I agree with you there Harry. I guess some of that was down to the high expectations at the start, but this season has been a bitterly disappointing one for me too!

Had Jukes been sacked (as he truly should have been) at the end of last season for not achieving the Worlds lowest target ever set by Mr Beaumont of winning the MPG then we would be celebrating our return to SL by now !

There are dozens of ' ifs ' that had they occurred we'd be somewhere else , probably better than we currently are , and plenty that would be worse

Not for me, we had a pretty strong squad out v Batley and were taken to the cleaners. There was a poll on here on one point when Rowley left asking which is the next coach for Leigh.

I was shot down when Jukes got the job and told to give him 10 games. Paul Cooke arrived and suddenly Jukes is a hero. We got promoted. Cookey leaves and we end up with KC. The rest is history.

No point blaming one fella,when all including Purtill was involved.

I'm sorry but u have to blame juksey and Cunningham because they were the ones that made the decisions,yes purtill and ando are on the coaching staff but they didn't have say on who came or who went and juksey changed the way we played as soon as Cunningham came in because he used to play attacking rugby but suddenly after 2 years in charge we started to play 5 drives and a kick and became a very boring team to watch

Quite right Atomic, everything you put in this post I would gladly echo, Purtill is not the man for the job for me, in this weeks match report he keeps moaning about attitude and how bad it is, is tgat not part of a coaches job to be a good psychologist as well as a tactician? Well he has prompted my attitude to give Dewsbury and Featherstone a miss.

Given our and the players current situation , I'm amazed we've done as well as we have over the last 6 games , maybe Kieron is just being too proffessional in expecting these players to be 100% , their and our future is essentially in ' flux ' ATM , ( like that word )

I was pleasantly surprised at how this group performed in their first three home games of the Shield. A hastily arranged group came together exceptionally well - many of them playing in strange positions beside fellow strangers. Since then, we have dropped off and, on Sunday, came up against a committed, skilful team, who beat us fairly convincingly - simple as that.

In reality, in my opinion, we have no 'right' to expect anything from this group of players. All I ask is that they give everything they can - and I think they have been doing that.

We will be travelling to Dewsbury and Featherstone - more in hope than expectation - as it's still 'our' team, whoever is wearing the shirt!

As for Kieron, well he was the guy who turned around that dreadful start, and came within a couple of points of getting us into second place - so surely, he must have something going for him?

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Atomic , I respect all your posts as I do most on the Forum,fans input is vital as is every opinion, even if you disagree.Again it's been reported that the Staff don't know where there future lies,I presume you mean Coaching Staff?Hopefully that will be sorted by DB or the New Owners coming in.

My suggestions on playing Staff are just my own views,on what I feel we need, again though, I'm no coach,it's going to be a bit of a hard Winter at the LSV ,and I can't see us getting much joy out of our next 2 games, I really do hope the team prove me wrong.

Alan I think KP is a good Coach, as you pointed out he came extremely close to getting us in the top 4,the damage was done at the start of the season,every skilled man needs decent tools to do his job, KP had them during the season and the results were there however now the Quality of players in the squad is not up to that standard and the results are showing.

We beat Sheff twice,and Barrow quite well, but struggled to beat Rochdale,beat a poor Swinton side on the day,and lost at Fev who had 14 men,not exactly setting the house on fire, which is why I felt Batley would beat us.On Sunday we travel to Dews which is never an easy place to go, and I think we will struggle,the same as the Fev game in 2 weeks.

Success and failure are a fine line a kick , a try, even a Refs decision could have made our season so different, I still have nightmares of the Barrow away and Toulouse at home games,how did we lose them?

And not forgetting Toronto at Summer Bash.

Add 'Capacitor' & build it, we could time travel back to Huddesfield at home 2016 !