It must have been a spiral bomb that flummoxed Dixon and led to that neat try of Huddersfields within seconds of us returning to the pitch at the semi final. I saw the ball spinning laterally and wondered how on earth the receiving player would deal with that without knocking on (presumably Dixon wondered the same thing for some time afterwards, bless him!).

I think our kicking game is very naive in every department and Hudds really exposed this.

When Hudds were around 1/2 way on the last tackle they made a point of having the kicker being back behind the 40 even if he had to drop back a fiar bit to do it. Not only does this make the 40/20 an option but it gives the kicker more time and space to put in a good kick. Our kicks seem to be rushed every time.

We never try to kick it dead when we're under pressure getting out of our own half. This is a very dull tactic but works very well for Leeds, HKR and Hudds. Pryce can kick the ball miles so why don't we use him for this? And drop outs too for that matter? Wello's kicks don't generally go more than 40 metres.

We never kick for touch from the 20 metre restart. Wingers are hardly ever back so this doesn't even require much skill but still we don't try it.

We never use the short kick off or any kind of kick off that might cause the defence problems for that matter. We just do a flat deep kick off that's easy to catch and doesn't hang in the air long enough to give our players time to pressurise the catcher.

Indeed. I heard a rumorour from a reliable source suggest that we even ask the opposition are they ready before we kick off. Potter has suggested that we give them a practice kick next year to ensure our reputation as gentleman is further enhanced.

You forgot that we usually kick to a player that can catch. Kicking to Crabtree or Griffin would just be rude. Lets chip it to Hodgeson instead.

Good idea, so long as we give him a 10 second start before we can get him.