Terrible.

Why ? Players who can,t tackle and they are the same ones who missed tackles last week.

Shocking display.

Mort worst performance Ive seen from him in a Leigh shirt. Madden not the first time this season. Reay another one but went off early doors. Ridyard not today.

Donlan must play full back for me.

Forwards today ................not one broke the line.

Mom well McConnell ok but he wasn,t special was he ?

Conclusion pack too small, backs weak defensively, not enough pace.

Was it just a collective bad day ?

keep off the ber Frank!! Sam didn't play. It as Haggerty who went off early doors.

Well ok. Similar build

But I still think defensively it was terrible.

Well my view is as follows:

Not enough pace out wide, but then we have not had a pacy back line for decades!

Ridyard is still learning his trade at this level and shouldn't have such expectations on his shoulders, remember if the Aussie 6 would have got his work permit Ridyard would have been the standoff in the reserves and been eased into the first team. We are desperate for at least 1 specialist centre, as Frank says Donlan is wasted at fullback. TBF Morty only gets a spot because we don't have another specialist goalkicker at the moment (Stanton can kick them for fun, and Marshy is only just back in training). We need one more "grunt" prop to compliment Hobson.

To put things in perspective we ere missing the following players today who would have been in the 17 : Marshy, Stanton, Armi, Aaron and Reay. Would they have made the difference?

Hard to disagree but I am still thoroughly p,d off.



I,ll still be there next week.

For me, we made a bad tactical error in having Watson defend in the right centre position and then leaving him there when it was obvious to all that Batley were scoring at will in that channel. I thought in the secong half we would have moved him more central, had Higson where he should have been and JT on the inside of him to bolster that right flank. But no...and they went and scored there again, round Stewart as if he wasn't there. I thought except for the right centre we weren't that bad defensively. Batley didn't look like scoring anywhere else...but then they scored so easily down their left they didn't need to. Players: Ridyard may be a nice bloke but why he is on the pitch and Durbin on the bench is a complete mystery. Everyone today was at best adequate. Having said that, we could have drawn near the end. Hopefully we'll learn from that, or rather Ned will.

I too was wondering why Watson was at centre seeing that we supposedly had a full squad to choose from apart from Armistead according to paper and as you said a mystery why Durbin doesnt start from the off as the game was much better with his input i was very dissapointed today with most aspects of the match very mediocre.

I was niffed before I got in. Large queue standing outside in a cold wind with people behind me asking why can't you pay at the turnstiles? it was there first game, swipe cards that you have to hand in. what sense is that! no bar in the stadium like the MM bar to meet in, pricy beer and food, small crowd and poor rugby.

All in all a typical enjoyable experience at LSV and watching Leigh. See you all at the next game.

well we all know they have a couple of decent fast wingers, so why was special attention not igvenb to them, they made us look foolish in that 1st half, i am sorry but that was totally unacceptable and we have to do a load better. Same old problems, no real size in the pack, defo no spped in the backs and a lack of creaticity from half back, i feel sorry for people like c hill who once again led by example, and i asked the same question re durbin, spent majority of game on bench, why kelly why.

I HATE THE NEW GROUND THAT 'WE USE' or is it because the team is so bl00dy awful ?

Dont think I will, Im going watching the lad instead, more fun.

I am a staunch Leigh fan, however, if my lad was playing and there is a clash I would always go and watch him. Luckily (or unluckily in yesterdays instance) this does not really happen at the moment in the NWC Under 14's.

Defensively we were poor, very poor, especially on our right wing, Batley quite rightly concentrated on this wing.
Also we need someone on the pitch who can count...how many tries did we conceed on the last tackle?
As has already been said, the forwards just couldnt seem to make any headway. The halfbacks seemed devoid of ideas, kicking game was woeful.
Batley deserved their victory, and the score flattered us. If we had snatched a draw at the death, Batley would have been robbed.
We need to improve and quickly.

everyone forgets we are still a very young team, and days like sunday will happen, i was very close to the lads as they walked off at fulltime, and everyone of them felt that defeat i can tell you.

I agree with frank in as much that Donlan has to be at full back.

I don't think he ever looks comfortable at centre, and has a tendency to over run the ball in attacking the line. Doesn't seem to read play as well as when given the chance to float around at the back.

On top of that his positional play when fielding kicks and ball return at FB is far superior to mort ( at the moment).

Mort has looked ok on the wing, so why not leave him there, then if we get the ascendency in a game switch him to full back in defence to get more experience.

I feel a bit sorry for our half backs as I don't think that they have played with the same back five all season, so we lose a bit of consistency for running lines.

Reay hasn't really done much wrong when he has played so seemed a bit strange to drop him, probably to play Alstead I guess.

In all I just think that the team thought they were going to win by a good forty points before a ball was kicked. Batley came with the right attitude and played us off the park for 60 mins. Sometimes it just happens. Cas surprised a lot of top tems in SL last year. They still finished bottom, and the teams they beat finished at the top.

One defeat doesn't make a bad team.

I echo davo1979, well said pal

if anyone needs droping ridyard maiden mort all need to look at themselves