Exeter Rhino: All Leeds had to do to win the game was to cut out the dropped ball and respect possession.
Defensively we were fine, line speed fine. Quite a few individuals played well, e.g. ECW, Lumb, Gannon. I thought the forwards generally did well, and I thought Palasia was strong. The forwards can't really be blamed for not setting a platform if someone drops it every time we get into an attacking position.
Brodie Croft had one of his worst performances in a Leeds shirt. I'm starting to wonder whether he's the half we need. No doubt he's a skillful player, but most of what he is trying to do isn't working with the rest of the team, a bit like Sezer when he was here. I think we look more natural with Connor and Sinfield in the halves.
Early days yet. If we were the real deal we would have ground this one out, and snuffed out Wakey too. Still very much a work in progress. If we keep the line speed and defensive effort going hopefully the ball-in-hand stuff will improve and we'll get some wins.
It was awful on Saturday, I was there. We never looked like brewaking their defence and we were totally devoid of attacking ideas. As the chant went "We couldn't score in a brothel"
I think Croft is a waste of space. I just don't see what he offers and think skillful player is a generous description. He seems average at best. I too would like to see Sinfield and Connor. Croft or Frawley on the bench and one of them dropped
