You're absolutely right, Leeds missed 3 from 5, so all told there's a potential 6 point difference between the teams rather than just 2...

Final of pre-season Yorkshire cup finished Batley 12 Bradford 14. I realise there's only so much you can take from friendlies but we've beaten all three established championship sides we've played so can't ask for more than that.

Were Bradford presented with the real Yorkshire Cup?

Quote Cokey="Cokey"He could be on DR @ Leigh along with Matty Costello, Adam Swift, and Jack Welsby. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/of ... ossip-146/'" I would suspect that you may get to see a lot of Kyle Amor too. James Bentley and Joe Batchelor early in the season also. It should be a good arrangement for both clubs.

Quote Cokey="Cokey"He could be on DR @ Leigh along with Matty Costello, Adam Swift, and Jack Welsby. https://www.loverugbyleague.com/post/of ... ossip-146/'" I would suspect that you may get to see a lot of Kyle Amor too. James Bentley and Joe Batchelor early in the season also. It should be a good arrangement for both clubs.

Salford 18 - 28 Wigan

Soft penalties gave Salford a lot of field position but Wigan finally have a goalkicker!

As a Leeds fan that's good to hear. My brother told me Leeds had scored only 4 tries but he's a less than reliable source

Classic game of 2 halves, cas easily best team first, Leeds best team second.

Shot clock massively improves the flow of the game!

Got to agree, the shot clock really did help things get a move on!

Spot on. For Leeds in both of their SL opposition friendlies this has been the case, interesting to see if this translates to the opening league game. Only Furner’s second friendly with the first string and today was the first game he had with several key players such as Watkins, Hurrell, Merrin and Parcell so plenty of work in progress. Obviously a friendly but Hurrell looked very good. Had a young centre in Newman on the wing with both Briscoe’s missing and he had some struggles that led to a few tries, but Tom Briscoe is expected to be fit for Round 1. Both teams may be concerned about goal kicking this season.

Yep I think both teams will improve defensively as well. They were both a bit soft in the first half but improved second.
I didn’t see the team sheet for Cas but sounded a decent team from them obviously missing Gale.
For Leeds, I thought Walker, Hurrell, Cuthbertson and Ward all looked very good. Leeds will also look a lot better on the wing with Tom Briscoe there rather than Newman. Cas scores 2 tries from kicking to that side. That’s not a criticism of Newman by the way, he’s a young centre not a winger. Hurrell really looks a handful and any go-forward we’ve lost from Hall should be replaced by him.

Was it Sammut ?

Hardaker, 4/5 and the one that missed was from about 3 inches off the touchline and came pretty close.


Felt bad for the Salford kicker who missed a fairly easy conversion by hitting the post then the crossbar & out.