I'm not, surprisingly?!

To be fair mapleleyther makes a good point and had I thought about it in advance I would have updated my twitter page to show the fact as well. I shall do this from my account in future but as you can appreciate it gets a bit busy towards kick-off time.

I'm on twitter as @DParkyRL and I know I've got a couple of followers already from this messageboard.

The club actually has a twitter account, set up by yours truly last year @leighcenturions on twitter.

In fairness it read like constructive critiscm with a few 'pointers' on what could be done do to improve comunication on the day.

I'm sure the club will pick up on it and try and improve it even more for the next time.
Lets not forget the club did great on the lead to this game with a early advert that it would be on baring any snow, I suppose a 'Its definatly on' message this morning would have finished it off and convinced non locals the weather was not a issue in Leigh (it was in plenty of other places).

Having said all that well done to all at Leigh for getting the match on

we had mostly our reserves playing most of the match today, think only matty smith and rachford played the full game, godwin came on 30 mins into the match then was knocked out 20 mins into the second half, nero, broughton, gibson and the forward pack were constantly interchanged throughout the game, we had 9 under 20 academy players in the 17 tonight also, i was impressed, all of them held their own against a top championship side, mind you if we had our first teamers out all match plus, feka, v. Andersom, Patten, henry, cashmere, holdsworth, and baily playing it would of been a cricket score but whats the point in that? If we can't test our youth in friendly's when can we.

I say well done lads a couple more years and you'll be there or there abouts.

Jenky - yes it was indeed meant to be constructive. I know there are about 4 people trying to do 300 different things on match day and leading up to it. Its easy for me at my desk 3000 miles away to make "helpful" comments.

All the same, if things can easily be made a bit more professional, then its worth at least making the suggestion. If only I was more local I would be able to do something a bit more tangible!

According to one of the back room staff, Salford had 7 players out, in what would have made the first team squad, as they were still in Oz.
So by HIS admission, Salford fielded 10 first teamers yesterday.
So in effect Salford was almost at full strength.

Win a friendly against a reserve salford team,they are going to win the league.

Have a look at Salford's squad and you will be surprised how few are 'reserve' players. And let's not forget we had a trialist playing in Mills and kids like Pownall and Nicholson who are only just graduating from our own reserves.

Matt, what was the attendance.

Would you still not have been better playing Wigan U20's from a revenue pov?

It was only a friendly Matt.It is a long season and teams start good, then go rubbish.



Come on the Widnes.

Well at least Widnes were consistantly rubbish.

Think it was mentioned on here that it was 2,200. I don't think that we've especially got a fair comparison with playing Wigan's reserves as it was only a day or so before the game last time around that people found out that Wigan were bringing the kids when obviously a big number of tickets had already been bought.

From a playing point of view, I think it was definitely more worthwhile to play a Salford side with a big number of experienced first teamers than a Wigan Under 20's side.

Have you won anything in the last few years?



Well at least we have been to two finals in a row, and should have beaten Batley. We threw the game away at the end to give everyone a chance.



Fired up and cant wait to smash Leigh and some banter.

Yes but you are still rubbish.

I loved Duffys try.

Like Leigh.

Rubbish. Rubbish. Rubbish.

Are you really that stupid?

10 first teamers? are you joking? out of our starting 13 we would have for super league we had Matty smith, Jodie broughton, Chris Nero, Wayne Godwin and Steven Wild. so thats 5 first team starters who have never played together before apart from matty smith and jodie broughton the rest are fringe players who make up the squad or reserves even then only matty smith had a full game out of them 5 the rest were only on for 10 20 min spells, we had two players brought in from folly lane on trails, our first team would of been.

1. Luke Patten=#80FF00 Gibson
2. =#FF0000Ashley Gibson 65 mins =#40FF00Gleeson
3. =#FF0000Chris Nero 58 mins =#40FF00Chris Nero
4. Mark Henry =#80FF00Adam Clay
5. =#FF0000Jodie broughton 65 mins =#80FF00Jodie Broughton
6. Daniel Holdsworth =#80FF00Stefan Ratchford
7. =#FF0000Matty Smith =#80FF00Matty Smith
8. Ray Cashmere =#BFFF00Adam Sidlow
9. =#FF0000Wayne Godwin 30 mins =#80FF00Gareth Owen
10. Feka, =#BFFF00Ryan Boyle
11. V. Anderson =#80FF00Jack Spencer
12. Ryan Baily =#80FF00Adam Neil
13. =#FF0000Steven Wild 51 mins =#80FF00Steven Wild

14. Luke Adamson =#80FF00Wayne Godwin
15. Rob Parker =#80FF00Mark Sneyd
16. =#FF0000Stefan Ratchford 80 mins =#80FF00A/n other Academy
17. =#FF0000Lee Jewitt 22 mins =#80FF00A/n other Academy
18. =#FF0000Adam Sidlow 25 mins =#80FF00A/n Other Academy

The players highlighted in red are most likley the 18 every week so we had 5 starters and 3 subs playing from the entire 18 so we had 10 players out, 8 starting and 2 subs, now tell me that we had a full strength team out, by the way ive posted how long each player was on the field for. plus the Green is what 18 was playing yesterday compared to the strongest 18.

don't blame us for that blame the pi££ock you have for a coach

No matter how people try to dress it up, the following players are all first team Super League players who are much more highly paid and rated than their Leigh counterparts: Ashley Gibson, Jodie Broughton, Chris Nero, Sean Gleeson, Stefan Ratchford, Matty Smith, Lee Jewitt, Adam Sidlow, Wayne Godwin, Ryan Boyle, Stephen Wild. If Leigh had the luxury of fielding 8 overseas players during the regular season, we would also rack up cricket scores against championship opposition. Salford had some pretty decent English talent out there yesterday and a good Aussie centre. The sad part of this is how yesterday exposed just how much Super League teams rely on overseas talent to allow them to compete.

Blame him for what? that game was just a warm up match to clean away the cobwebs and try and test the kids and fringe players, we would of gained absolutely nothing from playing a full strength side and whooping you by 60 why do you think Mcrea let the Oz players have an extra week back home and rest other players also.
I knew before I set off that it would be a weak side but didn't realise until warm up how weak it was.
I say well played to Leigh for the warm up game but don't start getting all giddy like you've just shocked the world.

And bar two none of them played the full game, Our forward pack was largely made up of kids and those were the guys who were falling off tackles and dropping balls.
Like i said going to the LSV to win the game wasn't Mcrea's aim in the first place.

No salford fan there last night was bothered what so ever about the result it was all about the warm up to the season.

thats not what it sounded like in the car park afterwards, i heard a few moaning.

Well done to Leigh on their win, but as a previous poster has mentioned I'd say this highlights how reliant some SL clubs are on their overseas contingent. To be honest, a lot of English players in SL are in no way any better than their Championship counterparts, just slightly fitter.

You always get a few.