To be fair though ferres didn't anything wrong to not be playing either! two sides to it, in a big game such as this I think most would back their trusted senior players and ask them to come up with goods.

Wouldnt have made any difference to the result whatever team we put out..they ran harder and had more intent,we were beaten after 8mins. same thing happened in the previous two meetings so why didnt we see it coming ?!

could tell cudjoe was missing down the right hand side in the second half

To be honest I didn't think he was much of a presence in the first. 2/3 years ago he was running rings round Moon It's the other way round now.

Hindsight is great - but like others I was surprised he changed it. Guess he thought experience rather than in form youth.

Interesting to see Thursday's selection.

The other bit of hindsight, is I thought brough would have kicked for 2 when we got the early penalty at 0-0. In cup football an early lead would have been good - wind was against him though.

Anyway 5 tackles later and grixs off load to the invisible Man and we are 6-0 down , not 2-0 up.

Didn't think Ferres coming back affected too much but i thought Leeming would have kept his place due to the fact we look quikcer round the ruck with him in the side...Robbo is a soldier but IMO Kruise is quicker and possibly more dangerous.
Like has been said though it wouldn't have mattered who we played due to the fact Leeds were miles better than us all over.

I agree. Why change a winning team to bring in two players who aren't match fit.
Ferres was very good. Actually played better than he had before he got injured but the point stands that people who shouldn't of been dropped got dropped.

I honestly think Wardle is a better second row than centre and was too quite in attack.

I don't think any of these changes led to our cup exit. Bet it's shattered our confidence though... We looked very lost.