Losing 6-24 at half time.

I don't think we've turned up yet

We have and thats the problem and why I am now back home

Leigh 28 Batley 34 you might pinch this one

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Leigh 28 Batley 34

Not a good performance today, i feel Donlan is wasted in the centre. Our defence out wide was shocking.
Going forward we looked clueless at times,i dont think anyone was willing to work off the ball. I thought Jock did ok but we have got to play Durbin in somewhere!!! we looked better when he was on the field.


Why did we have a Halifax player doing all the half time presentations

Halifax player? WTF

Penky

COUGH COUGH Scrum half

That was nothing short of disgraceful. In the first half in particular the team just didn't look as if they could be bothered. You can't keep expecting people to turn up and pay £16-00 to watch that dross. Thank God I didn't buy a season ticket.

Whilst it wasn't a great performance we have to show some patience. The club are trying to promote a youth policy, which most people seem to agree is the correct way forward. With so many young players in the side it only to be expected some inconsistent performances, but we hope in the long term the youth policy will pay off. If we can fix our defence on the RHS then we won't be too far off a winning team. Also booing young players does nothing to help their confidence.

Agree with the Durbin comment.He seemed to add pace to the game.Good player in my opinion.
Hobson got to watch that temper again though.

Leigh didnt even start to play until 20 minutes to the end.POOR

Bout time that pitch had a quality player on it.

our right hand side were rubbish Batley were faster than us and were also cleverer than us I had a sinking feeling when I saw Batley warming up

How did McGilvray go on the wing for batley? He is a Giants youngster on loan to the Bulldogs.

Full credit to Batley, they wanted it more and showed far more ingenuity, guile, strength and pace than we could hope for on that form. We just couldn't cope with them out wide, very impressive performance from the Dogs.

As for Leyth, utter bobbins. Poorly organised defence, the (lack of) quality in the majority of last tackle plays was a joke and the forwards were far too soft down the middle; little wonder than Ridyard, Watson and, once he came on, Durbin had bugger all to build upon.

On the subject of Durbin, can't for the life of me understand why we wait until nearly the hour mark to bring him on, and even then I don't think it was clear whether he should have been at dummy half or Jock; was a good few occasions where they got in each others way in such a situation.

After getting lucky last week, this has got to be a big wake up call.

McGilvary big fast and dangerous can we have him?

he was playing football til a year ago. You can't have him...too many temptations that side of the Pennines!!

Need to start with Durbin....untill he come on we was clueless - best playmaker we have by a long way.
Cant understand why we wait till the hour mark before we bring him on.....if we had brought him on after 20 mins - think we would have won it TBH.

Unless he can do the tackling of three players, I don't think he'd have made too much difference.

Matt look at how much our attack changed when Durbin come on...... we played with a lot moe hunger and passion.............the game was lost down Maden wing cos he couldnt tackle and fell for some stupid dummy passes - he played well once Durbin was directing play.

Thats what C Hill did today. Another outstanding 65 min stint. Thought JT went well and Alstead on his return game was solid. Got to start Durbin instead of Ridyard.

im with you steveo that was a disgrace today,they looked like they had been on the raz all night.i went to sheffield and they escaped with a win there.im saving my £16 from now on.the team we have is useless.chris hill only one with any heart.what does durbin have to do to get more game time.the scrum half is absolutely useless,but so are a lot of the others

That was a disgraceful performance - I don't mean losing, it was the manner in which we played. The only time I saw any fire was in the last 5 minutes, and I think if we could have played for another 10 minutes we'd have won. But overall, they looked lost, and totally lacking in ideas. Shocking!

I feel sorry for Watson and the stick he gets, a few loose passes but he actually took on there line today and scored 2 trys from it, its hard for any half back to play when our forwards are being put on there backs and the play is so slow, i thought today Watson was a lot better than Ridyard

Good riddance then! I did not enjoy today, too many players had off days but to say "I'm not coming back because we were e" is pathetic. The squad that Kelly has decided to go with is young (although his hand may have been forced because of finances), so you are going to get "lots" of games like this one. You need to ask yourself if you are in it for the long haul because this squad won't peak for another couple of years yet.