I agree with much of what has been said but believe we could and should have been level at half time. We missed two sitters by making the wrong decisions that on any other day we would have scored. We are regularly going in to "panic mode" as pressure to chase a score builds.
I think Leigh scored all of their first half tries off the back of extra sets gained from penalties. Credit to them - dumb play by us. It might have helped if the ref had been consistent - he seemed to ignore like for like offences in the second half, but thats the game, not an excuse. Robbie Paul still has class but he does throw a lot of very flat passes some of which (from my viewpoint) looked forward.
Some of our players were still working their socks off right up to the whistle, but I'm sorry to say that a few let their heads drop. We are going to have to fight for every inch and every point, missed bonus points will come back to haunt us.
Overall, Leigh worked harder and deserved the win, we are not up to speed with this division yet. The question is can we get up to speed and if we do will it be too late?
The after match speeches are too late and many of the fans had gone. To his credit, Gary Fawcet circulated around the bar talking to fans and said he would try to correct this. It looks like he is genuinely open to suggestions and ideas, unlike our last rather rotund chairman who just listened to himself.
We will have to do much better to survive in this division.
