we can still win this if we get our hit together in the second half just need to organise


or not

So, he can chase back (but not catch) try scorers and he can also play the ball.

DAMN IT TO HELL WHY DID WE LET THIS TALENT LEAVE THE CLUB!!!!!!!!

I thought there was a couple of positives for Leeds:

- Burgess - ran with heart, improved game. Filled Kylie's shoes. Just question his ability to do that week in week out. Thought Paul Wood was top draw, big carries - 3/4 quality offloads. He marired the concept of making the metres with a sensible, attacking, offload threat. Leeds please take note!

- Sinfield - made the hard yards when the forwards wouldn't. Lead by example. And he finally kicked a touch liner.

- Ablett - thought he looked strong, considering his early come back.

But there are plenty of negatives, most have been touched on. What springs to my mind:

- Lack of the basics. Awful handling, cut corners, no platform.

- Wellar and Ali starting? A tactic that didn't work. Clarkson is the type of player who should start and Ali/Wellar one of them should have come off the bench.

- Cross, sloppy and unimpressive. We should bear in mind that he's still a rookie!

- Kirke, ineffective and work shy. Shock! Ambler peforms in an earnest manner, it's time he got the chance.

- Wellar, poor. Thought he should have filled in at prop and he could have got his head round a straight up and down game a bit easier. His linking didn't work and threw out a God awful ball which cost us.

The trys either side of half time ended the contest. Leeds can't help but leak points, literally - left, right and centre. To play a brand you need the discipline of the basics to start from. Leeds need to look at themselves and be honest. Mac is feeling the pressure now, God help him Fat Feka's Top 8 Reds turn us over. In the last 2 games Mac didn't really change anything mid-game which looked like turning it round. Don't worry though he has the brain cells of James 'I stick fingers up at Leeds fans but I'm back now so it's all forgotten' Lowes to fall back on.

Before the season started I only asked Leeds to get off to a good start to give us a realistic chance of competing come the back end. It hasn't happened yet and it looks like a carbon copy of last year all over: mixed results/paper over cracks/getting out of jail/bombing etc - I just can't see where the progress will come from short term.

The inclusion of JP, McGuire, TMFMISL, Kylie and Delaney (as a second rower only) would make us significantly stronger and solid. But you can only play with the cards you've got and we've got a couple of Jokers in our deck.

He caught him alright but too late to prevent the try and no doubt was classified as a missed tackle by Opta. Meanwhile the player that blocked his opportunity at Leeds wouldn't have even been in the frame but let's just gloss over that.

Broughton's stats V Wigan on Friday also show that he made 154 meters from 18 hit-ups at an average of 8.56 but it was only against arguably (although I doubt many could really argue convincingly against it) the best team in the comp (just recently) and while playing for one of the least best but let's just gloss over that as well.

Donald's highest return in 2010 was 108 meters (V Salford) and he averaged 67 meters per match during the 16 games he played.

Now I don't mind the Antipodeans but they have to earn their money same as the rest of the players and the very worst case senario is when there very average efforts block opportunities to young English players.

How many hitups per game did Donald manage in 2010? Teams usually attack down the left so I suspect he didn't see as much ball as Broughton who plays on the left.

I have no agenda here, but the info provided so far isn't enough to make a conclusion on.

No amount of stats would be enough for some but here are those requested- 260 Hit Ups, 27 Appearances, Avg Per Game 9.63
2008 - Left - 222 Hit Ups, 24 Appearances, Avg Per Game 9.25
2009 - Right - 209 Hit Ups, 24 Appearances, Avg Per Game 8.71
2010 - Right - 143 Hit Ups, 16 Appearances, Avg Per Game 8.94

Whether on the Leeds right or the Leeds left Donald's involvement was fairly consistently around 9 carries per game.

Jodie Broughton:
2009 - 92 Hit Ups, 7 Appearances, Avg Per Game 13.14
2010 - 309 Hit Ups, 23 Appearances, Avg Per Game 13.43
2011 - 49 Hit Ups, 4 Appearances, Avg Per Game 12.25