the rowleys must go now they r stealin a living paul is not a coach never seen him move yet from yje dugout or give any instrutions out get rid now
and he should do the decent thing now and GO hope milward grts here fast and clears this shower out

Simple solution
Rowley to coach the reserves and the reserve team coach to coach the first team.
Signing deadline passed, no new faces, crap display! coincidence?

Hi Frank - Nice to meet you yesterday



Did you not see Ned there yesterday he was on the pitch sideline and being very vocal??

Think you missed my point but never mind. If you want to add into the points difference won't be saving us. We still have to play Halifax and Gateshead (score points for fun) and Gateshead have Doncaster as their last game of the season.

The only get out I can see is Batley losing all their remaining games and not picking up any bonus points. Remember we don't do bonus points either.

has anybody heard any quote/comments from rowley since the barrow debacle, nowt in le this morning, and nowt on official web site either.

Theres report and reaction on the Leigh Journal website.

That reporter up at Barrow for the rugby papers never seems to get comment from anyone.

have to defend paddy here


he is always fair, concise in his reporting, and if you haven't been to a game, he gives you a really good insight into the match, in the way mike hulme used to



gets a lot of coverage for the game in general, grass roots through to s/l too, in the NWEM

OOOOH!! looks like he's having a little dig there Dave, just remind them who asked YOU to take on Mikes 'mantle'

you'll be accused of pinching Hulmeys job next

not having a dig at all

i'm aware of the hard work dave puts in, and i enjoy his reports too


having business interests that take me to the furness area on a regular basis, i just thought it was a tad unfair to criticize someone, who for decades, has got the game lots of positive column inches

I was just stating that I've not read a quote against any of that reporters game summaries. I'm sure he does a lot of other stuff. There's a lot of my writing that hasn't seen the light of day.

I always feel I'm letting someone down if I don't obtain reaction, I suppose it's what you are comfortable with.

this is what Paul said.- www.leighjournal.co.uk/sport/lei ... _to_zeros/

this is what Paul said.- www.leighjournal.co.uk/sport/lei ... _to_zeros/

Quote ="Dick Jones"this is what Paul said.- www.leighjournal.co.uk/sport/lei ... _to_zeros/'" He didn't say much according to that apart from saying his aims had been amended. To what? Accepting that relegation is now inevitable and planning for life in the lower division?

Quote ="Dick Jones"this is what Paul said.- www.leighjournal.co.uk/sport/lei ... _to_zeros/'" He didn't say much according to that apart from saying his aims had been amended. To what? Accepting that relegation is now inevitable and planning for life in the lower division?

Im sorry but after reading that it makes me reeally worry more about our future.

This is how I see it, we appoint a coach in NK whos was a great coach but maybe has beeen out of our game too long and who had a problem with his health.
He brought in S Donlan whos a Leigh Lad and if fit would have been awesome in this league,
Also Armistead who was the player of the year in our league last year and before the Fev away game where he got injured looked to be a good prospect,
Then we have N Stanton who has been excellant.
Higson was good till he too had injuries which have kept him out a hugh part of the season.
Magraff Leuluai who s good in attack but his defence is a bit lacking at times, however a good prospect for the future.
THe number six he wanted never got here, no fault there on the clubs part.

He retained, C Hill whos never gives up and all the players had Chris,s attitude and commitment we wouldnt be in this position. Morty also he never gives up and always shows passion every time he pulls on a shirt.
then they move Kelly upsatirs and bring in aPaul whos Leigh through and through but IMHO wasnt ready to be first team coach but had it stuck on him as we couldnt afford to pay offf NK and bring in someone else. Paul is not ready yet. His Passion being from Leigh isnt enough atm and we need someone who can instill belief into the players as the palyers we have are the most expensive set we have had since SL.
Us as fans can do our bit in the coming weeks we need the players to play with pride and never give up as as pauls says in this article they are playing for a team next season if not in our team.
Its over to Paul to try and get the players to have the confidence to play like they did against Sheffield, how can ythey play like that one week and then the next like we witnessed at Barrow.
FOr what its worth Id throw a couple of our reserve side in V Donny, as they will give 100% and theyve nothing to lose and everything to gain.

I'll tell you what, there would have been no players laughning on the pitch when Murph was in charge! mind you we didn't lose many!

What is AJM's contribution to the club now? He must have some views on our current condition. Surely we can use his wealth of experience to our advantage!

I've been speaking to AJM and what he says can't be repeated on here!



No one at the club ever asks for his views or is even remotely interested in what he thinks can be done to remedy the situation. I think they're missing a trick here because he's probably forgot more about rugby league than they'll ever know and OK maybe he is a bit of a dinosaur but he still knows how to get the best out of players. He would have those players running through brick walls for him and their club - unfortunately, the coaching staff and their egos wouldn't allow him to get within a mile of their dressing room or training field.

That s a shame that

I would get him in the dressing room dont think it will do any harm at all.

pr will have them playing his way which is nothing like how the reserves play

I am sure Alex would help to motivate the team. Egos need putting aside in this situation.

To fully respect Alex Murphy you need to fully understand how good he was as a player and a coach.

How many of our lads were even born when he was the best in the world, let alone saw him play or coach?

Do players react to being bawled and shouted at now? I don't know, I'd be suprised if they did.

We're talking about arguably the best scrum half ever to play the game but I think he'd just come across as an angry old man to many of the players.

I would have thought they would respect him and listen to what he had to say though.

I certainly would listen, I'd s*/* bricks

but it wont happen so its a bit irrelevant anyway.

I agree i dont think it will happen, pity though.