We have a hobby which half the time we don't enjoy because of the stress and anxiety it causes. Strange isn't it?

it's often said that professional sports are in the entertainment business but its a strange paradox that the customers will often return for more even when theyre unhappy with the product. Compare that with a stage performance, the cinema or a musical concert where one bad experience is often enough to turn the customer off.

Russell got us out of jail today, we'd gone in the second half, but Russell turned it with 3 or 4 scoots that got field position from within our own 20.

That's an astonishing view point on today's game. ..... matty Russell won it



He has no idea in defence. ...(and Hiku isn't great either Btw.)

But we won that game because the Leigh fullback dropped a Kevin brown high kick and Chris Hill scored in the following set. That got us level.
Then a Kevin Brown 40 20 got us downtown and a penalty in that next set saw the fans clamour to take the two. .....which we did. ....

Pathetic all round.

This game highlighted why Dec Patton gets stick. ......totally and absolutely anonymous. .....

But we are a shambles of a team and despite Tony Smith saying we don't want to be in the qualifiers again. .....with this set of players and a couple of new faces but the same coaching Set up.....we'll be down here again next season.

Agreed biscuit, i don't know how people can see Russell as the saviour. For Leigh's first he flew out of the line, completely misread it and conceded a try on his wing. This isn't the first time he's done this. So he made a few yards against a struggling Leigh side. Fact is, he won't make that many yard's against a good team but he will still have pis s poor defence, hence why we are in the position we are in.

I'll also ask if anyone has ever seen anything good come from the Jack Hughes cut in as we wing the ball right? As soon as he catches and not so much steps, but arcs inside, all the play is shut down and the momentum lost.

As someone said before, we won this game through mistakes, not because Russell's scoot game tore Leigh apart.

We won because Leigh had some unkind errors, not exactly forced errors. The stuff from speculative kicks because we have zero idea how to break them down with ball in had.
We won against the play 2 weeks running and that's all I can take from it. I just wish we could forfeit the remaining games and pee off this next year....and I don't want to see a frigging reserve team friendly at Xmas either. I've had enough mediocrity.

A disappointing game despite Leigh's best efforts, as I thought they played the better rugby for large chunks of the game, which is probably not that difficult. I wasn't too happy with Gidley playing for and getting the penalty passing into a prone opponent desperate stuff indeed.

The game, like the season is best forgotten as quickly as possible

I don't like that either! Bizarrely, you then got the penalty when our dummy half deliberately passed the ball into your defender, who was about 5 yards behind the ptb!

There is probably a logical explanation for that inconsistency, but I've not fathomed it yet!

And you never will probably only Homer Simpson knows what goes on in a referees head.

Fortunately I have forgotten all about yesterdays game. Mrs Winslade said I made a trip to the hypnotist yesterday and had it erased from my mind before it could do any lasting damage. Did anybody win the crossbar challenge ?

I was level with the play the ball when the Leigh lad passed it into Gidley. I thought the ref was right to award us a penalty, even with my primrose tinted glasses off. When Wire got the pen, the defender from Leigh was still in the ruck area and Gidley hit him with the ball from about 2 ft. When Gidley was hit, I watched the Leigh scrum half turn around and look for him and then motioned to take the pass. Gidley was about 8 feet directly behind the play ball with his hands up indicating he was not in play. He was not interfering with any runners nor was in the way of a sideways pass from the ruck. Ref was correct, and would have been so if this was the other way round and we had tried it on.

Maybe somebody could clear something up for me , about 5 minutes from the end Wire knocked on about 30 yards out from the sticks in front of us , it appeared to me that a Wire player then kicked the ball back towards his own players , one of whom then dropped on it

If the ball goes forward and is the touched by a colleague isn't it offside and a penalty ?

Or was it a Leigh player who kicked it ?