Garbutt by a million miles has been our best and most consistent performer. Galloway has been very consistent. JJB since return, very consistent. Delaney and Moon when game time, consistent. Watkins has had to put up with a lot, but has consistently put his body on the line.

Keinhorst, whilst I accept your above bit, and apologise if my first post came across as personal to you post which wasn't intended, hadn't come close to those players.

Achurch who by some is scapegoat, or as I put it fickle fans, since announced leaving, has been the equal and more of what Keinhorst has given. One is critisized and another unwarranted praised. Although I do think Printers point about game time is a contributor to that, with Achurch given more time. Now, if you are talking value for money, then it would be Keinhorst every time, no question. But just simply level of performance there really is no foundation in the massive gap of comments on the two players.

No Cuthbertson so both Keinhorst and Achurch on the bench.

Sutcliffe
Briscoe
Watkins
Moon
Hall
McGuire
Burrow
Galloway
Segeyaro
Singleton
Ferres
Ablett
JJB

Garbutt
Delaney
Achurch
Keinhorst

Luke Briscoe and Baldwinson start for Fev, no Walters.

Achurch at his best has been average & never outshone JK either in effort or quality that's not scapegoating that's backed up by his peformances name 1 game where he's shone individually?

Great turn out here btw Fev for SL the ground is certainly up to it.

McGuire and Burrow just doesn't work as a HB pairing.

10-0 looking fine. Clocked off a bit after, gave away a sloppy try but that seemed to wake us up again. Middle defence could be better as Fev have made metres quite well and would like to see us go wider earlier as Watkins and Moon could have a field day. Kicking hasn't been good so far but hopefully it's rustiness on McGuire's part. Would like to see Briscoe and Hall used more. Too many carries from Delaney and JJB who won't do you prop like metres or quick ptb's.

can't believe some thought this would be tight. the gulf between the sides is massive

Joe Cobb with a couple of "help the lower league team out" decisions there. Crazy that the decision even went to the VR and even crazier that it went up as a try.

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Went about as I thought. The question was how well we'd execute in attack and thus how many points we'd get. We saw against HKR we can be guilty of a lot of knock ons in attack but we limited them today.

2 sloppy errors from us gifted them their try and the break which led to Keinhorst's sin binning. As I said at HT, we went about 30 mins with only one recognised prop in Garbutt on with Singleton and Galloway taking a breather. The lack of size with Delaney and JJB doing a lot of carries down the middle didn't help but didn't matter in the end. Ryan Hall must be frustrated. A massively comfortable win against a Championship team and he still barely gets a sniff.

Granted you have to take the opposition into account but Watkins is a confidence player so very encouraging to see him in good form. Also think Sutcliffe offers us much more in attack than Hardaker does at FB.

I don't think the gulf was all that much, they just couldn't handle Watkins Moon and Sutcliffe on the edges. SL teams with lesser back lines won't find it so easy, as we were fairly nullified down the middle.

Positives were our backs hitting form, a high completion rate, and a good go forward

Still some things to work on though, especially our kicking game and last tackle options. I still think we look a better side with Lilly on the field tbh

Btw, anyone know why Cuthbertson was dropped? Perhaps the rumours of him leaving are true?

They said he wasn't injured but he only did 20 mins vs Wigan, 25 mins vs HKR. He hasnt looked 100% for a while and surely is carrying a knock and think he was left out to save him for later (he was 18th man if needed). We took Moon off at one point to wrap him in cotton wool but had to bring him back on when Keinhorst was binned.

Professional, and ruthless in the 2nd half. Can't say much more than that, apart from Fev were terrible.

Ormondroyd looks to have some raw talent, but is some way off being the required standard.

Promotion out of this "Sack-of-S*** 8's" division shouldn't be a problem for Leeds, especially when they get to play against what is in effect their de facto reserve grade team dumping ground.

Fixtures like these also have a tendency to highlight who the flat-track bullies are. Mentioning no obvious names of course.

Hope you all enjoyed the thumping win today

If that was Baldwinson's big chance to show Leeds and McDermott what they've missed then no thanks.