Yes that comment is a bit of a concern if he meant it.
Maybe he does not like to criticise the team in public which is commendable, but I hope he gives them a right rollicking in private because they deserve it

Only thing Paul Caddick needs to get out of his pocket is 2 x p45s Hethrington is self serving and Smith is delusional.

Mulhearn is ex Leeds academy and Ava ex Leeds too.

He’s not daft but he isn’t the type of coach to throw his players under the bus, that’s just who he is, he could do a powell and critise them but that didn’t really help powell or his team, im not a fan of publicly shaming players

Yep agreed. Bagging your players in public rarely improves morale.

He is right that there were some good aspects but my word that was turgid to watch today.

Maybe some of the fans were singing it when we took the lead at Saints only to come unstuck.
Not sure what Leeds United getting relegated has anything to do with today`s game.
I think the majority of fans know we have been poor but thanks for reminding us.

It’s been obvious since after the first 6 weeks this season that it was going nowhere under Smith. How can you go from the upturn last season to regression with a full pre-season and some recruitment? If things get worse the more time and influence someone has, it’s not a good sign.

I tried repeatedly to point this out, only to be met with “but look at Powell and Warrington”. We can now see how utterly stupid,
misguided, and wrong that was.

Look at Peter Smith at Hull 06-07. Same trajectory.

People keep trying to make this into a long drawn out process as well. “It’ll need until 2030 to sort this out, blah blah”.

Just hire a top coach who makes existing players better and makes good recruitment decisions. It’s amazing how quickly things turn and move forward rapidly simply from having a top coach.

Oh Yeah.

Not a chance I would want Powell at our club.
That ship sailed many years ago and he has done little else to warrant a return.
The only ex coach I would have back is Tony Smith at a push.
Rohan Smith is here for the duration unless he thinks the same as us and is not getting the players he needs and he decides to walk away.
Also delighted Mulhern had a good game yet again.

These are the kind of games as a leigh fan we used to lose, never got out of second gear today, made too many changes (understandably) and looked to be going through the motions attack wise, defensively much improved from against Wigan but not having to defend against French and Field helps.

Overall a forgettable game that leigh did the bare minimum to win.

Beaten by Leeds rejects??.. Have a word with your coaching staff, sounds like the big problem lies there.

Start acting like a big club, Leigh fans. Stop getting uppity when inferior club’s fans make those type of remarks.

Leeds are insignificant to Leigh, you shouldn’t even be on here. Bigger fish to fry.

uppity? I think you've just summed yourself up there Flexy.

This season can't end quick enough.

If we are talking about sacking the coach (yawn) again, maybe we should hire Harry Potter. It would require a wizard to give the spine players the speed, athleticism and individual skill they have blatantly lacked for the last couple of years and more. Given the talent on the two teamsheets it seemed inevitable they would win. Lam and Ipape have been arguably the best half and hooker in the league this year. We just don't have that kind of threat. Newman is the only player we have with ability to regularly split a defence. Until we have two or three of similar ability on the pitch most weeks we going to lose more than we win. If you want to get outraged and sack the coach every time we lose, fair enough, but you are overlooking the obvious - the playing squad is not good enough. That is what needs to change.

Thought Smith's other comment was interesting saying 4 players should not be on the field, meaning injured or ill.
But he had no choice but to play them, was that a dig at Gary due to lack of recruitment.

Whilst I don’t think Smith is the long term answer, sacking him before the end of the season would be pointless (perhaps like us for the rest of the year?).

The thing that leaves me underwhelmed with him is that at not prolonged point during his tenure have we been able to see what he’s trying to do and align that with how the sport should be played to win regularly. Perhaps this is down to the players he has to utilise, but my worry is that he wouldn’t change style with significantly better players and the Goldens would struggle to win most games playing this style.

I’m still just about on the fence with him, but if he doesn’t change the style of play before the end of the year, I’d be looking elsewhere as I wouldn’t be able to trust him with all the cap we have to spend.

It was illness apparently.

Such rapier whit. Well done you, we are all proud of you and we hope this attention fix is enough for now. Come back if your life means you need more and we can engage again.

The problem with that is if there are any recruitment decisions to make a coach who isn't staying on would be making them.

Next game will be interesting (and possibly absolutely rubbish) with us and Warrington battling it out for biggest disappointing teams of 2023.

Very boring and completely rubbish.
Bang in then kick , no chip and chase no early kick no spark at all .
Can’t wait for this season to finish as that was just rubbish.

I was feeling a bit dispondent after the game but having listened to the coaches press conference and player soundbites I feel much more assured that we're heading in the right direction. We can use this 2 week break (again) to freshen up, fix up some things, gets some bodies back and really kick on and that we definitely won't see another 2 losses on the bounce when we get back.

.The performance today was so flat. We never looked capable of winning the game.

The players who are out of contract for next season should not play another game for us, the lack of direction and structure is so evident,

We need to clear the deadwood from the salary cap that Sinfield and Agar left us with. ( Austin, Sezer, Fuzzy, Zane ) and then we can hopefully rebuild.

Next season is what we have to look forward to now, this season is dead and buried.

Ok my take on where we are.

If this was the start of preseason, we have an inexperienced 1,6,9. We would all say give them time to gel, it will come.

The chaos of this week was not the platform for young players to be judged.

Leigh are 2nd in the league , the team showed loads of effort , defended amazingly .

Now is the time to let the young guns grow.


Yes this season has turned out , but let’s use this time well and we could reap some rewards. The

The reality is that LH, CJ, LR and JO are all young, at the start of their path.

I do think the pack did not lay a platform for any real shape, but after the chaos of this week what do you expect