Leeds played with tactics to grind out a win and win by a point. Rather than giving the ball width and providing the best outside backs in the league with opportunities to win easy.

It was clear McDermott wanted to play one up rugby and complete the sets when really on the 4th and 5th tackles it should have been given to the backs to threaten Saints. Anyone can defend one up rugby.

Stevie Ward is not a centre, why place BJB on the bench if you have no intention of bringing him on.

I don't think we played particularly bad last night, it was just we played ridiculous tactics for the game. If we had got the offload game going and distributed to Watkins early more we would have won with ease.

I am very fed up of seeing McGuire too now. He is greedy, slow, always runs it in rather than pass and does some dumb things. Right at the end on the 4th tackle he ran towards touch when we were setting up for a drop goal. I'd 100% prefer Sutcliffe at 6 for the rest of the season.

McDermott seems unable to adapt to changes during the game and adapt his rotation policy. JJB playing with injured arm and unable to play at all in the second half.

Why not bring on JJB to full back, Hardaker to centre and use Ward in the second row. The second time this season we have left a sub on the bench for the full game. Just name sixteen players next time.

Offensive guile from the halves is lacking.With all that possession and territory they just did not ask enough questions of the saints defence.Add to that that there were some forwards in the Leeds pack who were passengers.Kirk with 4 carries, Clarkson is only championship quality, and Singleton's ball control is abysmal when he's on.

Six offloads in the whole match (3 Peacock, 2 Ablett, 1 Watkins) is pretty pathetic.

I'll defend Kirke in this instance, thought his defencewas outstanding, always winning the collision. He ran the ball in hard on his very rare carries too, it's a mystery why he didn't take it up more particularly as we were playing such one-out rugby and wouldn't know whether that's down to himor whether it was the plan.

says on saints board JP made 247 metres and did 44 tackles.another great effort if true.think he did the full 80 too.

Is McDermott's strategy to wear JP out early, encourage him to retire early (at the end of 2014)? Henceforth making Big Brian the most influential voice in the forward department. At the moment the players listen more to JP and not McDermott.

The tactics were wrong last night, instead of continually taking them on down the middle we should have moved the ball out wide. We have two of the best wingers in the SL who's only role in the game last night was to retrieve the ball after it had been kicked long by Saints.
The turning point for me was Saints second try when I thought we should have received a penalty when Makinson was stood in the way at the PTB which meant the Saints defenders could force the dummy half over the line for a drop out from which they scored. It was quite crucial as it gave saints the ball and six tackles near our line.
That said fair play to Saints they showed more endeavour in our twenty and deserved the win.

Good point about Makinson stood in Hardakers way RR we said at the game surely it was a pen for either not square or offside??
That said we did ourselves no favours with so much possession and very few points to show for it.

I was suprised that McQuire was well below par was expecting him to have more creativity but he still seems to be just a support player. Thought Sinfield didn't have enough influence on the game was left to Burrows to run across the defensive line to try and open up gaps