marsh as said he doesnt feel upto playing 1st team rugby at the mo, nanyn had to pull out yesterday with virus

You mean Mcormacks mate nanyn

One thing summed it up to me today.

Castle storms through and we've not go one player within 15 yards of him. I could watch East under 11's next Sunday and there will be kids backing up.

That tells me we've got used to nobody breaking a tackle, and players who should be there stood on the back foot not doing their job.

Or watching from the sideline?

..or playing in Championship One. Ah I've just got it

I have a major bee in my bonnet about that one but I'm going to bite my tongue until I've calmed down.

That absoloutely infuriated me and it was an area in which Gateshead excelled

Its an area in which every well coached side excels

I cant believe Mort was,nt in the side Rowley better have a good reason for not playing our leading points scorer and the one player who backs up
the one player who has made several 70 mtr breaks this season
Mort should be one of the first names on the team sheet i,m baffled
We have some really poor players here at Leigh this season and we need a major clearout i,m gobsmacked that we have gone so far backwards
you can see how the crowds home n away are dwindling with this standard of RL and with the standard of playing staff the support is going to dwindle waayyyyyyyy down thats defo today i spoke with quite a few
long time supporters who said after last week then this disgaceful
display thats it they,ve had enough and are not going again until a major shake up of Leigh Centurions takes place..
So Mr Thomas and fellow directors its up to you lot to get stuck in major style and sort this MESS out because the SUPPORTERS have had enough
and will not put up with the crap we are paying good money to watch

No disrespect to Gateshead, we were beaten by a much better side, but Leigh Miners could have beaten us today.
Im not one to call for the coaches head, but, the team has shown no signs of improvement, quite the opposite in fact. Weve very few ideas going forward, the defence is non-existent, but worst of all, we dont show any spirit, any desire, any fight, any pride.
I dont want to single out any players for criticism, they know who they are. But I will say that Nioky Stanton tried hard, he came inside looking for the ball, and made decent yardage when he did get it. Ian Watson was the only one that showed he had any ideas. I know that hes come in for a lot of criticism, alot of it undeserved, but I dread to think where we would be without him.
What we need to do now is build for the next two seasons, theyre the crucial ones. Forget the playoffs, even if we qualify, we wont get to the final, let alone win it. We need to make sure we dont go down, like it or not, we could quite easily get drawn into a relegation battle. We need to get a good coaching team together, and target the players we need to put us into a position where can make a strong challenge for an SL franchise. If we dont do that NOW, we will have to wait at least 5 years.

will we be here in 5 years

He's been coach for just over a month. Surely he deserves time and a break from the abuse?

He's been on the coaching staff for more than a month...

helloooooo, the club haven't got time in the current climate, regardless of what the franchise system is supposed to do. We can go nowhere from Championship 1 except the Championship, then wait till 2015. My question still stands, will the club be here in 5 years

In a way I agree with you on that. It's not his side that he's assembled and ultimately that is one of the main reasons for our major failings, that side just isn't good enough. However, a responsibility that surely is the coaches is to 'motivate' the players. We seem to show no interest at all unless were playing Widnes which isn't hard to motivate the players.