He is very much hot and cold Watkins alway has been, to be classed as top class he needs to be much more consistent.

Again a sub unused when we were short of energy, burrow is poor offers nothing sentiment is going to cost us this season handley may be a good player eventually but needs dropping before he loses all confidence.

i thought it was two u used subs?

Can't believe Burrow started and Sinfield was benched, baffling in my eyes.

What do you expect from mcdermotts crazy decisions. Even if we win. Something this year I think we really need a new coach. Think we win things Inspite of not because of.

Not normally one to slag McD, but Playing with effectively 3 subs, when we were on a short turnaround and were obviously knackered by the end of the game is dumb distilled to the essence of pure stupidity. I am ever so slightly dreading the next few weeks

On a positive note, I thought Kylie played well, and provided good impact from the bench, I thought he was unlucky with the penalty against him, it was a fair hit IMO.

How confident are the "Leeds will finish top" brigade now? Putting money on it?

2014 repeating itself, except it's started earlier. Falling in a massive hole with players in decline and a coach who has absolutely no idea how to use his interchanges.

I'd love to see those bagging Watkins try to play centre with Burrow, McGuire and Ablett constantly dragging defences into your space with clueless sideways runs. He's at serious risk of not realising his potential and needs to get to the NRL as soon as he can.

Need our back 3 back. Handley's done well but is struggling now. Even if you classify the last try as one of those that can happen, the other Cas try in the 2nd half he came in when he really shouldn't have. Can't help but think Hardaker would've stopped the first try whereas Sutcliffe put in a tame tackle attempt (also pretty poor when conceding that 40/20).

As for subs, yeah one unused but doubt Walters would've made any difference really. The big sub issue isn't so much that Sinfield was on the bench, but that when he came on it was for Aiton and not Burrow. Just too many errors in the end, knock ons and forced passes. After we tied it up and should've looked to be the ones to win it Cuthbertson knocks on and we never really see the ball again for the remainder of the match in a meaningful position.

I know they said they didn't want to ask for a fixture change as it should be Wakefield's choice as the home team but was a really unwise choice in the end.

I agree I thought he did well.

On another note, Ablett has always looked better imo when playing on the left side and I thought Ward was playing well when on the right. They've changed it around and I don't know why or that it's the right move.

Fair hit! His shoulder makes contact with the lads jaw!

I don't understand benching Sinfield to start McGuire and Burrow in the halves. Neither has a kicking game and if McDermott could cast his mind back to pre-2011 he'd realise we always did worse when Kev wasn't playing at 13 to complement Mags and Burrow at 6 and 7. Plus taking Aiton off (who was again outstanding) meant Burrow's defensive hole still needed filling while we lost Aiton's ability out of DH.

On the plus side I thought Kylie & Keinhorst both played really well - JK looked like he might actually make a SL standard yet.

Moon & Sinfield to start next week for Keinhorst & Burrow with both dropping to the bench for Sinfield & Walters.

Also Yates needs game time - got on for what seemed around 5 minutes, nowhere near enough if he's going to prove himself.