I did wonder if maybe Newman would be a better choice, I have a different opinion to you on Handley as a winger but agree totally with you on him in the fullback spot.

Liam Sutcliffe actually makes a pretty good back up full back. Glad to see Holroyd starting. It would be bad enough putting Bodene on bench, but starting is ridiculous. How many training sessions has he had? Mind you, the few times we got into scoring positions against Saints, we looked like we'd never played together before.

Cheers i genuinely had no idea what it was.

That was some defence.

Lots of loose sloppy contact and losing collisions, discipline and errors slightly improved but not good enough still. Need to address the imbalance of territory early as it could quickly run away again.

What a pass!

And he was in touch hahaha.

Wasn't that an elbow to the head

What does Leeming offer us? He is a penalty machine

Love the way Harry plays the game.

I absolutely despise our final tackle play near the line. It's so unorganised everything is off the cuff and it looks like it too.

Yea thought gale was gonna get us organised in that area but not so far in this game

Better effort and arguably the better side, execution In their 20 and sloppy errors letting us down. Can see this game getting away from Us as we don't seem to offer enough attacking threat.

Are you kidding? Wasn’t a fan, but think he has tightened us up enormously here.

All things considered, I genuinely think we edged that half, despite the score line. A half decent fullback and I would have bet on another couple of scores there, and wouldn’t have conceded the first.

A lot of effort from all there, big improvement thus far.

Yep. Dire on the last. A lot of sideways play again. The gaps aren't just going to appear. Except for the invitation we gave Farrell. Oledzki has found some grit. Holroyd doesn't look ready, but it was time to give him a go. So Ava has been dropped then. I presumed he had a niggle.

Improved effort, had to be, still very sloppy and not much threat. Wigan were the better of the 2 for me and look like they've more gears to go up than leeds and more potency.

I don’t think having a new 1,6 & 7 combination all at once is helping us, I think we’ll look a whole load more cohesive when Walker or Myler return, Gale and McLelland haven’t really clicked yet


Much better effort though and I think we’ve actually been the better side in that half - just.

Though I will add that I so want to be proved wrong.

Last tackle and Leeming plays it to the first receiver to charge over the line past three defenders. Jesus Christ, it's appalling. This is braindead play.

(great effort so far though)

Headbutt from greenwood

Or smithies sorry

Agree with all that get walker back and at least one good winger would improve us

Thompson hasn’t done anything wrong the much maligned prior has gone ok and cuthbertson has given us some go forward. I’m sure we will lose but the efforts better than last week hope continues into second half

What is brain dead is smith arguing the toss in the middle while wigan attack the space left

How did anyone reach the conclusion that leeds had the better of the first half. Wigan’s weight of control starting to tell here

Gale sin binned. Errors and lack of discipline AGAIN is killing us.

What's the difference between that one and the one they did?