I have to admit that I don't like this no names on shirts.
With so many new signings it's often that we say who his he?
In fact the only player we could name was Worrancy,
Due to the fact that he wears orange boots.
No disrespect intended but how did his brother get man of the match. It was Beswick by a mile. (Matt Callands country mile)
p.s We knew he was Rob's brother because he too wore orange boots.

I feel a ban coming on.

Sounds a bit sickly that mate. Ice cream is expensive though, especially in a 33cl bottle

Disagree about man of the match. Wouldn't have given it to M.Worrincy or Beswick although both did well. Rob Parker or Ste Maden should have been MOM for me. Probably Parker, he played straight through til the 60th minute and still looked fresh and was driving Fax back when we took him off!

Fax's best was probably number 13, not sure who that was?

I dont know if your players gave 100% or not but you will still be there at the end of the season. I believe Leigh have a very good squad even though they have had troubles (lets hope there behind them now) and the people that think this league will be a two horse race this year will be in for a shock.

Thing is as supporters we always want our team to win maybe it wasnt your day but come the end of the season i dont think you will of lost many games

bring back ross strudwick !!

Very very poor today, actually left early for the first time in years. The whole team bar Retite (Spelling) and Ashall were terrible today, especially the lack of activity from our half-backs. I'd consider giving Casey and Bowman a shot next week just to revive the competition a bit more...

Very impressed with Leigh though, carried on from last season with some solid and clean play today, think they'll do very well this season.

thing is jt, like richie said on the lead post of this thread, a quick start is needed. Any team can't afford to be losing too many in this league. Look at last year. We got tonked at Leigh 1st game and it wasn't until the final game that we finally overtook them (notwithstanding the maths of the points deduction),
Batley, Keighley, Leigh, Sheff etc will all fancy themselves against any team.
Any team only losing "a few" will find themselves scrambling amongst the minor places!!

That was Craig Ashall, Nozzy.

I think squad numbers had it's merits but we wouldn't see much of that in a friendly anyway (although I didn't have much trouble in identifying most of the players on each side).

Thought Sam Hopkins was the best player on the park by a mile.

Can't read too much in to friendlies anyroad but it's certainly encouraging from a Leigh point of view given how Harrison had spoken about how seriously 'Fax were taking this game.

Wondered why they stuck a Flake in my glass

Totally agree Matt.....He`ll be in SL in the next few years.... A big lad with an excellent workrate,defence,offloads and he puts in plenty of miutes for a young`un.

I should think so. You got your colours wrong - Michael's boots were green!! Right about MOM though - he shouldn't have got it. I thought Bibey had a good game, but Beswick is - and always has been - class.

Blooming eck that was a shock I never expected that.
We were totally outplayed in just about all departments especially up front not much go forward and not much in attack either, our kicking game was okay Handforth did his best but he does not vary it enough for me how about a couple of bombs every now and again?
We seemed to wait for them to come to us when we defended yet Leigh came up quickly at us and stopped us gaining any yardage.
WE NEED ANOTHER BIG PROP AND NOW!

Now its was a frienldy do what do we read into it?
A bit of a knock to my confidence as Leigh looked a good 60 or 70% better than us, plus when will Penky ever learn about taking his time to kick to touch when we get a penalty???
Should he kick it anyway?
Only plus was a good effort from Josh Barlow punched above his wait and Rettie did well, plus despite a few niggles our discipline was good considering we got a tonking!
Honeymoon already over for Karl, time to reassess who his first 17 are methinks?