Thanks. You've just proved my point in a far more comprehensive manner than I thought possible.

Sorry but that incident was caught on camera from a dozen angles on SKY cameras and others. If even one of them suggested a hint of a gouge then Beswick would have been called up as it is a very serious charge (Grade E, 4-8 matches)

Seems to be a theme from Fev recently. Their players get hit with doping bans and they declare that all the Leigh players are about to get done too. One of their players gets charged with eye gouging and suddenly it was Leigh that were eye gouging 1st, despite no signs of it at all from the extensive TV footage.

Wood could have been caught in they eye by any number of people in that tackle. As pointed out if there had been anything in his claim Beswick would have been summoned as well but I think Bob got SB sufficient didn't he after the whole incident was scrutinised by the committee.

I've seen the BBC footage in slo-mo and there simply is no evidence of Bob Beswick or any other Leigh player gouging Paul Woods eye. The 'evidence' of a mark on his face is meaningless, it could have happened in a multitude of ways.

Paul Wood is facing 2 charges and could get a 5-10 game ban if found guilty on both, Reni Maitua could get 1-2 if found guilty, and Gareth Hock could get between 0 and 1 games if he's found guilty.

The game at Blackpool was rubbish because of all the hugging and dancing the players were doing. However, only the eye gouge crossed the line of acceptable behaviour on a rugby league field. Everything else was run of the mill handbag stuff.

P.S. There's a lot of people on this thread that may be unpleasantly surprised should they ever meet a real thug

Do your trolleys affect the sound?

Proven motive at last

Provide the evidence that Bob did it. A photo of a mark under the eye proves nothing. Several people involved in the tackle, could even have been an accidental fingernail of one of his own.

The powers that be have had a look and the result of this look has been published, who are we to argue? Imagined evidence just keeps the cauldron boiling, it isn't going to make a difference.

OK, we get it, this is getting tedious now, Leigh's coach and players shouldn't be allowed to take advantage of poor refereeing and the RFLs inability to get a grip of discipline because its unfair as the refs all umpire everyone else so perfectly and the RFL comes down on other clubs like a ton of bricks!

Leigh, this season, are better than everyone else in the Championship by a country mile and they are better than at least two teams in SL, get over it!!

In bold summed it up. Rubbish Match !!!

You must be referring to the sold out capacity crowds at Saford & Wakefield we would have to emulate then ?

Leigh v Bradford (Championship) 7,500 ish.
Leigh v Salford (Challenge Cup) 6,500 ish.

Salford & Wakefield getting 2,000 is really attractive isn't it ?

I can foresee "IF" Leigh get into SL...

Leigh v Wigan c11,000+
Leigh v St Helens c9,000+
v Leeds c9,000+
v Wire c9,000/10,000
v Widnes c8,000+

& what are London getting now ? 600 /700 ?

"IF" Leigh go up, then they will deserve their place & bring something to SL, attractive, fast RL with passionate & very noisy fans.

"IF" Bradford go up, then they will deserve their place & be pretty much the same, either way SL will gain from it on the whole.

All this "Dirty Team" drivel is just that.

I ask everyone, if you saw your brother getting mauled, punched, eye gouged, 3 on 1 in a fight, would you just stand there or get stuck in ?
It's no different for this Leigh team, they are a Band of Brothers & would likely fight to the death for each other...

This people - Is Not Netball.

"There are none so blind as those who will not see"

I have this game on DVD & if you want to borrow it let me know, Fev players were shocking.
Oh, one more thing, Kay was not pushed into touched, he grounded the ball carrying arm & the tackle was complete, Fev then dragged him into touch, penalty to Leigh ? No, the weak ref couldn't even get that right.

Some people.

So,because you have the same referee for the game at the weekend you thought you would open up the thread,again,just as the rest of us were hoping for a little respite from Leigh followers.

No doubt you will have to go to war again if the ruck isn't to your liking.

Do you feel an obligation to click on the thread whenever there is an unread message?

He`ll be that McGreen of Sheffield who has a weekly post in the League Express.

Don't forget all the letters from Yorkshire folk in this weeks publication

I thought this thread had died, I looked who has resurrected it after 4 days off and it is a Leigh fan, glutton for punishment or what?

After such a lengthy thread panning Leigh, it might be interesting to note that Featherstone players have been banned for a total of 7 games from this match, whereas Leigh have only got a solitary (and deserved) one game ban for Mr Hock.

Let's keep this thread going...weather was really nice today, wasn't it !

BUMP

No discipline in this thread.

Hiya reffy,

I resurrected the thread because I am a fairly irregular visitor, because I hadn't read all of this thread & because it contains so much vitriol & drivel.
Sometimes you just want to put your own two penneth in & this time I did.

While it's fair to say there are valid arguments on both sides, some of the moronic
bandwagon 'I hate Leigh & their fans drivel' needs shooting down.

Anyway, I was driven to it.

I can't believe anyone "hates" Leigh unless the word "hate" has a whole new meaning. I suspect there are people who are envious of their recent success and those who don't like particular aspects of their approach to the game and, more likely, just masses of folk who are completely indifferent. There is a pretty long continuum between the extremes of Love and Hate and maybe we need to find some different language. My view is that Leigh have done a lot to raise the profile of the Championship and that may have longer term advantages for all Championship clubs regarding finance and sustainability. Part of the consequence of that is that they get mentioned a lot and it can't all be positive.

Calm it down son, we won't be having any of that common sense approach around here.

The Leigh players are thugs, and ask on the Fev banter page, the Leigh fans are thugs too!

While I am not surprised to see the club keeping in with the RFL,I was surprised to see another member of the coaching staff being complimentary about a referee before the next game while pointing out that they won a game after the usual discipline problems associated with Leigh Centurions.

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