They had a great game today but its not always like that. It was only a few week back we beat them pretty easy at headingley.

When we had the Sunday-Thursday short 4 day turnaround and the scores were level with 10 minutes to go until our young winger Handley, whose best mate had died a few days before dropped a high ball?

Yeah easy.

From the very beginning when taking over as head coach in 2010 Brian McDermott wanted to implement this style of play but didn’t have the key personal back then to what the team has now. It was frustrating as a Leeds fan to watch the emergence of this style even in our cup winning seasons because winning matches seemed to rely on one out football and individual brilliance. Not anymore.

Starbug here

You know so little it's embarrassing

As it stands you can't bet against Leeds being Champions this season.

True but can they keep that level of intensity up for another 7/8 weeks? Will be interesting to see. And they will face bigger challenges than Warrington.

That's why I put as it stands

Does throwing it about work on a cold wet night at OT when the pressure is on?

A structured, error free opposition with an intense defence will/could beat Leeds in a 1 off game. Wigan etc

The GF isn't won on a hot night in leeds in Aug

Yep. Leeds have historically been terrible on rainy Old Trafford evenings.

It will be very interesting to see if leeds stick with the same principles in the challenge cup final and a potential grand final. Will the usual cautious nature of cup finals be thrown out of the window?

Hard to believe that many, many Leeds fans were calling for McDermotts head a short while ago and now he has improved the squad and got his team playing the most attractive brand of RL in this country.(cough, choke)

Their 3/4 line is just too good for most of the other teams in the comp, plus Hardaker at FB.

Most clubs would swap 1-5 with Leeds, which shows just how good their back line is.

Very true, far too many sports fans want to be damming of coaches and players at the first hint of trouble rather than accepting hights and lows happen it's the nature of life let alone sport.

It wasn't last season. Leeds played a very disciplined, field position based game against Cas last year. Made yards up the middle, kicked well and challenged the opposition to come out of their own end. They played Old Trafford football at Wembley, despite having been more expansive in the weeks leading up to the final.

The thing is, McDermott has always wanted to play this brand of RL. He said it openly in the press when he first became coach and, Leeds started 2011 throwing the ball around like a it was a grenade, scoring some great trys but, conceding as many soft ones through coughing up possession. I think we lost 5 of our first 10 games that year and, McDermott realised that Leeds needed to adopt a more pragmatic approach, which wasn't always as easy on the eye but, it was the most effective method given the players he had available.
He's had the unique job of having to replace the back line in a relatively short space of time and, I don't think it's overstating it when I say the current back line Leeds have is as good as anything we've seen in the SL era. Now his next job is to oversee the transition in the engine room, the signings of Cuthbertson and, Garbutt seem to be extremely shrewd and, the signing of Galloway to replace Peacock is about as good as Leeds could have hoped for in the current climate and, we probably have the strongest group of props we've had in quite some time.
Replacing Sinfield is almost impossible but, he's certainly proving himself to have a good eye for talent.

I know you bit to a straight forward bit of trolling.