Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 6:30 pm  

Proctor reminds me of the time we signed A Tupou , both had outstanding careers in the NRL but now a shadow of themselves And Atoni would struggle getting a starting spot in the championship. Having said all that I don’t see any replacement making one iota of a difference to a team that has no fire in their bellies longer than the 30 min mark . Special mention must also go to lynne ,boy how his game has gone down hill is nothing short of cataclysmic, as a senior member of our team he should be stepping up to the plate and geeing the team up , instead of walking around like a wet weekend and doing the bare minimum with ball in hand .Oh how we miss Arona and Fifita and dare I say miller , because unfortunately Smith isn’t cutting the mustard in attack and now has a Turnstile defence to add to his CV . All very dispiriting for us fans going forwards , with Wigan and the wires looming , there could possibly be a record score to add to our record nillings if things don’t radically change

Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 6:36 pm  

Pat Bateman wrote:

I’d rather watch us get beat 60-0 with a bunch of academy lads actually playing with passion

Was it 2011 when the team was made up of pretty much rookies in their early 20s and a few old timers who had a season left in them? That team puts this lot to shame.

Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 6:37 pm  

Proctor has zero interest the club. It matters Jack sh*t to him. Final hooter, he came on and talked to a Leigh squad player, then walked off. 20 minutes of crap.
A COMPLETE AND UTTER WASTER.
Atoni, bone idle waster. An embarrassment to himself and the club. More wasted cash.
Langi is a spent force.
Taufua. A slug moves faster. Grim reaper my booty.
Tanginoa. Who, where, why. What’s the point having him, never plays and only good every Easter.
Whitbread. Losing heart rapidly. Sad to see as he’s a trier.
Lino. It’s all on him, Smith doesn’t get a look in, probably because he’s not up to it therefore cut out Lino, job done.
Then there’s the money on Lineham and Gaskell!
So that’s business management is it?

Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 6:38 pm  

Here is my assessment. The team as a whole has no idea how to create and overlap for winger or create a gap for a player to run through. The forwards take the ball standing so are never going to break a tackle. No one is even trying an offload. The defence is OK until they go behind then they give up.Dagger wasn't good enough for KR so he isn't good enough for us. Kershaw just runs sideways so does Lynne. Langi and Tafua try hard but are too slow. Lino is getting no help. Smith is not a superleague halfback. Whitbread and Battye are probably our best forwards. Ashurst Proctor and Pitts need to retire Hoods passing from the play the ball is too slow and Atoni is a complete fraud. He played 10 minutes gave away 2 penalties, dropped the ball and looked like he wasn't interested then got substitued only to return when it was 22-0

Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 6:48 pm  

I like Applegarth as a person (or at least how he comes across). He's clearly a nice bloke and he clearly knows his rugby otherwise he wouldn't have been so highly thought of. But I cannot abide by him piacking Atoni and Proctor over other players like Sam Eseh (or even sending Butler on loan for that matter who also had a better pre-season than those two). We bring a player in on loan and don;t play him (Senior) and we also leave Bowes out (who for me is our liveliest hooker and should at least get on the bench). I can't understand some of the selections but there's also a lack of attacking structures. Isn't that the coaches job? Leigh's structures looked so much better. Only other excuse I can give him is how disrupted the spine has been but don't think Gaskell and Jowitt change much.

Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:08 pm  

Leigh didnt play that well to beat us as soon as they scored our heads went down and game over the second half was merely a training exercise for them apart from lino whitbread kershaw and pitts-who should be made captain straightaway-not just a lack of effort like smiths tackling but no heart unless we get a couple of players in with something to prove like escare or corey norman and play a hooker at hooker ie bowes i cannot see us winning a single match this year weve scored 23 points in 8 games will we score a 100 for the season im almost tempted to see what paddy power has to say on it

Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 7:42 pm  

Alchemist1 wrote:

Leigh didnt play that well to beat us as soon as they scored our heads went down and game over the second half was merely a training exercise for them apart from lino whitbread kershaw and pitts-who should be made captain straightaway-not just a lack of effort like smiths tackling but no heart unless we get a couple of players in with something to prove like escare or corey norman and play a hooker at hooker ie bowes i cannot see us winning a single match this year weve scored 23 points in 8 games will we score a 100 for the season im almost tempted to see what paddy power has to say on it

Thanks for that!

Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:13 pm  

Cokey wrote:

Thanks for that!

It’s true though. You bombed a couple at least with some sloppy execution, the Briscoe pass & an unnecessary obstruction spring to mind. If you’d have been clinical you could have got 50, which speaks volumes to how poor we are because you are a very handy team but you shouldn’t be that much better.

Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:19 pm  

Sacred Cow wrote:

It’s true though. You bombed a couple at least with some sloppy execution, the Briscoe pass & an unnecessary obstruction spring to mind. If you’d have been clinical you could have got 50, which speaks volumes to how poor we are because you are a very handy team but you shouldn’t be that much better.

No point twisting it to make you feel better.

Re: Leigh at Home Sunday : Sun Apr 16, 2023 8:21 pm  

At least they aren’t bringing shame and embarrassment to the Trinity colours because we decided to not use them this season after all what’s special about this one.