Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Sun Jan 26, 2025 8:51 pm  

as none of us have seen any of the new boys play full games how can we know
we do know it takes time to gel a top class half back would help as would some home games early is it only us has this handicap
we did say would go back for condon once hes fit
surely pene has more to offer trout will be fitter and claim his place the others are mainly young men hopefully we have picked the right characters and they will go on to make themselves known as amone and odonnell did

Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:08 pm  

satanicmills wrote:

as none of us have seen any of the new boys play full games how can we know
we do know it takes time to gel a top class half back would help as would some home games early is it only us has this handicap
we did say would go back for condon once hes fit
surely pene has more to offer trout will be fitter and claim his place the others are mainly young men hopefully we have picked the right characters and they will go on to make themselves known as amone and odonnell did

Agree that we need a quality halfback, and i really do hope we do get one sooner rather than later, I hope what we go with doesn't affect our execution play like it did last year at times like Lammy pointed out more than once. However, we don't have a quota spot atm for Condon or any quota spot, but if we can offload Ben Nak, we can look at bringing in a top quality half. After saying that, Lammy must feel we're in a better place this season with the squad that we have now than we had last year, especially due to the disruption we had with the S&C late on just before our warm weather training in Lanzarote. Looks like we will have to go with what we have for now, and i will go for that for now. Still half glass full though.

Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Sun Jan 26, 2025 10:30 pm  

satanicmills wrote:

as none of us have seen any of the new boys play full games how can we know
we do know it takes time to gel a top class half back would help as would some home games early is it only us has this handicap
we did say would go back for condon once hes fit
surely pene has more to offer trout will be fitter and claim his place the others are mainly young men hopefully we have picked the right characters and they will go on to make themselves known as amone and odonnell did

Absolutely right. None of us know but that's the beauty of having an opinion and I respect anyone here who holds a different opinion to my own.

At the end of the day we all support the same club and we sometimes watch the same things but come to different conclusions. Long may that continue.

Speculation as to what is going to happen is all part of the fun of being a fan.

Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Sun Jan 26, 2025 11:07 pm  

I'm amazed we haven't got a quality goal-kicker as some of the tight results will be decided by goal-kicking. I assume Macintosh and Gaz will be the goal-kickers, unless 1 of the new lads is proficient in that task. However, it's been reported Macintosh has picked up an injury in training. I'm sure it will be sorted eventually. Lam and Chester know what they're doing.

Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Mon Jan 27, 2025 4:49 pm  

Reports that Huddersfield are in talks with Jacob Miller for the 2025 season. Just goes to show the lack of quality half backs available at this moment in time - I'm happy we're not going down a similar route of taking the dregs on offer. O'Brien and McNamara are good enough options to start the season with hopefully something to add as we progress.

Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Tue Jan 28, 2025 4:49 pm  

https://www.leighjournal.co.uk/sport/24 ... -leopards/ "Lam also hasn’t given up hope of son Lachlan extending his stay at Leigh Sports Village beyond the end of the coming new season. Speaking at the club’s pre-season media day, Lam said: “We are one of only two or three clubs who have space on the cap and potentially a quota spot if we need to." Interesting language from Lammy Snr.

https://www.leighjournal.co.uk/sport/24 ... -leopards/ "Lam also hasn’t given up hope of son Lachlan extending his stay at Leigh Sports Village beyond the end of the coming new season. Speaking at the club’s pre-season media day, Lam said: “We are one of only two or three clubs who have space on the cap and potentially a quota spot if we need to." Interesting language from Lammy Snr.

Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Tue Jan 28, 2025 9:55 pm  

Septimius Severus wrote:

https://www.leighjournal.co.uk/sport/24878129.plenty-still-come-lachlan-lam-leigh-leopards/

"Lam also hasn’t given up hope of son Lachlan extending his stay at Leigh Sports Village beyond the end of the coming new season.

Speaking at the club’s pre-season media day, Lam said: “We are one of only two or three clubs who have space on the cap and potentially a quota spot if we need to."

Interesting language from Lammy Snr.

“Potentially a quota spot” presume that is related to big Ben but seems a strange situation, using that logic surely any other club could offload a contracted quota player to make room for another

Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Wed Jan 29, 2025 9:00 am  

ColD wrote:

“Potentially a quota spot” presume that is related to big Ben but seems a strange situation, using that logic surely any other club could offload a contracted quota player to make room for another

Guessing other clubs won't have a quota player that they are already looking to move on. Seen a suggestion on here that he triggered an extra year on his contract with his number of appearances last year. Which if is the case means that Lam was mistaken in continually giving him 5-10 min appearances before he got injured last season.

Overall, we need Armstrong, Niu and Liu to have good seasons. If they do, we should make the 6 again. If any of them struggle to settle, then it will be a difficult season.

Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Wed Jan 29, 2025 1:49 pm  

Isaac Liu was used sparingly last season 30 or 40 minutes a game. He does a lot of tackling but looks ponderous even when running out before kick off. Loads of experience in big games. Will help the younger players with his experience.

Niu looks suspect in defence. Hopefully, the move to Leigh will do him good.

Armstrong is a class act. He can catch pigeons. Can only get better and better. Needs Lam or Gaz kicking over top of defence for Armstrong to run onto. Like Svabic used to do for Turley.

Re: 2025 Leigh Leopards : Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:05 pm  

When I knew we had signed Liu and Nue, I watched them closely. Liu only played two ten minute spots and was very quiet in games, and that was all season, so very little game time. Nue played very little nrl, came on as sub a couple of times. He played well in nsw cup, but looked overweight when I did see him. Hopefully a full pre season training will get him where he should be. I am a little nervous of these two if I’m honest. Time will tell. As for Armstrong, if we get the tactics right and play to this guys strengths, then he will be amazing. Can’t wait for the season to start.