Leigh Centurions have announced their 19 man squad ahead of Thursday’s Kingstone Press Championship Round 7 game against Swinton Lions at LSV (8pm).

Former Australian international centre Willie Tonga is included in the squad and will earn Heritage Number 1411 if he makes his debut.

Loan players Richard Owen, Lewis Charnock and Richard Whiting are available again after missing the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup tie against Workington Town. Liam Hood is unavailable following the terms of his recent move from Swinton.

Issue no6 of the Centurion matchday magazine will be on sale on Thursday, priced at £2.50, packed with all the usual features and photographs.

The Leigh Centurions squad is:
4 Willie Tonga; 5 Liam Kay; 6 Martyn Ridyard; 8 Fuifui Moimoi; 10 Dayne Weston; 11 Harrison Hansen; 13 Cory Paterson; 14 Micky Higham; 16 Reni Maitua; 19 Lewis Foster; 20 Sam Hopkins; 21 Andrew Dixon; 24 Tom Armstrong; 26 Lee Smith; 27 Richard Whiting; 28 Lewis Charnock; 29 Jake Emmitt; 30 Richard Owen; 31 Ben Reynolds.

Willie Tonga considering he has played just one game of rugby in six months , looked sharp and caused Swinton constant problems all night on the edges.

He can only get better as well.

Bit harsh when you had one of your players head butting in the first half and getting away with it.
Ref also decided the forward pass rule was allowed last night and similarly disallowed at least two Swinton try's from the kick through. All in all a good game enjoyable, our boys competed well after doing a full days work and never gave up, really enjoyed the try you lot scored in the second half when the forward burst through at pace ...that was how forwards should take the ball.
No doubt your team will be up in the mix at season end and good luck to all at Leigh.

Thanks Marshy. I hope things work out for Swinton too. We need more 'Lancashire' teams in this league. It's about time you guys broke the losing habit - feel free to do it to any / all of our rivals.

Good luck with the rest of the season. I hope it comes good, if only for John Duffy - one of the really good blokes in RL.

By the way - how refreshing it was to actually see some visiting fans at LSV. I think you brought more than Oldham, London, Workington and Sheffield have, added together!

Need to cut out the technical penalties, maybe Dukes to speak to the ref controller or bring a ref into training to get this nipped in the bud before it becomes an issue.
Second half we either got penalised or put passes down so improvement needed although having so many changes week in week out won't help so hopefully once we get a settled squad we'll see that ironed out.
That said we played some good stuff in the first 40minutes and can take those positives into a Workington match as they will be busting to rough us up and get one over us after our recent cup win and derby loss to Haven today, be a tough encounter Monday so we need to ensure we play with the ball as much as possible.
The Ridyard /Reynolds partnership showed some good signs last night, Ben has clearly blossomed with game time at Dewsbury and I think we are reaping the benefits of that.

Top of the league though so certainly things are on the up.

We are not going to get assistance from refs.Again,did we learn anything from last season? You plan your game based on the team in front of you this week,in the following week you sort the issues,hopefully not to see the same issue again in the following game.

The ref isn't there when the video is reviewed,so why ask for assistance? Surely they can all see the screen and the petty mistakes made.Why we have to keep making excuses for poor professionalism is beyond me.