You know me FMC.

I’m not sure there will be nany cganges next week, think he will stick with this line up for a 2-3 more games , barring injuries, he then will gave a better idea in who deserves the shirt, i don’t think knee jerk reactions will help anything, its nif like we were beaten 50-0 or anything they had a hot 20 mind befire galf time and that won them the game, last years side would have just bent over and given up. Last night was a disappointment was hoping for more, but its a ling seadon improvnent over next 2-3 weeks is what we need.

You may be right but what is the evidence for your view?
We can’t effect any big improvement without the pack getting some field position and controlling the middle better, end of for me. I’m not convinced we have the props to do that this year, and we’re already playing back rowers in the front row again.

I do wonder if Furner underestimated the wire pack given the team selection. I think Furner will need time to get to grips with coaching over here.

Well, if Peteru isn’t in the first team squad when fit then he’s yet another gonner for 2020. Mullaly looks shot too if we’re playing Merrin over him. There is no point retaining senior squad players like this with Holroyd, Mustapha, Dupree etc coming through.

Now that the dust has settled, the result is pretty much what we should have expected, but the performance was very disappointing.

There wasn’t much intelligence shown with or without the ball, and technique was poor all round. We will struggle to go forward against bigger packs but we knew this before last night. What we didn’t do and I expected us to, was show some sharp with the ball, and draw in players before passing. We looked dumb.

The rebuild was always a 2-3 year thing, and we are clearly playing some players we would prefer not to, probably to send messages to other in the squad that they need to move on, allowing some space to bring in a metre munching prop.

We will improve in the next few weeks, maybe not enough to get some results against the better teams, but most of all the fans need to see some green shoots otherwise the attendances might suffer from a lack of walk ups.

It’s a fine line between success and failure in sport, but we are still on the wrong side of it at the moment.

Could be worse. Could be Wakefield

On paper Singleton's stats were marginally better than Donaldson's

If we do not have the power in the pack to produce decent go forward then the coach should change tactics and move the ball wide and play to our strengths ie the backs. In the game the other night Saints moved the ball wide at every opportunity against Wigan and made far more metres than when they went up the middle.

No they wasn’t. He had more minutes.

I'm a bit mixed about the game really. I never expected Leeds would win, and in the opening quarter we looked decent. However we were taken apart in the next part of the game and looked like men against boys. Defending as poorly as we did in 2018 and 2016. The performance seemed to only confirm what we have been saying on here over the winter. Not enough strength in the middle

On the upside though I think we played the team who will be right at the top of the table all things being equal. Also, more established Leeds teams have gone to Warrington and been more soundly beaten. I've the season I expect we'll get better. I think only the most optimistic fan would think we would be right at the top of the league. We'll see how they get on over the next month or so

Saints can go wide off the charges of Walmsley and Thompson creating quick rucks for Roby to scoot or to spread the play. We've got Cuthbo, Singo, Donaldson and Ferres. Our best forward last year Hall and this year it will be Hurrell.

Other than Ward none of our forwards will break a tackle all season.

I went to Hunslet today to watch a very young Leeds team lose out 34-28. Trout had a good strong game, Muizz and Holroyd we're both strong and run far harder than any of our forwards at Warrington.