Well, I've only seen the highlights and heard the radio coverage. So I'm terribly ill-equipped and ill-qualified to comment.

But what the jolly heck. Welcome to the internet.

My favourite thing about the game, because it is something you don't need to see the whole game to know, is that when you have a new centre/wing pairing it is never going to be a bad thing for the centre to put the winger over 3 times. Partnerships take time, but that's a pretty good start.

Secondly, there were times on the radio commentary (and it showed in some of the tries) that Leeds were able to pick up a lot of metres either straight out of dummy half or for a first receiver running back at the ruck. This seemed especially so in the 2nd half, but it was hard to tell how much of it was down to Aiton. Our ruck speed seemed pretty good. Won collisions by the forwards? Good dummy half play? Both? Thoughts of those who saw the whole thing welcome.... Either way, Rovers will be pretty unhappy with that.

Even on the internet, I'm not going to try to infer more than that.

The season is one game old. I wouldn't panic overly if we were terrible at this stage, everyone's rusty in game 1 and some odd results happen, and similarly I'm not going to get over-excited after a win, but I'd rather have 2 points in the bag than not.

Not all the dummy half play was Aiton, especially in our own half of the field. The opinion you have formed is more or less correct. Our backs especially were really impressive at this.

The difference with Aiton is that when he was at dummy half, it was quick ball, it was a nice crisp pass, and he switched the plays.

In the first half, Burrow was nearly always the man at dummy half, the passes were lobbed at times and pretty poor, and others although wanting to get in at dummy half were pushed away by Burrow. The play was more predictable.

Compare and contrast to when Burrow came back on, and the Hull KR defence was broken and tired, and he had more success in 15 minutes than he had in 40. This is exactly where you use Burrow to the best.

Did Sutcliffe get on and if so where did he play?

An unusual alternative to the team bus.

I didn't notice Sutcliffe much, I think he was in the back row for 15 min spell. It was pretty scrappy with not much room when he was on.

Did Brian McDermott really say this and what on earth is he on about??

Come on Brian, do you expect him to finish or don't you?

Leeds coach Brian McDermott:
"When you bring someone in of Tom's calibre at this level, you don't expect him to finish those tries.
"But there is an expectation that he will do. The pleasing thing for me was the way he was involved in our sets coming away from our try line.
"He was hard to contain. He's a strong fellow and a very robust winger with speed.
"He punched holes in the KR defence in the first half and we value that as highly as the tries. His strength is his strength."

Interesting to hear the comparisons between the AHBs.

I do suspect that Aiton will provide the better option at starting position. I hope I am right.

On the Rhinos twitter account they used a recording of McDermott revealing his squad. There was a long pause when reading the subs out, he forgot his bench.