I was more convinced by Gibson than I have been in a long time. I've been a bit quick to criticise in the past but everything he did yesterday was good. His defence is really solid.

Surely you commit the winger if you pass out of one hand. There is no disguise passing out of two.

I believe we need to be an eighty minute team and stop the lapses which we have displayed in recent weeks.

I agree that Kylie and Peacock are awesome at the moment. Ablett also backed up with some telling runs and drives. Burgess isnt quite there yet as the impact player we require when the old guard have a breather.

Silly penalties.... What was Mike Ratu thinking of? He had tackled Raynor and when he got up to play the ball Ratu was having a smooch with him! The result from the penalty was six points to Hull! In the first half we hardly conceeded any penalties which was pleasing.

Sinny - what can I say - kicked every kick with ease - then again the usually hit and miss Tickle was also on target from all over. Must have been a kickers day.

Then again, Jodie Broughton was clean through and fell over. Hmmm. Credit to Hull though, played the last however long with fifteen men and played really well. Thought Thackray showed us what we were missing! Loose carries, indicipline and I do wonder if as repoerted on Sky that he had phoned up Bluey and apologised.

I think Burgess go forward is improving and he always looks to offload which I like, he needs to improve his defense but he's getting better generally IMO.

Seeing the title of this thread I thought it must be about the Sky teletext report of the game. It's a right dog's dinner, mixing up our titular heroes at random intervals.

On Thursday it quoted Warrington as a Yorkshire club!

So all that coaching boll0x about carrying the ball in two hands because the defence won't know what you are going to do is wrong then? Last night the defender had already commited to him -he transferred the ball to one hand and flicked it out in a high risk move. He could just as easily have passed. Do you recall the next time he got the ball and took an age to transfer the ball to his right hand which was so obvious anyone could have spotted it? Donald didn't get the ball that's for sure.
The one handed flick is used best after you have made contact with the defenders and you are being tackled and only have one hand free - like Mr Lauititi or Keith does it - any other time it's just incorrect passing technique.

Not the squad in terms of ability but perhaps it is the squad in terms of application?

I've posted this before but mentally the team are in a tremendously difficult situation that most posters seem blissfully unable to comprehend.

Teams struggle to retain titles because its so difficult to mentally get up to performing to the same intensity and consistency for a second year. This squad is trying to do it for a third year - something that hasn't been done in Superleague before.

His postional play last night was poor, every time Hull moved the ball that way they looked dangerous. He has defended better other times I've seen him. Burgess, Diskin, Worrall, Doanld and Gibson were all leaving holes last night. As a team we were not up to standard.

I am sure that I will be berated for sour grapes, BUT how many times are we penalised and the opposition arent? Last week Bradford were hardly ever ten yards at the play of the ball. Last night Hull were the same. We either adhere to the rule or scrap it - How many other teams have been penalised for offside at the kick off this season, beside us on Easter Monday?

Then again, we must have a great team to bounce back despite being over penalised!

Hard to argue with that. I would say though that if Saints finish first after the regular rounds again, then that consistancy is possible. The difficulty is when big games come up mid season - like Saints in the cup. We are not getting up for them, which could be because of the lack of performance consistancy at that time of year. Very hard to just switch it on. The run in to the playoffs usually has three or four big games in regular season and this is where we start to lift and put it together. I'd be happy to see that again, but I think we are starting from a lower performance base than last year. The up-side is that Saints seem to be at a lower level as well. Our defence the last few games has been a serious concern - Hull scored pretty much whenever they got near our line, and they weren't clever tries. I'm not sure what has happened here.

As long as the players can lift/focus for the play offs I'm happy but you're right: the goal line defence last night looked disjointed and without intensity.

Doesn't help that your 3rd attempt to retain the title is being done with a weakest squad in 3 years.

Senior is the best centre in super league by miles and at the moment doesn't need to be thinking about retirement at all.

Sinfield looks to be playing well after a poor start to the season and I think Burrow had his best game this season, maybe because McGuire didn't play? Buderus is crucial to Leed's hopes.

I think we're in a good position for the title at the moment. Are defence can be easily rectified, i hope Webb's injury isn't too serious. Saints should be the team to be worried, a lot of missing players, I can see them missing out on all trophies this season.

I thought Leeds finally got some decisions our way last night, after the start of the season where we were not getting any 50/50 calls.