Betts: "We had a few late changes. Finnigan has been in hospital with his appendix and Pickersgill had to pull out, so we had to juggle."...

Tyrer spent too much time moaning, with his winger Gardner and needs to concentrate on his own game.He will come better, as did some good things and bad.Defence can be improved in training.Grant Gore should play scrumhalf and Coyle an interchange hooker with Netherton.Hecky i thought made alot of yards, and is an asset.I am not worried about our forwards as Frodsham just needs match fitness like Hecky needed last season.We also have Danny Sculthorpe,Gaz Haggerty,Finnigan,Houghton and Pickers to come back playing.I,Anson will also be back playing in a few weeks time.Be patient as we have a better balanced squad this year.

They will consider themselves unlucky to have lost, having dominated for much of the game. Final score flatters Widnes.

Lewis & Nicholls were superb and Widnes struggled to cope with Worth whenever he was on the pitch. In general, they looked very good when they had the ball, not so good in defence. Even when Widnes were struggling a bit, team was still able to go 50+ metres in our six tackles. Toulouse kicking game was excellent - several chips over the top of defence, couple of which came off, a 40-20..
Good discipline from both teams - don't have the stats, but very few penalties. Plenty of errors though.

Nes Frodsham was slow but do you remember everyone slagging Heckenberg in his first few games?
He is a big lad and with match fitness will become good.Do not forget we have Pickers,Houghton,Gaz Haggerty, and Danny Sculthorpe who can play prop. Fax started badly in the Northern Rail cup and became Champions.Toulouse have some good players and will be in the top 8, so not a bad result after all.

I agree and thought their halfbacks where dangerous.Coyle is not a scrumhalf and Gore needs to take his postion in the next game.Thackeray is a running player, and needs a playmaker as his scrumhalf, with a kicking game.

that was frodshams first game for along time he will get better and stronger and fitter.and gardner and tyrer looked like they had a dissagreement over somthing in the 1st half but in the second half they seemed fine i was sat in the south stand and they were talking and shaking hands all frew the game when things went well.emotions run high in tigh games like that

Play poor/average at this stage of the season and you have the makings of a very good team...... thats whats happenin at Leigh at the moment - great moves etc then some very average play.....can only get better.

Exactly Jay - sooner have poor performances now and provide the coaches with the material they need to make improvements rather than hit the wall at the business end of the season.

Shouldn't you change your sig? Look, Widnes failed and Halifax were Champions, as i predicted. Let's move on though eh?

Hope the do was a good one RC and plenty of money was raised... I saw some folk getting out of taxis etc all dressed up as I was driving past the stadium on the way to my do. Very smartly dressed indeed.

It happened at Leigh last season, started like a steam train and was joint top with Fev for 1st half of season undefeated....... lost a game to Fev and was average the rest of season and faded away, Fax started poor and come good when it mattered - thats what its all about.