If we were playing anything like a decent brand of rugby this year, there would have been plenty more. Our crowds in general are down quite severely.

The new coach has come too late in the season for it to have any impact on our fortunes and I think Mark knows that, I guess he's planning to be 200 grand light in the budget next year. (Which will probably leave us in a similar financial position to this year, we had to use a fair amount of the RFL money to clear up Feisal's mess).

Factor in the Pontefract Liquorice festival, which the local schools make a big thing of and encourage lots of kids to go and we arrive at probably our worst away following of the year.

Do Sheffield have an annual Liquorice Festival Homer?

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lol, Ive seen Leigh Bring less than half the fans we had today to POR for a Grand final Semi. same game 3 years ago would have had less than 1500 there. Very short memories you lot. Amazing what a bit of success can do for you.

fans were never gonnna turn up for a game we had no chance of winning especially after the result against Dewsbury.

It'll be even less next season if we play you after the behaviour of your stewards today. Wouldn't leave the young lads (most dressed as women) at top of stand alone all game. They were constantly hassling them trying to get a reaction. Until a fev fan turned round and started videoing the stewards on his phone and all of a sudden they finally all left. Some blokes stick a high vis on and become fecking hitler.

As for the game, just as I expected close first 20 leigh dominate the middle 40 and then close again for final 20. Some slightly dubious refereeing decisions but nothing game changing.

Were just not good enough, although sharpe would probably had scored 5 tries had he been selected on the wing today instead of backmore, shocking finisher for a winger.

When we played Fev at Blackpool I said we should have put 40 odd on them. Today we did that with ease. After a very sleepy opening 20 minutes we stepped it up and blew Fev away.

Easy. Well done, boys.

And the same game had hardly any Fev fans either, judging by the 'shared gate' you guys announced!

Feel awful now! I've been criticising them for their 'support' at ours and for the NRC Final, when there have obviously been significant counter-attractions!

Would they be the same "young lads" who had cans of alcohol confiscated at the turnstiles, were repeatedly asked to sit down in an all seated stand, were asked to refrain from constant swearing and were caught on the stadiums cctv trying to rip out the seats at the back of the stand? I suppose its alright because they were dressed as women and you can do what you like at Post Office Road.

Yep, those 15 year old scrotes were an embarrassment by 1.30pm outside the Wren. They were desperately trying to come across as 'characters' but in fact were just immature s who over stepped the mark several times even before kick off. No surprise they continued to act up once inside the ground. A few of them wore a dress, hilarious. No excuse to be an ar$ehole all afternoon.

Even for 15 year old lads they really need to grow up. Made tits of themselves today!

They were sat right behind us, they were doing nothing wrong. defo not ripping seats out, lol what a load of cr@p.

I suppose everyone in the leigh seats as down all game. The stewards were after a reaction.

Yep those 15 year old scrotes who when the stewards asked them for Id all produced valid id's to prove they were over 18. It was a gang of young lads just wanting to enjoy themselves and have a laugh. they were in a fev only stand, so not bothering anyone from leigh. all the stewards managed to do was rile everyone around them when there was no need for it. But role out the usual bulle that they were ripping out seats. lol

Ripping out seats, eh? Bloomin' thugs.

They weren't hooligans. But they were acting up a bit and attracted some attention from the Stewards.

I am not going to say they were terrible or particularly offensive but neither do I think the stewards over stepped.

To be honest after winning 4 from your last 5, 9 out of 9 away from home and with a new coach I expected 600+ from Fev. It was an important game so to bring around 300 is very poor for a Sunday afternoon.

Bulls brought around 2000 and I expect similar numbers from Leigh at Odsal next week. Fev seem to have been left behind and the few that remain are drunk and wearing dresses

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Don't know about ripping seats out of the stadium , but they did load some into their mini bus from the wren pub

I prefer to talk about Leigh and our performance today , at times we were our own worst enemy , dropping balls and missing tackles , but when we decide to play rugby, no team can live with us in this Division.The score could have easily been 70 today had we played as we did for 80 minutes, for me Ryan B was again at his best , assisted by Emmitt,Barlow , and of course Fui ,a good game to watch though ,and the Bradford result virtually hands Top spot to us , we'll done to Rowls and the team.

Its been an awful season mate, we have been terrible at home and support has dwindled there. We got over 6k for the Bradford game and played absolutely rubbish. we have probably got an hardcore of 1500, but while ever we are playing poor the extra lot wont turn up.

You have seen it with yourselves, success brings the fans in, over 4k today. you wouldn't have dreamt that 4-5 years ago

Top spot belongs to Leigh I reckon now. Even if we do beat you next week it's still in your hands and it's going to a massive ask turning you over with the way we're playing at the moment.

According to NRL News the Top Try Scorers for the Championship so far are:

1) Liam Kay (Leigh Centurions) - 27 tries
2) Ryan Brierley (Leigh Centurions) - 23 tries
3) Gregg McNally (Leigh Centurions) - 20 tries

Not bad going

Well I don't think you did Fev any favours today,but you certainly did for Sheffield.And I agree next week will count for nothing as the next encounter with you after that,is the one that counts.

Should have been another 70 pointer against the worst Fev side I have seen for years.

Why do we constantly resort to showboating (someone on another thread said taking the ) when we have the match won instead of putting teams to the sword?

oops - won't let me say taking the p*** although I'm sure it said that on another thread

We took Ridyard and Brierley off for the last 15 minutes. Game was well won so no point risking them. I think Haggerty and Beswick were playing as our halves for the final stages. Haggerty's kick lead to Hocks try though so fair play to him. And big Jake Emmitt nailed the final conversion too.

Did you miss the first twenty minutes?

Honestly thought Fev played some good attacking rugby (funny isn't it, yet another opposition playing rugby, yet another game with no scrappy fighting) they really challenged our defence, which was up to the challenge though. Defensively they weren't up to much though. They were obviously very tired by the end of the game though and if we'd have gone out after them rather than easing off we could have really done even more damage.

After a poor 1st 20 min with lots of unforced errors (don't know what caused that but was thankfully sorted) we played some brilliant rugby yet again. Barlow's offloading is incredible, a little flick round the front to a player running onto it is almost impossible for teams to defend against. Brierley had a great game and did what Brierley does, think Fuifui Moimoi deserved MOM though, put in some great effort, really powerful runs and for a prop to score a hat trick, for Fuifui Moimoi to score his 1st hat trick of an illustrious 12 year career is something you had to be there for.

Ref was quite poor, very short 10 m and we barely had any 50:50 decisions go our way all game. Last week we seemed to have a ref who gave every loose ball as a knock on, this week we had one that gave every one as a ball steal, honestly starting to think refs decide if they're going to give knock on or ball steal before they go on the pitch.

Still important win against a good team. It's looking like top spot will be ours now (thanks Sheff); would still go full strength to Bradford though & try to get a big win to knock their confidence and boost ours.