We used to have a stand off who could kick a bit. Now what was his name?

Yeah but he was one of Rowleys Alan. Cant expect Jukes to take him on. Send him to the rivals again to come back and haunt us

One game in and a heavy loss,should we be worried?No,plenty of time to sort it out,I wonder is Jukesy the Coach in name only?Should we be blaming KC?I really think we need to give Mortimer more responserbility as he should be the Organiser in the team,Reynolds just do it for me, Morty at 7, Hutch at 6, Baptiste at 9,on Sunday McCrone took on our line giving Brierley plenty of room to attack us ,Morty can do the McCrone job.
We seemed obsessed with crab movements of which Reynolds is a Master,trouble being we can't make breaks,let's use the speed of Bergal,and Dawson,no disrespect to Batley, Barrow and such like but we should run them ragged in the next 2 weeks,and get rid of the same old, same old tag.

Reynolds is just not good enough, plain and simple.

I dont know what hold he has, but he should be nowhere near the team.

Even the interception he threw to Key was 2 yards forward !!

Anyway, revenge next time ? I thought Toronto was pretty average to be fair and nothing special. Us on the other hand just gave up thinking we was going to cake walk it ! Got what we deserved !

It will be interesting to see how we respond.

Well, having backed Reynolds from "the off", these "shockers" disappointed me


1 When in the first half 10m from the line, when he kicked the ball dead, a class stand off would have seen Higson had already turned his back on play, and should have feigned to kick, and would have scored.

2 The kick that led to Corey's try was from someone not concentrating, just cruising.

3 He could have scored in the 2nd half with more conviction, but threw a crazy pass into touch.

4 Going to "clean out" Brierley was like going back to the 1970's


5 The pass that led to the last interception try was one of the worst I have EVER seen.

Has anyone seen or heard Jukeseys match summary yet. Cos I certainly aint. Very poor

Reynolds is not good enough and he wasn't last season neither, the club seemed contempt on getting all of the Rowley team out of the club. I'm not saying Ridyard is super league quality but in my opinion his overall kicking game and passing game is better than Reynolds. In saying this though Reynolds wasn't the only player to have a stinker and some players need to take a good look at themselves after that game. I thought Mason ran hard and Peter got some good offloads away but other than that I didn't see that many positives. If I was a championship coach I would look to pin Leigh into their 10 with kicks as we seem to have absolutely no pace to go the full length. Some players unfortunately I didn't even notice them on the field.

Really big improvements needed to mount any challenge for super league. If improvements aren't happening then when does Derek make the decision? When is too late?

Have you looked on the clubs website - pretty sure there was a match report there with his comments either Sunday night of at the latest Monday morning

Only these living-in-the-past Yorkshire teams seem to want an organiser, with excellent kicking skills.

Looked on Lctv nothing. Looked on website said Dereks thoughts before game. But nothing else. Will look again

Looked on Lctv nothing. Looked on website said Dereks thoughts before game. But nothing else. Will look again

It's in the match report Steve.

He reckons that ex players always play well on their return. I would dispute that, because I have witnessed some pretty anonymous returns from ex-Leythers. (e.g. Brierley for Huddersfield) Surely, it's more about what we did/didn't do?

We massively let ourselves down,” admitted Jukes. “We expected a lot of their guys to try and play their best game which you always do against your former club. And that’s what they did.

“But we stopped playing after about 15 minutes and got caught up too much in the emotional stuff.

“We didn’t maintain the intensity and it became slow and scruffy which played into their hands.”

From Leigh Journal now club site

Thanks Alan