Ridyard and Duffy aren't doing much wrong to be dropped in place of Brierley though? I'm sure we'll see more of him as the season goes on, and if the situation requires it then I'd think he'll get more game time.

Surprised no-one has mentioned McNally - he looks a natural at full back, runs the ball back hard links up well, has pace and has the passing skills of a half back i.e. McGilverys try. Only 20 I believe, not sure why it's not worked out at SL level for him, but deffo our gain.

And a top word for Gallagher as well, put a lot of work in, thought he might of been a weak link but not after today.

Worrancy also put an excellent stint in and made good yards, could be picked on in defence by the better teams though

OK, we were poor 1st half because we kept dropping the ball, had quit a few penalties, got near their line, then 'messed it up'.
Was amazed we had scored 18 points, that was what I meant Starbug. Guess Barrow didn't [ibomb [/ias many chances as what we did.
Despite leading 18-10 at h/t, it was dire. 2nd half, we were superb.
I'm a very happy Budgie.

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Stick with bringing Brierley on when defences are tiring, he's only young and will get targeted early in the game.

Thought Maden had a great game also.

We bombed 2 dropped balls, were held up twice over the line, and still scored 3 trys, in cold conditions in our first real match of the season against a decent team, I thought we played well in the 1 st half, we were patient, we didn't take risks, we didn't gift them anything

Get us in better conditions and we will only get better

Looking forward to an interesting season

Think teams are going to be frightened to death of us having Worrincey, Brierley and Nicco coming on when they're getting tired.

MOM for me today was Rob Parker, although Nicco had a blinder too.

What concerns me about Worrincy is his defence.

Other teams coaches will spot that imo.

He does get caught flat footed. I think it is a concentration thing, he switches off sometimes. Awesome coming forward though. Stick Jimmy Taylor next to him and we'll be reet.

He did get caught out once today, but he wasn't the only one , so stop worrying, just enjoy

not many folk around me thought that. It was our 4th game, but 1st 25 minutes, yes, looked like our 1st game.
4 games, 4 easy wins..........

I'm over the moon that Nico has raised his game today and had a blinder. I thought he was poor against Wigan and it shows that the lad has it in him to respond to his coaches questions and get in there. Well done Ant. Another Leigh legend in the making.

Personally i'd have given it to Briscoe.
Tackled anything that moved and worked hard ball in hand.

Don't forget Worrincy is a good few weeks behind everyone else in terms of his pre-season preparations but I agree he did seem to switch off a couple of times. That said, he put in a couple of cracking hits as well.

Think back to last season , how many games went to the same pattern, ground them down 1 st half, opened up in the 2 nd

At least a couple of times the long ball out to Maden was on the cards, but with Nixon on that wing it isn't worth the risk, there was no need to try it

Our coaching staff had done their homework and had a game plan

May not have produced the rugby we saw in the friendlies in the 1st 20 mins but the play was all in there half .

you're right Starrybug (as always) is was all part of the gameplan - to be poor in the 1st half.
How could I not realize that, you are a Genius....as you well know.

Part of last years game plan was to keep teams waiting at after HT, what the hell is Rowley playing at sending us out first?

What I'm saying is we played ' safe ' rather than ' poor ' , still looking to score but without taking too many risks

A very good team performance from Leigh.
I actually think Barrow played exceptionally well in the first 30mins and we did well to keep the score down, once we had some quality possession we started to gather some momentum and Barrow started to tire.
I thought the RL we played was great to watch and it was good to see us struggling to pick a MOM due to it being difficult with so many good performances.

A great start to the season, but Summer RL - I think not !

GLOW I would rather think it was the players wanting to leave the dressing room earlier 'cause the paint was coming off the walls

I dunno - that 'pea-souper' made me think Odsal in July!!

Nicho for me too, with Hoppy and Parker very close behind.

It was crying for someone to run from DH and take them on, Nicho did that and we broke them dow. They moved up too quickly in both centres causing our wider game to be stiffled early on - offside every time but the ref ignored it.

Hoppy and Parker did big shifts after Bibey went off, as did Worrincey and Gallaher.

Though Gallagher looked like he’d lost a few ounces since the previous outing he looked a lot fitter.

It was a good all round performance , against a poor Barrow side ,only Harrison , Ballard ,and a couple of others performed ,Holty is older than me

,none of the Barrow lads would get in our team .

However not taking anything away from Leigh , it was good in parts , and Brierley



this lad is class ,Ballard is no slouch , but Ryan left him for dead for his first try , take a Bow young Ryan .