The shoulder issue is a fact. My source basically works on his shoulders every day.

So I agree that kick pressure was nonexistent. It's a knock on effect from the hull pack dominating ours. Simply not enough gas in the tank to charge the kicker

This is patently not the true source of the problem - Leeds have not charged a kicker (one or two exceptions apart) for 15 seasons, which included our extremely dominant era. During all those games when Brough kicked us to death not once did we ever pressure him.

The only exceptions I would make are that we occasionally did in "crunch" games like CC Finals & GFs (& before you reply, yes I realise that Saturday was quite a "crunch" game, but it just hasn't been the Leeds "way" & they have obviously been coached not to do so).

I dont buy it that the kick pressure was off because they were gassed with the forwards dominated, it was simply not the case, there were many kicks where leeds should have had plenty in the tank to put sneyd under pressure but were too lazy.