Thought the lads played very well,showed great team work and commitment

I think the crowd baying at the ref was misplaced,what crimes did he infact commit?

If people sit and enjoy the game instead of screaming like banshees at tackles the opposition do they would properly go home without a banging head



On the marketing front ,what exactly did we do? as I missed it?

At the moment it is very very expensive for a family of 4 to attend on a spur of the moment thing,and thats the area we need to pay attenion too really.

Well after a fairly sluggish start we got to grips and scored to equalise inside twenty minutes. Alstead IMO deserved the red card and I feared the worst. This Eagles side can score points and have proved that today. The ref's decisions at times were bizarre to say the least but calling him a banker made things worse for us with the consecutive penalties awarded to the Eagles. When in the second half we conceded tries to bring the score to 24-20 I thought it was lost. 12 men against an Eagles side that can score points is a big ask of our team. However, our true mettle came through and we deservedly got a win in what can only be described as a game that we had to dig deep to record a win against the odds!

Is 1878 the official attendance?

Looked to me that it was a bit better than that, although anything less than 2500 with the performances this team are giving is dissapointing.

I would guess that at about 50 Sheffield supporters which has probably been about the average away support at the LSV in the league this season.

Good summary by Plonk and a few of the ref's decisions looked odd but he was nearer to the play than me.

What I did not like however was the leniency he allowed at the play the ball.

Sheffield looked good out wide and had some fast backs so our win was all the more creditable imo with us having to move our stand off to the wing for 50 minutes.

All in all our lads want to win and it showed. The fans got behind the side which was good to hear and re the crowd I thought it was a lot more than our last game at the LSV but reported to be a lot lower which surprised me and infact a mate said to me they got the first digit wrong. Ah well.

The HT entertainment was great too. Glad they don't play for us.

North Stand was much busier for the Batley game Frank, has to be said. Disappointing crowd but to be honest I expected nowt less given the downpour at exactly the time that a lot of people will start heading to the ground. But let's take the positive that there were 1,800 bloody passionate supporters there, made a ton more noise than the 18,000 at Wiggin on Friday, that's for sure.

It sort of has been used before, from my memory. Does anyone remember a game at Salford, a few years ago, when Andy Coley nearly removed Alan Hadroft's ear (almost literally) from his head, with a swinging arm, after Hadcroft had passed the ball?

In exonerating Coley, the RFL wrote to Leigh asking the coaching staff to change Hadcroft's running style! (tucking his head under his arm, presumably!)

the crowd figure looked about right from where I was

the crowd figure was correct this aint a conspiracy guys

My thoughts exactly , how many perhaps decided to stay in the pub rather than set off for the ground ? , as for the overall attendances and the reasons why ? reccession , a sense of having nothing to play for , so many other ways to be entertained , a general lack of enthusiasm to make an effort

The answer ? , well there is no easy one , no one single thing you can do that will result in a full stadium , only hard work , limitless determination to succeed , a sum of money to spend and a will to achieve what many will see as impossible

Does anyone know why the ref gave them a penalty when the Leigh player got up to play the ball with a Sheffield player sat on his head

Was a bizzare decision that one

Was it Tom Crompton??