I think mentally we were done in after piling on 20 minutes of pressure and coming away with precisely cack all. Not often that happens and it socked a Pacquiao punch to the lads from which they couldn't recover. The exact opposite effect was felt by the Leigh team. After absorbing so much pressure they go up the field and score a try. The rest is history.

Everyone's lost a game now. No biggie. Park it and move on.

I much preferred the Calland style of open Rugby with backs running onto the ball from deep and keeping the ball alive even in wet conditions. Just my opinion - you have yours - and I think you described it as awful ..............which it was.

Awful.....
But....
The league is marathon and i'd say tonight we hit the wall, and it was a bad mile.



p.s what price tonight a Worrincy break from nothing or a Sam Barlow offload, i'd say tonight will do us good in respect of certain players, and maybe KH will have seen something valuable about the group.

Just to clarify, it was just one game tonight wasn't it? One bad game and all of a sudden our attacks apparently terrible? Jeez...

Its crazy how one game changes opinions so massively. Just read on the Leigh forum that Beswick is a better hooker than Penky yet a couple of weeks back Beswick was never a hooker and should be played at loose forward every day of the week. Its a funny old game

EXACTLY.

I haven't seen the wise comments and forsight from Early Bath on here between the 12th February and tonight.

Courage of his convictions obviously not with him during that period.

Beswick is total quality I was gutted when we lost him.

He totall bossed from AHB tonight, many palys he fixed 3 or 4 fax defenders before off loading, effortless.

he can play 6,7,13 and 9 but agree that 9 is where he's most effective, awesome defender as well.

Look back on your forum from a few weeks back and you will see how many leythers were saying beswick is never a 9 and should be played at 13. If i was on the laptop i would go back and copy and paste all the comments for you to see. Beswick always played best at 9 for fax.

Any idiot can make a post. The biggest debate was playing Duffy at 7. I cringed tonight when I heard the team but he had a blinder in the conditions until his injury, in steps Brierley and he takes advantage of the tiring defence.
To accomodate Duffy and Nicho it means moving Beswick to 13 but in todays game he is not a week in week out 13. Very suprised how your lads gave up tonight, but that defence was the best I have ever seen from a Leigh side for many years.
Remember we only had 2 subs for 50 mins.

Yeah that was the biggest concern for me, once you scored early in the second half our heads dropped straight away, like someone said earlier i think it was psycological after you kept us out so well in the first 20. Young Brierley looks like a talent. I was suprised how well duffy did at 7 cos he always looked more effective coming off the bench at hooker.

I am a leigh fan mate. thackery Is poor and a 1 trick pony. You must have better than him?

Couldn't make the game (working). Watched it when I got home. First 20 to 25 minutes was all Fax but came away with nothing despite all the pressure and forced dropouts. After that Fax were absolutely rubbish and I watched the entire second half on fast forward. Only the second time I've ever done that, the other one was away at York last year.

Beswick made Duffy look good.

I am shocked I really am as after that first spell of pressure against a defence that has not been known to defend well (look at the scores against Leigh when they have played the better teams this season) we fell apart, I agree it gave them some confidence that they had held us out and they looked better with the ball in hand than we did scoring off their second attack and nearly off their first! They used the whole field while we didn't we were one dimensional with too much one man stuff again, we even used Jim Gannon as try line buster, really??? Wrong man he aint big enough he is better from further running at pace onto the ball as he showed twice tonight making good breaks.
I have had question marks over our half backs all season as Handforth is steady away (I like the guy he is Mr Reliable) but he solely relies on his kicking game and rarely makes a line break or puts a man in for a try by a pass its 90% kicks he gets us tries from and good field position, which means on a night like tonight we needed Thackeray to perform and sadly yet aagin he was a no show, one near try scoring effort apart.
But it was just one of those nights we failed to get the ball away for two of their SIX tries, yer six I never thought we would concede so many at home this season. This against a decent but not world beating team like Leigh, when we finally decided to play by throwing the ball out wide we scored twice and nearly a third time.
Now this is a big test for us as we need to see what reaction the lads give next week, also have some players played themselves out of the team like Tyrer, Thackeray and maybe Fieldhouse who all did very little tonight?
Or will Karl show faith to let them redeem themselves???
Blimey even the normally superstar Dane Manning was a bit out of sorts he got cleaned up a few times.
My only gripe was the kneck high tackling going on which the Ref allowed, especially by Leigh, ouch they must hurt.