I read a lot of gush on this site and thought I’d finally reply as some of the doom and gloom is absurd. We are 4 games into the season less we forget and nothing is won in March.
The performances have been patchy but signs of brilliance can be seen if you take time to look rather than criticise. Leeds are trying things and something’s inevitably haven’t come off such as the drop out against Harlequins. That said Leeds are top of the try chart, top off the points chart (whilst also being top of the missed goals chart I might add). Also top of the offloads chart and top of the clean breaks chart so we are clearly creating.
We are playing some attractive rugby and signs of class such as the cross field kick from Sinfield to BJB against Wire, also the coach has tried some innovative set plays such as the scrum break against Bradford or the 2 player (Burrow & Ablett) run around from the base of the scrum against Warrington. These nearly came off and with a few more months to implement and gel with the coach Leeds will be right up there again.
All this attacking flair has come without one of our best creative players.
The thing letting Leeds down has been defence we have missed the most tackles and made the 3rd most errors thus we’ve lost 2 game. Once we have got use to playing this new attractive style again the errors will dry up. Our best defenders such as Peacock will return and we will once again be near the top come October.
The discipline this year looks better we currently sit 9th in terms of number of penalties conceded compared to 4th in 2009 and 6th in 2010.
All in all there’s a number of positives if people can avoid the easy option of criticising and look for them.
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