So much negativity on here feels like some are just waiting for us to lose! Tough game tonight, ill discipline cost us, felt like every tackle they were begging for the ref to give them something. Edgell did well, Bentley had a good game minus that holding penalty. Frawley obviously given the instruction to try catch Hiku out with a high ball, thought sangare ran well but seemed scared to put the shoulder in in Defence. We desperately need props back soon as I foresee Lisone and Donaldson (lol) getting a couple matches.

Pretty much how I saw it

Poor discipline, and the 2 sin binnings have cost us here. We defended pretty well overall, 3 tries conceded from kicks, 2 of which were deflections, and didn't concede many breaks.
The attack looked much better when we had some size in the middle, the momentum really shifted when Sangare wasn't on the field.

It was one of those games when everything seemed to go against us. So, hopefully, we can get some troops back and tighten up the discipline.

Felt two of their tries were very jammy too, to hit the post and then drop onto his leg we were unlucky

Not using Ruan til late was stupid though

Discipline was awful you can’t win games turning over the ball that much. We could have won that if we had not played stupid.

Look light in the pack we were crying out for another prop

Lisone won us the game last week, but he effectively lost it for us tonight with two errors and then the stupid high shot in front of the sticks in the space of about 5 minutes.

Thought Leeds were the more skillful team, but HKR built pressure and had slightly better discipline when it counted.

Lisone had a nightmare 60 seconds.

Forward pass when you had changed the momentum.

Next set gave away the 6 again, then got the yellow.

Thought you tried to drag KR down to your level particularly in the ruck and that combined with the conditions saw you remain competitive and in the contest until the 70th minute.

Need to get rid of Tony Smith mk2 and look to grind out games instead of trying to score off every move.

Leeds will win as many as they will lose again this season.

HKR's tries were fluky but they played the conditions. One off the post, another lucky not to be a knock-on, and the last one barging our debutant full-back out of the way.

To say we had two first choice props missing the first half in particular was better than expected. Sangare's first stint was great. Hopefully we get Oledski and Holroyd back next week.

They need to lose IMG points for the state of that pitch

Croft is class Frawley is pants slow and predictable,good to see the coach has bagged the Ref and opposition players being unfair and play acting for pens? Who is up next for the blame game?

Lisone cost us the game, not Frawley

Awful pitch

On the plus side Edgell did very well in tough conditions, Sangare did well. Did Goudemand come back?
Bentley worked hard and Handley is now a top class winger. Thought Ackers was good until near the end.

On the down side , as Tad said in 2nd half we got nowhere near their 20 until game was lost in last few minutes.

We lost the battle and as that happened we made more errors, 6 agains etc.

I thought Frawley’s kicking offered nothing and we put Hiku under little pressure compared to what Edgell had to deal with.

We only stayed in the game from the great long range score, we offered little else in 2nd half.

Donaldson and Roberts are not good enough for SL.

Disappointing 2nd half

Agreed about Roberts, give smith a run out instead, shot out for halls try when he didn’t need to

Inconsistency is the word for this game start of the game we looked good but didn't turn our pressure into points. With the rules as they are Donaldson was probably lucky to only receive a yellow will probably get 2 or 3 games ban. Jack Smith decision making was very inconsistent for me pulling forward Passes for us but KR got away with clear as day ones, the decision to not give the offside from Bentley's offload when Litten picked it up from infront of the KR player who patted the ball down was a massive call in the game that the officials got wrong at 14-12. He then penalises our captain for dissent for challenging his wrong call next set HKR score a try that kills the game off, perfect example of why captain's challenge should be used in Super League. It's only round 2 I hope we don't go to panic stations on here, hopefully we start getting our big bodies back the likes of Oledzki & Holroyd soon. Outstanding try from Handley again great vision from Croft hopefully as the season goes on and pitches get firmer we see more magic moments like that from Croft and our other spine players.

Jesus man!

For everything good he does his discipline just cancels it out and more

In fairness to Lisone, he had to make that tackle or they scored. He just got it wrong enough (given the new interpretations) to pay for it. On the bright side we competed hard on an absolute glue patch and perhaps didn't get the luck we were always going to need to get the win. Impressed with Croft, Ackers, Smith and Bentley. Thought young Edgell did very well in the circumstances. Handley looks in tremendous nick this year, maybe a yard quicker than I've ever seen him. Ruan should have got more time. Won't be throwing my blue and amber rattle out of the pram as a result of this one. Desperately need Oledzki, Holroyd and Miller back next week.

I enjoyed that one, good tight game between two decent sides.

As others have said, Ruan should have been on earlier in those conditions. I can see why RS goes with Donno but don’t agree.

No real complaints; sloppy play and lack of discipline cost us. Bentley played okay but usual errors and penalties from him too.

Beauty of a try again from Handley wasn’t it?

The problem was when we were 6 nil up and had all the ball and territory we did not try enough to score

Totally agree he was all over the field tonight doing great tackles then holding on giving away penalties

We didn’t look like we could win the game. Lack of props meant that we lacked yardage and compressed the space (but we play very flat anyway).

We need more troops, especially big ones. We also need to learn how to win the ground and play off the back of it instead of having 25M gain sets and constantly defending out line.

Edgell stood up really well in the circumstances.

I thought our attack showed a few glimpses of improvement in the 1st half, especially considering the state of the pitch. Edgell did enough to show that he can be the understudy to Miller without having to shuffle the backline around.
What was disappointing was the lack of discipline and field position in the 2nd half, very similar to last season. We won a game last week that was suggested we would have lost last season. Tonight was very much like last season, we competed well but came away with nothing.

Inconsistency is the word for this game start of the game we looked good but didn't turn our pressure into points. With the rules as they are Donaldson was probably lucky to only receive a yellow will probably get 2 or 3 games ban. Jack Smith decision making was very inconsistent for me pulling forward Passes for us but KR got away with clear as day ones, the decision to not give the offside from Bentley's offload when Litten picked it up from infront of the KR player who patted the ball down was a massive call in the game that the officials got wrong at 14-12. He then penalises our captain for dissent for challenging his wrong call next set HKR score a try that kills the game off, perfect example of why captain's challenge should be used in Super League. It's only round 2 I hope we don't go to panic stations on here, hopefully we start getting our big bodies back the likes of Oledzki & Holroyd soon. Outstanding try from Handley again great vision from Croft hopefully as the season goes on and pitches get firmer we see more magic moments like that from Croft and our other spine players.

We knew 3 months ago we needed another prop but we decide to put 2 light weight 2nd rowers there instead