My thoughts exactly. As a Wire fan your lads did you proud, TS kept a pretty much full side out for 80 minutes which you probably weren't expecting, but Leigh were in in for the full 80 minutes and made the game interesting to watch, un like most pre season friendlies.

As I said to FrankB int bus station you've got a formidable squad which I think will go on to do really well this year and I hope to get to as many of your games as I can. Thanks for a good afternoon, good luck for the season and enjoy your rugby league!

Ellis kicked very well against Salford though.

Warrington put our kickers under much more pressure, and adopted a 'dual full back' tactic on defence, with a winger plus Hodgson covering the width of the pitch. (just as they did last year.) That makes it much more difficult to place kicks well.

Just a couple of reasons why they are a top SL outfit - and good to watch, employing a high degree of invention.

Agreed Alan. Wires tactical awareness was nice to watch. Thats why they pay those players top dollar. When Fred has handed over his video to IM, the game will stand our lads in good stead for the coming season. I was impressed by the way we scrambled back when they broke. Jamie Ellis wasn't at his best today but still not bothered and yes Steve, Govin did make a difference when he came on. He was hungry and wanted work, and made the Wire deffence sit up and take notice.
Our squad will be ok this year wait and see.

Your guys did pretty well today, far better than last years fixture. As for us, i thought we were very flat with a fair bit to work on. Still 48 point winning margin without getting out of 3rd gear isn't too bad i guess.

Yes you did n`t get out of 3rd but we did n`t take the handbrake off...

I was greatly impressed with Govin (apart from his final pass of the game) and having said that it was hard to criticise any players performance.

I was very pleased with what i saw from Leigh today and can see some good times ahead .I wasn't surprised with the score line after seeing the Wire team ,they were much quicker at the PTB which had us on the back foot but the lads scrambled back well plus they managed to turtle our lads in most of the tackles making sure they had plenty of time to get back in defence .I see that Briars hasn't changed ,he ripped the ball out for all to see except the ref when Leigh where on their line ,he always gets away with it.What was the penalty for when Nanyn was in the process of scoring?All in all i thought the lads did good for most of the match and thought they played for 80 mins .

Re - Nanyn he was taken high by Mitchell when a certain Try was on.If Mitchell had n`t done the high shot MN would ve scored under the posts.

Should it have been a penalty try ?i mean what DOES have to happen to get one ,also shouldn't Mitchell have been sin binned at least, for the professional foul

Maybe, if Hicks was the official........In all honesty Gareth Hewer is one of the better refs in our div and had a good game.

If the ball had been given to Mick 3 plays later he was through a massive gap , gutted wasn't the word for the look on Micks face

Well i'm very pleased with what the lads have shown in our 2 friendlies


Today we were miles better than the same fixture last year.

Took longer than I thought for a wire fan to come out with that one, totally nullified your 'kind' comment at the beginning. Briers is still a cheat (no respect from me for him) and Rileys high shot was shocking. The score flattered Warrington.

One more thing, I thought I was watching U10s rugby for a while, with your trainer (coach?) on the field for full sets of 6 when you had the ball. The time these SL trainers spend on the field has to be dealt with, its a 13 man game.

theres always one



Ask your coach and players what they thought

I've said this before and I would like to see this restling behaviour scrapped before we see a string of knee injuries in this sport. This is not WWF and we scrapped competative scrums because it was causing injury and slowing the game down. Now we have a completed tackle where the defending team can bend a player double before the ref shouts held. Come on RFL this RL not olympic wrestling.

THe other thing I would like to see is a maximum amount of time for taking a conversion from a try being scored. Oh and unless the kicker was involved in the try he should not be allowed to stand there having a wipe down and a crafty drink. Get the bloody ball kicked over the sticks and carry on with the game.

I flat-lined a number of times waiting for Hodgson, those de-fibs are highly recommended.

Yeah yeah yeah. 48 points difference says different (without playing well). I think this

is yours



You threw the lot at us and scored 10 points. Regardless of the high shot etc. Btw the first try of yours shouldn't have been given due to Littler blatantly obstructing Atkins.

Well done for that .....Gracious in victory is obviously lacking from you. Don`t forget to ask your mum to change your Huggies before you go to bed....

It did. We played nothing like we can, lots of mistakes in both attack and defence and were still 48 points better off. The score board doesn't lie.

As for your trainer point - pretty much all Super League teams do it, and when your coach was at Stains, he was one of the worst for having it.


They'll probably say it was a good work out, blew cobwebs off, Leigh put up a stern test etc. Still 48 point difference from a pretty average performance by our standards.



I still hope you guys do well anyway, especially with the licences coming up. Good set up there, and seems to be some pretty hungry young players too.

Just telling it like it is. We were average, racked up a load of points and conceded less than we did in last years fixture.

As for the personal insults - grow up.

You are Dico under a different guize.

Bed wetting is nothing you should be ashamed of but keep off the chum, it `ll give you the runs.