How did it happen?

Get well soon Tommy.

Get better soon Tommy - and many thanks for trying lad

Listening to Radio Manchester on my way home, the commentators were discussing the large number of head injuries to Leigh players. They wondered if it was purely coincidental and thought it might be the subject of an RFL inquiry.

Not sure how many there were in total, but one happened to a player wearing a skull cap.

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Myself and several others where thinking the same thing after the match , never seen
so many head injuries to players before like that in the same match

Goulden, Taylor, Maden and Mitchell all suffered head wounds.

When i heard of Tommy 's injury and saw the others from last night i text my friend and said maybe the rfl need to look at their tackling

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Oh and don't forget the three head injuries we had as well. Come on now, it was hard, but never ever got out of hand.

Goulden's head injury came in a double tackle on a Batley player. It was a heck of a tackle, but it looked like Tommy might have collided with a team mate. I did notice the high number of head injuries - on both sides.

It doesn't take much for a witch hunt to start. If there was something wrong with the tackling why wasn't it commented on last night? You can't suddenly do a bandage count and surmise it was Batley''s tackling technique that caused the injuries.

No it didn't, it was done by the head of a Batley player who came away with a bruise to his forehead. Goulden passed the ball and the Batley player ran straight into him - now how his forehead hit Gouldens ear area without their bodies colliding is a mystery I watched it and replayed it frame by frame.

Think it was just Trevor & Jack making a observation that Leigh had copped a few head injurys.
When they asked IM he just more or less shrugged it off as one of those things on a Rugby field.

The number of head injuries could be put down to the very impressive and aggressive defencife display from Batley , but to suggest anything sinister would be daft in the extreme

Hope your fit and well soon Tommy.

I'm not saying one side was dirtier than the other. But when the ref gave a penalty to Leigh when Riddy fell into a tackle and a Batley player hit his head at knee height, then two minutes later Donlan caught one in the nose when running upright and didn't get a penalty. Bizarre!

Nowt malicious from Batley they played a hard game, and knocked us about.
I just put it down to bad luck, and lets not start making excuses, they outplayed us, and hope they win the final personally.