on VM's side on this one. It's only trolling if he's on the Leigh site. This is the Fax site and he is only backing up things we have seen today.

If you don't like it, Barty Smith, go and skulk on your own forum.

Consider it done boy.

Great in Attack and if we could catch kick offs we would have won convinvingly. I thought the defence was decent in general play (i.e Not on our try line) and the line speed and hits we put in were both very good. Shame about little mistakes after we scored a try which let them back into it.

Appreciate your comments and am sure the majority are decent, just a shame that none of you were in the North stand (of which we were told by some Leigh fans that we shouldn't even be there cos it was their stand!!). Never come across abuse like that before and found it very upsetting. Oh well, you live and learn!

Did you spot anything untowards from the Leigh side? Were you wearing these during the match?



You haven't posted the truth, you just posted a one-sided opinion of how Fax stole all their points.

I wouldn't presume to be so one-eyed - so here goes..............

We had our best team out there today and Leigh had a few missing so it's going to be difficult to overhaul you lot this year. I thought you battled well and you certainly had the measure of us on the kick-offs. All in allthough i thought we were the better team - just. I'm certainly pleased we won - away from home against a team that mullered us at the Shay so i'm very pleased. I'm still hating the bonus point though ....................

We got enough practice at them!!!

It could have cost us the game. Three or four times we screwed it up.

I hate Mick Nanyn.

He's worse than Woodcock at Sheffield with his conversion build ups.

The kick off was Leigh's best attacking weapon. Shame we gave them so many chances to use it.

Absolutely shocking RACISCM. Can't believe I've been to a RL game this afternoon it was that bad! Just hope the players didn't hear it.

We also got a torrent of abuse as Fax fans - Sheep Shag$$rs; All Yorkshire men Sh$g Sheep etc. And the swearing at us was awful considering there were loads of children about - both Fax and Leigh youngsters.

Didn't meet one nice Leigh fan today, unlike previous years.

They all seemed to be trying to justify that they should still be in this league - last season's gone just move on.

Hope we DON'T meet Leigh again this year if this is how the MAJORITY of their fans behave.

And what a waste of time complaining to the guys in fluorescent jackets just there for the money - I mean Stewards.

I wish we would sort out our defence but the attacking from us today was awesome. The first try was definately forward but we should have passed inside it was the best option! Said needs to stop stupid passes like the one near the end should have just concentrated more he is costing us tries recently


Was a great day out though


Lets now do Dewsbury and set us up nicely for Fev, bring it on!!

Well I must admit that all of this has come as a complete surprise, I was stood in the North and heard nowt of any stewards speaking to people or confrotations or owt

I was near Leyther_Matt and I didn't hear anything said to the stewards near us either. Don't tar us all with the same brush most Leigh fans today went to watch a good game and it was a good game. Don't assume all Leigh fans are like that when it's just a small minority who chose to prat around.

Rico shayed?

quality

Great win today we are a real pleasure to watch in attack.
We kept letting them back into it, its our biggest weakness that we can never close a game down, we know Nanyn the big fat loaf is just a kicking machine so watch for those kick offs, one was perfectly judged and nobody could have stopped it but the others were just sloppiness from us not catching the ball and letting it bounce.
Brannigan and Worrincy were outstanding, what was Stanley Gene doing today him and Said rushing out of the line then either missing the man or catching them high and giving a penatly away, stupid!
The scoreline flattered them really it was a reverse of last week with those 2 late tries, one was just a Ref giving them easy yardage but why did we try scoring before thet when we had that break away and Said passed it to their man?
We need to learn to just shut teams out and play it safe when we have a game won, we could and should have stopped them getting a bonus point today but hey ho it was a good effort all the same, when we ran the ball they could not live with us.
Good turnout from Fax too.

,I can honestly say that I will NEVER stand in the North Stand at the LSV again.
My day was also completely ruined.....COMPLETELY.......I don't care who won,who grounded the ball correctly,who's side the ref was on,etc,etc,its all piffle.
As a mouthy,loud,singing,cheering supporter myself,I never resort to RACIST abuse towards players,personal verbal abuse towards fans and an overall THREATENING behaviour towards everyone.......This is this !st time since returning to Rugby League that I have experienced such a disgraceful display like this,and I've only missed 2 matches in the last 5 years.
If people like that were down at The Shay I wouldn't be there and so wouldn't most of the rest of the supporters.....We would get rid of them....so why don't you.
To put women,children and young rugby supporting folk in the same stand as that pure vileness is a total oversight on behalf of the people in charge.
I,for one,may also be taking this further.
I actually felt like we had lost when I left the stadium,but it was Rugby League that had.
YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE GET RID OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just for the record.
Why weren't we in the south stand?
Or was that because we only have 2 or 3 hundred followers away from home?

I have read these sorts of incidents on this occasion and on other visits to LSV, I have also seen the same type of incidents reported on other clubs websites, therefore why have the Leigh club not acted on this. Is it because the people who have reported these incidents have only done so on an open forum and not direct to the people who should act, the club themselves.

I have to say that I have never heard or been subjected to this kind of behaviour, in fact the Leigh supporters sat around us, whilst being passionate for their own team, were very friendly and accepted that there was errors from both sides that went un-punished and whilst our first try could well have been as a result of a forward pass, this was more than made up for with the Donalan try.

I do urge those of you who were subjected to this vile behaviour to write direct to the Leigh club.

Thanks spanishbob, not all the Leigh fans today were shouting racist things at players. I was stood in the North and didn't hear anything, so it's just a small minority of leigh fans. Don't tar us all with the same brush and on the whole it was a cracking match.

Can I make a guess at a description of the group making s of themselves

Mid to late 40 yr olds ?

nothing of the sort occurred you are obviously living out a fantasy

Well I was sat in the West Stand yesterday and apart from a old fart who must have some history with Beswick, had no problems at all. Spoke to a Leigh couple at half time who were very pleasant and complimented us on our great travelling support.

Not all Leigh fans are like this and we have seen the vocal minority at Fax games cause trouble in the past. Sadly the stewards at the LSV don't look like they could organise a bevvy in a brewery, absolute jobsworths.

In terms of the game, we didn't gift Leigh 18 points by not taking kick offs per se but we did gift them the field position in order for them to take their chances against our worryingly weak defence. The inability to catch the ball from kick off comes down to coaching. When I played, the last session before game day, the selected team ran through kick offs, where to stand and how to deal with differing kick offs. Even without that, in all standards of the game you are coached to stand deep and attack the ball, not stand forward and hurry back in desperation while the ball bounces out.

Regardless, Fax played very well in attack. Nash looks dangerous every time he gets the ball, just needs to cut out his stupid offloads sometimes. Worrincy has stepped up remarkably. If you'd have told me at the start of this year he'd have put a big hit on Nanyn, steal the ball 1on1 and run 80m to score I'd have chuckled. Now he just oozes cofidence and just looks really happy. Beswick was absolutely outstanding yesterday. I'd love to know how many tackles he made because he was absolutely everywhere and took many drives out of our own 20m to get us out of trouble. I just don't think he gets the credit he deserves.

In terms of Leigh I thought they were pretty one dimensional but effective. They missed Wobbie and the other DR players. Donlan's try was a definite try, no doubt about it, the only issue is that he should never have been given the opportunity because of our inability to catch kick offs and poor defence from Goddard (who aside had a good game).

Another aspect that needs to be coached is how to finish games off. At 46-34 we broke upfield and had a great chance to get the drop goal to deny them a bonus point and get ourselves closer to them in the league table. As it transpired we tried to play stupid rugby, threw a stupid pass and they ended up scoring on the hooter.

These aspects put the gloss off what was a good, much deserved and much needed win.

Yup, Head Steward came up the stand at one point and was laughing and joking with them, clearly his mates.

they get for playing some excellent RL

Hopefully see you all again at some time during the season

Ey you have to let him off for that big hand-off he dished out to one of the Leigh players.