I said to Buca II the other day I wonder if he's playing for a new contract here or fancies a go down under with George and Sam.

Personally I think he'd jump at the oportunity to play at Souths. Only problem is they do have a good set of forwards there. If the other clubs catch on that theres a 24 year old Burgess whos not too bad either out there then I could see them taking him on.

Thanks for the stats, tvoc and Harrigan. The stats show a good performance from all the pack, except Pitts who, as noted by someone earlier, was involved in some good attacking play for some tries, though. Interesting stats re. Burgesses. Illustrates what seems obvious - how much Luke has stepped up this year. I'd say our best forward so far in 2011 who will hopefully be re-signed for next year and beyond. Also, pretty good stats for Amor - especially with ball in hand.

Luke has been excellent. Sadly, I fear he wants to be in Australia, even if that means playing for a lower league club. I think the chances of retaining him are slim.

The massive amounts of errors and penalties conceded as well as the tackles made shows how poorly Leeds played

Wakefield offered nothing in attack, even when we were down a man they played five drives through the middle and a kick, any other team and we would have been crushed

the attacking structure just wasnt there, players running into each other, taking a tackle instead of passing to an open man and even though we only concede one try the defender (Brent Webb) ran away from the man who scored instead of towards him and there was too much soft and lazy tackling

running in a few late tries against a tired defence didnt even paper over the cracks for me, we played better against saints and this was a step back - if the majority of those who came back for this game are out long term injured again you would have to question them playing

enjoyed seeing McShane play, he has always struck me as a talent since a game at Hull KR (even though I think he ended up in the sinbin), it is certainly better having Watkins on the wing so he doesnt have to pass very often and I hope we dont see 2 inexperienced and tiny players paired in the threequarters again

3 errors from Sinfield at stand off.

One could be forgiven for assuming the erroneously-gifted McGuire played instead on the basis of stats like that.

A bit harsh Hopie imo.
Once we got the passing to stick and the fluency right we scored some decent tries and as has been mentioned before defence is as much about attitude as it is effort and thought we showed both.
Wakey did move the ball about a fair bit and it was hardly 1 man up the middle then a kick to test us at least not when they pinned us in our half.
Don't get me wrong it was far from great either and we need to be improving 100% to be considered contenders again but i don't think we took a step back either.

Agreed. I think that he wants to go to australia to play. Unless he wants to stay with one of the twins who stayed at Bradford?