I thought it was a decent performance on the whole and a couple of individual errors cost the Giants the game. Thought the pack worked really hard and Ellis looked really lively with ball in hand.
As usual with Bentham none of the 50/50 calls went our way. Adjudging Cudjoe to have played at the kick and saying Wardle lost the ball on their line when it was clearly stripped been two obvious ones. Mcgillivary was also very close to getting in at the corner.
Overall it was much better and hopefull the first points will come soon and kick the season into life.

Now that was alot better from the Giants lastnight!

ultimately going down 18-0 was what cost us, ill discipline from us and not helped my bentham, you cant go that far behind in SL never mind at leeds.

But we showed great character to get back in the game and credit to the lads for doing that, almost came away with another win there!

lastnight we were much more patient and built pressure, whereas before we have overplayed and tried to score off every set! hope we can continue in this vein and the wins will come now if we do. The next block of 3 games are very winnable and can get us back on track, will be under pressure though for the win againt widnes next time out.

thought Huby was brilliant lastnight, those offloads are great and also Brough was good too.

Very pleased with last night performance.
Very gutted our winning run against Leeds has ended and the result in general.

There's a few negative thoughts on Lunt, but I didn't think he played too bad. That part of the end was awful when he lost the ball but to be fair I don't think our whole team was ready for a moment to get back. It looked like we couldn't believe our luck we'd made that previous break.

Good team selection. Wood and Ellis stood out for me. I think we finally have our options on attack and won't need to rely on The Brough Show.

Ferres frustrated me last night. He seems constantly frustrated. He is probably guilty of trying too hard. I think he needs to relax abit.

Brough should get a warning in minute 1! He did well to behave in the second half and played better for it.

Only 4 players Huby, Kopczak, and Wood had good games. Ferris had a shocker and some of the tackling needs a lot of improving. Cudjoe is still searching for form, being kind. All can do better but this is the time they all need SUPPORT. Get behind the team.

more positives than negatives last night, we switched off defensively for their first 4 tries but after that we showed what we can do, let's not forget that we won the last 55 minutes 24-10!
but you can't let a team build up an early 18-0 lead and expect to win the game, we almost did that and credit to the players for rolling their sleeves up and getting on with the task and getting us back into the game, they could have easily folded and switched off totally, i doubt many team would come back from 18-0 so early at headingley.
as for the negatives, well just defensive lapses really, one on one tackles missed at crucial times, and the fact we looked gone in the first 20 minutes.

carry on like that and we will go well, we have 3 very winnable games coming up, win those and we are right in the mix.
yes im disappointed with the 0/3 but in reality we have had one very poor game and had 2 close defeats and 2 of the toughest away fixtures.

and i agree with jools, the messing around is becoming a joke now from ALL teams, how Mcdermott can come out with that drivel after the game is beyond me and just shows how his blue and amber specs stopped him seeing his own team's misdemeanours, Aiton was pathetic with his diving and play acting yet Mcdermott thought there was only one team guilty of messing around etc, very poor from him

I would say only two or three players had poor games. Last year we won the same game by 2 points. if Briscoes try had been awared at the death we would have lost by 4 the same as last night. However everyone was saying how good that result was last year yet there was very little different in performance to last night.
A couple of players went to sleep and cost us tries but overall the defence was very good.
Cudjoe is suffering a bit in attack because he is been asked to make thirty plus tackles a game which is far more than a centre should be making.

Agree about cudjoe- 30 tackles last night!!! Wardle 26, in contrast moon made 18 and Watkins 7
Our left edge had to do a lot of tackling last night, Wardle, ferres and ellis missed 12 tackles between them and Leeds capitalised. Leeds made more errors than we did -we didn't capitalise.
I love mullally going forward - but 7 tackles (1 missed) isn't enough hard work in defence for me!!!

If one sides centre have made 56 tackles and the other sides 25 then that means the Leeds centres have far more energy left to concentrate on attacking.
Our forwards missed hardly any tackles last night other than Ferres. What this could suggest though is they are not been worked hard enough and maybe should be looking to take some of the tackling away from the backs. Mullally in particular needs to work harder.

McDermott did not blame Huddersfield or their coach for the messing around at the ruck - he clearly said all teams try to slow the ruck down and will get away with what they can. He also did say that Leeds started to do the same in the second half. His blame was directed at the ref for allowing it.

been disappointed with ferres for a long while now.

mullally doesnt work hard enough in defence, prob why he hasnt kept his place in the team previous.

cudjoe 30 tackles lastnight

one thing for sure is this guy can tackle , the missed one on tomkins apart but fans dont want to notice this and want to give him stick instead, nice little kick through for the wood try though from him.

He said that the referee allowed us, not Leeds, but us, to slow the ruck down by messing around and that contributed to a poor game in his opinion.
Both sides were as guilty as the other but he chose to suggest only Huddersfield were guilty of it and that the ref let us do it. Very poor stuff from a victorious coach IMO

Yes his quote is very disappointing and a pretty weak attempt at deflecting attention away from his own sides activity.

They targeted Brough with comments, head pats etc, trying to get a rise out of him. I would seriously take the armband off him now, even if he remains captain within the group, so he does not talk to the ref at all even if he does direct the team. It is now a weakness being targetted by the opposition with a view to getting his hackles up so much that he talks himself into 10mins.

McDermott is another deluded coach who thinks everyone else apart from his club is trying to spoil games and slow the PTB down to gain an advantage. I'm glad I had the luxury of watching the game at home on sky instead of watching it from the halfway line at Headingley where the game must look somewhat different going off his deluded comments to sky after the game. To say he had blue and amber rise tinted glasses on is an understatement!!!!

cant understand why lawrence starts on the bench in games?

surely this guy is better from the off! was we 18-0 down before he came on? might not have been if he was on from the off tackling

Another improved performance when the passes was being thrown they were sticking!
Ferres needs to relax! Rising to much to the niggle of the game! Best thing you can do is just crack on with the game.
Mulally struggles to defend against the little men, hooker ect get around him as he is not just big but "gangly" long arms and poor of balance. Not his fault as its this that makes him so hard to stop with the ball! Certainly makes the most meters of our props.....behind Jerry lol!
I am happy and believe on a different day we would have had the win! Aitons acting especially with Connor was pathetic and Leroy did not play at the ball! Luck no conspiracy

Aiton looks as though he's been trained at R.A.D.A.Why when there are cameras and video referees are they not used? The game is turning into a cheaters paradise.

One of the big things that needs to be stomped out two instances one by ferres on push by Connor. Ferres ok aiton was moving backwards and he put some force into the push but Connor....well a gust of wind would have had more force behind it! Viewers saw it and commentators saw it so punish it! Even if not at the time of the incident punish later. Just can't imagine in a sport that promotes it's physicality a grown man would dive to the floor! Makes himself look pathetic!

McDermott should've just gone and barracked the the referee in the dressing room like other coaches

Sadly that's how things look when your at the bottom of the league sunshine,You sadly look like a team in total dissaray and without direction

Despite what your claret and gold sunglasses say IMO the Rhinos were always in control last night even when they went behind for the only time late on

Danny Brough was targeted successfully last night by the Rhinos and due to his limited intellect, he sadly fell for the ploy hook line and sinker

Time to take this rubber gob's armband away me thinks as he is a complete loose cannon and one that constantly spits his dummy out when things don't go his way...... Aw Bless

I hope things improve for you guys but if not then your going to be visiting places yous haven't been for a while

Lying ******* you hope nothing of the sort- you've come on here to gloat at our loss in desperate need for us to have a bad season- but whatever happens we will still have a better one than your last season in superleague.

Thank you and good night rentagob!!"


couldnt make it to the palace but the sighs of relief could be heard in Blackpool
Enjoy the top spot -theres only one way to go !!

wow, for the first time since 2011 we get Rhino trolls...have they beaten us or something ?

He's a bull Daz.
He's getting giddy as it's the highest they've been in the table for a long time.....

Bradford Bulls ? Are they still around !!!!