Before KO, I wouldn't have put money our win.
I expected a hard game from you lads.

First half you had the game, especially with the score just before HT. A 40 min performance I have seen many times for us away - awful.

YOU let us in in the second half and we played to an average standard.
Hock was a liabilty, Anderson lacked nouse. I suspect you are used to just rolling on and not thinking about consoldiating.

A game you lost, rather than us winning. Good luck for the rest of your games.

Good post.

Second half...Leigh 2 Rovers 30.

2 words sum it all up for you guys today, Game Management. It was a great game for a neutral to watch, and I do not think that you are far off. My observations of watching the few televised Leigh games show, in my opinion, that you have 2 liabilities on the field in Hock and Moi Moi. Brierley also needs to step up when things get tough. Any half decent halfback can shine behind a pack going forwards and quick play the ball. The really good halfs can do it when the chips are down. He went missing in the second half when the pressure was on. This, I feel sure, will come with more experience in tough games, but over the last couple of years he hasn't been under any real pressure on a regular basis. Your toughest game is now out of the way, and so learn from the mistakes in the second half (which I think you are good enough to do quickly) and I can't see any reason why you still can't make SL for next season. Good team to watch, but entertainment won't get you too far when you have regular SL opposition - good game management will. One question I have is that if you don't make SL will you be able to keep the team together for next year or will poachers come picking off the better players? Good luck for the rest of the 8's, and I hope you don't mind me coming on here posting.

I've thought all along that the four superleague teams in the middle 8's this year will be the the four superleague teams next year. Sorry but bar two or three players your team is very average and is not used to playing 80 minutes at superleague level. Also your devil may care gameplan plays right into the hands of higher calibre teams. Championship again for you again next year i'm afraid.

We're not all like some rovers fans on here gloating etc cokey, as our coach said "best team lost" and rovers fans know it, we had an 18-4 half time lead at Salford a few weeks back and lost 18-31 , momentum is hard to stop sometimes. Glad your on TV a few times as I love watching you and see so many parallels from our 2006 season in you.

Watched it live and watched it again and it is even more painful second time round. After saying that one more score would see us in Super League we self destructed, it was bloody awful. Some of the previous posters are so biased in their support they should actally watch the game, they are embarrassing; we got stuffed.
We only had to play a containing game in the second half we were winners but we were e in the second half. Defensively we weren't that bad but offensively we were awful, we could have outscored HKR and won comfortably but our left flack was poor.
Armstrong was dire, Moi Moi is a Championship bully, Hock was back to liability mode and Brierley was absent, the rest did OK but harsh decisions for Rowley & Co. Can still reach SL but today was a missed opportunity.

That's exactly it. They all go on about how they play great rugby but, that's at championship level where you can. We, in 2006, played like the Harlem globetrotters. Scoring points for fun, because you can at that level when your the top dog. If Leigh are promoted. I guarantee that philosophy of throwing the ball anywhere will disappear. Unless you sign the whole Leeds team.

We are a very attractive high scoring SL team on our day. When all are fit. Main problem this season for us has been consistency and injuries.

Still feel you have a half chance of going up, but think the week in, week out intensity step up could be a little to much for you. I'd predict a 5th placed finish, play the million pound game and who knows.... One off game and anythings possible against what will probably be a nervous SL team who will be doubting themselves.

Game management...you gave all you had first half. Ran out of steam and could,nt match the intensity...simples.

I think all the rovers fans have been complementary and realise we got out of jail today

One game out of seven, that's all it is.
I feel there are some desperate comments hoping Leigh aren't actually very good but the form is on the board.
Leigh will still be in the reckoning.

We were crap second half.

Our players know it just as much as we fans do.

Well done HKR.

Well next week Leythers

Maybe thats the way to change in order compete with the top 4 of SL.. Your structure hasn't made a difference in SL to compete with them,so why continue with it?

Thought Leigh were found out today. Several player missing from the HKR semi final team including the inspirational Albert Kelly and of course HKR's captain & most important player Terry Campese.

Yes I know you must get on with it but if Campese & Kelly had been out there....goodness. Million light years of quality better than anything available to Leigh. Even without our 2 most important players it was still 2-30 in the second half.

Before I end I would like to congratulate Gareth Hock & Fui Fui Finished Finished for extracting a final big pay check. Well done fellas.

i'm clearly not a Hull KR fan