Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Thu Jun 07, 2012 11:51 pm  

Match report: http://www.sheffieldeagles.com/index.ph ... Itemid=502

Match report: http://www.sheffieldeagles.com/index.ph ... Itemid=502

Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:05 am  

renniethebear wrote:

i feel the ref nailed leigh early doors.....

That's rubbish, pal. Penalties were 6-6 in the first half and 7-6 Leigh overall. Never more than two difference at any time.

If anyone wants to explain why the penalties reduced by 92% in the second half, I'd be pleased to hear it.

Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Fri Jun 08, 2012 9:08 am  

E.S.O wrote:

Absolutely bang on mate, nail on head.

We must really enjoy tackling the amount of times we kicked on the third tackle tonight, we got it wrong, plain and simple.

As poor as we were second half we have to doth our caps to Leigh because they were superb and would've taken any side in this division to the cleaners.

We'll just have to settle for our customary playoff victory over them!

Yep, give credit to Leigh. I thought Ridyard had (another) cracking game.

Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Fri Jun 08, 2012 10:33 am  

griff1998 wrote:

That's rubbish, pal. Penalties were 6-6 in the first half and 7-6 Leigh overall. Never more than two difference at any time.

If anyone wants to explain why the penalties reduced by 92% in the second half, I'd be pleased to hear it.

He did seem to have a spell where he evened it up a bit - let's be honest, we see that happen countless times during a season where it seems one team is getting all the penalties but then the penalty count ends up pretty even. The lack of penalties in the second half certainly helped the flow of our game but both teams sharpened up a bit around the ruck where I think most of the penalties were coming from.

Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:04 am  

Leyther_Matt wrote:

He did seem to have a spell where he evened it up a bit - let's be honest, we see that happen countless times during a season ......

Yeah, Matt, we do - but that didn't happen last night. 2-0 and 4-2 were the widest margins. I wouldn't say that they were horrendously onesided.

Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:18 am  

griff1998 wrote:

Yeah, Matt, we do - but that didn't happen last night. 2-0 and 4-2 were the widest margins. I wouldn't say that they were horrendously onesided.

Fair enough, will bow to your statistical knowledge! Wouldn't mind a second look at the high shot on McNally early doors though, how did that look on the replay?

Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Fri Jun 08, 2012 11:39 am  

Haven't seen it on the recording yet - looked round his neck from my viewpoint last night, first impact high on his chest and slid up to his chin.

Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:01 pm  

Has anyone seen Mark Aston today as no one saw him or any of his team after the match, all they could hear was the sounds of his moaning, and the scratching of his pen as He wrote to complain to the R.F.L. yet again about anything he could think of

Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Fri Jun 08, 2012 4:21 pm  

I saw him after the match and most of the team. Where were you ? The opticians ?

Re: Official Match Thread - Leigh Away : Sat Jun 09, 2012 8:18 am  

He wasn't upstairs that's for sure