It was Richard Moore that shot out of the line and took the dummy, just like he did against Batley that lead to their second try. I think a few brain fart moments cost us. Why do we charge the ball down, how often to you gain something from it. The 2nd one led to them getting field position for their second try. Why, when we managed to steal the ball back near our own line do we try to an impossible off-load and give it straight back. And a couple of soft penalties on last tackles.

But also a game of fine margins, if Saxton gets his hand to the ball, we are 3 scores up. Mile's gets to the kick through and we go back in front.

And I don't think Johhno actually worked that well at 6/7. We seemed very disorganised down the right hand side, I don't think he steps well on that side and the only decent pass we made down that side is when Moore switched across and put Tangata in. Plus we had less kicking options in open field meaning all the pressure is on Moore (who I thought had another good game).

Good post-agree with it all.

From my view it looked like there was a Leigh player stood in our line that blocked off the inside defender meaning he couldn't cover across and tackle Smith. I'm one of the least biased people you will meet, if it's a genuine try there will be no complaints. My instant initial view of it was, it was obstruction. I maybe completely wrong I guess we will soon see.

Just watched it about ten times, at the play of the ball Leigh use a dummy runner, as the ball passes him he stops, Moore comes out quick of the line to make the tackle but misses, another of your lads comes across but the Leigh player is blocking his path.
Think the ref missed it because the Leigh player stopped and didn't run into anyone.

Maybe we did over achieve last season. The new signings haven't really been up to scratch apart from G Moore who was excellent and wears his heart on his sleeve. Would like Brandon Moore to be given a chance instead of Ryan at hooker. Miles was fantastic at fullback. It was a game of two half's and unfortunately in that first half we didn't post enough points. Leigh are a quality team and that was evident in second half. I thought Moi Moi runs really got you on front foot in second half.

We are not that far off we need to stop giving stupid penalties away on the 4th or 5th tackle for a start its ok blaming players that are not at there best at the mo going forward when we keep teams in there own 30 mtr and give a silly penalty boils me we do it far too often. Lets just get back to basics and the scores will come our way.A nice easy win (hopefully) this weekend then a good 2 points away at Oldham, then hit the straps against Bradford season all changes then UTFAX

Same theme as the other defeats really. As has been mentioned, extremely frustrating when our defence is excellent bar in our own 10/20. The tries they scored were all soft in honesty. Agree on the assessment of players, definitely keep Tangata in the second row so he plays big minutes. I felt desperately sorry for Adam Robinson, tried his best, but so out of his depth against full time opponents it was hard to watch. Jonno needs time to bed in at half back, he was rusty for sure. One thing I disagree with, thought Maneely was excellent to be honest, especially his first spell. When Connor Robinson came on, yes his passing is good, but his game management and options are poor.

anyone fancy bringing back bonus points.

This

I said that about charge downs they just give the opposition another set of six 9 times out of 10 and only benefits you when near their line and hardly ever when you are in your own 20.

We keep on changing the rules in RL, and this one would be an easy one to tweak. Don't reset the tackle count for a charge down. Simple.

Yeah, the Leigh dummy runner blocks off the most direct path to smith which buys Smith half a yard IMHO not intentional but still obstruction in my view. All irrelevant now though.

Another game that's got away from us and we literally could have won every match this season so far and been sitting pretty at the top of the league. A little bit of tweaking and we could easily go on another long winning run. Miles in at FB, what a good return he had, Sharp on't wing and Murrell at LF when fit and we won't go far wrong. Victorian, Fax. Bristol Beer Factory, Independence 4.6 % Mmm!

There has been a lot of talk on here from various people calling for Scott to play at 13, however nobody seems to have considered the extra defensive effort that would be required from him. At the moment, playing at 6, he defends between wing and centre. At 13 he would be 3, maybe 4 players further inside in defensive line. A modern loose forward would be expected to make 30-35 tackles minimum over 80 minutes. The physical effort required from Scott would render him a passenger in attack.
However, with Scott at 13 and Moore + Jonno at HB's at least we have Scott's leadership on the field, which at the moment is a massive factor.