Round 4 vs Hull away

Quote: ThePrinter "I agree with this. If I was the coach when it comes to reviewing the match, instead of making the players watch the full 80 minus I'd make them watch the first 40 mins then rewind it and make them watch it again.

Whilst we deserve some praise for tightening up in defence as the first half wore on, against better teams we would've found ourselves further than 12 points behind at halftime. Also we won't face such a awful pitiful defensive effort in the 2nd half like the one Hull put up.

One problem is in the first half when we got the ball we tried playing like we did in the 2nd half.....throwing it around trying to be adventurous but when the opposition defence isn't tired and is rushing you and your guys have just done a big spell of defending then it can end up looking as sloppy as it did first half. As good as the attacking play was in the 2nd half you realistically can't/shouldn't try play like that for the full 80 mins imo. Sometimes you've got to wait until the other side tires for that stuff to come off for you.....remember the end of the Widnes match when they were dead on their feet.

Our fitness levels have looked really strong so far and we looked like we could've played for another 20 mins easily last night and kept producing that kind of play. In the past we were very strong at finishing games and you felt if scores were tight around 50/60 mins that Leeds would step up and win it in the final quarter. We slowly started to fail to do that recently but if we can get back to that it would be great.

On the Sutcliffe debate. If he'd have been on the bench last night he'd have probably come on and looked good and scored a try or two as well such was the dominance of that 2nd half. However whilst the argument is that he needs to be getting game time if he's the future......yes I can understand that, but you've got to pick a team for the present, not for 2/3 years time.'"

Some valid points - on the last one, no successful organisation lives in the present to grow it has to invest in the future. If all the players were playing at a high level then it is difficult to justify change. Integrating youngsters can have some real positives as this golden generation have proved.