I wasn't there today *had to make the call, flowers & mothers day or the match* + as Ginger Minger Mick Hucknall sang .... money's too tight to mention.

Anyway, I listened in on MixLR & during the Eagles comeback I did have flashbacks of Odsal last week, thankfully the boys dug deep & from reports showed great team spirit & togetherness which can only be good for when we get near to a fully fit squad & summer pitches.

Roll on the Shay away day ..... I WILL be there.

#BeLeighve

Brilliant display with all our well documented problems at the minute.

As if the backs were not disjointed enough already we find out 5 mins before kick off that Lee Smith has pulled up in the warm up so JP had to move to Fullback and Harper got about 5 minutes warning that he was actually going to be making his Leyth debut!

We had 3 of the backs all making their debut in Harper, Owen and Charnock plus Ridyard playing with broken ribs so we did very well to cope with the Sheffield attack as much as we did. Yere had a blinder and caused us real problems but he will do that to anyone when he is in that sort of form, top player.

Ridyard did superbly well. Our attack is so much better when we have one main man who is calling most of the shots and running most of the plays. Showed some silky skills and some moments of pure class too. His effort leading up to Maitua's try was fantastic. Showed the true heart of a Leyther to stick his hand up and play through the pain barrier when we needed him most. I was worried about risking him but he was amazing today and I am not at all sure we would have won that game without him. Man of the Match for me

Forwards were great, kept winning great field position.... and then letting them off EVERY time with a penalty which was very frustrating. The run of penalties against us in the 2nd half was incredible and we defended set after set successfully for so long. Was really impressed with that and then they finally broke through and ended up scoring 2 in 2 minutes to level

The 2nd half though we must have defended 12 sets on our line and conceded 2. Then when they levelled up we finally got some ball and field position, got down their end twice, 1st won and kicked a penalty then next set scored. Discipline was poor but when we FINALLY got a chance we scored straight away.

Fui Fui was a worthy winner of MoM. Don't know what has happened to him in the off season. He is a different beast to the player we saw last year. He showed glimpses last season but this season he is terrifying the opposition. Absolutely beasted the Sheff forwards when he was on in attack and defence.

Great win in the midst of a lot of adversity. Tough match, very exciting but we definitely deserved the win and were the better team.

To amuse ourselves we had a wager going on, which tackle he would penalise us when we had Sheffield in their 20m area?
He has always been shocking and it makes you wonder how they get recruited, is it simply because we have nobody else?

He's got some bloody cheek on him Mark Aston www.loverugbyleague.com/news_211 ... nalty.html After around 50 minutes the penalty count was 7 - 7. At the end of the game it was 8 - 16 in Sheffields favour. So for the last 30 minutes it was 9 penalties to one in favour of Sheffield... and Aston is genuinely moaning about the 1 penalty we were awarded?! Was a blatant pen anyway. Was all over Paterson for ages and then left his foot in as he was getting up to try and play the ball. It was the 1st time we had touched the ball in ages due to a massive string of penalties in the other direction. Try again next time Aston you moron

He's got some bloody cheek on him Mark Aston www.loverugbyleague.com/news_211 ... nalty.html After around 50 minutes the penalty count was 7 - 7. At the end of the game it was 8 - 16 in Sheffields favour. So for the last 30 minutes it was 9 penalties to one in favour of Sheffield... and Aston is genuinely moaning about the 1 penalty we were awarded?! Was a blatant pen anyway. Was all over Paterson for ages and then left his foot in as he was getting up to try and play the ball. It was the 1st time we had touched the ball in ages due to a massive string of penalties in the other direction. Try again next time Aston you moron

Nothing surprises me with Aston

Well bug ger me wi t'curly end of a Raja's slipper..........
We agree cokey

Will Aston ever stop being a moron before & after Sheffield play us ?

Edited for accuracy

Thought Sheffield looked good going forward but highly suspect defending and that is probably what frustrated Aston as despite the numerous chances to win the game on the back of a very generous consistent penalty count and playing against a side with a huge injury crisis his side failed to break Leigh down to win the game.
Very much a deserved win by Leigh.

Agreed Alan,that last 15 minutes at Bradford was nobody's fault other than our own. After saying that,We can work on that and try to put that right. What you can't do,Is legislate for a barrage of penalties of (which i might had), Is ruining the game at the moment, with the constant whistle blowing. No wonder Bachelors are sponsoring rugby league this year, the refs are blowing the peas out of their whistles.