Fax played a good game certainly the first half.  Douglas is just what we have been missing. Tangata was m.o.m by a country mile.
 Defence wins games so can see that coaches would concentrate on that. Now to try to sharpen the attacking play.


As for the JWH / Joufrett debate i can see why Eastmond has moved them . Woody certainly beefs up defence at half back and sort that  and you will win more than you lose. Neither of them has the same  threat there but still can cause problems.


The enthusiasm must be 100% better than last year and so many of the "old heads" are performing at the top of their game.


Bring on Batley

Just had a chance to watch a bit of the game back and its really nice to see our pack dominating teams after a few years of the boot been on the other foot. We knew getting Douglas and Calcott back would make a huge difference but I thought that was Dixon's best game for us so far and its nice to see an aggresive big man in a Fax shirt after some of the powder puff big men we have seen in the last decade or so.


It can't be underestimated how good a job he has done rejuvinating some of these players and the board have to take a lot of credit from going away from the jobs for the boys mentality. The club is now reaping the rewards for having a fresh and enthusiastic young coach running things.

On a side note.

Even though he wasn’t directly involved this week noticed George Whitby at the game and in the Panthers Facebook picture of young Max the games mascot where he’s sat between him and Charlie Graham with a Panthers top on.


Good of GW to come over and back again on the day from St Helens to be with the lads I thought as it’s not just a short trip around the corner.

As a Leigh fan looking in, aren't Fax the team of the season so far and KE doing a great job or am I missing something ? 


Fax should be getting more credit than they are getting for the start to the season. 

On the field doing really well with the resources available and Eastmond has found / brought a formula that is working which the players have clearly bought into.

Still early days yet and there’s some good sides in the division and as we were at York in the 1875 sooner or later we’ll get turned over in the league and that’s when the character of the team will be tested.


Always have to guard against getting ahead of our self’s, all it takes is a couple of injuries in key positions and no DR that we’re relying on in that scenario being available for a couple of weeks and we’ll struggle to get 18 on the pitch.


Off the field the future of the ground isn’t fully decided and although the statements from the club have been upbeat there’s still the outcome of the HMRC winding up petition to be determined sometime soon as well to keep an eye on before we can feel a bit easier of where we are.

I have had a bit of a problem using this site since its revamp but hopefully sorted now.


As for the game i would pretty much just copy what has already been covered regards both ourselves and Featherstone right now. Full credit to the board for getting Kyle on board despite people like me wanting Lingard as coach and the players too who are so far buying into what Kyle and Jimmy are asking of them. And long may it continue.

Same here, couldn't log in for a while and half of the time I can't see the last, or last couple, of posts on a thread without clicking on the user name and going in through that tab. Its always been awful this site but feels even worse now.

Same as T S and GFB, throws me out of the system, need to log in every time, then cannot always see what is posted, “ teething troubles” or garbage system? 

Yep. Same as everyone else with not being able to see past page 1 posts without clicking the poster’s profile tab and other issues etc.

I would of said something sooner about this site but i haven't even been able to log on.

All the issues mentioned and a few more don't make it a joy to use.

If you click on the 3 lines at the top left next to the Panthers badge and scroll down on FAQ there are some suggestions on the new format.

Seems to be working for me now so looks like admin have been listening and sorted it.