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.

Loving the meltdown on the Rhinos forum.

It's great to come away from Leeds with a win . Let's hope we can repeat the process later in the season on at least one occasion.

Well Ellis is a good example. A man who could in the past switch between playing 2nd row or centre, but by the time he was back from NRL you wouldn't put him at centre anymore as he'd struggle.

I doubt Ablett would've been picked there if it was a SL fixture. More likely done to reduce his workload. A SL game and he'd be 2nd row and Walters or another young backrower at centre.

Having been to the match......this is a very accurate report. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-8306454

Having been to the match......this is a very accurate report. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-8306454

Quote ="asmadasa"Having been to the match......this is a very accurate report. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-8306454'" Goodness me a truthful report by a Leeds tabloid and no excuses.

Quote ="asmadasa"Having been to the match......this is a very accurate report. www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/s ... -1-8306454'" Goodness me a truthful report by a Leeds tabloid and no excuses.

Decent crowd which The Trin will benefit from.

great start (same thing happened last year and look were we eneded up and leeds) form the highlights It looked liked wood was giving good service to the halfs... sio as well