"bitter OLD fool"? He comes across to me as a very YOUNG fool as he shows a total lack of maturity with his comments. This is RL, a full contact sport, and if you seriously believe that Dane Manning set out to put Barlow in hospital or that none of your players have never made a tackle in the heat of the moment which went wrong and which they later regretted then you are totally stupid.

read this very interesting www.loverugbyleague.com/news_153 ... thugs.html

read this very interesting www.loverugbyleague.com/news_153 ... thugs.html

As a follow on having looked at the build up and the coaches let's look at the players and both games again.

It has been said that Fax wound Sam Barlow up and got him to bite at the Shay, thing is he had already been wound up to do a job before he came on.

Sam was introduced from the bench during the first half to put some biff and bash into the game and following his coaches instructions his immediate contribution was to give a penalty away.

A number of follow on incidents involving others and him took place on the pitch, including a bit of afters near the half way line with Sam and Dane Manning.

Eventually he got the red card, on leaving the field after he had been sent off he head butted Gareth Potts and had words and a bump with Lee Greenwood who had come onto the pitch with water during the stoppage, on leaving the field he had to be escorted down the tunnel by the match commissioner.

I have no problem with the shrewd coaching that turned the game or even with Sam, it's who he is but if Dane Manning is the scum of Rugby League then by the same scale Sam is right up there with him.

If KH is a disgrace and should be banned from the game then Paul Rowley should be as well.

Anyway we need to look at Sunday, that's what the clubs will be doing.

Some parts of this thread remind me of this little scene from "Blackadder Goes Forth..."

Captain Darling: So you see, Blackadder, Field Marshall Haig is most anxious to eliminate all these German spies.

General Melchett: Filthy hun weasels, fighting their dirty underhand war!

Captain Darling: And fortunately, one of our spies...

General Melchett: Splendid fellows, brave heroes risking life and limb for Blighty!

I stand by every word I said, Manning is a Thug nothing less than that ,not my view alone but a view shared by lots of others on the Leigh Centurions banter page, Manning has previous .does he not get the thug banned for a long time

Whilst I was very hurt and will take ages to even leave the house and recover from your at alifax's comment re me, I can only say to the above post.

Manning needs to put in a big game, if selected for Sunday. It could be his last for a week or two.

Where's Manning from? Remember when we had Ryan MacDonald and a few people would shout out "Release the Cumbrian"!!!! Something on those lines for Manning....

"Release the Barlowmower"!!!!

I was at the Shay for the Northern Rail and like most neutrals supported Leigh.
However I was a little disappointed that their chant for most of the game was "Dirty Yorkshire b'stards"
That was a big chant on Wednesday.
Peewap is now in his bedroom rewriting the chant for future games.
"Dirty Cumbrian b'stards"
"Dirty London b'stards"
"Dirty Welsh b'stards"
Can someone translate that into French for him please.