We kept going down the middle because Leeds rush defence forced us to. A few times when we tried to put the normal sweep move on, the ball got to Powell and his pass options were cut off by defenders who were up quick on the outside. The worry is, do we have a plan B that will combat this. If not then we will struggle in the big games. The better teams are fit enough to keep getting up quickly. We beat the poorer teams easily because the sweep move gets Tomkins and the outside backs in open space.

Speaking of outside backs, I was pleased to see Charnley outplay the best winger in the world.

It was a lazy rip from a post on the Leeds board:



So don't blame me.

I somehow doubt that Eddie and Stevo gave it anything like as much thought as this.

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1 Welsh (Flower)
27 English (+ Hansen? = 2icon_cool.gif
13 from Wigan academy (maybe 13 from Leeds, dunno)

That's probably a fair comment.

To be fair I think the whole Sky programme needs a good shake up from top to bottom.

Not a lot of people will watch it but Sky do an excellent job of covering the RU matches that they have. When you watch the broadcast it looks very professional and slick. Of course you have the jokers like Will Greenwood or Quinell who from time to time bring their own version of banter but they don't come across as idiots like Terry O'Connor and Stevo.

For me the only saving grace of RL on sky is currently John Wells who doesn't seem completely incompetent like the rest.

Agreed. Wellsy's analysis is very good and concise.