todays game : Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:45 pm  

Just got home.

Let me start with saying well done to Fax for some great RL.

We are suffering because we have 3 or 4 players who sadly aren,t able to compete at this level.

Ian Watson was outstanding for us today and with due respect to the lads who tried we really need a quality stand off.

We looked ok for the first 20 minutes but then a silly penalty given away by Hobson started the inevitable decline.

We definately need Higson back, and Rudd, in my view but with a few changes I think Charlie Caroli will lose his bet.

I still think Fax are beatable though if you keep driving them back with a long kicking game.

Once again we are our own worst enemies.

Promising thing however was Leulai I think we might have a good un here.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:51 pm  

We had 3 or 4 sets in their 20 during the first half, each time we tried a chip to the right hand corner and each time the ball ended up somehwere in Elland, whilst on the other wing we have a points machine who is dangerous from 10 yards out stood wondering if he will touch the ball today.

Then a couple of quick tries from sloppy dicipline or defence late in the 1st half and the heads went down, game over.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:15 pm  

sorry leigh fans it has to be said not good enough 1 to 17 including watson....
he cant defend out wide so today he defended in the middle and black palmed him away simply not good enough!!!

in any sport if you have no pace you have no chance and this is the slowest leigh team (at everything!!) i have seen in 30 years!!!

Re: todays game : Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:24 pm  

frankb wrote:

Just got home.

Let me start with saying well done to Fax for some great RL.

We are suffering because we have 3 or 4 players who sadly aren,t able to compete at this level.

Ian Watson was outstanding for us today and with due respect to the lads who tried we really need a quality stand off.

We looked ok for the first 20 minutes but then a silly penalty given away by Hobson started the inevitable decline.

We definately need Higson back, and Rudd, in my view but with a few changes I think Charlie Caroli will lose his bet.

I still think Fax are beatable though if you keep driving them back with a long kicking game.

Once again we are our own worst enemies.

Promising thing however was Leulai I think we might have a good un here.

Seconded, thought Leuluai looked very promising and will turn out a good player. Can't say the same for Nanyn though, a waste of space I think!

Thought you looked very good in spells today, scoreline does not reflect the game, I fully expect to see you challenging for honours this year.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:27 pm  

Another point on today at the 60 minute mark the fax fans near me could have coached a side against us ...they knew exactly who to target and where the ball was going on our "attacks".....how sad is that????

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 5:36 pm  

[quote="thudder"]sorry leigh fans it has to be said not good enough 1 to 17 including watson....
he cant defend out wide so today he defended in the middle and black palmed him away simply not good enough!!!

in any sport if you have no pace you have no chance and this is the slowest leigh team (at everything!!) i have seen in 30 years!!![/quote


I don`t think you were watching your " points machine" too closely today were you?
I thought he let your team down big time he wanted nothing to do with the ball today unless he was a yard from the line.If I was Rowley I`d put a rocket up his backside to me it`s arrogance if you have the ability but prefer to stand back and let others do the work. He is probably bideing his time taking it nice and steady till he can go back to Widnes.I hope he is only on loan for you.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:13 pm  

Hey mate dont put me in the watto fan club cos i aint...but as you will find out on here you cant give him stick its the other players faults for not running for him!!!....
be careful dont slate the mighty watto you will be hunted down!!

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:37 pm  

thudder wrote:

Hey mate dont put me in the watto fan club cos i aint...but as you will find out on here you cant give him stick its the other players faults for not running for him!!!....
be careful dont slate the mighty watto you will be hunted down!!

You're an idiot. Once again he led us around the field and without him our attack has no backbone at all. We have no stand off to take the pressure off him until Joey comes, if he is, because Ridyard gets targeted in defence constantly and Marsh is too slow and not suited to the stand off role in my opinion.

On todays game, we just got outclassed by the better team with lots of defensive errors from us. At times we stood off and watched them play around us and we fell off far too many 'easy' tackles that should of been made. We looked to shift the ball more but nothing was fruitful as it either resulted in a forward pass or a knock on.

The most frustrating part of today was the way we took glaringly obvious wrong decisions. We kicked on the 2nd/3rd tackle 2/3 times that came to nothing at all and at the play the ball we worked the short side when nothing was on.

I don't think we were ever going to win today, the performance could of been better but we need to continue to build for next year where - hopefully - we will assemble a better squad.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:45 pm  

I'm puzzled - against Featherstone, we tried the short kick-off three/four times, and Nanyn won the ball each time. Today, we tried the same tactic, but away from Nanyn, every time - result, we only won it once. Why the change of tactic?

Not that it would have made a blind bit of difference, of course, as we were comprehensively outclassed, by a cracking good team. Good luck to 'fax - they play the game the way I would love to see us play it.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:46 pm  

Today i did'nt think they played well at all they seemed clueless in attack apart from our 1st try that is which was great but after that it all went pear shaped im afraid and as i have said on another thread i look for positives after the game but today i cant think of one ,Halifax are a very good attacking team and expected them to put a few past us ,they throw the ball about and get the ball away when being tackled they are quick much faster than us but all i wanted was Leigh to turn in a good game but they did'nt and Halifax made us pay big time ,its not the losing is the lack of effort .