That kick for Handley's try. Been missing a bit of that cutting edge so far.

If it has I would still have him at Leeds - quality coach, you cannot get rid of all your best players and expect to perform at the same level - a tough year ahead for Trent

I would have thought OPTA work on criteria provided by SL or the RFL. In any case I would expect that for a tackle to become a missed tackle the defender has at least to get hands on the attacker and then drop off. This will occur more often with the hard working defenders that put in high tackle counts in field where sometimes your own teammates can know you off in a multi player tackle. Where it is less excusable in when a player makes the ratio of 6 tackles with 5 misses.

Where I am unsure of how a missed tackle is recorded in when a player hopefully dives and completely misses with no contact.

Missed tackles are, a lot of the time, no big deal in the grand scheme of things providing a team mate compensates. Despite Leeds (presumably) missing a bundle in the 2nd half saints failed to score.

True. You could say the same for Brian

I do not think retreating defenders was the problem. For all three tries our numbers were wrong which led to gaps in our line.

For the first try (Amor) I think it was 9 attackers against 5 defenders which caused Ablett to drift too wide and leave too bigger gap and be on the wrong foot. Falloon had to mark Walsh and Hardaker was late arriving at speed so was easily stepped. The second try(Walsh) again spotted a big gap inside Ablett who once again was aware of the numbers outside him and with Falloon delayed with a blocker made it easy for Walsh to go inside Ablett again with a little dummy and again Hardaker arriving far too late. For their third try (LMS) Ablett was very poor and made little effort to take LMS. Hardaker was even latter arriving so left himself no chance to stop the try.