Just watching the Leigh v Rochdale game and I'm particularly impressed with the two players on loan from St Helens; Danny Richardson and James Bentley.

Another Championship cracker awaits.

Richardson has performed very well, the last couple of games, after a couple of 'average' performances. He finally seems to have got over the 'sulk' of being left out by saints, and is now playing with a smile on his face. It's only a matter of time, before he is back at Saints, long term.

Our best D/C has been Luke Douglas - a model of consistency and professionalism.

Like you say, it should be a cracker.

I suppose mid table in a 14 team league could be 6th to 8th. And 6th isn't exactly far away from 5th



So, yeah, mid table is what I personally expect (and would be happy with) but if we get a bit of roll on, and win a run of games, then we could end up in the Top 5 quite easily.

I think it will be tight league, with teams beating each other. Once you take out Toronto and Toulouse, then there's a bunch of teams who seem on a pretty similar level, and we are one of them.

Mmm, James Bentley. That name rings a bell, wasn't he one of our juniors who left to join a Super League team a few short years ago.

This is definitely a must win for us. We need to start dominating teams and putting in a full 80 minute performance. The effort shown at Widnes proves that we can compete and we need to start showing some consistency in both attack and defence

We're certainly not scoring much. Aren't we about third last in terms of points scored?

Fourth last. Batley, Barrow & Rochdale have scored less. Rochdale have played 2 less games, but on average they'd still be below.

This is the thing with a competitive championship. There's few teams that you can cut loose against and hone your attack. No disrespect to West Wales but those games were training with contact. That said, I look at our side and there's a lot more points in them than their showing at the moment. Settled halfbacks would obviously help immeasurably.

ex Bradford Bull/retired James Laithwaite trained with Leigh Centurions today....

It's sounding like Lilley is doubtful again according to the T&A.

Not having a settled halfback pairing is what has hampered our attack, we've had more combinations than a deck of cards. That's mainly been down to injury.

Absolutely, and sadly it isn't looking much better.

I'm hopeful the Lilley story in the T&A is just the opposite of last week where JK said all along he was hopeful he'd play but, of course, didn't, presumably to keep Widnes in two minds. So let's hope he's just keeping Leigh guessing, but that this time he will....