Agree with you Leyther about Hughes. Powell got rid of the Warrington lot for a good reason. Apart from Charnley and Malone, I don't rate the others. Yes, I would get Mason drafted in and, hopefully, Shorrocks back. It's about surviving this season which we should do reasonably well if we can bolster the small squad with solid SL players to offset injuries and suspensions we may pick up. There's a long way to go yet but I think 8th or 9th place finish. In our 7 games we've played mostly top clubs, so they've done extremely well to pick up 3 wins, 2 away from home. Salford have their injury problems so you never know.

Our forwards were well beaten tonight, and the rest is what happens when you're on the back foot on defence and attack.

I think there's only Warrington & Wigan who have really beaten our forwards this season so far. Disappointed with tonight, but not too much.

Hardaker hasn't looked a good fullback since before his drugs ban. Lost a yard of pace and doesn't have the playmaker skills that a modern fullback would ideally have. Better played at centre. Rare for him to have such a poor defensive game though.

I know we were well beaten, but the debatable try from Field and the flukey kick that rebounded nicely for Wiggin, then we had them pinned on there own ten metre line and one offload from King with three on him gets them up field easily. Pierce Paul had Lam wrapped up all night. Go behind Lam or bypass him we have an overlap. Over sixty points conceded against Wiggin and Wire not a good sign. Let’s get some teams lower than us and hopefully pick up more wins. Hopefully the 9000+ crowd turns up next week.

Wigan we’re very good last night, having French and field on the ball so much changed there whole set up, we had no answer o for the speed of either, Wigans line speed was tremendous all night and shut down the edges, ipape was s**te he was playing behind a beaten pack I get that but he has to jump and go and keep the line speed honest, Davies jumped twice and made good yardage, not a game we should be targeting in fairness, plenty of more important games, thought mulhern stood out and played big minutes, Ethan Harvard was a joy to watch, big and great footwork

John Asiata is a super player.

Great event last night. You’ll be fine this year and finish between 6th and 10th comfortably

Disappointing night regarding how we played , credit though to the effort , there was no lack of that on show . Wigan stepped up a few gears and bossed us from start to finish and pin pointed our strengths, Lam GOB and Kai and marked them out of the game. Need more strength as every one knows and I’m sure CC and Derek will address
As for the event , as ever really enjoyed it

Really impressed with Leigh so far this season and Derek is doing one hell of a job making every single game an event hats off to him and a lot of other teams need to follow suit, as for the game Wigan stepped up massively compared to recent weeks and looked really good. leigh probably a little fatigued after there great win over Hull and fitness probably showed towards the end of the game. Good luck for the Rest on the Season.

thought lams summary of the game was right ob was taken out and yellow could have been red did cost us our full back which badly affected us in the end fields try was marginal and the did get bounce of ball 40/20 got 1 try french had a point to prove starting at fb and alarm bells went off each time he got the ball
dont think we looked tired half time stats pretty level disappointing 2nd half hasnt asiotasi played stand off maybe we could try that as a change give him more energy bit more go forward have to be happy with overall start we are still building
ps does field live in leyth sure just seen him in tesco or was it a nightmare

Do you think the world incident was worthy of a red card?

Late but no content to the head or back etc

Being a bit more philosophical about the match and mainly listening to my mates who watch Wigan, I don't think either having a full compliment or being less shattered would have got us a result, those same mates were surprised at just how much Wigan had improved over the first seven games and it just happened to all come together against us.

I'll take a dispiriting and humbling loss to Wigan if it means points elsewhere and staying up and hopefully that is a lot of the players "bad match" out of the way.

How did he end up knocked out cold then

Quite late and very forceful on a defenceless player, could have been red and will get a ban.

to many of these late hits in our game ,once you get rid of the ball you relax.Suspensions for every one would soon stop them

Pies stated game plan was to target certain individuals maybe ob was one.he still looked groggy ht

Can’t disagree with that, however how many pens were there for “late” tackles that were literally a split second after the ball had been released- not sure what a player can do in that situation

Wrap the player up and not just put them on their rear. Most slightly late tackles don’t get penalised if they wrap up the player.

It was clear to see that they pin pointed certain players to stop us playing , it’s all part of the game. Unfortunately sometimes players cross the line and becomes foul play. I remember many years ago a certain Alan Platt absolutely destroyed Leigh at Elland Road and our enforcer at the time , TC, tried his best clean him out.
Think Alan signed for Leigh a few weeks later.

Yes it was a red and if you watch us the OB option creates space for Lam and Asiata on our left. The ball had gone and OB was relaxing when hit late. A couple of calls later and we are behind but more worrying was we had little in attack.
Watching from the West Wigans right defence were 3/4 yards off side most of the game, firstly well done for playing the ref but what was the linesman doing. We have been short of a back row all season and if Bens injury is bad at least we can look overseas

Lol

https://www.totalrl.com/four-wigan-warr ... rds-clash/ Worth 10 minutes in the bin. Absolute disgrace.

https://www.totalrl.com/four-wigan-warr ... rds-clash/ Worth 10 minutes in the bin. Absolute disgrace.

Right call, the outcome was unfortunate but it’s the right call.

The reason, Sep, that NSW is "lol-ing" is that he knows that Wigan players always get off lightly (we can only wonder why

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OB was hit from behind like a train - and it was so late it could only have been a train!

Thank goodness Leigh doesn't have a forked up railway station

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You deserved your win irrespective of your dirty tactics on the night. It's done now, and lessons should be learned from this.

Very measured, Cokey lad. Bongser has stated (in several RL hostelries) that Wigan were both better and deserving of the win - but not by that margin. Have stayed away from the forum for a few days unless too much were to be said (by this party) about Liam Magoo.

Trust you're well, old matey?