We can't do any worse than in last sasons middle 8's can we ?

No we can't (theoretically we could ). But we can't sustain this outlay year in year out either, I reckon this season or next we need to reach the holy grail or we need to reel ourselves in - DB can't pump these funds in forever

Sorry, another Canadian recruit

Yep Derek. If you read DBs last report he says that Simon has left the club.

Blimey....must be good money ! How about Charlie Caroli or Salford Frank ? Hopefully they can help us out....

My worry is our backs are truly lacking pace'we still give away too many daft penalties and our defence as I have said before is very poor.

Been the same practically all season but we are still top amazingly.

And one final thing do we look like a full time team ? Answer is obvious.

I think people are over reacting..... Jukesy seems to be a good coach.....

We're top of the league and hVe lost 1 game in the league..... He has gone through more of a rough patch that Rowley ever did with Brierlwy etc....

Let's judge him in the middle 8s (assuming we now get their)

Most of us say we played good rugby for 90% of last season and fell down at the 8's, Who played a big part in last seasons training/coaching sessions last season (i'll give you a clue, he still is involved in training). Earlier this season we were throwing games away at the end of a match now we seem to be saving games at the end of a match, In LCTV interviews Neil identifies the same areas that were not executed as planned and trained for that we all discuss on this mb, i think what i am trying to say is that to me the evidence is there that Neil is qualified and has the experience with this Leigh team to coach us to success. What i don't try and deny is that it just isn't coming together yet and as worried as i am i'm not worried about our coach or his methods. Have other teams improved, is it playing Leigh that gets a team to raise it's game or does our team think it doesn't have to play all out for 80 to get the win, i don't know there could be so many factors that are contributing to our inability to stay switched on for the full 80 i just don't think it's as simple as change coach.

Blimey Mook, your spelling is bonkers ! How many pints have you had ?

Last week AJ bailed us out with some stunning defensive efforts.

Today I think Riddy bailed us out with some flawless goal kicking and a shrewd drop goal. Had a good game in general play too. MoM for me.

We were so so bad today. Don't think any team in history has made as many knock ons as we did this afternoon. We dropped absolutely everything! The conditions were greasy but Batley managed to hold onto it far better than we did!

Feel lucky to have got away with the points today. Defence was just awful.

Batley were terrific IMO. Keegan Hirst had a top game....as always! Dom Brambani absolutely murdered us... as always!

Riddy, Hansen, Acton, Whiting and Hoppy stand out as our best today.

Still of the opinion that we must be the DUMBEST team in the league. AJ throwing a suicide pass out on the 1st tackle in front of the posts was one of the stupidest things I have ever witnessed!

We are top of the league and picking up the points but performances are far from convincing...

I am just hoping we have a complete reverse to last season. Play poor during regular season, then hit our straps in middle 8's. Also please bring reynolds back, also how much salary cap did we have sat in the stands today, a fair chunk i'd guess.

I agree with all of what Nozzy has written. Early in the season we gave the backs the benefit of the doubt due to injuries etc., but quite simply apart from Riddy and Ben Reynolds none have had stand out games and there is a distinct lack of pace. It is the performances of the forwards that have won us the games and would think most other teams do not look forward to coming up against them.

We also have to get used to other teams raising their game against us - and I hope I am not being paranoid - but it seems that when ever a championship team is going to play us - a SL team finds players to loan/dual reg to our opposition.

I predicted a very tight game yesterday - and there will be very few games where there is a big points margin - as yesterday's games illustrated.

At this moment in time I cannot see any championship team having an impact in the middle 8's - but we are top of the league and can only hope we improve in the second half of the season.

I think our problems are summed up perfectly by a Batley fan on their board.

The team sheet frightened him to death but we didn't look like a team and lacked pace.

Over to you Neil, anyone who is not giving 100% to the team ethos should not be in the team.

It was a close game but it certainly wasn't tight.

Still here pal, SL next year and hopefully a wembley appearance by the end of 2017....no guarantees though..

Enjoy your Rugby League i do !!