: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:52 pm  

Alan wrote:

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.

And you didn't try the short kick off's until them game was lost, strange!

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 6:54 pm  

The Leyther wrote:

:lol:

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.

brilliant comeback your right am an idiot and how we hold onto watto i never know there must be club after club banging on our door to buy him...muppet

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:07 pm  

thudder wrote:

brilliant comeback your right am an idiot and how we hold onto watto i never know there must be club after club banging on our door to buy him...muppet

Maybe because age isn't on his side and this will probably be is last season. He's been our best player for the last 2/3 matches but all the usual 'suspects' are out crucifying him.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:11 pm  

We could have Darren Lockyer playing for us; if the players around him are not hitting gaps at pace or breaking tackles he will look ordinary.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 7:12 pm  

Worst Leigh teams for years FACT !!!
SLOW..CANT DEFEND...SUPPORT THE MAN WITH THE BALL
TOTALLY LACKING IN IDEAS !!! WHAT A SHOWER RL IN SLOW MOTION
Tactically they where shocking as they have been all season, to turn this
lot round we are going to have to have a major watershed and get shut of around a dozen players who are well of the pace of modern day rugby
I,M NOT NAMING ANYONE but everyone knows who the players are its week in week out they underperform players in key positions are just not good enough and dont get the team moving the backline is very poor the slowest at the club for years the forwards are of a very poor standard not strong enough and fitness wise look very suspect ..
Today only Watson young Leulai and Hill looked anything like decent
Watson tried his very best to move the play about but players where far to slow and at times downright lazy in both defence and attack
Halifax played some great rugby because Leigh allowed them to they are beatable if a team gets stuck in but sadly when a team plays defensivly
like Leigh do it allows teams like Fax to unload in the tackle and keeps them on the front foot going forward..
WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY AGAIN !!!

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:08 pm  

Watson can't do it on his own, simple as that. 'Fax won it with their support play, whereas the one break we made was Watson with the nearest Leigh player 15 yards behind him.

Fact is, we just weren't good enough to pose any sort of threat today. We really need this visa sorting because we're desperately needing a foil for Watson.

: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:35 pm  

Have to admit, Hilly had his least effective game of the season, but he wasn't alone.

We want Jock back instead of the player that's been pretending to be him for the last 5 matches.

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:28 am  

Here's my view on the game;

Firstly, credit to Fax they played some great rugby with good support play, Greenwood especially. We were never going to win if we didn't take our chances.

The basic's of rugby league are passing a ball and making a tackle. We did neither with conviction yesterday, how many forward passes? One on one tackling was a disgrace and it was shocking to watch. We need to get that sorted before anything else!

From the first kick off Halifax dropped the ball and we had a set of six on their line now I don't care if we're playing Featherstone or Halifax if Nanyn runs a good line from a Watson/Ridyard ball from 5 meters odds are he'll score so why weren't we getting him on the ball when on their line? Why didn't we have any willing runners? Our try was simply a player running onto the ball on abit of an angle we didn't see this for the rest of the game.

We had enough 5 or so sets near the Fax line, kicking the ball dead or getting caught with the ball that isn't good enough and need ideas or just some runners will do for now.

In the second half we were deflated and we resorted to poor one man rugby which didn't get us anywhere.

Stewart and Hobson should be nowhere near the team.

I think the difference in mentally is the key, Halifax looked like they wanted to score everytime they had the ball in our half and they believed that they would. We don't have any players who believe they will score or break the line and that's why the rare times we do make a break theres sod all in support. It was a very poor Leigh performance if i'm honest.

[Dick Jones]

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:42 am  

Did any one noticed C Hill at the end of the game, he was clearly gutted and really upset my heart went out to him as he clearly has been a brilliant player for us, if we had a team of Chris Hill s we would be top of the league. I dont think le,ll be with us much longer although I hope Im wrong, then having said that he deserves better to be honest.

: Mon Jun 08, 2009 8:45 am  

Dick Jones wrote:

Did any one noticed C Hill at the end of the game, he was clearly gutted and really upset my heart went out to him as he clearly has been a brilliant player for us, if we had a team of Chris Hill s we would be top of the league. I dont think le,ll be with us much longer although I hope Im wrong, then having said that he deserves better to be honest.

Was Hill the lad that just stood, motionless in the in-goal area after the hooter? He did luck genuinely gutted.