Leigh will struggle if they continue to pick up injuries their squad is light.

They were pretty lucky in that regard last season which helped them.

There are benefits to growing your own talent on the salary cap; plus marquees you can pretty much spend as much as you can afford there can’t you? So it’s not an entirely level playing field…

I’m quite up for this one, early season but we should still be climbing the table.

Just realised, RE thread title it's not Centurions anymore

Big losses Ipape, Asiata and Briscoe. Helps Leeds chances.

Ipape is phenomenal on his day. Looks like Dwyer might be lining up against Ackers?

Briscoe is solid but probably not a huge loss (like he wasn't for us) - Asiata is a bit grubby but good, they might miss him.

Nice interviews with Holroyd and Ruan on the Rhinos media: imagine they will both play again.

Reckon it will be another tough game.

In the main we defended with great resilience v Catalan, who I thought played far too much one man out stuff, I don’t remember Johnstone getting a single pass off good ball.

Reckon we did not play the ball in their 20 until 55th minute, we fought hard and got the win but my wider doubts are around how often the rope a dope stuff can work v a quality side playing well.

Croft, Newman and Handley all very good , hope they can do it again and hope
It’s a dry track.

Bentley’s effort will be a miss but he needs to start playing a lot smarter and stop
Reacting to everything. Old enough now

Sounds like Oledski is close to a return, that will make a big difference if he's fit.

Unless things change the weather is supposedly dry this week. So the pitch should be in reasonably good condition. Hopefully we can complete our first few sets with a 100% completion rate. First 20 minutes against Catalan was a nightmare, if we get plenty of early field position we should win this one.

Id really like to see us come out firing in the first half, we did against KR but on a better pitch we should be able to make more of it, and also please no yellow or red cards!!!!

Agree. In every game so far we've come up with an early error that has handed the opposition the momentum deep in our half. Week one it was kicking it out on the full, week two it was a forward pass, week three it was a drop ball from the kick off with other errors thrown in. In terms of general play we do well in terns of making metres but if we keep handing other teams the ball on the line we'll suffer. Even with Mik back this is 50/50 given they have home advantage.

Keep the faith Clueso, we’re going to win this one too.

I"m the cautious ying to your wildly optimistic yang. Hopefully it balances out as a win.

How is it balancing when I'm right...?

What you mean is "I wish I was a ray of sunshine like you KJ and hope you are right".

I dunno there are plenty of variables of course: Leigh are decent but then so are most sides including the ones we've beaten. I expect us to be better more consistently this year. We will take some losses along the way and all the voodoo dolls will be out immediately: I can feel the tension on the forum as some are waiting for their chance...

Going to be a tough game.
As already said we need to stop making it harder with silly mistakes

We really need to win this one so we aren't going in at two wins from four with Saints up next. We need to start winning more than we lose.