Soon after the try Bristol were down to 14 men and that helped Leeds spend some time in the Bristol half with Brookes kicking and missing a fairly straightforward penalty during the sinbinning. Leeds continued to defend with Oakley, Schusterman and Lund tackling anything that moved with Oakley having to visit the Blood Bin on 4 occassions with a deep head wound. Just on half time a penalty conceded by Leeds for hands in the ruck gave a simple penalty for Bistol to take the lead 10-3

With the wind at their backs in the second half Leeds spent most of the time in the Bristol half and at the first lineout Oakley was pulled down in the lineout and Brookes kicked the penalty. Now it was all Leeds the pack making surge after surge at the Bristol try line. Finally after 46mins Lund together with the rest of pack forced themselves over for a try which Brookes converted. Follwing a raft of substitutions by both sides, Bristol finally had their chance to get into the Leeds half following a poor kick out of defence, an offside decision gave Bristol a penalty which Jason Strange converted.

For the last 20 mintes it was all Leeds, they spent most of the time in the Bristol 22 driving at the Bristo defence and also tried a few croosfield kicks to the wingers but all to no avail somehow Bristol held on and it was they and not Leeds who breathed a sigh of relief.

The players that stood out for me were Oakley and Schusterman for the numerous tackles they made, Brookes and Goodridge who especially in the first half used the conditions intelligently but the player who really stood out for me was Eric Lund.

Other things you might want to know is the scrum stood up, the lineout used many more variations with Bouza, Oakley and Lund succesfully winning ball and Schusterman sweeping up at the back and our defence was superb and very brave - I bet they are all tired and sore as they travel back to Leeds. Unfortunately this wasn't a day for our backs to run but they too tackled all day