Leigh on Sunday : Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:44 pm  

Looking forward to the game on Sunday, and fingers crossed that we don't get Tonked. I know we will have to play much better than first two games, but have seen enough in the 2nd half vs Swindon to think we might be able to keep it close

Have to avoid stupid penalties, and complete sets to have any chance, but if we can keep them under 30, and score 2 or 3 tries ourselves, then it might get interesting.

Just really hoping we don't end up with a 52-6 type blowout... that would set us right back in terms of confidence and any plans to challenge the top 4

Crash

Re: Leigh on Sunday : Thu Feb 18, 2016 12:54 pm  

Agree with you on that.

Listening to the Oldham game on radio discipline was shocking, do that against leigh and it will cost us dearly. Possession is the key to any game and completion rate needs to be high. Am hoping they are still unsettled by the Paul Rowley departure. It's still only game 3 but I think the scoreline rather than the result will give us an indication of how the season is going to go. A Win obviously would be nice, we are not in must win territory but a competitive performance is needed. I don't want a loss but if we do lose i would like to us within 2 scores

Re: Leigh on Sunday : Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:18 pm  

I just hope the referee, Mr Stokes is up to the job. It may need a strong hand this game.

Re: Leigh on Sunday : Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:45 pm  

I still worry about our "grunt" up the middle, last season (and the season before that and before that et al) we just got bullied, against sides with a half decent set of Props.

Re: Leigh on Sunday : Thu Feb 18, 2016 1:52 pm  

They seem to have a fair amount of injuries atm, especially at centre. Possibly 6 or 7 players out!

But they have just recruited Richard Whiting on loan.

Re: Leigh on Sunday : Thu Feb 18, 2016 6:12 pm  

We must cut out the forward passes and sort the kicking out! One kick out on the full and Wes missing from in front doh. Got to learn to be ruthless and take the chances, given the state Leigh are in, if we play to potential and get the breaks we could cause a shock.

Re: Leigh on Sunday : Thu Feb 18, 2016 7:27 pm  

This has got to be the best time to be playing Leigh,new full back,no centres & the half backs not really firing yet.

I'll be surprised if you dont win this game by at least 10 points

Re: Leigh on Sunday : Thu Feb 18, 2016 9:06 pm  

CrusaderPete wrote:

I still worry about our "grunt" up the middle, last season (and the season before that and before that et al) we just got bullied, against sides with a half decent set of Props.

I agree with you, and with Lovegrove gone we've less in the way of experience/ savvy too. Even if we play a mistake free ( relatively speaking) game I think we'll do well to stay within 20-30 points of Leigh

Re: Leigh on Sunday : Thu Feb 18, 2016 9:25 pm  

Rob from Erith wrote:

I agree with you, and with Lovegrove gone we've less in the way of experience/ savvy too. Even if we play a mistake free ( relatively speaking) game I think we'll do well to stay within 20-30 points of Leigh

I'm sure there won't be anything like that in it. We've been fairly unconvincing so far and, although there were signs of improvement last weekend, our backs have been hard hit by injuries. McNally, Tonga, Pala (just left the club) and Armstrong are definitely out, with Worthington and Ridyard doubtful. On the plus side, Brierley will be back, Whiting is available, and our forwards are strong, with only Dixon and Beswick definitely missing.

Re: Leigh on Sunday : Fri Feb 19, 2016 12:05 am  

Alan, what have you seen so far this season have you been bullying the opposition around the park like last year? It's not a criticism, it worked and get results.