You cant blame some of the Leigh fans acting like cocks on here really. They must have been really smarting from the hammering we gave them in the 8's so to get one over on us like they did yesterday they must be cock a hoop. Best just to let them enjoy the moment and then see how we go if we make the 8's and then look to catch them up a bit next season.

My comments would echo much of what's been said.
- Fax can rise to play well for the odd game or two, but can't put the performances in week on week on week
- this is no surprise with the squad of players we have who are all limited in ability at the top level but have big hearts, so can- like lots of underdogs- put in the odd special performance.
- full time squads clearly have the long term edge, if they are managed and coached well. The pace of the game yesterday killed us.
- Leigh once again have a squad that could do well in middle eights with some luck - especially if they can play like that every week.

Fax appear to have found a natural level, 15th to 17th best league team, so question now is how does the club become one of the 11th-14th best clubs. We need to develop a Stratergy for this and our BOD need to explain to fans what it is. Otherwise it will be back to shuffling our squad with other championship squads players, in the hope of comming fourth again.

That's better than failure, but can someone at the Club please explain where it's trying to go over the next few years and how it is going to get there. The BOD appear silent and there also looks like no real off field leadership.

Ben Johnson's first try and the chant-we forget that we were here...

otherwise totally forgetable day.

I think we need to put yesterday into perspective a bit. Yes we were poor and gifted Leigh possession and territory. But even without that I think they would have beaten us comfortably. Leigh were on fire yesterday and I don’t think anyone would have lived with them on that performance. But with the squad and calibre of payers they have this shouldn’t be surprising; let’s be honest they have a number of players who shouldn’t be earning the easy money in this league, Mickey Higham and Corey Patterson in a particular. Patterson was class and tore us apart.

If they play at that level in the middle 8’s I think they have a real good chance of making it this time, although the down side for them is that the quality of the SL teams could also be better this time.

Agree with this.Finishing in top 4 this season then adding a couple of players for next year and staying part-time is not the answer.

You definitively wouldn't what Robin all over you <LOL>

I had a good chat with 4 Fax fans who all expected Fax to win yesterday,and ALL of them post on this Forum.

Im not cock a hoop, as I expected to win yesterday, I'm happy though as we apparently beat the BEST pack in this League containing the BEST player in this League,that is what some Fax fans say,didn't really see much of Tangata,he was in Gareth Hock's back pocket most of the game.

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I will put this down to blind faith and loyalty otherwise it must be that they have a lack of knowledge as Leigh have lost one league game all season, not lost a home league game since 2013 and wanted to wrap up the league leaders shield so no way we would have won yesterday that was just daft!

I expected to win too.Thought a combination of how good we had become and the fact that Leigh may have one eye on the 8s would be a factor.Sadly neither was true.

I was one of the 4 and I went with the expectation of us winning. We've been playing well and they haven't hit their straps over the last few weeks. They only just beat the Bulls. Unfortunately we played the worst we have for a long time and they were on fire!

Dave , the Fax fans I spoke to are all very knowledgable in terms of Rugby,your reasoning for expecting a Fax victory were spot on ,we DID only just beat the Bulls the week before , and we're not playing that we'll, which is why even I expected a tougher game.Sometimes a team does play like we did , I remember only around 3 or 4 years ago turning up at the Shay and Fax put about 60 points on us, I left the Shay with a coat over my head, these things happen.
When we next play each other I fully expect a different Fax and a much closer harder game,I felt the Fax forwards never threatened the Leigh line,and Murrell and Moore didn't create much either.I do look forward to seeing you again, as you do have an unbiased opinion,and are not frightened to say what you see,good luck on Sunday ,should be a cracker of a game.