your doing it again you daft leythers.Have you forgot last season?.
Fax and fev are still as strong.Barra will be better than last season.
Dewsbury and batley will continue throwing a spanner in the works.
Do me a favour leythers, lets be quietly confident eh.

Bolox to that - shout it from the rooftops!!!

Last season we started at a bit of a gallop, but our play became predictable - anyone who'd watched us could pretty much call what we were gonna do in the opposition 20, and it didn't take canny coaches long to work this out, and how to defend against it, and suss our major defensive frailty, and exploit it!!

Defence so far this season has improved vastly on last, and in attack we are a lot more 'off the cuff'-willing to keep the ball alive, and mix things up a bit near the opposition line. We've become 'unpredictable'......the sort of play the opposition coaches hate - 'cos you can't plan against it!!

Things will become a lot clearer in 3 weeks time when Fev come to town , good innit

Well mate you have been to all our games this season. You have been to Batley and watched Fax.

You have seen our pack play. You have seen how many duals we need. Armstrong will be available I think all season and you are worried about people like me telling it as we see it ?

I'm still scared from last season,lol.

and i said nah not me fred i like being at the top of the tree being shot at.
Last season was painful...i aint falling for that again frank.

Ah but you do not have to go on hope this season. We tackle better we can now score from our own half we have cover all over the park. We are good and you know it' as do most who are regular fans' and' even those who will watch us who are not as Leyth daft as most of us on here are will soon see.

I think leigh have a better team than fax and are the team to beat.

I say trust in Basil!! Last season, when the injuries started to bite a bit, you realised the squad was paper thin - with a pack that was heavily reliant on DC's - and not much in the way of a 'plan B' in key areas.

This season, I'd back our pack against any in the division (and one or two in SL!!) - and they aren't gonna get 'chopped and changed' from one week to the next, on the whim of a SL coach!!
Add to that the strength in depth we now enjoy around 6/7/9 and the solid performance of the youngsters we have promoted to the first team this season - and with a similar sized squad of players IM has manged to get the balance about right - with two DC spots to spare......and lets be honest, we'd miss neither Blythe nor Armstrong at the mo' - or last seasons 'talismanic figure', who has played less than five minutes in the last two games and, again, hasn't been missed!!

Well thanks WMFC and frankb for trying to rekindle my excitment for this season but i'm still going to reserve judgment and refused to get excited until at least halfway through the season.

yikes there is just no pleasing some people is there?!! What every Leigh fan who went to the game needs to do, is to tell everyone they meet this week just how good Leigh were on Sunday, and they had better get along to see what they are missing.

I am as pessimistic as the next man, maybe more so....but the scoreline speaks for itself. It is a long long time since we have ruthlessly put a team to the sword like we did today. Sheffield may have made a rough start to the season but they still have decent players on paper.

For goodness sake just enjoy the success and revel in the possibility that we can win a trophy this season. You have to admit, as has been said on this very thread...our squad is suddenly somehow much stronger than last year. Lets get behind the lads and support them to the hilt.

Proud to be a leyther (3000 miles away

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If anyone saw the SL games last weekend just remember how many trys were scored from a kick, and compare our game and how many we scored from a kick, and say which was the better to watch.....

I think McGilvary (sp) had a great game aswell, he gets through an immense amount of work running the ball up in our own half, doesn't matter how much he gets hit he just gets up and rus again next time! his 2 tries were great as well, looked to be going nowhere and a couple of sidesteps he was in!

Great performance

No one has yet mentioned any of the 'Hits' our lads made, truly bone crunching.

Just watched it again on Blip tv and cannot understand why the TRY early in the second half was ruled out by the Touch Judge. Seems it is not just me who makes daft mistakes.

do you mean deans try in the corner?

I do Wayne.

it looked fine to me but I was over 80m away and the vid looks like he touched down, in fact the ref was going to blow for a try when the TJ intervened.

I seem to remember that last night Wayne posted a pic of Deans 'no try' which suggested that he dropped the ball, although how the TJ saw it is beyond me

Well I do not recall seeing the pic but if you fast forward to just before 62 mins on the recording you can see for yourself.

Anyways having watched that part a few times (no Star Trek) I think if I am mistaken the Touch Judge has very good eyesight. Thats not an insult btw because it has made me think he could have been right ah well.

Touch Judge has very good eyesight

got the sinbinning wrong tho,
should have been littler

Is it not illegal to ground the ball well before the line. If you get tackled and then slide over then thats ok but to go to ground purposely and then slide over is not. The ball was grounded about a yard before the line so I think thats what it is.

So if grounded before try line and re-promoted on or over try line its a double movement which is a penalty, if a knock on before the line its either a handover or scrum, if grounded before try line its either play on or hand over
yet ref awards a 20m restart which says he thinks 1. knock on over line 2. touch in goal as corner flag goes down 3. if 6th tackle and no grounding = 20m restart
????

OK I am wrong again so that is my career as the Video ref down the pan. Ah well I can live with it and I can resume my current pastime of Hospital visiting.



Ah well I might win at Poker tomorrow.

Hope you do win Frank me and Roman could do with some beer money for Workington.