Croft's 2nd try - watching on Sky, Chris Kendall sending it up to video ref - "Can you check the grounding, he was too fast for me"

Rewatching it our right edge defence was immense

With the ball he looks a natural and fluent 9. Something we’ve not had for a while. I agree his defence needs work. Until he gets decent game time at this level, we’ll never know.

It doesn’t surprise me you being overly critical of him, you’ve expressed negativity about him on here on countless occasions.

Agreed. Looks sharp with the ball. He was involved in the miss on ipape but that looked as much a tired effort from mcdonell to me.

Agree with all thats been said, Frawley looked way better too, probably his best game to date IMO. like the look of eseh, real shame we didn't get him, leeds fan too. amazing occasion and definitely a performance to match, new coach can come in and challenge now, just need some consistency in the team now we've seen they can do it, youngsters looked good too, Ned Mc is one to watch!

Agreed, just because Mik isn’t smacking people all over the shop some think he’s not effective. He’s very good, and has carried our pack for years.

Thats because people like you keep bigging him up into something he’s not. He gets plenty of game time and shows very little, and I’m not the only one who just isn’t getting it, i just don’t see what you are seeing in him,

I’d just echo the entire nights tribute.
Seeing x80 former players come back for Rob shows what we as a club have forgotten.
Listening to Buderus talking about his time here was also amazing to hear and is the level we need to get back to. Well worth a listen.
The respect and love shown by everyone in the ground was incredibly moving, reduced me to tears on multiple occasions and the Geoff Burrow interview- wow, I was in floods.

Team wise - we were levels above where we found ourselves at Hull. A coherent game plan and the obvious defensive efforts we getting back to where we need to be. Plenty of positives to build off from and hopefully a quick appointment of a head coach can at least see us reach the playoffs.

Still missing a general to guide the team, why we didn’t kick the ball dead towards the end of the game to run down the clock instead poor speculators is a mystery and we got battered around the ruck on far too many occasions but as said previously it’s very much a game to build on, let’s hope we do.

Glad Eseh did well and shows what a difference having another hard runner can make.

Would be happy if we got him away from wigan, they have 7-8 and clearly don't need them all

Lam said that’s best he’s seen Leeds play for 2 years.. something to build on and replicate

That performance was exactly why I don't actually think the new coach has to change that much. Just attack and defend with more intensity and it solves a lot of our issues

We all don’t have to agree on everything, do we?

I didn’t see him at academy level, so wasn’t one of the ones bigging him up. I just like what I see. He’s got talent. A proper 9, but as you rightly question, not sure about attitude, state of mind, personal circumstances etc.

PS it was great to see loads of former players sat together at the back of the Carnegie. Sutty, Singo, Jimmy Kheinhorst etc

Stats tell a story to a point. Mik was visibly frustrated against Hull, hence the errors. Massively less so last night, hence the performance. Superb performance against a Leigh side massively better than Hull. I see what's in front of me.

Everything else aside that was a big 2 points, especially with Holroyd, Bentley, Ackers, Lisone, Newman, Handley all unavailable.

McCormack showed up great and with Simpson and Smith waiting for a chance too. Simpson can’t be too far off now.

So do if he shows the same in the next few games then i hope we try to sign him permanently.Wigan may play ball considering they have plenty of props.