Great result in the end but our defence needs to improve too many soft tries imo and Roby cut us to ribbons around the ptb.
On the upside we scored some good tries ourselves and i thought Buderus,Peacock and Bailey were immense for us a great 2 points but plenty to work on.

The 2 first choice hookers were the best players on the field IMO.

Pretty poor match by comparison with the previous clashes between the sides. Leeds were disjointed and were poor in their execution, Saints played the decisive half hour with every single one of our organising players missing. (Cunningham, Wilkin, Pryce, Eastmond).

The moment that decided the outcome was the incident where Pryce got injured. If Bailey get 10, which by the precedent set so often this season he should have, Saints would have been 8 points up against 12 men and the game would have died out. As it was he stays on, Pryce departs and it's Bailey that walks through a missed read from Moore and gets the offload out for the winner.

Pretty meaningless in terms of our season and no indication of how the Cup Semi final will go, unless the injuries to Pryce and Eastmond are serious.

They were seperate incidents. It was Buderus who tackled Pryce, nothing really in that one IMO. The Bailey one I agree should've been ten minutes is he's penalising him for a late challenge on the kicker. Poor decision.

Are you a Saints fan? Fantastic summary either way. You should be signed up on sky instead of that senile old pairing on thee at the moment.

I thought Bailey was penalised for a shoulder barge on a chaser from the kick not the kicker!

Leeds defence will always be leaky whilst players like Webb, Burrow, Diskin are injured. I thought Ambler was brilliant in the first half. Bailey was immense in the 2nd. And JP is just the same old monster.

I thought it was a funny performance from Graham. He never seemed to want to take the ball forward and make the hard yards. Instead what he did do time and time again was the flat pass just before impact. Thats all well and good when it comes off, which it did very early on on a few occasions, but at times Saints really needed some solid graft and imo Graham wasn't interested. On the other hand when Leeds needed hard graft JP didnt half do the business. That imo made a big difference.

I may have it wrong, I've not watched it back.

For us Bailey, Buderus, Senior and Ambler stood out for me. Bailey may have taken close to a decade but he is finally starting to show some of his early potential. Not surprising though as most props don't hit any sort of form til they're pushing 30 and he's still 26. At least 6 good years ahead of him.

Just to add i thought young Clarkson and Ambler had good games tonight aswell.

Clarkson is looking good now, wasnt too sure when first saw him play. But starting to look pretty solid now, hope he dont go down the Danny Allen route though.

woooooooooooooooooooooooo yeah what a great game.Well done Leeds it was also a great atmosphere in the southstand today. I bet it was good for the neutrals watching on sky.

Did Eastwood pick up an injury?
I don't remember him been involved late on and he was limping afterwards.