Been solid since he signed but today I thought he played brilliantly. Eager for the ball an made himself hard to put down. Top performance. Individually there were no really poor performances. We just struggled to create anything special as a team. Happy with the win

sorry nozzy cant agree we couldnt break a hole in a soggy rice pudding we have centres who aren't and the half backs couldnt have created a lego puzzle today, terrible performance 3/10 for me, and Whitehaven were as bad, long hard season for both clubs I think.

thought Sam played well today but for me Hobson was Man of Match

Got to agree thought sam was solid, but also agree with Fred very poor oerformance from Leigh a lot of 1 man rugby, looked livelier when durbin came on all the same think the best team lost =, and well done to the haven fans for making some noise

Was there an incident when durbin was subbed in the second half? Someone stood near me said he wasn't too happy being brought off and made his feelings known to NK. I won't say what happened in case it's not true.

We lacked ideas going forward, the defence wasnt brilliant, but a win is a win. And I would rather play badly and win than play well and lose....anyday. But the future looks bright for these lads. All in all Im happy with todays result...and we WILL improve.

Lots of people seemed confused as to why Durbin had gone off. Thought he was playing well.

true just i expected more i did jump up at the end (not very high I dont want our stadium suffering from seismic damage so soon

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Had a chat with Jamie as he came off the field. He has an injured hand and was only supposed to be on for 10mins if needed and boy did we need him. He was ok. We miss his speed round play the ball area. Agree that Sam had a good game and I bet he has a word with our man of the match as he would have been through twice had Adam released an easy pass. Adam was as hard working as ever and deserved his MOM. I dont know what is but there does not seem to be any organisation on the field when Watto and McConnel are together. Both had good games today but we didnt seem to be setup at all. If any team deserved to loose today it was us. How many times did we give the ball back to them ? I have to take my hat off to the lads today though they dragged the s from the brink of defeat to win and that shows character. Well done the Leigh Centurions.
Very happy TV BOY.

Agreed.

I have to totally disagree with you Nozzy. IMO he was one of the poorer players on the pitch and everytime Haven attacked down his side they looked dangerous. He got switched after 10 minutes because two breaks had gone down his side and then they scored their first try as he rushed out the line. However, second half was better from him, he took the ball well from dummy half and made good yards.

I agree,i think they targeted Ridyard aswell.

reay took a lot of presure of our forwards took the ball in and made good yards higson should have put him away for 2 trys thats why higson is a seacond row maiden looked lost on the other wing

one thing nobody can say about our team is we have a lack of desire or effort, because we have them in bucket loads, what we don't have is organisation, or any creativity, but we've known this since the squad has been assembled, our ball retention at times today was poor to say the least, haven to me seemed to make yards easier than us, and looked more dangerous with ball in hand, but today was a cup tie, and one thing in a cup tie you want to do is win, we did that, well done boys for your effort and committment.

Even second rowers can pass the ball. I dont think Adam was that bad in the centre position.

Good post.

As the season progress we will get better with ball in hand but we are in desperate need of a leader. There is nobody who takes control of what happens on the field and at times they look lost.

Sorry
But one natural leader is sticking out like a sore thumb...... James Durbin.

When he is on the pitch, yes.

The problem being he has to be spelled as he gets targetted an awful lot in defence.

Well thats upto the coaching staff to sort out because this lad is head and shoulders above anyone else in giving us go forward and building momentum . Saying that I thought Jock had a good last 15 mins today. Was this because he took the lead over Watson?

Jock is always very, very solid and provides a cool head when it's needed. Durbin will be very effective over the course of the season by coming off the bench but we need Jock on to set a platform and be solid defence which was needed towards the back end of today's game.

Sorry again
I have to disagree.
Jock can do everything you say.
Durbin should be on from the start at scrum half working with Ridyard. Two young lads with fresh ideas instead of some of the hospital balls Watson dishes out consistently !!!!!!!!!!!!

I actually thought that Jock coming back on for Durbin might have been a tactical switch as we appeared to be taking things up the middle a whole lot more late on, and that isn't much of a surprise as 'Haven ripped us to bits out wide at times.

Thought our line was pretty sluggish, both in attack and defence, while we're really lacking a strike player in the centres at the moment.

Must admit, I take back my recent criticism of Hobson as he was awesome today, made some great yards ball-in-hand and worked hard in defence. Granted, he missed a couple of tackles, but you're always likely to miss a couple when you're involved in so many, while he did well to keep calm in the face of some obvious provocation from the 'Haven forwards.

Defence is a 7/10 for today; very solid down the middle but a little weak out wide.

Attack is a 4/10, poor handling, few breaks and a lack of cutting edge at half-back.

Definitely room for improvement, but it's a sign of a decent side with bags of character when we're getting wins like that. Thought we'd won the Challenge Cup when Jock scored near the end, love it.

Does he have a kicking game?

Watson's been there, done that and worn the t-shirt. I agree at times he throws silly passes and is unbelievably slow but he punches above his weight in defence and provides lots of experience.

Sorry dissagree. Durbin should start with Jock coming off the bench. Its pointless having a defence like today and nothing in attack. We need to get the other team worried and our pack moving round the field then bring on Jock. Durbin is wasted sat on the bench. If our sliding defence was a little bit better he could do most of the game. Watto plays better with Jamie too. We were on their line today and wasted an easy chance because there must have been nearly 40 yards between Jock, Ridyard and Watto.

I too thought we played poorly today, but won - possibly undeservedly? The defence was suspect, and our 'attack' was mainly one-man. I also couldn't believe it when Durbin came off - as he had started to give us momentum. However, it looks like he may have been injured. When you consider how many players were missing, then maybe we did do well to win:-

Mort
Alstead
Jamie Smith
Rudd
Morrison
Armitstead
Marsh
Aaron Smith

Most of those would be 'first choice', in anyone's team, wouldn't they?