The defence was good apart from not dealing with Mylers kicks and the Horlicks of a gap left in the defensive line for the Hall try. Lots to be Optimistic about there.



The attacking formations will come in time.



Lets remember that Leeds are probably trying to peak twice this season. One for the WCC and also the Grand Final. They looked sharper than us last night and rightly so.

Although some of last nights mistakes were frustrating, I’m not worried too much as I don’t think we’ll be doing that all season. Last year we were worse than that at game 8, so we’ve already got an improvement.



I’m not naive enough to think we’ll win anything this year but I do think we’ll go okay by the time of the split. All we wanted was a steady year to set us up for 2019 and a few more options in the forwards. Atkins, Ratchford and Russell didn’t have their best games last night but we know Ratchford is better than that, Atkins also and Russell can fight for his position with Mitch Brown who didn’t look too bad in the pre-season games.



I’m much more positive about this year than last.

That's a fare comment.

Ha ha ha

he never went to leigh they signed him for THIS year and we offered a better contract to take him before he even landed in This country. He's in no way what so ever a leigh reject ha ha ha. He's a quality Centre who's played like this for his whole NRL career, and his performance was not a surprise at all

As confirmed by Bryson Goodwin after the match Roberts has only been in full training for one week. I'm also with Lefty on Goodwin: he's a serious player with a lot of international appearances for the Kiwis, certainly better known than either Roberts or BMM.

WHOOSH!!!!

On my way to the ground last night, I heard one fan saying (clearly in reference to Goodwin) that "no-one ever good ever signed from Leigh".



Aside from the fact that Goodwin never played for Leigh and is clearly vastly too talented for that division, I had a sudden urge to collar aforementioned plancton-brain and scream JOHN WOOD at him.



Yes, I know we signed John from Bradford but we've not done too badly with lads who've worn Leigh colours.



Still I digress, Bryson is my new hero (after Ben C obviously)

Hill and Dessie

Alex Murphy

Kevin Ashcroft

Dave Chisnall

Tommy Martyn

Geoff Clarkson.

Early reasons for optimism:



- The defence was ok, looked reasonably organised.



- The players competed with Leeds for the full 80 mins although they were definitely second best. It wasn't one of those losses where heads drop and players start hiding and waiting for the hooter, letting in soft tries.



- We played the SL champions, and were still in it right till the end - one good play at the end and we could have had a spectacular win which would have created a great atmosphere to start the season.



- Bryson Goodwin looks a good player and tough too.

Sitaleki Akauola.