One of the most pleasing aspects for me, was the tracking back right at the end to stop Leeds scoring, even with the game won.

Absolutely tremendous performance from the guys yesterday. showed all the heart and passion our current team lacks. McCarthy has a huge future ahead of him, would not be surprised at all to see him in the 17 within 3 weeks, although I think he would benefit tremendously from a year out on loan somewhere. The young lad who played at 7 was also fantastic, Blythe had a slow first half but showed his talent in the second half. I'm expecting big things from these lads this year and think we could see more than 2 or 3 of them step up.

enjoy...but normal service resumed at HJ !!!

Wilderspool might be looking at bit tatty and rusty in places but now all the overgrowth has been cut back, it actually looks as good if not better than some current SL grounds!

Good performance from the reserves, standouts for me were Cooper, McCarthy and Blythe.

Penny gets some stick and did spill one towering, wind-assisted kick but he didn't receive one pass during the game (I think the other winger only got two) and did put in some decent kick-returns and a couple of decent hits as well. It's almost as though some people want him to fail. He scored 4 tries last week - barely a mention. No passes to him this week and everyone's on his back again.

Any kind soul let me know how they got on.

Ta.

they won 26-16.

shouldn't have been that close to be honest though... Warrington dominated throughout

Warrington with some strong and hard hitting defence, not bad on attack but we needed to work from deep quite a bit.

The ref kept Bradford in it really with the penalty count going hugely in their favour.

couldn't agree more!

I'd recommend anybody to go down and watch both the Acadamy and Reserves this year.....the club is putting in some really solid foundations.

I've been particularly impressed with the way young Gareth O'Brien is steering the ship (for both Acadamy and Reserve team). Reminds me very much of a young Lee Briers in that he has a slight frame, superb distribution and quality kicking game..........keep healthy young man!

I agree totally with Livewire,and his observations the reserves and academy going well, worth supporting these youngsters coming through. Well said

Did Penny play?

Gillette Champions Academy (Under 18s) League not reserve team

Watched the game today, good result for the young wire... thought they made it hard for themselves at times, mistakes and penalties etc.
Great performances from laithwaite and crowley, lomax and rhys evans played well.. o'brian good but a bit quieter than usual..

Didnt think much of bradfords young burgess lads (george, tom).
Expected them to stand out... Thought bradfords no. 10 lillycrop had a good game...

Thought lads played well today. All lads mentined did play well, thought O'Brien played well, as mentioned, scored ten of the 26 points so dd well for team as did others, so didn't feel he was so much as quiet as didn't get the ball as much as usual due to lack of possession in first half. The team made the possession count when they had the ball though. Though Crowley had a good game.

Looks like we are building a solid foundation with the accedemy & reserves which will hopefully feed through to the first team.

One of the big strengths of Leeds & Saints in recent years has been the number of good youngsters coming into the first team from the youth set up