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A very BAD day at the Office today these things happen , you can't blame Rowls though ,he wasn't the one slinging out them wild passes,the future is very bright thought I was told of 5 signings for next season,not rumours apparently folk we have signed,so I'm happy and im sure most Leythers will be,what time does the Ticket Office open ,I want to order my Season Ticket NOW.Charlie knows. icon_thumb.gif

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And to think, Some of your fans like Atomic were predicting finishing top. Back down to earth with a bump.

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We did a decade without a play off win until last year when it didn't matter as the job had been done. Maybe we do not know how to play play off RL when it matters

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Quote: maurice "We did a decade without a play off win until last year when it didn't matter as the job had been done. Maybe we do not know how to play play off RL when it matters'"


Bad excuse that.

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he has a point though. Leigh always seem to struggle in end of season play offs with no obvious reason for it. But always seem to get up for cup finals

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Quote: thefaxfanman "he has a point though. Leigh always seem to struggle in end of season play offs with no obvious reason for it. But always seem to get up for cup finals'"


In that case,we better make the £million game and treat it like a cup final.

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Haven't posted for a while but in my opinion, which i have said in the past (look at my past posts) that PR hasn't got what it takes to take us to SL he is a very good championship coach but not SL, full time players against part time players should win every time with no excuses.
Do we want championship rugby or SL? with PR as coach i can only see championship rugby

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If any team missed as many tackles or didn't complete as many sets whilst coming up a good well organised side they would lose.
Leigh are no different.
Missing Goulden and Barlow through some of these play off games costs us as the tackles they get through isn't picked up by the others.
Tbh we look like we've run out of steam a little but the boys need to have a good look in the mirror as far too many not doing basic stuff (that you don't need to be a full time pro to do).
Higson Leighs MOM before being seemingly flattened as he scored a try (Just as a separate point , if a Fax player cops a ban for this surely its of no benefit to Leigh infact its a hindrance as Fax now play Wakey and Bradford and any weakening of the Fax squad doesn't help our cause so it would be Leigh that lose out on all counts!).

Today Reminded me of the year we got promoted to SL and when we turned up at Fax and underperformed right across the board and was blown away - the outcome from that debacle was a promotion, lets not throw the baby out with the bath water just yet!

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We both need to win our last 2 games to have a chance to get into the "million pound" game. IF that happened (unlikely!), then it could well come down to points difference between 4th, 5th and 6th. Fax made a mess of it with their game against the Eagles...

Exciting though, and far better than the closed (and bolted) door that we've had for so many years!

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Genuine question. The Leigh fans were "booing" quite vociferously at half-time, but I I couldn't quite work out why? The ref's decisions seemed to be a little strange at times, but from what I saw he was equally bad for both teams? What was that about (easy answer is regarding performance, but I didn't feel it was that?).

There were a couple of "on report" incidents, and it could have got out of hand (credit to both teams), but generally played in a tough, uncompromising, but not unsportsmanlike fashion?

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Is McNally carrying an injury?
The only time I saw him run with the ball was for a 20m restart.
Every other time he received the ball it was immediately passed to another player to run with.
Just one example of the difference between the teams yesterday. Fax wanted it and Leigh 'expected' it. That made a big difference to the outcome of the game.

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Quote: charlie caroli "A very BAD day at the Office today these things happen , you can't blame Rowls though ,he wasn't the one slinging out them wild passes,the future is very bright thought I was told of 5 signings for next season,not rumours apparently folk we have signed,so I'm happy and im sure most Leythers will be,what time does the Ticket Office open ,I want to order my Season Ticket NOW.Charlie knows.

But at least 2 of those hinge on you making the Super League. Hansen and Patterson won't play in The Championship. icon_wink.gif icon_wink.gif

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I think criticism of our coach is unfair. Yesterday our pack contained a hooker 4 prop forwards and one regular second row.Haggerty was suspended' Hopkins Barlow Sarsfield and Goulden not available.

Four props could not match the pace of the Fax pack and lets be honest they are not used to passing a lot of balls to other players. The consequence of playing four props was that due to their lack of pace we kept leaving gaps in our defensive line.

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That was a truly dreadful performance, and so disappointing, especially given the opportunity presented by Bradford and Wakefield's demise earlier in the weekend.

I know 'Fax played well, and all credit to them for that, but we looked utterly lacking in energy, desire, skill and even pace. True, we did briefly threaten for 10-15 minutes at the start of the second half, but that was only because 'Fax were starved of possession for that spell. As soon as they got the ball back, it became 'business as usual'.

It would seem that, yet again, we have had an outstanding season, but completely 'bottled it' in the play-offs. I'm afraid that, on the evidence of four of these 'Qualifier' games, we have players who just can't hack it at this level.

Whilst we can still mathematically get into 5th place, we are now reliant on others doing us favours. If 'Fax maintain yesterday's form, they can beat both Wakefield and Bradford. However, if they do that, and even if we somehow win our last two games, 'Fax could finish above us too!

That's the third really uncomfortable game 'Fax have given us, this season. Once again, I would stress that I believe them to be a very good, honest team, but the question needs to be asked how a 'part-time' team can reduce a 'full-time' team to the disjointed rabble we were yesterday.

One truly disappointed Leyther! icon_sad.gif

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Quote: DuaneDibbley "And to think, Some of your fans like Atomic were predicting finishing top. Back down to earth with a bump.'"



The rabid optimists like Atomic were only a small majority, most of us were realists despite the excellent results leading up to the qualifiers. The target of most fans was fifth place with fourth place bonus. As someone mentioned previously, some of the players have played too many games and are spent forces, you can be mentally weary as well as physically. The annoying thing throughout the season was the poor discipline born of arrogance, unfortunately that attitude filters down from the very top.

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