is leaving Wire. Do we need another coach?

Yes if we get rid of a few . He's got a proven track record . Don't like the man but can't argue with his credentials.

Get rid of all our coaches and start again. This shower obviously have no clue.

Catalans,Toulouse,Toronto,Montreal,New York

Take your pick

Dear god woman, this club really have done you bad, it's not just Derek is it !!!!!!!!

I'm with you, be a good one to get, but all I can visualise is the smug gift when he was turning us over at Huddersfield

Wow, even Andy Mazey has got over it now and moved on. Surely no one can hold on to this bitterness this long!

LOL the people on this board never change. Of course it suits you all to suggest that I hold some kind of incredible grudge against.......hang on, it's not just Derek now is it, it's the whole club, yes and Parky too. You guys are amazing.







I say get rid of them all because they're all rubbish. We have a head coach that isn't even the head coach when he's in a room on his own, an assistant who takes a dislike to a player and he's never seen in a Leigh shirt again, another brand spanking new assistant to the assistant's assistant

..... who suspends one of our players for being 6 minutes late after he'd visited a dying man in a hostel. Players taking a pop at the supposed head coach - no wonder they play like they don't give a flying one, that's probably because they don't. Team spirit is shocking and that's down to the coaches - there's not one man manager amongst that lot.

I can't bear Tony Smith, but I'd have him over this lot any day of the week.

What the hell has Parky done

I'm no Tony Smith fan, to smug for me,but wherever we play next season , changes MUST be made,its obvious from all the supposedly unrest and rumours, we need a very strong bloke in charge, who is his own man,and won't be frightened to say what he thinks.

He wouldn't give me a lolly - I hate him and I hold a massive grudge against him. It's likely to last for years too....

I'll buy you a Lolly Chuck

I'll let you

Was the suspended player Adam H by any chance Mish. I only ask because he was fantastic when my Dad was sick earlier this year and then again meeting my entire family in the summer when we all came over to bury his ashes.
I don't know why Adam is not playing, but I do know from talking with him earlier this year that he loves our club and loves the supporters as well.
Top man

Maybe Tony as director of rugby, as KC is only at Leigh until end of season I think, as he,s considering other things.

It was VL.

Not being around the club anymore, I am not privvy to the goings on there. I do read what people write on here, and there are those who I know, and whose comments I respect and believe.

It is blatantly obvious, even to those who are not 'in the know' that something is not right. There have been too many of our players who have mysteriously 'disappeared' at various times of the season. This is a situation that we can't allow to happen, especially as we have such a threadbare squad at the moment. We are just a couple of injuries, or suspensions away from being unable to select 17 players - and we still have at least two games to get through.

I will not criticise any individual player, who is brave enough (yes, it takes real courage) to step over that white line and play for 'my' club. I believe they give their all every single time they play - yes, even against Widnes last week. In fact, their effort and courage almost got us an unlikely victory at Warrington - personally, I felt they were unlucky. We have a team that, if it sticks rigidly, to a robotic game plan, is in with a chance - providing the opposition hasn't got the talent/pace to beat the 'robots'. However, what our current, depleted squad desperately lacks, is that pace and class. No way were we going to get away from our own '25' late in Saturday's game.

So, to the point of 'missing' players. Unfortunately, some of these guys are the ones who are capable of doing the 'unexpected', or have the pace to make something out of nothing. Players with talent often have the 'idiosyncracies' to go with that talent. No way is Zak Hardaker 'perfect - neither was Alex Murphy, or John Woods. Yet they do/did possess outstanding, world class abilities. Their coaches are/were prepared to make allowances, to harness those qualities. Sure, as a man-manager, you do have to have a disciplined framework, to work in, but you also have to make allowances for individuals. Like it or not, they are not all robots - they are all individuals.

To an 'outsider', our managers (i.e. coaches) do not seem to have been prepared to make those allowances and, as a result, we have lost the services of absolutely key personnel, when they should be out on the pitch. I honestly believe, with great sadness, that this is what will get us relegated at the end of this season. I sincerely hope I am wrong, but I have this awful feeling..........

Yes it's a business and the employees all have the companies rules to follow. Like your good self Alan I'm not privy to internal affairs,but it doesn't take an Einstein to know something is not right in camp.

Like you say,it's needs them all to set their differences aside and all hold their hands up to keep the club in SL.Not a time for egos.

Absolutely - although unfortunately it looks like time has run out for a couple of those players.

And that is a crying shame.

Another layer suspended by the club???

Hopkins a few weeks ago for an alledged bust up with Anderson and now Higson.

We have a knack of suspending our own players.

Spot on Peter. We need all players to be available for selection - especially those with any pace and quality.

The fact Higson was out on the lash the night before missing training was mysteriously missing from Mish's post. It was a wedding. I hope he had a good time, nice lad.

It's not a social club here, turn up when you want, it is proffesional sport with well paid Rugby League players paid generously to represent Leigh RLFC. At least show some bloody commitment in return. This clubs future is on the line.

If your not committed, dont bother coming in. We will have to run with those who are. So be it.

How many times do you need correcting? You keep bringing Hopkins up. Nowt do with Anderson. Hopkins accepted he was in the wrong and put it behind him.

How's the new job going, keeping you busy ?

Harold, thanks for clarifying this - for those of us who are distant from the club some of the recent rumours didn't make sense. I noticed one of the coaches got married the previous week - something I would have expected to wait a couple of weeks until season close. Let's hope his column in Hull Daily Mail didn't suffer.