We have that player who was injured pre match!

On that note what happened to barthue

A very workmanlike display from your boys. I always said this game would be tight. We had five of our first choice back division out (McNally, Tonga, Armstrong, Kay and Ridyard) and it showed.

I think we were all left clueless as to how good/bad our teams are, because of an appalling refereeing display from George Stokes. In the first half we conceded a month's supply of penalties, and two yellow cards, on the back of 'team warnings'. The penalties got you where you wanted to be, in terms of territory, and you made us pay, with three well-worked tries. You were twice up by 14 points, but then we scored 18 in five minutes. That probably came partly through the ref evening up the penalty count for constant 'technical' offences - although curiously there were no team warnings or yellow cards. Really, he never allowed the game to flow - to the frustration of both teams. If he officiates like that in SL, he won't last long at that level!

Anyway, well played to your guys and I certainly don't fancy us at yours. Also, well done to your voiciferous band of travelling fans.

George also 'caned' London on penalties in the 2nd half, not a dirty game at all, maybe 2 penalties out of the 40 were for foul play. Close game, not a cracker, but Stokes ruined it in my opinion.
On today's showing you guys will be in the top 4 without a doubt, but for the missed conversions (not that difficult) you would/should have won it.

Thought you guys did well & were the better team for 70 min, it's just for that 10 min we were excellent. You looked very strong in defence and asked questions in attack too. You could well make the top 4. As has been said Stokes was woefully inconsistent, kept giving strings of penalties for things he was fine to let go before & after. Would have been an excellent, close, entertaining game for both sides with a competent ref. Best of luck with the rest of the season.

Gutted. We were excellent.

Agreed. Know how you feel mate. I felt the same when we lost at Batley.

I was guttedlistening, but i actually now feel much better, for 2 main reasons:
i) before the seaon i would have taken this scoreline, i know they were missing a lot of backs, but they have a very strong pack and decent cover. Wes' kicking seems to have gone awry and we could and smaybe should have won, and we had injuries
ii) sheffield and Dewsbury both lost away - this isnt such an easy league.


Next weekend will be an interesting challenge, i hope we get to see Eliab, and hope its dry!

I thought Stokes referred the game very well. 14/16 penalty count speaks for itself, everyone deserved. My question, when does a team warning stop ? Leigh were given a team warning, soon after they continued their antics and Weston was binned, soon after gave another penalty - to me another sin bin, but no.

Its hard to take we conceded 18 in 6mins, but it was at a point Leigh decided to play rugby league, offloads, etc. Up to that point we had contained them. Plus Fui Fui kick off returns (after each try) were devastating, international class, they got a roll on, and we struggled to get our defensive shape sorted.

If you werent there you cant appreciate the shear guts, determination, and most importantly tactical nouse we displayed, and, despite comments above about no attacking threat, played some attractive rugby league.

You should be very proud of your team.

Fair enough, I expected us to get a pasting , seems we were the better side for long periods. That must have been a desperate 6 minutes to watcH! I reckon the players must be kicking themselves at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory! That said, if what I read is true Wes would probably miss!

Sounds promising for the rest of the season. I cant remember the last time I was this happy at a defeat. That my sound weird but if we play like this top 4 should be a cert I guess

Pc plum, when you mentioned the team warning, after the sin bin was the next penalty for the same offence. In theory if it was the team were still on a warning. Team warning ends at refs discretion, if a team has been committing same offence several times over say a 10 min period, you would put them on a warning if they then stop committing that offence over a reasonable period of time then in this case I would say probably a 10 min period you would take them off the warning, obviously taking into account what it was for, if it was for persistent offside on the goal line, then if they have not been defending on the goal line time bounding would be daft, you would want to see a good set or two in the same situation to be convinced they were responding

Sounds very promising. We just need to build on it now.

The league is looking interesting with Batley picking up another excellent win

Well before the kickoff I would have taken 24-20 loss, considering we also did had Barthau out as well, but 10 mins cost us. The key is now next week. For some reason last season we could not win in Cumbria for our lives. As the two Cumbrian teams seem to be the weakest in the League up to now, we have to win away next week.

Just really hope the team is not down owing to the manner of the defeat. Listening on Radio they did really well, and now have to kick on big style next week, and finally get the Cumbria monkey off our backs. Taking Leigh close will mean nothing if we let Workington beat us

Crash

Our second half comeback also coincided with Stokes starting to cane the Broncos, with a big penalty count in Leigh's favour. So suddenly we started to get all the ball, and your guys had to tackle! Also despite the high penalty count against you in the second half, mostly for similar 'technical' offences, there was no team warning. I am at a total loss to explain why we (Leigh) were deemed indisciplined in the first half, when our 'penalties conceded' have been previously low, and then why you were deemed 'indisciplined' in the second half, after appearing almost exemplary in the first half!

My point is that Stokes is wildly inconsistent. Who knows what the result would have been, had he let both teams play? Leigh may have scored more, but so might London. We'll never know unfortunately. Leigh probably didn't deserve to win, on the basis that they were behind until the final ten minutes, but then at Batley, we were never behind until the 79th minute! That's the beauty of RL, and it looks like this season is shaping up to be quite a tight one, in both the Championship and SL. Who knows, one of us may yet be battling with Leeds in the 'Qualifiers'!

Good luck with the rest of your season - well, most of it anyway!!