Got a real soft spot for leigh i hope you as a club kick on get a strong backer and get the fans back onside, hope you have a great 2012.

Charlie cant wait for tomorrows game , though it may be too cold to wear a polo

my old bones are very stiff

However i will purchase a drink for a couple of Older Leigh fans , they never seem to be able to get to the Bar , even the Leigh fans from Salford .

Charlies Score Prediction ,Reds 30 - Centurions 18 , we may tire late on .

I'm pretty sure the old fans will tire, charlie - even the ones who don't have to travel far! I wonder if the players will tire, too?

Alan i know of one Older Fan who wont be travelling far , he may be asleep before Half-time ,though with free drinks on offer he may just have an early night later on ,as he along with myself will be attending the Swinton -Widnes game the day after .

Our Team v Salford www.leighcenturions.com/article.php?id=6762

Our Team v Salford www.leighcenturions.com/article.php?id=6762

Team taken from the official site, "experimental" is mentioned in the accompanying article! Good luck to the lads anyway, I'm sure they'll have the full support of those of us on the terraces.

Gregg McNally, Jon Pownall, Steve Maden, Matt Gardner, Dean McGilvary; Martyn Ridyard, John Duffy; Ricky Bibey, Bob Beswick, Rob Parker, Tommy Goulden, Craig Briscoe, Sam Hopkins. Subs: Ryan Brierley, Anthony Nicholson, Tommy Gallagher, Chris Rowe, Ricky Murphy.

Sing loud lads, wish i could have been there.

We love Leythers we do, Ohh Leythers we love you.
Come On You Leeeeeeeeeeeigh.

Please salford go easy on us.

What position is Chris Rowe, by the christ I hope he's a forward!!!????????????

Chris rowe us a second row forward from last seasons scholarship team and also made the reserve team on a few occasions, described last year as a good young prospect.

Anyone any idea as to why adam clay and chris gerrard are classed as unavailable for today and with PR saying only littler and ostick will be back for the fax friendley. If he had said missing through injury i wouldnt have asked the question, but curious now as to why unavailable

Very low on forwards, Taylor & Ostick will help of course.
Littler must play at centre when fit unless we have a DC arriving.
We have plenty options at playmaker and hooker this year in Brierley, Ridyard, Duffy, Beswick, Nicholson and McNally even before we put grunt at 13.
Would like to see a centre and prop arrive soon.

Chris Rowe is a good prospect, he played most of the 23s games last year, is still only 18, I'm sure he will make a good second row in time.

As for the unavailabilities, different personal things going on (nothing untoward).

4 tries v Super League opposition away is a fantastic achievement and one I didnt anticipate, gutted I couldn't make it and although I expect them to tire with a limited pack it sets us up nicely to move on from here.

Also well done to Rowley and Jukesy, I didn't believe they could do it but they seem to have put a real 'TEAM' out that will only get better.

Well they didnt tire

and what a win

7 tries scored where i was Mo?

First one posted at HT Fred

I love it so much when i'm wrong.

John ,you was not on your Own , most didnt expect that , was nice to see you again .

Phil the Salford cameraman ( a Wigganer) asked me before the game who would win I said Salford by at least 20, he was taking the mick all the second half because I was wrong, was I bothered? was I bl**dy heck.

Aye but the poor sod is a Latics fan!

If we're so far ahead of Salford at this stage of pre-season then they've got issues, particularly as they're a divison and a hell of a budget better of than us.

Good luck to them going forward, I hope the new stadium isn't a white elephant for them.

Having watched Widnes today - who were also very poor - I would say that both teams have still got a lot of work to do.
Widnes looked out on their feet 5 mins before the break.

We thought we'd surely seen the worst team in sooper dooper league when we went to Salford on Saturday, but congrats to Widnes for proving us wrong.

FWIW Swinton also looked very poor, all looked a bit jaded for some reason and the ex-leythers looked like shadows of their former selves. I had Swinton down for a top 6 place when I saw who they were signing, but on yesterdays showing that looks like a big ask.

Scoreline probably won't look out of place for a SL vs Champ game, but on the performances both teams seem to have a lot of work to do to be where they want to be in their respective divisions.