The lack of selection of Cross and Clarkson, but the continued selection of other forwards who are simply not cutting it, confirms to me that the more BMD is proven to be picking the wrong players, the more stubborn he becomes and continues to do it.

Giving people a chance to atone for their errors is one thing, but sticking by players who continually fail to make enough metres is a totally different one...

Hull KR to win by 10. We've gotten into a decent run of form and I'm very optimistic for this one

I am not sure at all today what will happen, there is certainly the possability that we will lose, hope we won't but not confident of anything at the moment

Sounded like a good win today! Cracks papered over till our next text!

A very good win and decent performance considering the conditions and where we are confidence wise.
Hauraki was very good ,Smithy looked like a natural LC with his winger Hall getting a hat-trick and Bailey was deserved M.O.M.
Some great desire shown defensively and when people see the highlights some great tries were scored.
Does it paper over any cracks?
Absolutely not , what it does show is what 99% of us knew in that this team/squad is capable of better than what's been shown over the last couple of weeks but still does'nt disguise the need for more quality to be added because HKR are no where near top 6 material let alon top 4.
Felt a bit sorry for Webby he made some awful errors but did also have 1 or 2 assists.
Any North Standers want to comment on the grief in there?

a fair bit of truth in that post

I appreciate it was just another win against one of Super League's whipping boy clubs BUT may I take this opportunity to congratulate McDermott on his inspirational half-time team talk.

Also good to see the Exiles and England players of both Hull and Leeds show the other top sides how to do it and back up with a win.

Missing McDermott's and Agar's training sessions is clearly the way forward.

To be fair, Leeds player contingent in the exhibition game on Friday was only 2 players.

Sinfield, Peacock and Hall didn't turn up.

Agree totally mate, i thought webb made a two or three errors, but he threw some great passes that actually went backwards

Bailey was top today, but we this type of performance every now and again, he needs to bring it week in week out

i was concerned about JP backing up but he proved me wrong that was his best game since coming back from injury.

Weller ran some good lines and was much better, although he wasnt tested greatly in defence so dont want to praise him too much, but he was much inproved.

I still think we need to work on our goal line d, i know it was tough conditions, and to concede only 14 points is a big improvement, but i still feel that when a team gets close to our line if they go wide theyll score.

Keith I am well aware of your top 4 - Leeds - Whipping boys rank of Super League and know you include pretty much every team outside of those top 4 + Leeds as whipping boys.

My question to you: What is your take on Catalans? Surely too impressive against the top sides to be deemed whipping boys and excellent form in the last 10... but Leeds beat them so?!

Leeds this season exhibit overwhelming evidence of being whipping boys against the genuine SL contenders and of being flat track bullies against the rest of the SL rabble.

Hard to tell wasn't it against such poor oppossition? I don't think Leeds have had an easier game all year.

That said, I thought the forwards really worked their balls off, and played really well (Bailey the pick). The two centres were absolutely excellent. And for me I hear what you say about sorry for Webby, but personally I would have given him MOM. He controlled everything in attack for us.

The only downside was the halfbacks, who were completely anonymous. This despite a dominant forward pack, and some posters on here saying half backs can only stand out with a dominant pack.

Good post mate.

On the money with Weller, Smith and Bails.

Weller seemed to benefit from better ball in better position out wide. Bit more room for him to play. Much better than him getting bogged down the middle when he has pretended to be a loose. He still wasn't great in defensive position and we saw another sloppy carry BUT he did some excellent things in attack which more than compensated for it. I can live with players makign errors just as long as they have more ticks than crosses overall. So an improved set forward for him.

As for Smith displayed classic close quarter centre play. Some centres want plenty of room to trick and dazzle but I think Smith crys out for the opposite. He does very well sniffing plays out with very little room to play with.

As for the Noth Stand, I was up there for this one, oh how I drop on!!! and I had to stop a 'tard KR fan (who was wearing a blue baseball cap) from trying to hit a child!! He was a proper retard, with a glass-jaw, I can only presume of course.