I agree with you. I've never rated McNally's defence but, having witnessed the last few games, it doesn't appear to be any worse than Brown's. (if we plugged some of the leaks in front of them, they would both look better!) For me, McNally times his incursions into the line, much better than Brown and has more pace. We need to find some attacking prowess for the 8's and that's why I would find room for both McNally and Hampshire in the team.

two questions that need to be answered

Has any player improved under his coaching
Has the team improved this season

No to both for me P45

Neil Jukes has one objective only this season - To ensure Leigh are still a Super League club next year.

Leigh were always going to have to achieve this though the Super League Qualifiers. If anyone thought differently then I am sorry you are deluded.

I see after the first heavy defeat inflicted on Leigh by a Super League team other than Castleford, the disgruntled ex Leigh officials are now busy sharpening the knives.

I do think everyone bar a deluded few knew this , but its the way they sre playing & the idiotic decisions that are being made that most are peed off with

It's not helped with our injuries and not having any youngsters to call on we are in desperate need of a academy but if we go down the funds will be spent on getting straight back up. We got to stick with jukes till end of season not going to get someone decent to fill his boots now so there just no point

If we go down no amount of funds will get us back up

I'd also say no to both. Not all Jukes' fault, I think the players available to him simply aren't as good (Dixon, Moimoi and Maitua out, Stewart, Green and Vea in. Worthington and Armstrong out but only Crooks brought in) But some of the selections made has been astoundingly bad, and he never inspires any confidence that he can turn form around.

I hear a lot about how much we're competing, but lets be honest, how many games have we lost, where we even looked like we could win.

Only Catalans and Leeds I can think of, but even then you knew we had a mistake in us.

Charlie we should respect the opinion's of all the posters on this Forum. That is their opinion and whether we agree with it or not, that is what makes the Forum interesting


You are quite right I do rate McNally highly and I do believe he has too much talent to be excluded from our team! Hampshire too is talented and never gives anything less than 100% when he plays which, is not always apparent from some of our players


I sincerely hope we have the ammunition to help us secure our Super League place as relegation is unthinkable!
What we have seen in this League is that any team, whether top or bottom, can be beaten and sometimes even thrashed!
I have thoroughly enjoyed being back amongst the top teams and, beating Saints, Wire, Wigan and Hull in our first season back is not to be taken lightly. We have got to regroup now as Club and ensure we succeed in retaining our position in SL and, that includes us Supporters too

Wakey away, Salford away, Salford at Magic if Higson hadnt had a brain fart.

Except he did. So, going into the last 20 minutes at Magic, we all knew we'd lose.

Salford away was at the time where scoring more than 6 points meant you had enough against us. Did we look like scoring a second try against them?

Wakey away was an absolute abomination of a performance in the second half.

My point was, we might not be getting thrashings, but plenty of teams have been beating us comfortably.

We lost the close games due to dicipline and giving team 14 to 20 points start you can't afford do it in this division