WOW! What a bite that is! Seriously ER... I know it's a sensitive issue but I think BB was joking.

He's got under my skin, like a Bailey niggle in the tackle...

whooosh!!

You've totally not understood my comment by a long, long, way.

You mentioned that tvoc included Bailey's no stats, so really I'm pointing the finger at tvoc, in a tongue in cheek way.

With this in mind, anything to say?

I understood you

Id be more concerned though that he called... nah, i'm not even going to go there

The Warrington forward who stood out for me on the night was the veteran Paul Wood & those stats don't cover his offloads which really tested us IMV.

Jeez on paper you looked as though you would have won the game, i mean without seeing the score & just seeing stats i would place some money on leeds.

When you get the cohesion sorted leeds will be there or there abouts again, as the effort is clearly there (from most players)

All that above, simply illustrates the folly of judging a team, or indeed an Individual player's performance based on stats!



Radio contact? Isn't that the job of the water bottle fella?

If a player doesn't know when and where to kick, then I would put that failure in the same category as having a poor tackling technique, and would expect it to be addressed by the coaching staff.

In order to get to an effective kicking game the player's might first wish to consider avoiding schoolboy errors while in possession?

Unfortunately coach McDermott thinks completion percentages are over-rated (or at least he did pre-season) although four games in he's muttering something about not holding on to the ball enough so perhaps some progress could be made in this direction soon.



As the weekly stats thread often decends into a discussion of the relative 'merits' of Bailey (actual appearance not required) I thought I may as well include them here.

I'm only surprised the finger isn't equally pointed at the Broughton deniers but that would also be mis-placed IMO if it were.

I'd rather we all just stuck to discussing the relative merits of the players irrespective of their race, colour, creed, religion, sexuality, politics etc

Yup, I called that.

He was very good. Hearty charges combined with first rate offloads that 'were on'

He's no mug.

It is also folly to ignore that fact that the stats show that Leeds were doing a lot of things right and need to cut out the errors.

Furthermore it illustrates the folly of those who have jumped in to criticise the coach so early in the season and blame everything on a more positve rugby style. A style which won us the game when all seemed lost against Bradford and has put us at the topof the scoring charts.