Was it just my telly or did anyone else notice the commentary was running about 15 sec ahead of the picture on Sky+
Very annoying/confusing.

That is annoying. I watched it on Now TV and it was fine on there.

Hope Leyland plays on Friday as half backs need to work on combinations and plays. He is more dynamic and takes the line on more than Drinkwater and deserves his chance.
Ratch just doesn’t have the pace anymore and his kicking wasn’t up to scratch.
Having said that Williams had worst game for us that I can recall.

I don’t get the Ratchford bashing.
You don’t forget how to ride a bike.
He is older that means if he’s injured, it may take him a bit longer to recover.
But the guy is fit, and so is better than Hayes and Leyland.

He will be 37 later in the season and it is not bashing - it’s just a realisation that time catches up with everyone and youth has to be given a chance. I am sure he will do a decent job of covering for injuries.

I’m baffled by the Ratchford selection too. Especially as he didn't feature much last season. In the games be did play last season, i thought he was quite ineffective and was only useful for his goal kicking. I suspect Burgess wasn't confident using Leyland with Hudds big pack. I reckon we would have created more chances if Leyland played. Also, talk of Dufty covering at half back? Didnt we trial that last year (or maybe the year before) and it was a disaster. So that would also be a strange choice.

We don’t seem to get enough height on attacking kicks which are often fielded without challenge. Richardson was much better than us on Sunday and it’s a major part of Mikey Lewis and Harry Smith’s game. We have not perfected spiral kicks either since Blake Austin left.
On the other hand, Danny Walker’s 40:20’s are as good as anyone’s.

Leyland i believe played every game last year starting in the halves, so he's played every team twice. So he's not nervous of any team, i think he should have gotten the nod but i get his thinking (to a degree) that he properbly went for more experience.
Burgess does make odd selections from time to time but i assume he goes with hit gut feeling, and it's steered us well so far. I'm not the coach but i believe there are a few better choices on players to pick each week, that would improve us. But i'm an average joe, and Burgess is a Legend so i'll leave it to him.

I think we should have expected an out of sorts display yesterday, The friendlies have consisted of mostly new or reserve players & the Huddersfield game was the first run out for most of the first team.

I haven’t forgotten how to ride a bike but I’m considerably slower and a lot more cautious.

What it proves is it was good enough to win. It doesn’t mean he couldn’t have picked a better team. I have been a big fan of Stef but was disappointed he didn’t give Leyland the start.

The team have had months of preseason to prepare and we had the choice of what team to pick in the friendlies and the Challenge Cup game.

We were dog dirt in that first half, save for a bit of excellence from Lindop, and were lucky we were not playing a better side.