YEP rugby league writer Peter Smith reflects on Leeds Rhinos' 34-4 defeat of Castleford Tigers.
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00:00 I'm much happier feeling around heading Lee today after Lee Trino's 32 points to 4 win
00:08 over Castleford Tigers, very important win for a number of reasons, keeps Leeds well
00:12 in the hunt for the top 6. It's cheered up the fans after a difficult few weeks and it's
00:17 given the players a boost to their confidence. I thought it was a pretty good performance
00:23 from Leeds, some good individual efforts, Reece Martin was absolutely excellent, kicked
00:28 6 goals from 6, scored a couple of tries and was really hard to handle. He played the full
00:33 80 minutes in the second row and Leeds look like a better team with Reece Martin in the
00:37 second row and Paul Momorowski who came back from injury playing at centre. Some good efforts
00:43 from the likes of Matt Frawley who has had a lot of sick from the fans, some of his performances
00:50 haven't been up to scratch but he was very good today, his kicks caused problems, he
00:54 scored a nice try and watched out with the ball, Roddy Croft excellent as ever and I
00:59 thought Lucky Miller had a decent game, very few errors and he beat the first man throughout
01:06 the attack. Ash Hanley scored another terrific try and his carries are really important for
01:12 Leeds and he did that really well today, good all-round performance, I thought they defended
01:17 pretty well as well, could have been more clinical, that's probably the one thing he'd
01:21 say negatively about Leeds, they could have had more points but they defended well, they
01:27 scored some good tries, it was an important win. Award for Castleford I thought disappointing
01:33 really, they obviously had some injury problems, no poor Matt Shane and Joe Esterman went off
01:41 with an achilles injury in the second half so that's a blow but Castleford 4 is a step
01:47 back really from recent performances, they struggled under Leeds' kicking game, a lot
01:52 of knock-ons in the first half, a lot of errors, didn't threaten Leeds at all in the first
01:56 half, they had more of the ball in the second but didn't do an awful lot with it, managed
02:01 just one try and there was a little bit of controversy over that so they're going to
02:04 have to improve but Leeds can go forward with a little bit of confidence I think after that
02:11 one and they're going to be heckled there by Danny Maguire as he walks past the Cass
02:16 assistant coach but certainly a positive afternoon for Leeds, they're going to the Charged Cup
02:23 right now with something to build on.
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