: Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:48 am  

Lots of praise for Senior and he did make some good breaks and meters.

However, he does need to remember when to take the tackle. Twice in the second half he passed into touch, and the first one, resulted in the start of the blitz.

Apart from that he looked good against a player that he's had a few good battles with over the years.

Thought that Ali looked great in the last 15. Really made a lot of difference, not just the work for the 2 tries, but also some other testing runs. McClennan needs to get him playing like that more weeks than not, and keep him off the treatment table.

: Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:12 am  

leicester_rhino wrote:

Lots of praise for Senior and he did make some good breaks and meters.

However, he does need to remember when to take the tackle. Twice in the second half he passed into touch, and the first one, resulted in the start of the blitz.

I agree but I think the one that was followed by Manly's three try blitz was the planned short side move from the penalty where Hall's inside ball wasn't taken in by Senior and ended up with Lyon in possession.

Captain Jack wrote:

Would have been good to have seen a different game with Leeds having Danny B, Webb and Burrow (if he stayed on the field....great tackle though from Whatmough) in their side.

Yes if great = a shot to the head that resulted in the conceding of a penalty and your opponent taking no further part in the game due to an illegal high shot.

Good to see Watmough go out of his way to apologise to Burrow at the end of the game though.