Radio Leeds when announcing the team at 7.15pm said Hardaker was being rested as he had played 7 consecutive games. They got this information from Mr Lowes. He's a winger who will be capable of playing every week. Is the numpty of a coach going to rest Hall after he has next played 7 games. Hardaker as I recall hasn't put a foot wrong since he was first picked; takes the high bomb, no one gets passed him and he's a sharp finisher. As Ice Man says as a result of his omission there was no pace in the backs tonight.
The team at present just don't know what to do when in possession. There are no moves, no structure or organisation. The players bang away in the opposition half and get no where and this caused the indiscipline in the second half. Don't blame Ganson, yes there were a few "iffy" decisions but he was not the reason for the four second half penalties that won Bulls the match. As it was raining and we were getting nowhere with the ball perhaps we should have converted our penalties into 2 points.
The rediculous thing is the coach always sees the match different to everyone else. He quoted last weeks match at Wrexham as one for the purist which he is. The match was dire and whilst the conditions again didn't help Crusaders had far more "go forward" than we had and were the better team.
The thought occurred to me tonight during Tony Smith's reign we played away at Quins one Saturday, temperature approach 75 and McDermott used all his sub changes by half time. Needless to say the Quins were on their last legs. The changes weren't forced on to him either.
A decent coach will get far more out from the players we have, even though some are ageing. As for Weller he won't drop him, McD thinks sun shines out of his a*se. If McD continues we will continue to struggle and though Buderus was fully committed to the cause tonight he won't want to stay next season to play in a team so disorganised. God help us next week!

Sinfield hasn't played well for weeks - he certainly isn't leading from the front. He through one hospital pass to JJB you could hear JJB when he got crunched - madness. Maybe that's Sinfield's way of getting selected!!

Hauraki and Buderus have contracts at Leeds for 2012, Webb, Leuluai and Lauitiiti don't (at least not yet announced if they do.)

The problem could be that Webb, Leuluai and Lauitiiti are settled and in the team while being off-quota and it's easier to retain an existing player than source a replacement.

Looks like only Kylie and Ali now!

Lucky I got the thought down on paper before the Webb news officially broke today.