I have said for a while now, that while I believe Ben to be a player that gives his best, he is not the player to lead us around the park at 6.
Well credit where credit is due.
After watching his last couple of performances and hearing today’s, it now seems he has really stepped up when we need it/him most. He has been solid in defence, consistent with conversions and then really took control in the second half last week in our most important game so far. It sounded like he has again put in a great performance this week.
It’s not a one man show of course as the whole team has stepped up when it looked really dark, but well done Ben Reynolds. Please continue to prove me completely wrong

Great performance today looks like the players are responding to purtill. Loads put a Great shift in ben was fantastic . Looks like the players are being allowed to be expansive & play more of the cuff

Keep attacking the line Ben. That's the key. Good performance today.

I feel for Ben and hutchy in the respect that table quite easy to keep taking the line on if you have the pace of a Danny McGuire as a half back as the gaps are there and your through.. problem with hutchy and Ben is they aren’t quick enough get through them gaps.. they were both very good again today and aren’t the kind of half’s who will take the line on and break time and time again.. one thing they are is very good with runners running good lines off them ala Borden’s Hansen and hall again n today!! On a seperate note whoeve signed J Thompson should get a life contract for me! The boy is superb! Hard worker strong runner quick good pair of hands the whole lot! How we managed to get him away from Hull is beyond me

Oggy, have you ever spent a week working in Hull?

FAir point but the lad oozes super league quality

Both Reynolds and Hutchison are improving a lot. I wonder if having a former half back as coach, is responsible for that?

Both half backs benefitting from the fact that there's now more than one player around them moving at a time, which wasn't the case at the start of the season. On the whole, they made the right decisions, can only think of one instance when Reynolds went on his own when he had a big overlap outside.

Kicking game wasn't tested at all yesterday because it was such a dominant performance, didn't see the London game so don't know if they were showing signs of improvement in kicking game then.

Still think both need to improve their kicking game because at the moment from the games iv seen it's been poor,can't remember that many repeat sets compared to other teams and certainly can't remember us getting a 40/20

The best stand off display I've seen from us, this season, was at Swinton when Craig Hall occupied the position!
I believe Hall is our best option at stand off particularly, when playing against good opposition when creating openings is much more difficult, Hall is real class!
The most probing and creative player for me on Sunday was Liam Hood! excellent performance and he keeps on improving !
Reynolds gives his all every game however, sometimes, it takes real class to win tight games and for me Reynolds doesn't have it.

I wholehearted agree with you. Jordan has been a consistently top performer and now his Pack colleagues are stepping up too! As the players become more familiar to each other the better our performances are becoming!
sounds like a great recipe for success

Ben still has a lot to learn but he's committed to the cause. His decision-making and kicking needs improving, mainly, but his conversion kicking has come on very well.

If he's a cleverer player come the season's business end Leigh will, again, be favourites to go up, IMO.

Both Ben and Drew Hutchison have come on in leaps and bounds, in recent weeks. Much of that will have come from the team gaining in confidence, as the victories have finally come, but I think having a half back as head coach, has also got something to do with it. Props and second rows have not always been renowned for their knowledge on the finer arts of half back play!!

It was noticeable that the intensity dropped when he was subbed off.