It was a ridicolously entertaining game of RL for me.

22 unanswered points in Barrow's favour immediately followed by a scoreline of 42 v 2 to Leigh,

Barrow obviously targetted Ryan Duffy in the first 20 mins and it worked well as they continually swept past him and it was no surprise when Rowley took him off early on. Barrow also lost direction when their hooker was injured at the same point.

Credit to the lads for turning round a considerable deficit, I thought both Hopkins and Parker had equal claim to the MOM award.

An attendance of 1200 not so great against the much publicised budget of 1800 paying spectators but given a Thursday night TV slot and bitterly cold baltic conditions, not totally unexpected.

Well I was told there's no room for higson ATM , I'd say there is as more competitions for places means everyone plays for their place, so that should equal all round better performances .

Indeed and on that basis, If I was the coach I would seriously consider dropping Gardener on Good Friday and hand a chance to O'Donnell instead - Higson can earn his shot from the U20's

Barrow scoring 22 points early on was a wake up call for the coaching team, defence and discipline were very poor in the first half; it may help the coach if he watched the game from behind the sticks occasionally. When compared to the Barrow halfbacks Leigh's were pedestrian and predictable, their playmaker going off was significant in the Leigh comeback.

I thought the ref had a good game tonight.

Personally from what I have seen of John, he isn't ready for the first team. Agree that Gardner isn't breaking any glasses but he is the best we have at that postion and after his first 20 mins he didn't do that bad.

Really. Some of the calls were a bit iffy for me and I can't see how some of the blatant forward passes that we made were let go. They gave a forward pass that was perfectly ok then let one go that as a mile forward.

In your opinion of course.

I wonder sometimes if anybody watches the same game as me. First half, agreed, shocking. Ryan duffy not ready? debatable. These are the games he needs to be playing. what is he? 20 ish? in the front row? against a massive opposing front line? He made good yards throughout, without breaking any pots. He may have had his back turned, but he was aware of the attacker who broke, but didn't want to give a pen away, and incorrectly let the hooker go. That's how you gain experience, by making a dog's d*** of it every now and again. Bob beswick MOM? bored of saying this, never ever going to be a good halfback. The inside ball he constantly throws makes me want to leave the ground. Short kicking rather astute, good ball handling loose as an option. never a half. The frustrating thing in this side is that there is a quality 1-13 in there, but we seem to like picking folk out of place. I agree mcnally is the best fullback at the club. But he's probably the best 7 as well, and moving him to the halves would accommodate brierley, He can't be an impact player forever! is he going to be 30 and playing 30 mins a week? use him or lose him. Overall, not disappointed with the game tonight. the game itself was good to watch, but we must defend better than that, and i agree gardner probably could do with a weeks rest.

Bob on Rennie sir. For all the 'playmakers' we have, we still need a running scrum half to partner Riddy.

Despite his MOM, I thought Beswick was bobbins. Hoppy or Duffy (second half version) MOM for me.

Absolutely spot on!!

For mine, best player on the pitch over the 80 was Liam Harrison............best player in the game thats never played S/L, without a doubt!!!

Duffy is 19 for gods sake he wont be in his prime for another 5 years at least, and Bob Beswick yes like the rest he had a crap first half but in the second half he played well maybe not MOTM but that is chosen by the sponsor and if he thinks that, well he has his opinion just like on here if anyone wants to pick the official MOTM then you know what to do.

Liam Harrison was once nearly our player but he wouldn't move from Cumbria, he is a good player but for mine the best in this division as a forward is Michael Knowles from Sheffield, Harrison sometimes goes missing on defence but Knowles is like a machine.

Great player Knowles for sure, Fred, but he played in SDL for Cas!!
I would go as far to say Liam is better than his brother!!

Hopkins looks a good forward I like him at Widnes for sure.You looked poor against Barrow and I think on that showing you be lucky to get in the top 5.Attendance poor at 1200?

Attendance was poor, but Thursday night against a team with a long journey, for their fans. Also it was FREEZING!

Last nights game wasnt shocking , far from it , the first 20 Barrow played very well , give em credit , they ran the lines very good and its a pity for them Kaighan went off injured , however Leigh look comfortable in the end , but must realise more urgency is needed at times , and concentration for the full 80 .

It was the usual suspects standing out , Hoppy , Penky , Riddy , and Littler trying to motivate the team , but some players tend to hide at crucial times in the game , or make daft mistakes , i must admit Barrow played better than i expected ,Harrison never has a bad gad game he works so hard , but its 3 points , and heres hoping for a bigger crowd on Good Friday



.See ya all then .

Barrow played really well 1st half so credit to them but when we scored our 1st try I knew we would get back into the game ,we scored 7 unanswered tries.The try for Barrow when most of the players had their backs to the play was shocking defence though but, we won ,we are 4th in the table .

Again i agree .

Penky IMO started the season pretty average but he's getting into his stride now & has been looking excellent these past few games. Two players who were good last season was Beswick & Gardner but Bob keeps throwing suicidal passes & Gardner has been pretty poor all round. I see AJ's knee was being tested out last night the Easter fixtures with a short turn around are a good time to give Higson, Coyle, Nicholson & O'Donell a run out.

I think the return of Coyle will give us a big lift , and take some pressure off Riddy ,ive said before Nico should be given a chance and Higson hopefully will come back with something to prove to the fans , however it remains to be seen if they will be given the chance to do this , when someone comes in somebody has to make way , i would give Gardner a rest though .

Last season our 2 centre's couldn't be dropped due to lack of depth now with players coming back from injury we could afford to drop Gardner for his below par performances & bring AJ in. Being dropped would pish anyone of so hopefully he'll come back bigger & stronger when he's selected again.

Unless you were there you can't appreciate how difficult the conditions were. I can't remember being colder at a match with the wind chill etc. OK the superb pitch helped but we had no right to expect the quality of handling we got, especially from Barrow. Leigh's defence was suspect at times but both sides can take a lot out of that game. It looked good on TV too.

Perhaps it explains why the players looked Down in the first half. The partnership thing may not be welcomed by the players, looking at our current under 20/s they won't be happy stepping further back on the chance of playing in the first team !

With respect I doubt the players decided to have a bad first 30 minutes to protest against an agreement which has nothing to do with their win bonus.

There will always be folk who think ah well they have made their point' as our lads went on to score the next 42 points.

Perhaps Leigh team are trying to outdo the Pools handicappers by giving opponents a start -as with Doncaster, Dews bury and Barrow

No they would do that on purpose thats silly but it could have been on their minds, espeically the Leigh Lads in the squad.