We go on about not having money ..........

We have 3 props starting the season but yet we would rather pay 4/5 players in the same position.

We have signed tommy lee and for me our own Davey is better = waste of money.

Here it is



HOOKERS : -



OBST

TOMMY LEE

DAVEY

RINALDI

MOTU TONY



FULLBACKS : -



MURPHY

BLAYMIRE

HYDE

TONY

VIEVERS



Whats going on??? You cut some of these positions we can get a good prop a average prop and a scrum half.I dont understand whats going on ... its totally wrong we will get murdered down the middle this season. Strange setup dont understand it .

I am Sure John kear has been waiting for your comments, the season hasn't started yet and it has been openly confirmed there are some forwards to come in.

Quite a few of the players you mention can play in various positions as showed today, I presume you went?

Well from todays game, Tommy Lee was one of the stand out players for me, so quite clearly not a waste of money. Also like to say a big well done on Paul Johnsons performance today, though he played out of his skin!

Johnson was great today. I went today like i do all the games. Ok when we moan there is no money like normal and you see 5 players in same position .................

motu played second row today

But you need to put in to perspective that this was the first pre season game and still work in progress, not sure there is a need for a big negative post like that

well said pal. work in progress. saw a lot of positives out there today from a young team with not much field time together against a very good near first team from leeds. i would have thought that 11 of those that played for the rhinos probably will be first team.

From what i have heard, it sounds like that considdering we had probably half of our first team out compared to a virtually full strength Leeds team we did well and it is good to hear that some of the new signings went well.



Can anyone tell me how Penny looked and if we tried to utilise his pace?

I do agree with you saying that it is a work in progress and that Leeds had a pretty strong team out. However, the thing is that the team we had out there today minus Obst and Morrison was pretty much the team we will start with in February. Granted we have rumoured signings coming in and the likes of Smith and Mariano wont improve our team that much. With Gledhill out for a while I think we will definately struggle.

He caught a couple of decent balls, made a mess of a ptb, defence looked a little suspect for 1 try and no we never looked liked using his pace.

Just got back from Leeds and i think the one person who also deserves a big nention is Kieron Hyde, for me he turned the game with his deft little kicks on the last tackle and a marvellous interseption and near full length run to score the last try. He's definatley given Kear a (good)headache.

We looked far too light weight compared to Leeds, we do need some grunt up front otherwise we will get hammered. Having said that some of the performances today were pretty good.



Had it not been for giving away 22 points from our own mistakes there wasn't much in the score. Leeds were physically much bigger and moved the ball slicker than we did but other than the try straight from the kick off I wasn't over impressed with them given the strength of the team they put out,