Good Doctor , he deffo wagged his finger ,and what is all that waving of his fingers about after scoring Sheffs first try? Still i think it will be a close game ,but a Leigh win is a cert.

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Don't know about it being a cert Ian, think like you say it will be a close game.

If there is no Wood and Brown and keeping much of last weeks team I fear 50 points against us with us being luck to get a couple of interceptions!

Duo doubtful for Eagles


HALF-BACKS Kyle Wood and Simon Brown look set to miss Sheffield Eagles trip to Leigh Centurions at the weekend.


It is a major selection headache for coach Mark Aston with a place in the knockout stages of the Northern Rail Cup just about guaranteed for the winner of Sunday’s game.

“We will go with what we have available on the day.” said Aston. “We’ll have to look and see who’s fit – I’m not sure Simon will be fit. Kyle has a dead leg and we’ve got to check on him.

“The team won’t be too much different from last weekend because we haven’t got many options.”

Wood, on loan from Huddersfield Giants, was injured in the draw with Whitehaven and Brown is struggling to recover from a groin strain.

Hallam student and English Universities international Pat Smith is likely to get the call-up at scrum-half with loose-forward Dane McDonald continuing his stand-in role at stand-off.

Facing them at Leigh on Sunday (kick-off 3pm) could be the experienced pairing of former Kiwi star Robbie Hunter-Paul and Mick Govin.

It is a crucial game for both teams with, at the half-way point in the group stage, Leigh unbeaten and Eagles having recorded a win and a draw from their opening matches.

I suppose we're due that combination, we've not had the same half-back pairing yet all season

You're confusing Eagles with the Wednesday.

No, that's tomorrow. I feel like I've got a ticket to watch my cat get kicked to death.

The team in the red and white hoops will win. Trust me.

How's the cat?

Certainly not over-confident griff. I've still got vivid memories of two games against you lot, last season!

Even worse after that shower of sh*te today. What an absolute waste of a Sunday afternoon, defence was embarassing, take nothing away from Leigh, they were excellent, but we did ourselves no favours. The only highlights were three or four huge hits by Menzie and an excellent individual effort from Jamie Cottle close to their line to pick up our solitary try. Hope Robbie Paul is ok, never nice to see someone get stretchered off.

I'm not sure where we go from here, and I don't like to single players out but we CANNOT persist with Dane McDonald at stand-off for ANY longer. We'd be better off playing with twelve men, picked up a couple of great assists today...shame they were for Leigh tries.