Assuming we lose Prior after this season I’d say we need 2 really high quality forwards to complete the pack.



How good is it to see a depleted Leeds side really compete down the middle with such a young lineup? Bodes really well for the future.



Liked the look of Gannon immediately.

Glad Agar was thinking on the same lines. The one who was at times caught between being neither one thing nor the other was Smith, not his fault. The naming of gale in the 21 was all a bit silly though.

Even though Tetevano may have been daft with his late shot it’s great to see a bit of ‘mongrel’ back in the forwards isn’t it.



Prior is just a machine, I hope he stays for another year or two

Agree completely. Makes the game look so tin pot

Cracking performance today I thought - shame about the sending off think we'd have had half a chance otherwise. Gannon looks a serious player (he's a big 17 year old!). Beyond that, Paasi leads with his forearm/elbow every time - as someone else says if you tackled like that you'd be off so not sure why it's allowed. And finally the BBC coverage was tough to listen to with the drooling over saints even praising their defence when they'd just shipped a load of points to 12 men which was quite bizarre but there we go back to sky now anyway I suppose.

What I like about Rhinos vintage 2021 is the mongrel. Stick 15,,000 at Headingley behind them and no other team would fancy it. As others have said Prior is an inspirational player. His cumulative excellence puts in the top range of Aussie imports.

Agree on Gannon, does anybody know how big he is? He looked big and good on the frame. I like Walters but feel like he needs to fill his frame a bit still. You can see why Gannon has been put straight with the first team

Not sure if its already been mentioned but the work we did on Walmsley in the first half shouldnt be underestimated.



We bullied him in defence, 3 players on him as soon as he touched the ball, and then constantly ran at him in attack. Saints are by no means a one-man team but we nullified any impact he had for them in a massive way.



We physically outmatched them today but unfortunately their class showed on the edges.



We should take great heart from that today.

Just tried watching the game after recording it. Struth I struggle to get any enjoyment without crowds...

Enfed up tolerating about 15 mins then lost interest.think I'll pick up watching again end of may when we might have stone sort of atmosphere and excitement......

I don't no how big Gannon is but he looks a unit for 17.Walters is only 20 and 6ft 5 so he's probably only grown one way and that's up. He'll put some serious on in the next 2 years.

I enjoyed the game but would also struggle to watch with no crowd or crowd if I knew the result

Though their introduction of paasi? Changed the momentum back to them. Maybe without the red card we could have won but then again maybe they don't get complacent and clock off. Seriously think this is a huge year for oledski. Could be outside bet for wc

Very very exciting/tense game. Couldn't believe we were still in it at half time given the team sheet, and I was actually disappointed we weren't ahead! Then thought it was game over with the red and yet we were still with a shout 4 mins to go! Love to see it. It was quite some effort, despite some shocking last tackle plays. Saints did us lots of favours to be honest, but the ref didn't do us many so it about evens out.



Extremely looking forward to seeing us play when we have some halves, centres, and Handley back!! Fingers crossed for us beating Saints in the Grand Final!!



Would like us to begin using King Walters and Gannon instead of Mellor, alternate games at the least.



What did you think of the use of leeming and dwyer this match? Thought the game was crying out for Dwyer at a much earlier stage... he only got introduced after the match was lost, and we only miraculously pulled it back to touching distance because he scored twice in v. few minutes.



He looked like our only player in danger of scoring or causing a something to happen near their tryline, so I would've liked to have seen a lot more of him!

Yes, without Paasi they lose the game!! He was very very handy, although a little too elbowy and shouldery for my liking!