[Chris71]

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:55 pm  

Unfortunately Houghton looks like the player he was in the last season under Radford but without his defensive resilience. BH needs to wake up to the fact he can’t play him first 80 mins. Sneyd other than his 40/20 was pretty poor along with Reynolds who all created very little on the back of a platform provided by the likes of Sao and Satae. 6, 7 & 9 gave us very little tonight and that’s a real concern.

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:55 pm  

Fonua been pretty rubbish too, apart from maybe 2/3 games.

Too many players playing on past reputations.

Him, Houghton, Sneyd and Bowden.

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:57 pm  

Total lack of cutting edge tonight. Had enough possession on their line and made enough line breaks tp put us in a strong position in the first half.
Second half was all Leeds and we ran out of gas.
Great game and atmosphere for 60 mins and then it petered out which was a shame.
Monday could get ugly against a fresh Saints.

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 8:58 pm  

Chris71 wrote:

Unfortunately Houghton looks like the player he was in the last season under Radford but without his defensive resilience. BH needs to wake up to the fact he can’t play him first 80 mins. Sneyd other than his 40/20 was pretty poor along with Reynolds who all created very little on the back of a platform provided by the likes of Sao and Satae. 6, 7 & 9 gave us very little tonight and that’s a real concern.

I thought Reynolds did ok tonight, caused a few problems with his running game, on his own though, Wynne looks like Shaul, good running game, but doesn't have the link up play like other FB'S.

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:02 pm  

Hasbag wrote:

It's horrendous how much we miss Connor. I reckon we'd have won with him tonight, he just knows how to unlock a defence. Shame nobody else does.

If you depend so much on one player the future is not too rosy

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:03 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

Sneyds been average for at least two years.
Yes comes up with some big plays at times, but not creative or consistent enough, great 40/20, then we create nothing from it and finish we a poor Sneyd kick.

Forwards laid the platform for him today and ge creates nothing, happens too many times, but he does a couple of decent kicks and people forget about the rest of his game.

I think you forget Dave according to some on here he is a great organizer

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:03 pm  

Very disappointing. Agree with others that Sneyd was poor and starting to think it's time to move him on, can't carry someone just for their kicking game.

I'm convinced we must have signed a Fonua lookalike as that isn't the same guy from 2016/2017.

Short of at least two Props. Bowden does nothing at all.

Oh it's good to be back!

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:08 pm  

UllFC wrote:

Very disappointing. Agree with others that Sneyd was poor and starting to think it's time to move him on, can't carry someone just for their kicking game.

I'm convinced we must have signed a Fonua lookalike as that isn't the same guy from 2016/2017.

Short of at least two Props. Bowden does nothing at all.

Oh it's good to be back!

Agree we are still short a prop, but just can't see how Bowden still gets in over Brown. He deserves a run of games to see how he goes. Hopefully Taylor will be back soon too.

Having said that, even with Bowdensimkted impact, props were far from our biggest concern tonight. I'm also starting to think Sneyd's time with us should be up.

[Chris71]

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:13 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

I thought Reynolds did ok tonight, caused a few problems with his running game, on his own though, Wynne looks like Shaul, good running game, but doesn't have the link up play like other FB'S.

I’ll give Reynolds the benefit of just returning after covid but tonight we got very little if anything from 6,7, & 9 which with the space and platform created for them by Sao & Satae is concerning. Agree about Wynn as he has a lot more work to do on his game particularly link up play. Fonua was also pretty poor tonight and should be getting more from a player who is likely on a fair chunk of the cap.

Re: Leeds home : Thu Jul 29, 2021 9:15 pm  

Dave K. wrote:

I thought Reynolds did ok tonight, caused a few problems with his running game, on his own though, Wynne looks like Shaul, good running game, but doesn't have the link up play like other FB'S.

If we put as much effort into our defence as we do in altercations with opposing players that would be a good start
As has been mentioned we cant rely on one link player when fit.
for me Sneyd is a big problem and slows our attack down and Houghton seems to have lost interest again and needs to be replaced.
Shaul is the obvious choice here when fit because tonight we saw exaclty how a quick acting half turned the game for Leeds
We still need some pace into this team and questions need to be asked about the coaches bench selection once again