A bit surprised we didn't see more replays of the Vuniyayawa KO, since it was a game changing moment. It looked to me like Paasi *could* have been leading with a forearm... Probably not, but Sky would have at least shown a few more replays, especially when the play was paused for ages.

Overall disappointed with the quality of BBC coverage. Sick of seeing Jon Wilkin on every time Leeds play, although it was amusing that he didn't like the BBC showing brief highlights of the various Sts GF losses against us... He's still evidently got a huge chip on his shoulder about it



For all Wane's hard line stance on players making errors, IIRC he was hardly a shining example as a player himself, esp. in a Leeds shirt. I'd like to see what he would have done if forced to play in the halves on the 5th tackle as well! IMO he's a throw back to a forgotten era and I'd rather not welcome him with open arms to Headingley. Sport is about entertainment as well as results.

Wane might have a point. You'd expect poor execution of the last tackle plays. Unfortunately the decision making that went with them was too. For me, that's a big weakness in our attacking game. Were the likes of gale and lui to show a bit more nous it might well rub off on their understudies a bit. I can see why Long was hired, hopefully when players return we begin to see the benefits

Wane explicitly said last tackle kicks.

with 2 extra backs kicking we'd have had 2 less forwards tackling and may have had the expected hammering

Slightly off topic but aren`t we blessed listening to the way Wane, Kear and JJB speak.
And John Wilkin trying to be a smart ar$e.
Then we have the TV presenter pulling out the balls for the home and away teams for one of our showpiece trophies.
No wonder the game never progresses.

Committed or not his arm was by his side and his shoulder hit Theo's head,under the rules it's a red card. Your pack really looked good today,if you can get some backs back and at least one halfback on the park then it's looking good for the playoffs for you

100% this. Agar's plan conceded the lack of creativity (although yes it would have been nice if they'd been slightly more accurate) in exchange for two further forwards who did the battering which kept us in the game.

If we could make Lee Crooks 40 years younger he would have filled that half back/prop role nicely.

Assuming we lose Prior after this season I’d say we need 2 really high quality forwards to complete the pack.

How good is it to see a depleted Leeds side really compete down the middle with such a young lineup? Bodes really well for the future.

Liked the look of Gannon immediately.

Glad Agar was thinking on the same lines. The one who was at times caught between being neither one thing nor the other was Smith, not his fault. The naming of gale in the 21 was all a bit silly though.

Even though Tetevano may have been daft with his late shot it’s great to see a bit of ‘mongrel’ back in the forwards isn’t it.

Prior is just a machine, I hope he stays for another year or two

Agree completely. Makes the game look so tin pot

Cracking performance today I thought - shame about the sending off think we'd have had half a chance otherwise. Gannon looks a serious player (he's a big 17 year old!). Beyond that, Paasi leads with his forearm/elbow every time - as someone else says if you tackled like that you'd be off so not sure why it's allowed. And finally the BBC coverage was tough to listen to with the drooling over saints even praising their defence when they'd just shipped a load of points to 12 men which was quite bizarre but there we go back to sky now anyway I suppose.

What I like about Rhinos vintage 2021 is the mongrel. Stick 15,,000 at Headingley behind them and no other team would fancy it. As others have said Prior is an inspirational player. His cumulative excellence puts in the top range of Aussie imports.

Agree on Gannon, does anybody know how big he is? He looked big and good on the frame. I like Walters but feel like he needs to fill his frame a bit still. You can see why Gannon has been put straight with the first team

Not sure if its already been mentioned but the work we did on Walmsley in the first half shouldnt be underestimated.

We bullied him in defence, 3 players on him as soon as he touched the ball, and then constantly ran at him in attack. Saints are by no means a one-man team but we nullified any impact he had for them in a massive way.

We physically outmatched them today but unfortunately their class showed on the edges.

We should take great heart from that today.

Just tried watching the game after recording it. Struth I struggle to get any enjoyment without crowds...
Enfed up tolerating about 15 mins then lost interest.think I'll pick up watching again end of may when we might have stone sort of atmosphere and excitement......

I don't no how big Gannon is but he looks a unit for 17.Walters is only 20 and 6ft 5 so he's probably only grown one way and that's up. He'll put some serious on in the next 2 years.

I enjoyed the game but would also struggle to watch with no crowd or crowd if I knew the result

Though their introduction of paasi? Changed the momentum back to them. Maybe without the red card we could have won but then again maybe they don't get complacent and clock off. Seriously think this is a huge year for oledski. Could be outside bet for wc

Very very exciting/tense game. Couldn't believe we were still in it at half time given the team sheet, and I was actually disappointed we weren't ahead! Then thought it was game over with the red and yet we were still with a shout 4 mins to go! Love to see it. It was quite some effort, despite some shocking last tackle plays. Saints did us lots of favours to be honest, but the ref didn't do us many so it about evens out.

Extremely looking forward to seeing us play when we have some halves, centres, and Handley back!! Fingers crossed for us beating Saints in the Grand Final!!

Would like us to begin using King Walters and Gannon instead of Mellor, alternate games at the least.

What did you think of the use of leeming and dwyer this match? Thought the game was crying out for Dwyer at a much earlier stage... he only got introduced after the match was lost, and we only miraculously pulled it back to touching distance because he scored twice in v. few minutes.

He looked like our only player in danger of scoring or causing a something to happen near their tryline, so I would've liked to have seen a lot more of him!

Yes, without Paasi they lose the game!! He was very very handy, although a little too elbowy and shouldery for my liking!

The BBC challenge cup draw was so village. Reminded me of a post match meat raffle. Disgrace

Wonder if we picked up any injuries during this game too, it was full-on. Looks like Gannon and the other young lads will be getting a few more opportunities.

Agree. Absolutely embarrassing

I think the one thing we can take from this game is how far we have come, its less than 2 years ago since we got dumped out of the CC by Brafford