I have to say that the pass Sam Barlow threw out in that second half which led to one of our tries was pure class .Thought big Sam was outstanding today .

I thought Leigh only played in 3rd gear today and were still more than comfortable. Credit to London for keeping at it but Leigh just too good.

I think the referee has to take responsibility for this. He dictated the pace of the game, he could have made it a far better spectacle for the fans by better game management.

It was a clean game today,lets not get into the realms of what could have been..

All credit to 'Slammin Sam' he has had tonsillitis all week.

A very good win.
I think the opposition slowed the game at every opportunity which was a huge compliment to our team.
Armstrong MOM for me with Brierley a close second for that.
Never actually thought we was in danger and some of the handling in the first half in dire weather (from both teams) was first class.
Ref got sucked into it a little and second half was a stop start affair with lots of technical penalties which didn't help the game become a spectacle but I still enjoyed the win!

Just as a side note that was two full time teams with a part time ref so its hardly the guys fault and something the RFL should look at - has the money filtered through for more full time refs and better training or whatever it is they need to improve with this new structure and is there help available to improve these guys or give them the assistance they deserve?

So how do you suggest they improve these guys? You have to start somewhere in all trades..

I think its safe to say Roby and Hicks will be nailed on , with Thomasson, Leatherbarrow and Stokes vying for the other games.

That will leave the "Big four" refs, Bentham, Child, Thaler and Silverwood doing the S/L

Played 3 of the top teams won 3 games, can't complain about that. Barlow's offloading, as always, was fantastic. London looked like a team good in attack but quite weak in defence, they'll probably end up in some big scored games one way or the other. Think if we'd have gone all out we could have really put London to the sword but with the result never really in much doubt you can't really blame them for not going all out after the tough arm-wrestle of a game at Fax last week. Did love Fui though tackling 2 men at once. One of the biggest positive was the attendance, if we can keep those sorts of numbers up all season things will be looking very good indeed.

Aye, that was brilliant!

FUI!!!

After yesterday no one can say Fui came here for a holiday,the club gave him time off due to the terrible killing of his close relative and he turned up and played his heart out.

Top man

With London arriving without their two starting Props in Slyney and Cordoba plus their biggest forward Riley not in the squad I was expecting Leigh to dominate in the forwards.

London had only three Props in the squad, all club trained 'off the bench replacement players' and under 25 in Wallace, Dollapi and Everett so a faster game would not have suited London, though I saw no specific 'rush' from Leigh either to speed up the game.

However Leigh were a class apart in the first half and destroyed London in the backs, particularly down Ben Helliwell's side with pace and quality passing.

In the second half London had much field better position and I felt they were wasteful within the 20 metre 'red zone' and could and should have been able to get points and close in on Leigh, who I felt looked very fatigued in the second half. It is a great credit to this club that they defended as well as they did.

Off the field the Leigh club is a class act and I would have loved to have stayed on for a beer or two, but alas I live only 10 miles from Dover so it is a fair distance indeed back home.

I'd expect one of Leigh or Bradford to be playing Wakefield in the Million Pound game at the end of the year.

See you at the Hive
Mark

A good summary but Leigh would not have been fatigued second half.

We dropped too much ball imo and we were not at our best in the second half.

Keep supporting your club mark, and enjoy TGG

Yeah, the better team won, though we were much improved from the debacle against Sheffield, Leigh showed us we have some way to go yet.

Results, plus the aquiring of Hock puts you guys firmly in pole-position, see y'awl at the Hive.