The Smoggies show just why, perhaps, London should have been discarded at Christmas time, a bit of squeaky-bum time for the Loiners!

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Don't rattle the cage Starbug, a period of silence from our dear friend is most welcome and a nice bonus on top of everything else!

I thought it would be a big Leeds win. I thought that because I didn't think Leigh would play as well as they did, and I didn't think Leeds would play as badly as they did.

By saying Leeds played poorly I'm not disrespecting Leigh in any way as part of the reason Leeds were poor was due to Leigh, but it's still a fact that Leeds were poor for most of that game.

There's a few players to come out of that game with some credit, in my opinion:
Hardaker, Hall, Leuluai & Peacock (just), Delaney & both R & S Ward.
Oh and every single Leigh player.

The rest were average to poor in my opinion.

My biggest annoyance is with Kirke & Bailey. I know they're often the centre of fans ire on the Leeds board at the moment and it can be easy to fall into the trap of making them scapegoats, but tonight was a chance to step up and at least show some willing yet I reckon we only got 1 decent run from each of them and Bailey in particular is becoming a liability in defence, especially at marker.
They are 2 senior props now. They need to be stepping up and taking workload off Peacock & Leuluai, especially during periods of the game when it seems like the 2 proper props aren't being quite as effective or making quite the same impact as usual.

I'm not one who likes throwing the young lads in early, but if we're going to have a prop who makes few effective runs and gets stepped around in defence I'd rather it be a young lad learning the game than a senior player who should be doing more.

My most irritating annoyance (other than that rash I got off a very welcoming lady in Amsterdam) is how many kicks we have charged down. Good god Sinfield just stand a few yards further back!

I think we were a little unlucky in the game itself. Our errors came at vital moments just as we were starting to build pressure and I thought we were on the wrong side of some refereeing calls.


But that's not to take anything away from Leigh, they played better than a few SL sides have at Headingley this year, they were superb.

Wow!! I've never known any club having a chip on their shoulder for NOT being in Super League!

Don't get me wrong - it's a one off. Obviously they couldn't repeat that week in week out in SL with that squad but there's a few experts licking their wounds on here today.

Yeah i hold my hands up i thought leeds would pull away a lot more in the 2nd half, but i was cheering for Leigh like most people. You was very close to winning it but for the Sinfield strip and the ball not bouncing up for the winger. well you will certainly have a bigger squad and maybe some more experience but i really like how they have signed players who fell just short of super league at a young age but looked to have developed them and see how they are when there matured, players like Tom Spencer, Sarsfield and Tom armstrong.

I think Leigh will be like Widnes (this season) in Super league, seem to be well coached and have a balanced team that is settled and can play some good rugby.

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Apology accepted

Watched last night well done Leigh, have always rated Rowley.

Little rich is a fax fan but he knows it's only time.........

If they were even one or two times better they'd have won, never mind ten. Fantastic to be so close to the full time professional top level of SL whilst part time. Frightening. I would not have wanted that QF for Wigan last night! In fact I genuinely think Leigh would have beaten most of SL on last night's performance.

I don't think people appreciate the power if momentum in rugby league enough.

People keep going on about full time vs part time or the comparative wage packets of players meaning slaughtering a on the field. Whilst it is a big advantage to have "better" players, the momentum of the "team" itself has a huge influence. I think the 3x8 middle group may surprise a lot of people because of this. Higher paid team on a horrendous losing slump (London for example) vs a team winning most weeks (and in Leigh's case all weeks prior to yesterday) could very easily be a win for the Championship side.

we were appalling, really really bad. Basic skills were terrible. If we play like that against huddersfield next week they will put 40 points on us.

Crowd was appalling though

brilliant, so we could have 4 clubs lose most of their funding, season ticket sales, sponsorship and need to rebuild every year.

Yes. You could also have none. It's up to them to seal their fate. That's sport.