Shabino wrote:Nilling any SL team is massive.‘defence on song which is pleasing. Fatigue comes from pressure.
Whilst I would normally agree, we are talking about a team with the worse attack in the league by a long shot and one who haven't found the tryline for three weeks now. And they looked more dangerous than us for a long period of the game. If that was any other team we would have gone into half time a couple of scores down and nothing to show for it.
Admittedly, we defended the line well. We held up players a couple of times and prevented what should have been a couple of tries without losing composure.
We did look weak in attack though. Up until Trinity fell apart and we started to put some good plays together. I know it was far from ideal conditions to play flowing rugby, and the players were suffering from the sub-zero temperature. And that goes for both teams.
I just can't help feeling somewhat uninspired by the Leeds performance. I know we would have likely lost the game to any team that actually knows how to score.
The performance did remind me a little of the circa 2011 (?) team how for most of the season would look terrible for the first half, but then pull a win out of the bag with a flurry of scores in the last 20 purely on fitness. Maybe it just looked similar under the circumstances with Trinity, but I hope we are returning to be the fittest team in the League again.