Leeds Rhinos Battle Hard for Win Over Hull FCAfter a round nine packed with shock outcomes in favour of the underdogs, the confusion in the final fixture of the weekend was to understand whether a Hull FC side who had only won once in the 2024 season, or a Leeds Rhinos side who seem adept at engineering defeats when wins look the most likely outcome, were the real underdogs.Hull FC gave debuts to new signing Ed Chamberlain and Yusuf Aydin while the Rhinos gave a debut to the nineteen your old Riley Lumb his debut on the wing in place of David Fusitu’a.The bookies chose Hull FC as the underdogs, handicapping the Rhinos by fourteen points on the coupon and in the week of upsets suggested that it was a cast iron win for the Airlie Birds but a win for neither side would likely improve their current league positions.READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

Leeds Rhinos Battle Hard for Win Over Hull FCAfter a round nine packed with shock outcomes in favour of the underdogs, the confusion in the final fixture of the weekend was to understand whether a Hull FC side who had only won once in the 2024 season, or a Leeds Rhinos side who seem adept at engineering defeats when wins look the most likely outcome, were the real underdogs.Hull FC gave debuts to new signing Ed Chamberlain and Yusuf Aydin while the Rhinos gave a debut to the nineteen your old Riley Lumb his debut on the wing in place of David Fusitu’a.The bookies chose Hull FC as the underdogs, handicapping the Rhinos by fourteen points on the coupon and in the week of upsets suggested that it was a cast iron win for the Airlie Birds but a win for neither side would likely improve their current league positions.READ MORE ON THIS STORY...

DUP

We won, but with the ball, that was our worst performance of the season. The standard of the basic skills and execution are so poor, it really looks like they do nothing in training.

Initial thoughts. Positives first. Martin, Lumb, the rain stopped. Negatives. Just about everything else.

Add that I predicted we'd only win by 6 so that's 3 points for me in the prediction comp

Pathetic performance, absolutely awful

Riley Lumb, take a bow, excellent individual performance among a team full of rubbish, coached( or not) by someone miles out of his depth

Edit: Frawley is comically bad, needs dropped immediately

Says it all when a young inexperienced kid gets MoM for being ok and nothing spectacular.
Sinfield must get in against London along with Ruan and Watton.
I would imagine Handley will be back for the London game too.

All that results has done is keep the same mediocre coach and players involved for longer.

A large section of our supporters we're constantly chanting for Rohans head pretty much all game and no wonder they were more interested in doing that rather than watch the game. Poor spectical from both teams.


Miller tries that same short side act every week for a kick return, was only a matter of time before teams work his little magic act out. Frawley might be the worst halfback I've seen play for Leeds and we know we've had some stinkers last few years, at least the likes of Lolohea & Sezer had a decent game every 1 in every 5 Frawley has played 10+ games for us now and he's getting worse with every performance!

I'll finish with a positive and the only one to take from that game was the exceptional debut of Riley Lumb, I want to see him and the other younger talents we have in the squad get consistent game time now the likes Ruan, Sinfield, Edgell, T.N.W will probably show more spirit and fight than senior players who serve up the same dross every week.

That was the most embarrassing thing of the day. What a bunch of morons.

10 games in now and, from memory, our new spine has remained injury free and played most games together (think Miller missed one). Still absolutely no indication that it is starting to ‘gel’. In fact it’s probably getting worse. Frawley had a shocker. Not just his usual unimaginative kicks straight to the winger or full-back but now mixing it up with kicks directly into touch. Defensively, where I thought he’s normally pretty solid, he got beaten on the inside a couple of times. Miller is obviously a maverick and a dangerous runner but has now been worked out. Getting tackled into touch on the first tackle pretty much summarises his last few games. Croft keeps showing glimpses of class and Ackers has been solid if not spectacular.
We should be starting to see some understanding by now, some set moves, some flowing passing movements along the backline with decoy runners. Instead we had entire sets today with our backs doing every drive.
Whatever gel they’re using isn’t setting properly in this unusually inclement Spring weather.

Miller, despite the talent, is fast becoming a game losing liability. He either needs dropping or a huge rocket up his backside. Instead he seems to be indulged. I don't know how young Sinfield has been playing this year but we should be finding out next week. Just feels like the club is sleepwalking towards two games of reckoning at Catalans & Saints. Depressing stuff.

Frawley and Miller were both absolutely awful today.
Miller carrying it in like a prop was just laughable.
We are missing any sense of structure, direction and organisation.
And sadly Smith isn't working as captain.

RS was supposed to be the man who brought kids through the system.
He's the opposite.
They're getting very little game time and only when we have injuries and no other option.
Edgell got one game, McCormack 10 mins, TNW 10 mins, Ruan got 7 mins today.
If Handley is fit, he'll probably drop Lumb next week.

Said it before but his selections and use of the bench is absolutely terrible.
I'm afraid I agree. He is out of his depth.
Brave move from GH, but the experiment has failed.

Going to be controversial here again: I get why the core lads are frustrated but what was happening today lacked class. Calling out players while they are on the pitch is bad form.

And look you’ll probably get what you want in the end because who would want to put up with that at work? It isn’t a good advert though. If you’re a top level player or coach, why would you want to come to Leeds where you’re just as likely to get abuse hurled at you as adoration?

Performances on the pitch are bad enough; if you hate the club and coach and half the players that much just stay away. Last time out at Hull was a brilliant away day but today felt toxic. Nobody’s forcing you to go and there are plenty of kids, player’s families etc sitting right around you.

We just look badly coached, we really do. The players don’t look to be performing for Rohan either, it’s all a bit strange.im not sure the players believe in him.

There’s a cloud over the club and it’s understandable on the back of last season and whilst they are throwing in rubbish like that today most weeks. That was absolutely shocking, we should be winning that by 26*.

I don’t like the smith out chants through the game one bit, it helps nobody. Save it until after the game if needs be for those who want to express themselves that way. There’s no doubt about it though he’s under big pressure and the discontent is growing.