Well I have to say I quite enjoyed my first Broncos game. I suppose from reading posts on here and about crowds in SL in general I had fairly low expectations but the people who were there were pretty vocal and the players can't complain about the support they had taken the pitch and coming off at half-time.

In terms of the performance, the first try was pretty soft but they defended kicks pretty well after that (or did enough to put Leeds off). One or two out defence is fairly solid but it seemed to be when Leeds went wide they had more joy - more space and the one-on-one tackling was not so good. It seemed as the game went on Leeds had more territory so by the 5th tackle they were looking at grubbers/chips to the in-goal area whereas we were having to kick long for territory. Soward is pure class though - that chip and chase where offloaded to the young lad was nicely done. Shame about the kid fumbling but I thought he otherwise showed up pretty well, made a few metres in contact and kept going.

Now to the ref. He seemed to miss countless forward passes! Being a newbie maybe I'm not used to it but if the ref is constantly 10m away "reffing" (use the term loosely) the offside line, then how can he see whether a pass is forward or not from the play-the-ball. It's clearly how you have to ref League but if you're not up with the ball you'll miss those marginal calls all day long. Maybe his touch judges should help him out a bit more.

Overall I enjoyed it - would like to think that kind of performance could be a baseline to improve but it sounds like inconsistency is a huge problem so maybe I got lucky on a day when we were more up than down!

Leeds didn't play well at all last night, maybe because of the heat or complacency, who knows? Their concentration levels weren't up, that was obvious. I like Rob Burrow but thought that performance was overrated, covered many metres, evaded many tackles but achieved not a lot, compared with McShane for example.

As for our players, I didn't applaud them off because I wasn't there, but if I had been I would have applauded all except these 8:
4. David Howell
5. Michael Robertson
6. Michael Witt
9. Chad Randall
11. Shane Rodney
12. Chris Bailey
13. Tony Clubb
21. Kieran Dixon.

Quite a missing list. With the possible exception of Howell, all would have played, if fit.

I wouldn't have applauded Roby or Ganson either,

or Mackay.

Indded. I thought that some of the high tackles made by Leeds were far, far worse than the one we got penalised for in the Wigan game, chuck in him missing a fair few forward passes and I'm wondering what was the point of Roby being out there at all. A t least if there were 2 refs one of them would be functioning as something other than a spectator!

Roby's refereeng was by far the worst display of his craft I have seen this season. He should concentrate on growing his beard and do away with top level officialdom.

I think there was a FULL set midway through the second half, Dorn collected the ball on his own line, where no forward took a drive, all the backs ran it in up to about the 40m line, i can't remember for the life of me the last time i saw that.