It is the ' thug ' tag that i find the most annoying rich, weare no better or worse than anybody else, as for the arrogance, well that comes from being a country mile better than everybody else, wouldnt you say?

Can't argue with the point about Beaumont... he seems like a proper snide.
But just purely looking at the table... Leigh finished with just one defeat pretty much romping the league.
They defeated two SL sides and ran a third pretty close in a decent league run.

Do they not have some justification for feeling confident going into the middle 8's especially considering how bad Wakey have been and how unpredictable Salford and...**sighs** Widnes have been?

Yes he does, Derek is a one off, i know him quite well, i used to work for his mum 25 years ago, it will be a roller coaster ride and eventually we could fall off, but ther'll be plenty of ups and downs along the way, just what sport is meant to be

Obviously id argue that teams having failed to contain us legally have introduced ' niggle ' to try to put us off our game, something we have done to others in the past , we arent angels and have our share of idiots, i have been critical of some of our coaches tactics in the past

It seems our reputation, and some players reputation comes 1 st before anything else, today i dont really know what Gareth Hock was supposed to do when a player instead of taking a tackle throws himself on the floor? , notforgeting Hock himself had left the field for a busted nose early in the game for an unpunished high shot

It is what it is, a year or two it will be somebody elses turn to be the villans

Littlerich, if Hunslet had the worst disciplinary record in RL, do you think someone would start a thread on the Virtual Terrace ? Would they ****, a lot of folk on here just didn't like Leigh Centurions getting all the media coverage for a championship club...and of course winning nearly every league game.
A lot of the trolls will be at it again next year, because they don't like a 'smalller club' making BIG noises. Now I know how Salford fans felt last couple of years. Personally I do not 'have a dig' at any other clubs on their own forums. Why do some folk on here have an 'orgasm' when Leigh get 'somebody sent off' or lose a game. Proper weird. Think I'll start trolling, who shall I choose ? Think I'll pick Halifax, because they finally managed to beat us, they are 'getting too big for their boots' !!!

Obviously id argue that teams having failed to contain us legally have introduced ' niggle ' to try to put us off our game, something we have done to others in the past , we arent angels and have our share of idiots, i have been critical of some of our coaches tactics in the past

It seems our reputation, and some players reputation comes 1 st before anything else, today i dont really know what Gareth Hock was supposed to do when a player instead of taking a tackle throws himself on the floor? , notforgeting Hock himself had left the field for a busted nose early in the game for an unpunished high shot

It is what it is, a year or two it will be somebody elses turn to be the villans

if you really believe that the SL clubs raised their game to their best against Leigh then i'll have a pint of what you're on.

I think maybe... what he's trying to say is that the SL sides didn't underestimate Leigh as maybe they might have done pre challenge cup fixtures. I think that's fair. I think from what I have seen the SL sides haven't gone at any of these sides with half measures with maybe the exception of Salford against Bradford. Unless Hull KR have and convincingly won. Which might be the case considering what you did at our place.

We all have our idiots ours have been running riot for weeks! Hopefully now the glory supporters will jump off the bandwagon and us loyal sensible supporters won't get tarred with the same brush! Looking forward to next year already we will be back bigger and better

Let's deal with the cup run first
They beat an injury ravaged Salford who lost Dobson and Sau in the first ten minutes of the game. Even then Salford had the game in the bag until BJB gifted Leigh the winning try.

They beat possibly the worst Wakefield team I've ever watched who at the time were in their worst form of the season and also beset by injuries to key players.

They ran Warrington close but we've learned since then that Warrington are imploding this season and are nowhere near their best.

I said before a ball was kicked at the beginning of the season that no Championship club would get promoted unless one of the SL clubs did a London and completely fell apart. Wakefield have done their best to fill that London role but still look too strong for the Championship clubs with only a sublime Bradford performance in the MPG offering any chance of an upset.

Short of a Perfect Storm to create a shock, Promotion via the M8s will be a two, three or even four year learning and strengthening curve for the Championship clubs.

Sadly it will have been deemed a failure and we'll see yet another change of format before then.

Part of the problem for Leigh is the unadulterated -fest by several of the Sky pundits and some pretend journo's on social media; couple that with the unfortunate attitude of some of their more vocal supporters (a small but loud minority) and their chippy coach and Chairman, and you have a perfect storm - every time they slip up, schadenfreude kicks in and people take pleasure in it. That's the way the world works these days - build something up, and you ask for it to be knocked down; I gather the modern parlance is 'haters gonna hate?'

For my part, I never bought the outpourings of orgasmic joy at their revolutionary, never seen before approach to the game; they play a fast, unstructured and at times grubby game that has been very successful against part-time opposition - it was never going to work against decent SL teams who play to a much more rigid, percentage structure and can shrug off the niggle and wind-up tactics, contain them and wear them down. A more experienced coach would have worked that out, but it seems that Paul Rowley believed his own hype and didn't change his approach for a better quality of opposition. I guess they'll make some changes in the off-season and good luck to them - if they can avoid losing their best players to SL teams, they'll be well-placed to continue building.

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