I did say that ‘I think’. I still believe that Griffin won’t feature too much this season and when he does it will be off the bench. Let’s not forget he’s part time assisting with midlands as a trainer too.

Just my thoughts. It makes no difference to me if he plays or not.

I thought he started the first half of season well and was great but he wasn’t as effective that second half of season personally and was just a solid performer. He should go okay in SL though as he’s used to it but whether he plays in starting team or bench I can’t see him doing near 80 like 2 seasons ago.

For me Griffin became a bit of a liability towards the end of the season. You could always rely on him to give a penalty away or drop the ball at key points in the game. We got away with that in the Championship, we won't in SL, for me he isn't a starter.

More or less sums it up for me however Leeds have been in pre season a month longer and looked sharper for it. When the season starts I am confident we will be able to rake them on bit we will have to be smart with the ball to come away with anything.

Sounds like Jarrod O'Connor did his MCL in last week's game so he might be missing for our repeat fixture ??

Talk of Frawley as back up hooker with Connor in the halves and Handley at centre which would not be my preferred choice wrt Handley.

This sums it up for me. We will need to be far better at competing in terms of intensity and line speed up the middle in future games as Leeds controlled territory and marched us down the field for the first fourty minutes which strangled us. We defended our line superbly well which was pleasing but if Leeds would have kept their first team on we'd have lost that by 30 in my opinion. However, we've got Atoni, Storton, Mcmeeken and Pitts to likely come into the seventeen in terms of middles as well as Johnstone who willg ive us some punch in our exit sets. I thought we looked extremely weak carrying the ball out of our own yardage which is my biggest concern this season I think in terms of our backline. Apart from Johnstone they're all a bit lightweight.

Agree Hope you are right about those forwards .Hope we do not use Johnstone as a battering ram , with is injury problems on is legs . Defence looks good but you can not tackle for 40 minutes like we did in the first half against Leeds .You got to create something in attack that we did not do against Leeds

You missed Jowitt, Hood and Doyle.

I wasn't referring to all we had missing. Just the ones most likely to make an impact through the middle in terms of winning the arm wrestle. Not sure Hood, Jowitt or Doyle will necessarily help much in that department with ball in hand.

They would certainly stiffen the defence up which in turn would improve field position and have an effect on where we play our sets out. Hood especially is a strong defender.

Regardless, those 3 would strengthen the team in a few areas, not just down the middle.

The full game is now on YouTube, still the Leeds commentary not TC