6 all clarkson try smith converts

Anyone know the starting line up?

Loads of feed back on facebook/twitter

Mathers
cockayne
mellars
collis
morton
john
smith
wilkes
ellis
johnson
raleigh
trout
southern

Leeds in again. Hood

In again. Watkins

16-6 ht

Collis goes in

Try for burrows, bring out the tackle bags next week. All coming down Collis and Morton side

Strongish line up but getting through 80 mins with a good run out and no worrying injuries is the best result for me.

What was the final score?

26-10

Pleased with the performance. Made plenty of breaks and half breaks just failed to finish them off which comes down to match practice. 2 knock ons over line.

Thought defence was pretty solid other than burrows and watkins ghosting through a couple of times.

Pretty decent hit out.

Southern was all over and very involved first 30 mins.

All players contributed and there are positive signs.

Smith and John linked up well and passing links looked ok for first game.

Surprised with wood as he caused a few problems.

Probably what's to be expected from a new team, defensively very solid for the most part, Rob Burrow making a couple of trademark busts hat lead to two Leeds tries.

Isaac John looked lively but Smith looked a bit quiet, Kyle Wood came on and played very well, Andy Ellis was excellent with his distribution and general play. Dean Collis scored a try that was down to pace, agility and strength something we've not had in a centre for a long time.

Morton looked weak in defence and was replaced by Walshaw after missing a straight one on one which lead to a 2nd half Rhinos try.

Mathers looked very shaky under the high ball but worked his nuts off bringing the ball out from within out 10mtr line.

Mellars looked big and strong in the other centre and Cockayne was very solid and hard working.

Southern was tough in defence and certainly axed a few, Johnson, Amor & Wilkes were very solid but Raleigh got bossed by their forwards and came up with a few handling errors. Trout, Walshaw and Wildey all stood up well in attack and defence.

We bombed a couple of try scoring opportunities and Leeds got a couple of soft tries but all in all it was a fair score line and reflected the game. Smith & John need more ame time together and Wood could be a very astute signing who might overtake Smith if he fails to fire.

Morton didn't do himself justice or any favours and might find himself losing out to someone else if he continues to look defensively vulnerable in the friendlies.

Raleigh probably played himself out of the starting line up although he did put his hand up for a fair share of work it just wasn't of particularly good quality.

I'm not disappointed, we are going to be hard to break down and will hurt people in the tackle. We will get better the more games we play and the understanding between the players grows.

That's also true of our attacking game, we did show plenty of ability to ship the ball around with some deft three quarter line passing moves but timing and cohesion will improve with games.

All that said, I'm happy enough and with Aiton, Lauitiiti, Kirmond and Washbrook still to add to the team it's rather promising.

Think Raleigh was carrying a hand injury for most of the game on twitter stated it looked like a dislocated finger. Overall very pleased plenty to work with but thought we looked pretty solid.