The one interesting comment about defence that you hear a lot from the NRL is that a lot of it is down to attitude. That's not to diminish the importance of structure and simple quality (as England have shown regularly against Australia) but a determination to scramble at all costs is equally important. That would appear to be where a lot of Leeds' problems lie.

Personally I have been saying that we wont do anthing in the first half of this season - but lets see what happens from May onwards.

Having just watched the "highlights" on Rhinos TV it would be remiss of me not to mention Buderus's pish weak and appalling effort for Quins 4/5th(?) try.

I'm not shocked it has been glossed over given Buderus god like status to most posters on here mind.

It hasn't been glossed over at all - rhinoms gave it a 'Try Assist' on this week's Opta thread.

It was reminiscent of a similar effort last season V Huddersfield at Headingley.

I can imagine the level of reaction being similar had Diskin come up with an "effort" like that. No, really.

Then I'd guess you'd be surprised how little people care about a Bradford player missing a tackle around these parts.

I'm assuming your talking about the Chris Bailey try here so ignore it if I'm not.

It's pretty much all Watkins' fault IMO. Buderus has to try and contain the man and the ball on his own 3 yards from the line, a difficult task which he did for long enough to allow either his inside or outside defender the time to get to the tackle and help complete it. Instead, Watkins rushes out at the gap between Bailey and Burnett anticipating the offload/intercept (a terrible defensive play when they were 4 on 4 down that channel) and Sinfield (who's sliding across) tries to compensate by getting to the other side of the tackle as Bailey has gone for Buderus' outside shoulder due to the huge gap left by Watkins.

Buderus can do better there by all means, but he's also entitled to a bit of help and he got none.

When was the try scored? Perhaps the wisdom of playing him for 80 minutes a game needs to be questioned...

That's a spot on analysis that. I actually blamed Sinfield for it at first, and I still think he is part at fault, and Buderus is not blameless. But Buderus is not at total fault for that try.

Unless running at pace more often that not players tackling the upper body (which is what Buderus did here), dont get a player down without the second man going to the lower body. In this case there was no second man, despite Buderus holding the man up for a number of seconds.

Matt Diskin will be relieved that it's now the turn of Watkins, Sinfield and others to be blamed for Buderus failings.

"Light the red paper at arms length then retire to a safe distance.

If the thread fails to go off then repeat the above procedure."

Like his effort on Grix last Sunday at the Galpharm perhaps?

It appears to have passed by with complete indifference on here.

Until now.