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

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.

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?

I wouldn't worry too much tbh.

I think your backs are pretty good especially at wing and centres. You are lacking props.

Your team has pace but today Fax's handling was shocking.

I would like to know what have you done to Worrincy in the closed season. Thats not the same bloke. Where have his galloping runs gone. He looked like a man demoralised. Surely a few dropped balls has not got to him. There will be nothing wrong with the Fax team this year and as everyone says it really was just a pre season game where no one really wants to get injured. But you need the big wing man bouncing again and you really do need some grunt up front. All the best Fax. Oh and one more thing. Thanks for Bob, he's going to be a star this season.

Not a lot that Handforth could do when playing behind a dominated pack, I think it was just a case of getting the kicks away and any field position gained was a bit of a bonus, especially as you had quite a poor completion rate throughout (as did we at times, in fairness).

Think you're definitely short of a forward or two, I really don't see Aizue having the same impact this season given the reduction in interchanges, particularly as last season he seemed to be having shorter and shorter stints on the field.

Fax 'bombed' a few tries today. Not too many 'great tries' today, it's not like we were awesome, but still scored 44 points - a comfortable win for Leigh.....but it was only a friendly.