Monday 23 February 2009

Leeds Rhinos season so far

And we're off, well we were about three weeks ago when Leeds played their first game of the season, confusingly a round 4 game against the new boys.
Now I won't be reviewing the games because that has been done by better people than me both at sportinglife and for a more biased view, at Southstander. In short we have won every game so far although far from convincingly, which really isn't a worry at this stage because it's the end of the season when the championship is won and not the start of it.
The positives for Leeds is their defence, they have only conceded 2 tries in 3 matches and both from kicks. The way that JJB tackled the Hull KR player into touch on Friday is the perfect example of this, he had no right to make that tackle and especially when there was only a few minutes to go and Leeds were 9 points up.
The negatives are that the attack is looking pretty flat at the moment but that could be down to early season rustiness and the fact we are missing a couple of our best attacking players due to injury.
So it's the World Club Challenge this weekend, which will see Leeds take on Manly at Elland Road. For the first time the Aussie side is taking it seriously enough to come over in plenty of time to get used to both the weather and get over the jet lag, so no excuses this time.
In other rugby league news Wigan are terrible again having lost 3 from 3, two at home. Warrington are also rubbish having given away the lead twice already this season and once again look like they are all big names and no team work.