Well, Fax must be absolutely kicking themselves. They wont get a better chance than that to turn us over. Our discipline was poor, the amount of dropped ball was ridiculous, the attack wasn't anywhere near what we've come to expect and the defence wasn't at its best either. Our kicking game was poor (improved when Ben Reynolds came on for Riddy) and we just generally played nowhere near good enough. Fax had much more possession and in much better territory. Their pack didn't live up to the hype but they didn't need to as we just piggy backed them down the field time after time with pens and errors.

Good job Fax looked clueless in attack as we gave them more than enough opportunities in good position.

Tough game, nasty in the 2nd half and we will be picking up another couple of bans probably.

Didn't need to be that hard, we looked far better than them when we played out our sets but we played some seriously dumb stuff today at times. Winning mentality was in evidence again though and despite my criticisms we were still the better side and deserved our win.

Frustrating performance but very entertaining and that was a hell of a fight near the end.

Dixon and Wilkes were the standouts for me and Fui Fui made a big impact too.

24 wins in a row though, really impressive run. Bring on Wakey!

Nice report mate,glad you didn't include the standard "if we play like that next week we will get beat" line.

Good teams win whatever,and by however means possible.

Reading that back I should probably have given Fax more credit. I thought they defended superbly for most of the game and they made very few errors which was a massive contrast to our lads. Brought a good following too which added to the atmosphere.

Ben Johnston the fax player has just said in an interview that Fax sank to Leigh's level. Talk about deluded!

Thought defensively we were poor today while Fax were very good & managed to neutralise our attack while themselves being very difficult to tackle. Glad to see us get some repeat sets towards the end which lead to us scoring, wonder how the number of repeat sets we get compares to everyone else? However Fax did get away with slowing it right down & putting players into the tackle after it was complete & giving 2nd goes when getting up which should have been clamped down on rather than ignored by the ref.

Agreed , Leigh were nowhere near their best today but did enough to win,for me Fui looked ready to run through a brick wall , Dixon tried everything ,good games from Ryan,Pownall,Tommy G ,and I thought big Sam kept his cool , even when Bracek was reigning blows to his head in the Brawl.Acton deserved to be sent off he was counting on his fingers who to hit,Haggerty was clouted while he was on the floor ,then the Mass Brawl started ,Fax will no doubt blame Leigh,but it started with the assault on Haggerty, and that Tyrer is some wind up merchant.

It's great to get the 24 th win on the Trot,a winning mentality, final Question,will Fax ever beat Leigh?ONLY on Fantasy Island.

Sorry, but that is exactly what Leigh did as well in terms of 2nd goes, flops and generally trying to slow things down. I'm saying Fax didn't do the same, but please don't claim that we "got away with it" when your tactics were exactly the same.

Totally agree with you noz. Butt his performance cannot be justified in anyway possible today with the dumb way we played . It was unacceptable, the discipline is very very poor and MUST NOT happen again.
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That would be the same Sam that kept his cool so well that he felt the need to spit at the crowd at the beginning of the second half. Well done on the win, it could have gone either way, but it's becoming a bit repetitive to always have a fracas involved when Leigh are involved - I can't remember the last time anything kicked off in a Fax game unless you were the opposition. Can you say the same in return that it's only against Fax that these sort of things happen? I think not.

Charlie, that pop that you were supping in't George & Dragon must have had summat in it. Leigh were so, so lucky to beat us today.

Sportsman, shudds
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100% agree Cokey.

We've won 24 games in a row. Plenty of them have been close matches that could have gone either way. But in the end they have all gone the same way, a Leigh win. We were shocking today and Fax could easily have won but I wouldn't say it was 'luck'. Luck balances out eventually but it takes a good team with a winning mentality to ensure you come out on top in every close encounter.

Iggy, Ben's reight, tha's deluded!

Sparky my friend , obviously I didn't see who did the spitting I didn't know anything about it,Ci agree the result could have gone either way,I didn't see Tom Armstrong alleged Butt, the Brawl was a disgrace no doubt I DO think it was a Fax player who started it though I have said Acton deserved to walk ,as did Bracek and Tyrer who in my opinion just wants ti wind folk up ,Bracek has History with Leigh player's .All in all as expected it was a very tough game ,I wasn't privy to this remark , but was told by someone sat behind RM that in the first half he kept repeating (Wind up Barlow,get him to lose his temper)obviously a hidden Fax tactic, it didn't work though.Anyway you won't have to play us again as you WONT make the middle 8.

I did see the Armstrong butt (nothing alleged about it, it happened). From what I saw, it was a Leigh player that threw the first punch (but obviously can't say what provoked it and Im not sure it landed). What happened afterwards will be sorted out by the disciplinary.

Not surprised if RM did tell the Fax players to wind Barlow up, or indeed why that would be "hidden". He could be a fine player, but imo he's a liability and can't control his temper. From what I saw, he was a real big man coming in as 3rd tackler most of the time.

For me a game spoilt by a ref who allowed things to get out of hand. Both sets of players also allowed it to happen. The most upsetting thing for me today, was both sets of fans. After last week anyone calling the ref for stopping play for a player down in back play needs to look in the mirror. Reckon both sides will need a minibus for the following weeks disciplinary.

Can anyone fathom out our game plan to win today? coz i can't,

Don't think any team with Manning and Bracek can take the moral highground

Awful game, at half time I couldn't see us winning this at all.

I thought Ben Reynolds played better than Riddy today & Pownall was very good & made some great breaks & yards.

Regards the 'all in' brawl, I thought that the ref had lost the game long before the "head butt" which I didn't see at all.
He was pen, pen, pen & allowed a lot of holding & several 6 yard 10 yards. The game had been spoiled way before any afters occured.

Haggerty was on his ass when he got hit & didn't hold back in retaliation, the whole mêlée should have got stopped long before it expanded.

Poor team performance today from Leigh, some good individual efforts, neither the attack or defence was at the level expected, line speed was down, handling a little off, generally disjointed.

Webster & Co from Wakey were sat behind us & I don't think he will have seen anything to be worried about.

We will pay for the indiscipline soon enough.

Maybe Aston was right

A nice ground out win against a very poor Halifax team. I said before the game that your forwards will be the reason you do not get promoted and Im going to stick with that. Getting bossed by what everyone on here has stated is a very average pack must be a little worrying. I even named Armstrong as one of the standout players in the team but today he was made to look very poor by a lad who many Fax fans dont even think should be in the team.

I cant wait to watch the video.

GFB, You do some unnecessary trolling. We have a good pack and you guys gave a decent performance today against a poor Leigh display. Anyway we will get promoted and we won't see you next year.

You will have to keep on with the niggles with the rest of the championship sides next year.

Leigh were sluggish and tired for me, but still good enough to force a win. That's what winners do.

Halifax lack pace but very good in defence.

Both sides lost their heads and the brawl was ridiculous.

The ref was average at best.

Like somebody said earlier, at 6-14 I could see nowt but a Fax win, we looked so flat and they were really up for it.

They had a very simple game plan - drive hard up the middle, throw it wide when you can, kick deep and tackle everything in a red jersey, and it was very effective. As for the niggle, every coach in this league knows that if you niggle our lot they will lose their game yeds and go looking for retribution - again very effective today.

For a supposedly clever lad that Tom Armstrong is as thick as 2 short planks. In a tight game we've just got back in front by 4 points and with ball in hand he tups a defender (Murrell?) I've no doubt he didn't tup him for nowt but again, a bit of niggle and our lot lose their yeds. Culcheth Eagles under 7s know it's the retaliator who gets pinged.

On the subject of Armstrong, today was for me his worst ever showing for us. The second half Fax try was atrocious defending from him, Heaton carried him 10 yards to the line - not good enough Tom.

Very Good Summary There Pat. Totally Agree.