Quote: SaleSlim "Few views from a neutral.... 1) Wakey are a very good team and a lot of fans on here have been a little bit disingenuous about that. Big, powerful forwards, powerful, fast backs and as much as I hate the scabby little scrote I wish all instruments could somehow be classed as potential weapons and could be outright banned from all sports stadia in the country. I hate the drum at Wire. Does my sweed in! But the out of tune trumpets at Leeds, with the drum, are even worse! https://youtu.be/DI0zJ8ltlXQ It wouldn’t surprise me if the passive fans, potential fans that the game needs to capture and even union fans who do watch a bit of league would all switch off - even if Leeds had the greatest rugby league side in world history - because of that daft band. It’s not a good advert for the game, it’s like a prank from an anti-RL brigade who are trying to make the sport look like a joke.

Quote: SaleSlim "Few views from a neutral.... 1) Wakey are a very good team and a lot of fans on here have been a little bit disingenuous about that. Big, powerful forwards, powerful, fast backs and as much as I hate the scabby little scrote I wish all instruments could somehow be classed as potential weapons and could be outright banned from all sports stadia in the country. I hate the drum at Wire. Does my sweed in! But the out of tune trumpets at Leeds, with the drum, are even worse! https://youtu.be/DI0zJ8ltlXQ It wouldn’t surprise me if the passive fans, potential fans that the game needs to capture and even union fans who do watch a bit of league would all switch off - even if Leeds had the greatest rugby league side in world history - because of that daft band. It’s not a good advert for the game, it’s like a prank from an anti-RL brigade who are trying to make the sport look like a joke.

Hurrell is head and shoulders above most centres in this league. Best centres would have to go between him/Tupou/Percival. He has got errors in his game, but the whole league is flawed with errors, it's getting worse year on year. They need to get the ball to him in space and let him charge, attracts 3/4 defenders quite often. Lolohea is a funny one, his defence is suspect and make a couple of errors himself. However, when Leeds decided to use him, his miss passes set up 3-4 tries alone, definitely suited more to FB than in the halves, nice little chip over the fullback in broken play. As for their halves, there is 0 creativity going on, if your going to spend top dollar like you have this off season, you need a world class half back which for me, will change your team completely.

Wakefield shocked me last night. Wood and Miller didn't stop along with Tupou and Johnstone and they were worthy winners. A bad day at the office for Leeds but full credit to Trinity, will give most teams a run for their money. Now that London result is out of their system, i can see a top 5 finish.

Only in physical size! His handling isn't up to scratch.

Not overly shocked with the result as Wakey are a pretty decent outfit.
I thought they played some really good rugby and scored some top tries.
Would love them to get to a final and produce some of the form they displayed last night. Really good to watch and no team even Saints or Wire would want to go to Wakey in the CC.

A Wakefield win didn’t shock me, it was the 17 point margin which did, which did flatter Leeds near the end.

Why didn’t any Leeds players or coaching staff get interviewed after the game ?

Furner was interviewed?

This is a very good write up. Bang on about the overweight centre. Any coach worth his salt wouldn’t touch such a liability. No wonder no NRL team would touch him.

The only thing I take exception to is your description of Watkins. He won’t come good

I’ve been thinking it’s one of the best Trinity performances I’ve seen in a while however I’ve now thought that although we played well, it’s one of the worst Leeds teams that I’ve ever seen.

Hard to tell as defensively we simply haven't performed as a team. Yet. However there have been flashes of attacking where we've looked red hot. I have no idea whether Furner can bring it all together but I have the feeling it will indeed be one of the worst Leeds teams - or maybe one of the best.

What I will add is that Wakey were the best drilled side we've come up against this year. Comfortably so in fact.

Well that was a turn-up - we outplayed Leeds in just about every aspect of the game, which I didn't expect; Leeds were pretty woeful, but I like to think that's at least partly because we were just too good - it was almost a complete performance, apart from Johnstone's slip-up, and the 2 tries leaked in the dying minutes when the game was already over.

The redeveloped Headingley is pretty, but the atmosphere is awful now - it's drained the life out of the place; and why the bloody hell does the big screen have it's back to the visiting supporters? Is that a temporary position until the works are completed?

Which slip up? If you mean the kick off I'm not sure what else he could do, it was just a freakish perfect kick off.

The one which he himself admitted was a brainfart?

It looked to me like it would have bounced out if he'd left it - but it was a very well placed kick.

Either way - a minor criticism of the best finisher in SL.

On the big screen, £27 isn't enough to entitle you to a view, you need to be in hospitality for that.
Seriously though, it's the same at a number of grounds and we could all do with a screen at both ends but, this is RL and therefore it's unlikely that anything will change.
Its in an absolutely awful position at Headingley though and it must be a struggle for the new south stand and north stand (when it's finished), maybe there is a plan to move it ?? or, perhaps they no longer want to see the replays

Bit harsh to judge the atmosphere on a game where we were getting spanked and pretty much a full side of the ground empty due to building works.

Having said that the old South Stand is pretty much impossible to recreate with modern regulations and the fact they wanted seating in it, I think theyve done a great job in modernising an old stadium.

WIth regards to the screen its been in that position for a fair few years, I can’t see it moving as its not a temporary screen like many grounds its used for every game whether its on Sky or not, without having 2 screens its always going to be a poor view for some spectators