1.Luke burgess,took the ball up strong and hard and made yards everytime

2.kylie,yet again made good yards solid in the tackle and played long minutes which was needed

3.Delaney,second row really looks his place,hard 2 put down and made good yards and prob a lot of tackles would like 2 c the opta

Had to agree with sky, thought burrow had a great game

They all looked good tbh. Things I've learned so far:

1. Buderus is effective over 80 mins.
2. Despite Stevo's sticky underwear, BJB and Watkins look the business.
3. Delaney had a stormer in the second row.
4. Burrow has got a good short kicking game.
5. Kirke, Burgess and Kylie were excellent in defence and attack. Loved Kylie's hit on Fitzgibbon.

I think Delaney was on for man of the match if he had played the full match. Buderus looked good, clever player. BJB was strong again and Watkins didn't look out of place.

Lee Smith needs to improve drastically for me.

1. Thought Delaney had an outstanding game in the second row.

2. Burrow, great game always had the Hull defense on their guard

3. Kylie, for his fitness and overall game.

Great team effort.

Very difficult to choose 3, but I'll give it a go:

1. Buderus, as mentioned looks very good playing the full 80 and his experience is key
2. Burrow, appears to be returning to his best form and looks electric at times
3. Burgess, his go forward looks much improved from previous seasons.

These aren't in order and I think the rest of the squad was immense tonight and Delaney looks at home in the 2nd row. I really rate Smith but looked a little off the pace tonight.

And finally getting his opportunity, now that Diskin's testimonial is out of the way and he's thankfully gone.

Comes as quite a shock for some people

Never doubted it myself.

It's just funny that for all of last season certain individuals supposedly held in esteem by the "s" (sychophants) on here would deny it.

I (and others of course) have also stated for what seems like eons that Delaney would be a better second rower.... and that the likes of BJB should not be shipped out to other clubs (and is indeed wasted on the wing).

Burgess was the biggest improvement and was a very impressive prop. Burrow looks back to his unpredictable best.

In fairness, I think we are seeing the benefit of BJB being 'shipped out' to Quins last season. Not least because he played under McDermott last season who has total faith in him.

Without getting into a pi$$ing comp were Buderus and Diskin not rated for their individual Rhinos performances fairly last season?
Bjb was onto a winner going out on loan and GH saw that ,Delaney was signed as a centre the other option Watkins got injured early on.
Delaney was unfairly scape-goated at times when the whole team were struggling and there clearly was'nt a back-row spot available to him.

We'll never be certain of course...but if BJB HAD been available last season to play in the threequarters (at least, if not FB) allowing Delaney to play in his patently obvious (to me and others - Bloodbath) much better more natural position in the second row who knows what we might have acheived in 2010 ???

Don't forget BJB is not a "kid"...he's 22 !!!!

Delaney couldn't have moved to Second row last season simply because nobody was there to cover centre. I'd say Watkins, who wasn't available for 95% of 2010, has forced McD to make the move and try and make it fit.

BJB is the player he is today because of his highly successful loan move to Harlequins.

1-17 impressed this eve.