I saw Eric grothe, and mal meninga and various others. Ryan hall is up there with the very best. He will be a hall of famer best british winger since Offiah better than Robinson.

Or Billy Boston. How much would he be worth in the modern game?

I did! He seemed to have great pace as well as strength if memory serves me right.

However, I would unequivocably state that Ryan Hall is right up there with Grothe and the great Alan Smith as my favourite wingers to watch and anticipate great things of when in possession. Their finishing abilities were - and are - second to none.
(John Atkinson is up there too...but for differing reasons)

To be fair to Carney, that problem started further inside along the line. Once Sneyd (who was himself reacting to a massive shortage of defence to Cas's left of the posts) went in, Carney was left out to dry and tried to snuff out the danger by rushing the ball carrier.

True, if Carney stays out to mark Briscoe then Watkins has a walk in try.
If you watch Sneyd he's gesticulating like mad to get more defenders on that side but they've all been dragged into the middle to make tackles & defend under the sticks.

McGuire has a habit of making difficult skills like that look simple and straighforward. When he plays like that he makes everything look easy.

For me Bailey made that try happen. The previous tackle he gets absolutely nailed in the intitial hit, and while the BBC commentary team are congratulating Cas defenders Bailey's second effort puts two tacklers on the deck (one of them being Huby) and generates a PTB which allows Burrow to wander, totally untouched up the pitch and take as much time as he wants to put a perfect kick up on Dorn.

The try probably started on the previous set when leeds grubbered into the corner and penned dorn in, metres from the line. It was all a knock on effect from there, Cas started their set from metres out so didn't make good position for the last tackle which meant an easier kick return for leeds so that when leeds reached the last tackle of the resultant posession they were in a position to do an attacking kick and not a clearing or territorial one.

Those were the boring defensive tactics that worked virtually all afternoon.

And it was a perfect kick. Just the right height to ensure Cas had no time to block McGuires progress.

Chances are he would have never left RU.

The negative tactics were when conceding possession via scrums when in attacking field position rather than trying to force an opposition mistake or create a panic situation near the Castleford line.

I'd term some of the Leeds last tackle options as 'nothing plays' and I know which I would rather face if I were defending them.

That would be just the sort of comment I would expect from an theoretical Analyst rather than a real Strategist..

Analysts are rather like Accountants who know the cost of everything but the value of nothing.

Several weeks ago we were 6 points ahead of Cas and we tried forcing the play near the Cas line and knocked on. On the free play Luke Dorn broke and Sinfield ended up holding him down and then.......well we all remember what happened next.

Not the prettiest tactics but match winning tactics....to dig at them shows a desperation.

I've previously been a critic of many of our last plays that have truly been nothing kicks, but apart from 2 minor errors by Sinfield when one kick went straight into touch & the second when his kick was charged down, our last tackle plays were very good.
Giving little chance for either Dorn or Carney to make good ground.
Similarly our boring tactic of attacking the short side worked in that it generally worked over the weaker flank of Dixon, Hauraki & Webster & took all the gas out of Webster's tank.
Similarly even when in front we didn't fall into our usual trap of trying to win the game twice.
The fact that the second best offence in the league only scored 10 points shows the success of our tactics.