YEP rugby league writer Peter Smith reflects on Leeds Rhinos' morale-boosting 46-8 victory over London Broncos at AMT Headingley.
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00:00 After four straight defeats Leeds Rhinos are back to anyways at home 46 points straight
00:06 victory over London Broncos here tonight a fairly routine win for Leeds who did a thoroughly
00:12 professional job scored very early on and were never in any real danger.
00:17 Against Sunderland side who didn't throw an awful lot at them had one or two good spells
00:21 and certainly put plenty of effort in but Leeds were cut above tonight in what weren't
00:27 ideal circumstances lost Rylan to a hamstring injury after just one minute of the game and
00:33 then Brodie Croft tightened up in his groin and went off after half an hour so Leeds had
00:38 to adjust but I thought they did a good job of it.
00:41 Lackey Miller had an excellent game tonight, one terrific break for Ash Hanley's try laid
00:48 on a couple of others.
00:49 Andy Ackers started on the bench today for the first time for Leeds with Jared O'Connor
00:53 at 9 and Ackers had a really good game as well I thought it brought something different
01:00 when he came on.
01:01 Jared O'Connor went well in the starting 9 position, a brave decision by Rowan Smith
01:06 who left Matt Froley out after a pretty poor performance last week against Hull FC and
01:13 Jackson Field came in for his first appearance of the season and did a really good job.
01:17 He got the home man of the match award, scored a try, was involved in a couple of others
01:21 and considering he's not played at this level since the final game of last season I thought
01:26 he went well and it's an encouraging sign for the future.
01:31 Leeds can play better and will need to play better but the win was the most important
01:36 thing today and they got that and they did it in a little bit of style, conceded a couple
01:42 of tries but defended pretty well overall and it will give them something to build on
01:46 for next week's very tough game at Catalan Dragons which is followed by another very
01:51 tough game at St Helens.
01:54 Big matches are coming but Leeds have two successive wins and are back to winning ways
01:58 at home and I think they can feel pretty pleased with that.
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