I love a player with a bit of mongrel in him. Sam Barlow is fantastic.

If people think barlows a naughty bugger rent some DVDs off Fred of a young Timmy in the 80's.

Every winning team has a Sam, without him we would be a miles weaker team!!

Tireless in defence, great taking ball to the line, monster offload, wonderful feet for a big lad and physically huge. Also a nowty beggar and the kind of player I'm glad is wearing our shirt and nobody else's.

Don't disagree, just don't like the other side of his game. If he stopped the stupidity he would be even better.

Would not be half the player without it trust me.

You might change your mind by then


My six on todays performance would be ....
AJ, Armstrong, Kes, Kay, Barlow and Spencer.... plus is Farrell at the Pies any better than Tommy Goulden?

Putting my original post to one side, I thought that individually and collectively we where excellent today. Attack and defence was excellent, our kicking was brilliant - even more so considering our main kicker got injured. With better weather and some of the marginal calls/decisions going our way, reckon we may see a new club record for largest victory at some point.

There was a stupid person playing your correct, Lee Doran is his name ! what a B@@d@y nuisance he is! every tackle he's niggling the bloke's a penalty machine! I personally only saw barlow transgress once and, that was the incident he was sin binned for! I have been very impressed and pleased by his performances and, his teamates are not bad either

I though running in to punch a man on the floor was idiotic of him and deservedly got him sin binned, hope Rowley will have words and make sure that doesn't happen again. Other than that thought he had a great game, Whitehaven came to rough it up and once they were out of the game just stepped that up and Barlow and the rest of the team responded in kind without over stepping the line (apart from Barlow's sin binning).

I would still prefer us to play with 13 players on the field. He has to learn to do what Timmy did in his later years and that was to laugh at those trying to wind him up. He will be targeted especially by the better sides.

Spot on.

mmm it doesn't look like a 'run in' on the video that the judiciary will have.

Sam got sin binned, was the incident put on report ? , surely if not then no case to answer, Sam did not get sent off, sin binned

According to Dave's report in the LE, two unspecified Leigh players have been put on report for alleged late contacts on Southernwood and Taylor.

Think it is Spencer and Barlow.

Spencer will have nothing to worry about imo but re Sam I will decide when I watch the incident again when Fred puts the full game on Centurion TV.

I thought spencer had something to worry about but Barlow not

The more I see of Sam the more impressed I am.

OK I can see that if he develops a bad boy reputation that precedes him (like Timmy did) then he may have to be a bit careful, but he has a long way to go to do that and I don't agree with the comments about him overstepping the mark on a regular basis. I think all he's done so far is play hard and be up for the challenge physically. He's a tough lad and one I want in my pack every week. As has been mentioned before we have a pack now that can really dominate. For me its the best we've had since the one Benson assembled - big difference is this time they have the discipline to go along with the aggression.

And finally, the sinbinning I thought was harsh - I need to re-watch on LCTV but I thought Barlows "offence" was just a swinging arm into the mid-section of the player on his way down. Not cheap or dirty, and something you see in a lot of games. But it was at a point in the game where Haven were wanting to bring the game down to their level, kicking off after every tackle, and the ref (who'd lost control of the game 20 mins earlier) took the bait and binned him. For me the retaliation was as bad as or worse than the tackle itself, and it was either a double-binning for the fight or nothing (maybe simple pen to Haven at a push if the player was down and you see it as a flop)

I don't think he can complain about the sin binning, not seen it back but it was near where I was sat and I had a good view of it, he did come into the tackle to deliberately punch the player on the floor. Was very stupid and completely unnecessary, he needs to be told not to do it again because good as he is and much as we like and use his aggression if you're going to get sent off every few matches for something so stupid you're going to be a liability and we can't afford that. Great player, fantastic performance just let that be the last stupid over-reaction he does.

Viva Sam Barlow,
Viva Sam Barlow,
He's like Timmy Street.
But he's more discreet,
Viva Sam Barlow.....VIVA SAM BARLOWWW.

The full game is now on LC TV.

Have watched both incidents on Centurion TV several times.

Re Spenner can't honestly see anything malicious

Re Sam you can't see anything from where the game was videoed in terms of what caused the trouble but it was the touch judge on the West stand side who persuaded the ref to sin bin him.

Re the ref I always say they'like players' have good games and bad games. Yesterday he had a very bad game.

Yesterday Frank?

Mean't Sunday of course but am not well atm' my second cold since this year started.

Have been told to increase my vitamin C intake so got an extra bottle of wine today.

Hope your better soon mate.

The wine will help of course.

Having watched the game on TV, although he wasn't helped by the weather and scrappy play from both teams in the second half, he was poor. A couple of wrong calls can be excused but didn't boss the game.