Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 2:48 pm  

Thought the ref was excellent yesterday as it goes. Didn't blow up on many 50/50s which is what I want to see.

I can't believe anyone thinks Pratt's effort was a try! McMeeken literally points Pratt through the gap in front of him then backs into the defender. 100% obstruction, and Oli wouldn't have coasted through without it. Our best case scenario would have been for Pratt to take a tackle, but I can understand why he took his chance in hope.

I also saw the Bentley forearm, but he puts that in half his tackles, and as the season goes on he'll pick up bans. Not sure I've seen anything as satisfying as him dropping that ball cold and Pitts laughing at him.

Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 2:51 pm  

Butcher wrote:

Thought the ref was excellent yesterday as it goes. Didn't blow up on many 50/50s which is what I want to see.

I can't believe anyone thinks Pratt's effort was a try! McMeeken literally points Pratt through the gap in front of him then backs into the defender. 100% obstruction, and Oli wouldn't have coasted through without it. Our best case scenario would have been for Pratt to take a tackle, but I can understand why he took his chance in hope.

I also saw the Bentley forearm, but he puts that in half his tackles, and as the season goes on he'll pick up bans. Not sure I've seen anything as satisfying as him dropping that ball cold and Pitts laughing at him.

Disagree re: Pratts try . Ackers would have struggled to touch him , never mind stop him.

Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 3:41 pm  

wotsupcas wrote:

Disagree re: Pratts try . Ackers would have struggled to touch him , never mind stop him.

If the situation was reversed would you still believe it not to be an obstruction.

Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 5:19 pm  

wotsupcas wrote:

Disagree re: Pratts try . Ackers would have struggled to touch him , never mind stop him.

It's possible. But if Pratt would have got through that gap, then it's stupid of McMeeken to shepherd Ackers. It's not a try. If Leeds had scored in the scenario I would have been screaming.

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Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 5:25 pm  

Butcher wrote:

It's possible. But if Pratt would have got through that gap, then it's stupid of McMeeken to shepherd Ackers. It's not a try. If Leeds had scored in the scenario I would have been screaming.

I'd normally agree but Pratt came from so far away McM wouldn't have known he was in the line when he stopped.

Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 5:50 pm  

It was interesting that Ackers made no attempt to tackle Pratt when he could have tried to. Instead focusing on appealing for obstruction.

Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 6:10 pm  

The Avenger wrote:

There was another incident in the first half that seems to have gone unnoticed.
Uele put in a strong run and Bentley was struggling to get to grips with him, as Calic bowed forward to drive the ball Bentley forearm smashed in at the back of his head. Looked like pure frustration from Bentley and it went unmentioned by the commentators

Speaking of Bentley, that was funny towards the back end of the 2nd half when Leeds was getting frustrated, Bentley got tackled and started to get all over-excited getting up and jumped up as though he was gonna have a go at the marker, then he saw it was Big Mike and he quietly played the ball and wandered off.

Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 6:17 pm  

Watched the full game this aft, two players that I didn’t really take much notice of during the game (4 pints) but stood out like sore thumbs during their stints were Oli Russell and Caius Faatili. Russell was an absolute dog in defence, that lad can graft and the energy that Caius brought, albeit it was only 10 mins or so was the best period of defence in the second half. I genuinely think he will be a very impressive player Caius, he’s just got it in bucket loads. When he’s match fit he’ll cause teams a lot of bother, he reminds me of Greg Eastwood. He was very dominant in defence and carried very well, just needs to get match fit.

Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 6:23 pm  

Pat Bateman wrote:

Watched the full game this aft, two players that I didn’t really take much notice of during the game (4 pints) but stood out like sore thumbs during their stints were Oli Russell and Caius Faatili. Russell was an absolute dog in defence, that lad can graft and the energy that Caius brought, albeit it was only 10 mins or so was the best period of defence in the second half. I genuinely think he will be a very impressive player Caius, he’s just got it in bucket loads. When he’s match fit he’ll cause teams a lot of bother, he reminds me of Greg Eastwood. He was very dominant in defence and carried very well, just needs to get match fit.

seems an odd thing ... But I think Russell is far more suited to dummy half... His aggression in offense and defence is outstanding and his decision making is excellent.

Re: Leeds away first up. : Sun Feb 16, 2025 6:27 pm  

Pat Bateman wrote:

Watched the full game this aft, two players that I didn’t really take much notice of during the game (4 pints) but stood out like sore thumbs during their stints were Oli Russell and Caius Faatili. Russell was an absolute dog in defence, that lad can graft and the energy that Caius brought, albeit it was only 10 mins or so was the best period of defence in the second half. I genuinely think he will be a very impressive player Caius, he’s just got it in bucket loads. When he’s match fit he’ll cause teams a lot of bother, he reminds me of Greg Eastwood. He was very dominant in defence and carried very well, just needs to get match fit.

I quite like Russell at 9 to be honest. Looks to play quite tight around the play of the ball.

Faatili I’m sure only got 10 minutes as he’s only had a handful of sessions as he wasn’t struggling or anything. I think we will see Faatili and Vagana get more minutes this week vs kr.

With Hood out, i would just bring Smith in at 9 and run with the same 17. We do have the option of swapping in a few backs if there’s still some fatigue set in but hopefully a big effort this Thursday and it would be a dream start to go 2/2.