Agreed Snots

No complaints from me tonight. One team bursting with confidence a stronger pack, wilier halves, better options from the bench outclassed a team struggling for confidence that possibly tried to rush some players back too early.
Mid season blip from us but we'll get better and stronger and we'll meet our season objectives of reaching the playoffs. I promise!!!!

Have you got a certain ex-coach on dual contract?

The response I was hoping for.

Thank you sir.

Don't lie! You have very low self esteem, and are unsure of how others will percieve you. Goodness knows why since this is just a messageboard and few of us will know each other personally.

I thought Leigh had a very good game plan. Safe and sure in their own half and then expansive in our half. All you have to do against us is drive it to somewhere up to the 20 metre line and then get it wide and the players / structure just collapses. Its just not good enough that we make 2 mistakes (1 Thacks kicks it out on the full and 2 Doran Penalty for a ball steal) and the resulting possesion gives Leigh a 12-0 head start. You can pretty much predict now that the 1st chance an opposition team has to start a set in our half, the resulting possession will result in a try. Even given our appalling start, I felt we were going ok and building a bit of pressure. Well that was until a poor pass from Webbo to Thacks and guess what? We knock on and the resulting possession to Leigh leads to another try. 3 mistakes = 3 tries. Ford's knock on after we score? Try again = 4 mistakes 4 tries. We'd be some side without these mistakes wouldn't we?

Our defence is simply not good enough to cope with so many errors. I know we should be able to cope with a side having possession in our half but, we certainly shouldn't be inviting pressure when we know our defence is so poor. Most of the errors that lead to tries weren't even forced errors - it was simply our poor play and players playing to nowhere near to the standard they are capable of.

Going forward we weren't much better were we? 1 man rugby into a bigger pack was pretty dumb. I was only saying the other day about how important Webbo is to us - you wouldn't have thought so tonight. Mind you, I can't make my mind up as to whether Webbo wasn't playing well or was it just a total lack or options around him? Either way we looked clueless in attack for a lot of the game.

So where does that leave us? A game against Batley, a week off and then Barrow in the NRC. Stll plenty of time to turn things around but as each week passes, we are getting more and more desperate and were fast running out of chances. If I had to choose between the NRC and a good league finish, I'd take the league, but the way we're playing at the minute, a Blackpool appearance would be a welcome distraction away from the depressing league performances

I obviously don't see Widnes every week, but your pack looks very lightweight. Is this where your injuries are? Also, Webster was awful tonight, this could be due to the pack losing the armwrestle, but he looked a shadow of himself tonight.

Yep the pack that looked good preseason has been dented by injuries... Haggerty, Pickersgil, Allen and Smith currently absent. Jordan James only seemed to appear for one spell last night which put a greater burden on thing.

As for Webster. If your talking about his former days at KR he is a shadow. However he's not gone bad for us but seemed to suffer with the collective confidence sap that we seem to be suffering from right now.

I don't think you should lose faith, I think you will be int' mix by the playoffs.

To be honest, I'd be surprised if anyone is losing faith after that game. Believe it or not I think there were a few promising signs in that game. We started off badly but our defence improved after the very shaky opening period. We were actually tackling around the legs last night and to an extent slowing the ptb down a bit better.

If we can cut out the mistakes as V4E has mentioned above we will improve dramtically. That and get a few more players back obviously. We will deffo be there or there abouts come the end of the season.

Cullen or Mcormack ??

I'll take the latter thankyou very much

Agree with Vikingman, absolute garbage last night. Have watched the under 16's and under 18's recently and they play far more expansive rugby,and put the first team to shame with their enthusiasm.

Leigh's line speed around the ptb totally shut your forwards down. They do it to everyone if you let them, it doesn't take a genius to work out that you need to move the ball quicker and run wider at their weaker, slower moving flanks. The fitness at Leigh is very good and is the reason for their league position, as it was for Barrow last year, however you can only be so fit and the Leigh pack needs to be dragged around the pitch as much as possible to reduce its effectiveness and create room for your own strike players.

Hmmm, perhaps I should have posted this before the match, if Cullen had read it things might have been different...