MCB didn't play.....

Correct

I never read too much into friendly results, but I'd much rather win them than lose.

I thought Lyne stood out in the first half and Kirmond looked sharper than he has done for a good while. Allgood was the pick of the forwards for me, worked hard in attack and defence, as did Crowther. Arona made some good yards and our three quarters looked dangerous with the ball. Most pleasing was the work rate in defence which has been lacking for a few years now.

I wasn't as impressed with Grix as others seem to be, and Jowitt would go straight back in when he's fit in my opinion. Keegan Hirst tried hard but has some work to do before he's ready for regular Super League but on today's evidence he looks like he's got the committment to give it a good shot. Wood went okay, but I thought Sio livened it up a bit when he came on.

Throw in Jowitt and Miller and our attack looks even more dangerous, and with Huby and Fifita we've quite a bit of size still to come in. It's a shame about Scott Moore, he could really round this team off.

MCB didn't even come on did he? I know he was names on the bench, but if he did come on I didn't see him.

Thought we was good today, if we can iron out the errors with ball in hand and be a bit more clinical in finishing our hald chances then i think we could be in for another decent season! Not getting carried away after one friendly but signs defiantly look good with a few players to come into the side in huby, fifta and miller. I see Mcdermots post match comments were distasteful and diluded as ever - today's game was a training run for them, which is probably more or less true but to come out with that when fans have parted with 20 pound to come out and watch there team play well I would be a little bit mythed if I was a rhinos fan to say the least.

I know which coach I'd rather be. The players not in were the ones that put them in the bottom 4

Who played left centre? Toupu? Assumed it was Brown. To be fair I watched both halves from the end we were defending, moved to Wakey end at half time so didn't see the lads front on at all.

Toupu, who I assume it was then, had a belter. Great feet.

Eh ........?

See last post.

Yes mate it was Tupou, thought he had a great game and for the first time actually looked like a centre and knew how to give the ball! I thought Lynne caused a lot of problems for them, he just needs to improve his decision making as more often than not he either keeps the ball when it's on to release to his winger or gives it when he should really just keep hold of it !

Birthday today, a great present with Trin winning and then dashing off to watch Town win

Very encouraging both with and without the ball. But we have beaten an ordinary Rhinos outfit, let's hope we can do it when it really matters.

Ive been in the minority sometime defending Lynn, I genuinely think there is a very useful player in there, if used right. The break early doors however he just seemed to have too many options once he broke the line and had a brain explosion and took none of them.

I'm a little reserved about his performance today generally though as he was up against Ablett who looked laughable at times never been a centre in his prime never mind these days. He looked so slow and centre with a half yard of pace would have made him look daft today.

Great options to have across the backline however 4 front line centres and plenty of options at 1, liked Grix today, and also wing options.

Chuffed with a good win against Leeds all be it a Leeds side missing a fair few players, we had a number of front line players out ourselves so that bodes well.
Thought Williams looked good and thought that Hirst went well, however he was blowing quite hard at the end of his first spell and you can tell he has some work to do to get used to full time rugby.
Lyne and Tupou did well in the centres as did Arundel when he came on and we still have Gibson and Caton-Brown to add to that equation.
Forwards all showed up well and we have Huby, Fifita, Molloy and Anakin to add in to that mix.
Jowitt and Miller to also add bck in and we look strong all across the park to me.
Not getting carried away as Leeds really were poor today but our defence was immense, I reckon we held them up over the line on at least 5 or 6 occasions (maybe even more than that). When you consider that was probably our weakest area last year then we look like we could definitely hold our own again this season and provide some real competitive games against most other teams.

That Leeds team 5 years ago would have handed our s back on a plate to us, even if we had gone with a full strength team.
One team on up, one team wondering?

Was that the same Ash Handley that scored 5 against us in the same match 2 years ago? That rather proves the point above!

Exactly.

Exactly.

Sorry

A pie sticking the boot into Abbo? Shut the front door! Abbo has been as good at centre and more successful in SL as any player Wigan have produced in the centre during his time. And as you point out it's not his first position.

No they wouldn't but they would probably take the four league points which is what really masters.

Ablett made a good centre at times in the past and was in quite a few Leeds fans eyes the MOM of the 2012 GF playing there. But with age comes less speed and mobility so isn't really able to fill in there like he use to.

I've always liked Ablett, for me he's a poor mans Ellis.
But yeah, age takes it's toll at some point.