Briscoe should hold his centre spot ahead of sutcliffe when newman returns on today's performance.

I see what you mean Seth, but Briscoe is no centre, he can’t pass and gets his defensive reads all wrong, like for their try where he showed the kid too much outside and then got stood up.

I hope that throughout the course of the season we develop into a Centre pairing of Newman and Broadbent.

We was unlucky with injuries today which badly impacted our interchange and took quite a bit of energy out of us late on i thought.

But what also cost us was our discipline. As i said earlier in the week we have to start learning or bins and bans will keep hurting us. Kendall got the red spot on in my opinion
Players safety and protection is paramount. If an opposing player hit a Leeds player like that i would want him dismissed. Bentley will get a decent ban i would think.


We dominated for long periods the effort was incredible. We need Newman fit asap to give us some pace and be good to see Austin there to help Sezer.

We are a decent team, theres a lot to like but theres a lot to sort also.

Yeah I'd agree there though I'd suggest the same of sutcliffe re passing with the added down side that he doesnt look for enough work/less effective carrying the ball. As you say, hope broadbent uses his non selection as real motivation and he can work his way in.

I do agree about our discipline but we’re going to see a lot of cards this year.

Having watched it back Currie hits Fuzzy’s head with his shoulder, at least a penalty.

No issues with Bentleys red it was a lot worse thsn i thought at the ground.

Yeah the red did look worse on viewing on TV rather than live where I thought he had mitigation on widdop falling

How did the touchy miss that hand in touch from Wire, we were fully on top at that point

Yep. If Broadbent can add a bit of oomph to his defense he has more class as a centre than Briscoe and Sutty put together. Hopefully just a matter of time.

Didn't think either centre threatened much in attack. Rhys Martin - who I thought had a decent game - looked as likely as anyone to break the line out wide. A fit Newman would be a very welcome returnee.

A lot of stuff missed today. Touch judges rarely intervene any more.

I agree i thought Rhyse, particularly 2nd half, was excellent especially in defence.

Newman and Austin should add a bit more cutting edge hopefully.

Its week 1 and it was far from doom and gloom. Losing Myler and Fusitua hurt us badly. We might have lost Myler for a bit now, weve certainly lost Bentley for a period and im not sure how fit Mikolaj was at the end hopefully ok for next week.

Martin was MoM IMO
Bentley deserved red but wasn't there yellow for the exact same thing? Sorry don't know which wire got the yellow

mik had ice pack on knee walking

holmes i think

no way - 1st try through his area

Bar that his contribution was much better than sutcliffes though as mentioned the hope is broadbent cements a spot

enjoyed it immense spirit didn't deserve to lose especially to iffy tries , tet , prior and cam worked themselves to nothing , definate contact to fus head in front of me . dwyer binning harsh , holmes should have had red , might not win a trophy but should win more than we lose

Martins performance was even more impressive seeing as his Father passed away a couple of days ago

sorry can't get excited about one of kev's mistakes here 5 yrs too long - sutty's ok at centre best position after knee injury but hopefully broadbent the future poss put him on wing ahead of tb next week

I thought he was playing well back end of last season and he certainly did great today. If Gannon starts next week he could be hard to displace. Runs hard, tackles hard and extremely disciplined in everything he does.

No, nothing like the exact same. Bentley was direct contact with the head. The Oliver Holmes one was off the shoulder so yellow is appropriate.

Thats exactly how i saw it too 99. Thought Kendall got both dead right.

Agreed, one was a closed fist smack to the side of the face, the other was just a high tackle. One red, one yellow was correct for me, although Holmes looked very worried!

Great story, compelling and rich

And factual.