Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:40 am  

Personally i think we are way off top 4 as long as this Coaching regime remains in place.
As it stands we are back to where we were before Powell took over in that we need a clear out some quality signings & our very best u19's getting games/Coached & intergtated ready for a challenge in 12mths time.

Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:41 am  

ploinerrhino wrote:

Thursday will be messy for sure , we have no structure . Everyone knew we needed an organising Stand off or Scrum Half . The pack seems lightweight and our tactic of taking 2 points when it would have been our 4th set of six on their line and them cream crackered beggared belief . We are lightyears away from Cas and Wigan plus Wire when Brown plays . Hull despite not being great will probably be 4th . The only improvement from last season is fitness and attitude and that only takes you so far . I was hoping for 5th place because of the poor standard of Super league now it is more likely 6th or 7th . The loss to a poor Saints team was a good indicator to that . No way should a club as big as Leeds not be challenging for top four (and no i do not believe we have a devine right to win everything) .

We need to take those two penalty points when on offer as we have no one to kick conversions. So we are losing a massive amount of points.

Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:45 am  

Just can not agree , it is a desperate tactic that shows how quickly and how far we have declined and sends out a bad message to the opposition . In my opinion the only time this season we should have gone for two was at Saints with 50 seconds to go in the first half .

Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:51 am  

ploinerrhino wrote:

Just can not agree , it is a desperate tactic that shows how quickly and how far we have declined and sends out a bad message to the opposition . In my opinion the only time this season we should have gone for two was at Saints with 50 seconds to go in the first half .

I completly agree with you mate it really does show how far we have fallen, that even with players like Watkins,Hall, Briscoe and Moon we are not confident enough to go for it.

But the way we are at the moment with no attacking structure or kicker we need to get points on the board and hope we can hold out.

We never get the 6 points so two penalties is as good as a try.

Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 10:59 am  

Sal Paradise wrote:

I think second paragraph suggests you are intimating a return to the 2015 style?

I suggest that'll be the target, not that we are close, not that we are there.

For the few who therefore can't understand how I can on a seperate thread pick Leeds for a top 4 finish then....

2016 Regular season points scored

11 - Wigan - 455
12 - Leeds - 404

Wigan had the 2nd lowest scoring attack last regular season, were consistently in the top 4 because they weren't conceding many.

Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 11:34 am  

Someone posted (SP?): Good performances from Parcell, Keinhorst and Golding the rest distinctly average.

I thought that Hall was way better than average, how many other wingers would have scored our first try?
Briscoe though continues to disappoint, maybe time to give Handley a game?
A draw would probably have been a fair result especially since our last try was from at least one blatantly forward pass.
I guess though speedy PTBs give the officials less time to get nto position & that's what happened in this instance.
Thursday's upcoming game will provide much better evidence as to where we are this year.

Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 4:15 pm  

ThePrinter wrote:

I suggest that'll be the target, not that we are close, not that we are there.

For the few who therefore can't understand how I can on a seperate thread pick Leeds for a top 4 finish then....

2016 Regular season points scored

11 - Wigan - 455
12 - Leeds - 404

Wigan had the 2nd lowest scoring attack last regular season, were consistently in the top 4 because they weren't conceding many.

Intimating does suggest we are there or close!! but semantics is your way of avoiding having to say yes that is what I said. How the style of 2015 can be an aspiration without a player of Sinfield's ability and attack management skills defies any kind logic but you are entitled to your opinion

Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 4:19 pm  

Gotcha wrote: You had us down to finish 6th, and behind Saints and Cas mate, which would back up the point I made. You would be in the majority who would have expected three wins. Well, one of us is wrong about what I predicted viewtopic.php?f=17&t=601590&start=40 And it ain't me.

Gotcha wrote: You had us down to finish 6th, and behind Saints and Cas mate, which would back up the point I made. You would be in the majority who would have expected three wins. Well, one of us is wrong about what I predicted viewtopic.php?f=17&t=601590&start=40 And it ain't me.

Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 4:36 pm  

Sal Paradise wrote:

Intimating does suggest we are there or close!! but semantics is your way of avoiding having to say yes that is what I said. How the style of 2015 can be an aspiration without a player of Sinfield's ability and attack management skills defies any kind logic but you are entitled to your opinion

Nothing with semantics, I just didn't say what you re trying to twist it into. Again I pointed out PATIENCE will be needed wrt to the attack, last time I checked patience doesn't exactly mean close or already there.

And Sinfield wasn't vital to us picking up points regularly in the league in 2015 and we won away (and well) at places like Cas and Catalans without him and he came off the bench when we'd already stormed ahead at Saints.

Where his lost will be felt from that year is the key crunch games at the back end like playoff and cup semis etc.

Re: RD 2 | Leeds Rhinos v Salford Red Devils : Sat Feb 25, 2017 4:46 pm  

We won't miss him then as we will not be involved in those games