Great stats by Buderus and Peacock. Shows how pumped for the game they were. It also shows how Peacock can up his game for the big one, a born winner.

Three tackles by Burrow. No coincidence that his refound sharpness coincides with a diminished defensive workload.

Awesome stats from Peacock, but you can see why we won. Not sure I can remember a game where we had so many players making 100+ meters with the ball. They did highlight on the TV how leeds were making much more meters per set than Saints



4 missed tackles is also so impressive.

I would imagine about 12 of them would be, with a fight on between Meli, Soliola and Moore as to who scored the most, with the residue going to Puletua who was having a snooze throughout the match.

Moore was down as missing 3 tackles, Wilkin and Roby 2 each, and nobody else more than 1.



Puletua missed 1 tackle, made 19, and gained 150 yards from 19 drives. Some snooze.

Burrow fell off Gaskell before he offloaded. Ablett was still hanging on to him though. So does those 2 attempted tackles not count towards the stats?

Up to about the 70th minute Kirke had made 1 drive.



Game changer that lad. Big effort in the last ten when the game was in the balance..............

There was a quote from Kirke in League Express:



"All I do is give JP a bit of a break. He's a machine. If I can give him a bit of respite so he can go back on and do what he does best, I've played my part".

Sums him up and is a fairly honest appraisal of what he sees as his role.



Surely though, it's not beyond the realms of a professional RL player to actually do something whilst on the pitch giving JP a breather.



This for me sums up what is lacking in Kirke. That he sees that as his role and that he is content with it.



Sad really.

I can't remember the exact wording of the rest of the quote but he still seems unsettled at having to play as a prop. To be honest he'd do a lot better to embrace the role and put his all into it.

Maybe Griffin will do that next year?

Kick off return?