Leigh Miners make the short trip across the canal tomorrow evening when they play Leigh east in there final league game of the season. With miners losing there last five matches they know they will have to improve if they want to take the local bragging rights against an inform east side who only need one more point to clinch the minor premiership. Kick off 7-30pm at LSV.

Great match in prospect - get down to East for your RL fix this week - even if you are lucky enough to be going to France

Only question is - Who are you going to support??

Just to inform you Srum Down Under will be down selling all the new range for East and Miners team wear

Twitter updates tonight follow Leigh MR here: twitter.com/leighminersrl

Twitter updates tonight follow Leigh MR here: twitter.com/leighminersrl

Come on Miners !

C'MON EASTS , BEAT THE OWD ENEMY AND CLAIM THAT LEAGUE TITLE



Whoops think I shouted that bit

am I reading right on Twitter...12 - 4 at HT..the Miners come back and take the game at 18 - 22

Easts just can't seem to beat the Miners in recent years.

Miners were bloody awesome and dented the Red and Blacks title hopes.
This must rank as one of the DARK SIDES finest hours coming back from 18-4 down to completly dominate the final quarter playing open attractive rugby.
East much larger pack visibly wilted under the tremendous powerful tackling of the much smaller Miners pack.
Winston will be a proud coach tonight and rightly so still undefeated agianst Leigh East in the top flight.

COME ON THE MIGHTY MINERS

....and still it goes on!!!

East 18 Miners 22.



No doubt East will get their league leaders title but they'll never have the town bragging rights!!!!

Well done lads.

Well done to the Miners!

Another game of two halves as the saying goes, East were comfortably in control in the first half and seemingly heading for the title winning victory. After the break Miners upped their game to dominate the half and took the spoils in the final minute.
Miners probably deserved their victory but were helped in their quest by a couple of crap decisions from the officials. The ref was poor throughout the game but it seemed impossible for him to miss the knock on before the deciding try, the young TJ had a good view but bottled it. Add to this a marginal forward pass for another Miners try and a dubious double movement for an East disallowed one. This only my opinion of course, I will give my final decisions after the TV replays .

I hope when you do watch the game again take your blinkers off and pay particular attention to the first 20 mins and the penalty account against the Miners.
Dont try and make excuses for the East defeat they were beat by a better more committed side on the night and to say otherwise without giving full credit to the Miners is disrespectful and shows a distinct lack of knowledge of the game of rugby league.

I'm guessing from your user ID that you are a fellow referee. Do you not think you should be encouraging your fellow officials instead of calling them "crap" and saying they "bottled it". It's hard enough keeping young officials in the game because of abuse from spectators and players. They don't need it from so called colleagues

East didn't have a try disallowed for double movement.

Who rattled your cage, unlike you I have no attachment to either of the Leigh teams and at a guess I think I have watched about 10 home games of each team. Where did I show disrespect to Miners, would "upped their game", "dominate the half" and "deserved the victory" be your interpretation of disrespect.
The first twenty minutes were scrappy and the ref was over fussy after that it was an enthralling game of rugby, the fact that you don't agree with my opinions doesn't make me worry that my knowledge of the game is less than yours.

You didn't go to the game then?

will there be any highlights of this game posted?

I was at the game and you quite clearly point out that the referee made decisions which in your opinion went against Leigh East and affected the outcome making no reference to any decisions against the miners.Now as for the alledged try dissallowed for double movement thats new to me could you enlighten us all.
I will agree the referee was poor as were the touch judges a lot was missed by all three and we will leave it at that shall we.

Nothing can detract from a fantastic result from the more committed Mighty Miners

Doubt it East only put the highlights on when they win

i'm neutral in this, but thats something i have noticed!

I went. After 20 minutes I would have bet my place on a comfortable Easts win.

Fair do's last 15 mins Miners came back from the dead. Easts lost it. A good game for neutrals.

Easts will bounce back to win this league.

I thought it was a cracking game, the Ref was a bit fussy at times and then ignored a couple of things but don't all ref's? East started very well taking control but late in the first half Miners seemed to start clawing their way back into it, in terms of territory and possession, they then built on that in the second and overall probably deserved their victory.

Well done to Miners, Good Luck to East on winning the title, it would be good to see both teams in a re-run in the Grand Final.

Contrary to what some may think, the lack of highlights is more likely due to the fact Fred's on holiday rather than East losing.