donald today, they scored the try from the kick which he didn't get but apart from that i thought he had a good game and glad he got on the scoresheet, just hope it boosts his confidence a bit.
Webb was brilliant and we just look so much better witth Buderus rather than Diskin and it was good to see him get the full game, Penalties are still a problem but if we play like that every week then i dont mind.

That was funny

Weren't you the one saying who could post where?

worrall went very well, for his 6 minutes

I thought Webb looked dangerous he is starting to get back to top form. Buderus is really slotting in well now his distribution is what you expect of one of the kangaroos all time best hookers.

question is where does this leave diskin. Buderus can clearly do the full 80, and at a better level than Diskin reaches in general.

Heading for the exit door.
I know he's been a good player for us but Buderus is a world class hooker and he's played the full 80 for most of his career. I don't see the point in putting Diskin on the bench just to give him a space in the team when we dont need him, Buderus plays 80 minutes and put another forward on the bench IMO.
We've got Buderus till the end of next season so i would get rid of Diskin and bring young McShane through gradually.

It would have been funnier still had we hit the 50

Brilliant.

Absolutely brilliant.

Leeds have gambled with only one recognised hooker in the squad for several years (incidently that hooker being an integral part in 3 championship winning sides). This coach, the previous one and the Chief Exec have identified this risk as unacceptable so sourced one of the worlds best hookers in order to run a squad with 2 quality hookers.

That policy has been in place for only 4 or so months and has not yet started to pay full dividends (both senior hookers have been injured this season though, had you noticed that?).

Nevertheless, you wish to discard Diskin (who we don't need?) and run with Buderus (whose career with the club will end abruptly at the end of his contract) and an unproven junior player.

God help our club if some of the fans on here got control.