Funnily enough when I was at the game, I thought we were poor in the forwards but when I rewatched the game back, they won almost every collision, we weren't spectacular in terms of post contact meters or anything, but you don't have to be to win a forward battle. If you take the first two tries for instance, it's no coincidence to see the man that takes the ball in the tackle before.. draws men in, lands on his front and gets a very quick play the ball, by the time the defense is back in the line, they have an attacking shape coming at them with very little time to do anything about it.

Correct, find your knees play the ball, Rodwell has been top drawer in this, but having said that, last night’s game was littered with laying on, 2nd and 3rd man in late and pulling and tugging by markers and no penalty, baffling after the free for all penalties over the last couple of seasons,

The most annoying thing for me is the holding one leg up and trying to almost stretch it. Farrell was a repeat offender for this and just comes across as a real grub move to me.

One area we need to tidy up is our long kicking game, we need to be splitting the back three and landing the ball beyond the 20m line, if we start kicking short and down their throats, with kick returners like Hall, we are going to find ourselves defending inside our own half early in the tackle count. Would also be happy to see us put the ball over the sideline and start our defending with a set line.

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Currently getting 10 points start on the handicap with most bookmakers

Probably not far off, though I’m confident we can win.

The weather looks appalling tomorrow. Looked yesterday and was 10% chance raid but cold.

Looked today and 80/90% chance rain and looks horrendous.

Weather forecast is so unreliable but could be a real wet affair where kicking well will matter and ball retention.

It’s called getting old, anything that you can get away with to slow the game down you will

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just heading off to bed here in Aussieland... Alarm is set for 01:30....for everyone setting off for Headingly today... Remember to enjoy the occasion... Win, lose or draw... I wish I were there but I'll be watching closely from under my dooner!

Play up Dreadnaughts.

Matt Shaw reporting that despite Rodwell being in the 21 man squad he is out for 6 weeks.

God did say and is yet to be wrong. Time for someone else to step In.