LeytherRob

Happens all the time now since they got rid of the interference penalties letting dummy half intentionally pass to the player. I hate it and sick of seeing players intentionally lying in the ruck to obstruct play without moving because they know all the emphasis is on the attacker to find space.

Nah I think they should give him 1 more week til after the Leigh game

Zero shape or organisation to Leeds attack. If Smith wanted to make a good impression on his new boss, they aren't doing a good job of it.

Have Hull fans not maxed out on disappointment yet this season?

Sooner or later Moylan is going to have to stay at 6 in both attack and defence, especially with Armstrong potentially coming in next year.

Second year in a row taking a former Leigh amateur player from Swinton after Brogan last year. As with Brogan I suspect this will be a longer term signing hoping he can develop but it at least adds a 3rd player to the ‘homegrown’ numbers in the squad which is important to the long term development of the club.

I think the general etiquette is if you're going to cover it, someone from the publication should at least turn up. We're pretty much at a point now where there are 4 main groups of publications - League Express, the REACH/Rugby League Live led by Matt Shaw, Love Rugby League led by Aaron Bower and the BBC local news - each with multiple journalists. If you are attending an open press conference, be it in person or over the zoom calls then it's fair game to report on the answers to other journalists questions since you can't have everyone asking the same thing.

Not even in the same league. Bower puts out a lot of exclusives and I have seen LRL credit other sources when they haven't broke something first. LE journalists don't seem to even bother trying to get an original story these days and there have been multiple instances where they haven't even attended clubs weekly press conferences then just ripped off the answers to other journalists questions into an article.

confirmed now. Good to get another piece of next years puzzle in place now so he can get used to things at the club and hopefully learn a thing or 2 from Tom Amone before he goes.

Matty English off to Cas on loan. Is Watson souring on him? With Burgess confirmed coming in and George King strongly rumoured, will be interesting to see if English will still be at Huddersfield in 2025.

Yeah massive signing if it comes off(which seems to be the case based on reports on both sides of the world). We've been hunting a speedster to be our bevan French/Jai Field for a while now, lack of express pace has been our biggest deficiency. Also gives us some height to target kicks to which we've missed since Blake Ferguson and Nene Macdonald left.

Top effort from the Leigh fans

If Rowley is Leeds' aim(which it should be IMO) then this is a good first step.

I certainly wouldn't bet against them keeping the LLS and GF trophies this year

Congrats to Wigan fans, thoroughly deserved the win. Gonna be a real challenge wrestling one of these trophies off them over the next 12 months.

Seems unlikely with Johnstone, Walmsley and Jowitt as Wakeys back 3.

To be fair I think that was more down to our lack of options at prop than Kai's ability. He was excellent as an ultra mobile prop in the championship and immediately one of our better performers. I think they planned to continue down that route at the start of last year but he was exposed with a lack of size to play down the middle in SL. As for Leutele, I'd have personally kept him on another year on a reduced deal but the fact we haven't even offered a deal suggests a replacement has already been line up. I'm excited to see what we bring in for next year considering the sheer amount of cap space we have to throw around.

I get the sentiment, but I'm not a fan of retiring shirt numbers at all, i think it honors players more when others can aspire to share those shirt numbers with legendary players.

Really? That's a mad rule

How was that not a rip then? Brown even praising KR for ripping the ball, no one mentioning it was 2 on 1...

Surprised Farrimond didn’t play in the halves with French at FB

Ryan Hampshire having a mare

Would be great to see NW back in the championship. Mid 2010’s it felt like they were building some momentum and were getting 4 figure crowds

No arguments here

And when you combine all those things to a single score, what does it matter where it is punished?