Now you may well have a good point for Sutcliffe to play at 6 but your comment Sal was to question Burrow being chosen ahead of Sutcliffe which was why I took issue. Sinfield for much of last season and the start of this season has been a shadow of himself and there is a good case for giving Sutcliife time in his place. However Sinny is too good a player to write off too soon and his goal kicking and game management alone can still win us matches.

Suttliffe and McGuire were impressive in the pre season games they played together and if we're going to go with a new HB partnership at some point then that's the way to go IMO, although can we afford to go into games against the better teams in the league without a goal kicker with an 80+% success rate? Especially when the likes of Wigan and Saints are struggling in this area.

Hard to see Sutcliffe being picked except as a sub unless one or more of McGuire, Sinfield or Burrow are injured.
Possibly he should be used to sub Ward to ensure he doesn't burn himself out.
I can see both Burrow & Sutcliffe being in the 17 against the smaller teams - Wakefield for example - I mean smaller in terms of pack size.
We will incur injuries at some point in the season so Sutcliffe will get his chance down the line as he did last year.
It will be interesting to see who gets "rested" when Delaney is match fit if we have a fully fit squad at that time.
Hull decimated by injuries yet again, they need to question their fitness regime & conditioning staff.
It happens every year to them it seems.

Yes it does appear that some of our players are lacking a backbone.

In the first half you were excellent , your offensive line speed caused us major problems.
We never really got into the game.
If you could repeat your first half performance throughout 80 minutes you should stay up.

I agree with this. If I was the coach when it comes to reviewing the match, instead of making the players watch the full 80 minus I'd make them watch the first 40 mins then rewind it and make them watch it again.

Whilst we deserve some praise for tightening up in defence as the first half wore on, against better teams we would've found ourselves further than 12 points behind at halftime. Also we won't face such a awful pitiful defensive effort in the 2nd half like the one Hull put up.

One problem is in the first half when we got the ball we tried playing like we did in the 2nd half.....throwing it around trying to be adventurous but when the opposition defence isn't tired and is rushing you and your guys have just done a big spell of defending then it can end up looking as sloppy as it did first half. As good as the attacking play was in the 2nd half you realistically can't/shouldn't try play like that for the full 80 mins imo. Sometimes you've got to wait until the other side tires for that stuff to come off for you.....remember the end of the Widnes match when they were dead on their feet.

Our fitness levels have looked really strong so far and we looked like we could've played for another 20 mins easily last night and kept producing that kind of play. In the past we were very strong at finishing games and you felt if scores were tight around 50/60 mins that Leeds would step up and win it in the final quarter. We slowly started to fail to do that recently but if we can get back to that it would be great.

On the Sutcliffe debate. If he'd have been on the bench last night he'd have probably come on and looked good and scored a try or two as well such was the dominance of that 2nd half. However whilst the argument is that he needs to be getting game time if he's the future......yes I can understand that, but you've got to pick a team for the present, not for 2/3 years time.

Think we are being a bit harsh on the team here IMHO

We were obviously playing to some sort of "instructions" and yes we didnt quite hit it off first go but having said that we turned around at HT only 12-0 down and the second six points for them was a very fortunate rub of the green for Hull.

By and large our defence first half was good enough to keep us in the game and our fitness levels after the break allowed us to hit the straps and ball in hand that was some of the best off the cuff rugby I have seen for a long tome.

We are in danger of bcomeing like the moaning pie eaters. Lets give credit were its due. Our so called old men took up the challenge and led the charge in the second half with some awesome defence and yardage and the young guns followed their lead.

McGuire didnt try and hide after an early disasterous spell. He took the bit between his teeth and played Pryce off the park second half.

Burrow came on and did his Beep Beep to finish them off.

Looking forward to next week.

I used to defend Eddie but his commentary is just getting worse and worse. Time for a change when you've got people like Wells & Carney who can be professional and talk sense.

Had to chuckle when Eddie realised Saints wouldn't be top tonight due to points difference. On Wednesday when Saints were top due to points difference they were 1st and Leeds were 2nd. Now that Leeds are top due to points difference suddenly it's joint top.

Only 2 positives from the first half imo were that we only conceded 12pts and the H/T hooter.
However the 2nd half was us at our attacking best playing at pace and punching holes all over their defensive line.
The highlight for me in the 2nd half was that the game was turned in our favour with players like Singleton and Ward leading the charge which the Team responded to and not having to rely 1 or 2 individual moments of magic.
Whilst the errors and cheap penalties were annoying in the first half for me our decision making was shocking ,yes Hull were faster and put us under a lot of pressure but there's more than enough nous in us to make better calls imo and i hope it's addressed asap.

Some valid points - on the last one, no successful organisation lives in the present to grow it has to invest in the future. If all the players were playing at a high level then it is difficult to justify change. Integrating youngsters can have some real positives as this golden generation have proved.

Still far too early in the season for everyone to be getting their knickers in a twist. We are top of SL after 4. Will be a while before the league starts to sort itself out. Think we have done well to remain unbeaten after not playing particularly well. This is always a good sign.

I thought that your second half performance was worthy of any NRL side as it was that good

I am now going to be sick for praising the Whino's