What about our defence? How much did we soak up? And surely your attack should come under more scrutiny, given your field position and repeat sets?



Gotta love that ginger guy!!! I bet Penny does anyway.

Oh I dont dissagree with you on that. Hopefully that is the case.



And if we were doing this less than 10 years ago, I would not have cared. winning is winning, and all we wanted.



However, I do think the rugby we are playing at the moment is quite frankly pretty poor stuff, and not enjoyable to watch. The tactics so far this season have been mainly one man rugby, which is not a spectacle. But winning we have done despite this.



I suppose when you get used to winning you get spoilt and want more, and right now that is what I want to see, as rugby fan.

Last year we were on fire and got thrashed by Cas. This was always going to be one of the toughest fixtures of the year - straight after the WCC. Warrington have outplayed most of their opposition for one half of the game pretty much every week this year (including Saints), so you have to think they can play a bit. Then you throw Tony Smith into the mix and this looks like a really, really good win - especially with the guys missing.

By my reckoning, we've played 5 games so far this season and are yet to score more than 1 try in each half of a game. We definitely aren't firing on all cylinders yet but we're still top of the table.



If we can still be top after the next 2 games, I'll be happy.

There are two facets to Rugby league. Attack and defence. Looks to me like our defence is awesome and there is nothing lucky about our Victory against Warrington. If they can't beat us with the weight of possession and territory they enjoyed then their attack is a bigger worry than ours and well done to our defence.



The offensive fluency will come.



We're not out of 2nd gear, unbeaten and top of the league. Only Leeds fans could fine room to complain about that.



So a Wire fan wasn't impressed with us. Who gives a feck anyway? How would a Wire fan know how to judge a championship team? They're us from the 80's.[/i

A win away against a team tipped to be top 3 or 4, with the following players missing:



Webb

Senior

Buderus

Diskin

Kirke

Eastwood



Seems good to me.

How many did Wigan have on Saturday, and how many would Leeds have had if Webb, Senior, Buderus and Eastwood had been available.

Well, if your Academy played Friday all of them.



How many did you have on Saturday?

Point taken and amended.



Oh Wigans reserves won 34 -6 , something Leeds reserves have failed to do this season.

Ours were all in our 1st team. Yours are being groomed for a career at Huddersfield





Actually, seriously interested, how many did you have Saturday?

Well, I can't pretend to totally certain who the Wigan academy products were, but I estimate 5 in the starting line up, and 7 or 8 (?Hansen) in the 17.



Richards, Roberts, Bailey, Carmont, Ainscough, S. Tomkins, Leuluai, Fielden, Riddell, Paleaaesina, Hock, J. Tomkins, O'Loughlin. Replacements: Coley , McIlorum for , O'Carroll , Hansen ?



Leeds would probably have about 9 in a full strngth squad.



FWIW, I think Wigan are starting to take note and use some products of their academy a bit more. Hopefully they'll hang onto a few more of this crop.

Eight, and they've had that number in all games this season, bar the opener v Wakefield.



Don't believe some of the cr@p you read.