Re Agar I couldn’t agree more, Leeds looked just like we did under Agars tenure particularly in the opposition 20. Can’t believe he got the job to be honest only reason I can see is same reason he got it at Hull as Hetheringtons yes man.

A few rounds to go yet.

Looks like we might now also be in a position where scott taylor can be used in shorter more intense spells rather than over stretching himself all the time

Satea looks much the same tbh. Just got a support network around him. But an utter weapon when the grounds firm up a bit
Sao much the same..savelio looked international standard

satae was knackered after 1 run last season. Looks a lot fitter now. And either he's lost a few lbs or they have bought him some bigger shorts

Loved it !! Great opening 20
Intense and disciplined !!
Great team effort - well done the whole team and coaches

Couple of talking points for me

1. Clock stopped and stayed stopped allowing Leeds one more tackle at 39.20
If they’d scored with 10 seconds to go would the ref be allowed to look at the clock on a replay ?

2. Hurrell - how on earth was he allowed to play until half time. Disgrace to player welfare. Watching on Sky you could see he was out of it after the collision. Donaldson also looked concussed. Don’t staff watch players after a head knock ????

He got used odd last year. His average over the four games was 9 n half metres a carry. Now he's got men around him he'll look even more devastating. He'll be dreamteam abouts this year

Sao and Manu will be instrumental in us trying to achieve anything this season
Taylor will look a better player this year now he’s got others to share the load.

Complete performance, bigger faster, stronger, was we that good, or were Leeds that poor, Ligi, Sav, and our young hooker, some engines there. Team selection spot on, second half atrocious conditions, but just about error free, get Ratu signed up.

Some stats to demonstrate the dominance.

We had 19 missed tackles vs 55 tackle busts.

We had 13 offloads, Leeds had 3 offloads.

We had 6 players over 100 metres, Leeds had 1 (Jack Walker 102)

Johnstone was our top tackler with 38. Leeds had 4 players make more than that.

Penalty count was 10-4, Error count was 16-8. There aren't any GLDO stats but we won that too.

Basically, you name it, we bossed it.

Edit, I've just noticed that Sao isn't listed in the stats, so you can add a few more tackle busts and offloads for him.

Had a quick look at your talking points.

1. Clock was stopped at 39.20 for a scrum after Sutcliffe was being bundled into touch and released the ball to Griffin who put his foot on the touchline hence feed to Leeds and 6 more tackles. Subsequently ref then called play on but clock was not started for about 8 secs. Leeds mucked up their passing movement and Hull regained the ball and broke away to be stopped near halfway when TV clock reached the 40 mins mark and the siren sounded. As I understand it the game clock is not the TV clock.
Now -what is your question again?

2. Hurrell as soon as he was seen reeling/ stumbling should have immediately been taken from the field for HIA as would have happened in the NRL, where an independent doctor monitors a screen to ensure protocols are met. Super League are just not up to scratch in this area of enforcement.

I believe people saying that Connor is not good enough to play No 6 are going to have to eat their words during this season.

Also I do concede my short term memory is on the slide but didn't Radford make a statement last year that Connor would have the No6 jersey this season at the time Kelly was in great form and there was talk of him returning to the NRL?

We had a massive weight of possession so I would expect our stats to be better than Leeds. Good to see the workload being shared fairly in the forwards with all 4 props making double figures in number of carries

Also good to see that none of our tries came from kicks.

The sun is just breaking through from my Hilton bedroom window
Its good to be alive in Leeds this morning.