I think Smith has given up on that one

I know we have or appear to have poor discpline, but the ref's seem to me to be super quick to ping us for anything and everything. But never seem to be as quick with our opposition.

Am i alone on this?

Agreed and to be honest just don’t see Lovodua getting a game in the first team again unless we have an injury crisis.

Clifford will definitely be out so would think it’ll be McNamara in for Clifford as he’s the back up half and can’t see point in moving players around.

Think it’s going to be too big an ask next week, with Clifford we had a chance in a one off game but we just don’t have enough without him.

Leigh are 3rd. Is it me or has this story been undersold? After years of promoted clubs barely surviving, being so compromised in terms of squad assembly, this is nothing short of sensational. I know their owner's style is a bit marmite but this is an amazing position for them to be in. Question is what can be learned?

I think tonight shows us that we need to get a top replacement for big Chris. Without his presence in the team, we fell short.

He's certainly a player that has the plays in him to turn that result in our favour. Like he did last week.

Disappointing to lose Clifford to a late hit, amazed not one of the officials on the pitch saw it but managed to see every other tickle around the ears (from both sides), no doubt the guilty Leigh player will get banned for their game v York, whilst we miss Clifford v Saints and half of tonights game.


Still need to cut out the silly mistakes and daft penalties, and please, no Houghton at 6!

Having seen the hit on Clifford I can see Charnley sitting out a couple of weeks. Doesn't help us of course.

Wonder if it had been Mcintosh that put a cheapshot on Lam it would have just been an on report decision?

Quote ="Hasbag"According to Dan Tomlinson it was a late hit on Clifford that has caused him to fail his HIA. Of course no card was given.'" https://twitter.com/ianhinch/status/166 ... FpFNQ&s=19

Quote ="Hasbag"According to Dan Tomlinson it was a late hit on Clifford that has caused him to fail his HIA. Of course no card was given.'" https://twitter.com/ianhinch/status/166 ... FpFNQ&s=19

Well worth the two points.

Don't blame Charnley. Blame the pathetic, dictorial rugby league rules if Clifford misses next week.

I call the rules dictorial because left up to him and the club, Clifford would play.

Chatnley did right cleaning out his opponents main man.

He deserves it, hes spent millions to see them relegated numerous times. The trouble Leigh are going to have is to set up a successful academy in an area Wigan and Saints are already successful in. If they can do that then they will become a SL club for the foreseable for me as at the moment they seem heavily bankrolled by DB.

They cant be far off the record for total points by a newly promoted side either.

Clifford was fuming as he left the pitch.

After seeing the incident with Clifford you have to ask how not one official saw it. It’s quite a shocker, even if Clifford had lost his footing Charnley hits him directly in the head with full on forearm, it’s far worse than Cross on Coote last week and that was a yellow.
Just shows how inconsistent and poor the standard of officiating is.
Shoukd have been given a yellow at the least. Charnley should get at least 2 games for that but wouldn’t be surprised if he just gets a £250 fine.
It really is about time the officials were held to account.

Money wins.

The incident has been placed on report.

Problem is it doesn’t help the team that’s been disadvantaged in the game the offence happened for an incident the officials shouldn’t have missed.
If the game was only tv tonight that would have resulted in a card for Charnley and quite possibly one that was red.

That's what happens when games in the same league are played with different rules. Some games have video ref. Some games don't. It's an amateur run sport.claiming to be professional.

Errrrrrrrr

Warrington?

I’m tempted to say ‘yes’, but I suspect you’re making a different point?

The thing is, even when there’s the occasional temporary outlier, I think we all know the total rugby budget to on field success correlation coefficient approaches 1.

The main secret ingredient of the successful clubs’ special sauce is money. There can other elements. Sustaining the spend to sustain and reinforce the success, of course. The benefits of incumbency that follow on from that.

It’s not new, although it has become more extreme. It’s kinda sad, but there’s a comfort in making peace with it. A bit like the prospect of death. I should probably get a job in the IMG RL marketing team. Have a slide rule and a he as mascots.

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Enjoy your disappointment.

Too many errors and far far too many penalties, you can't give any team in SL that much ball without having to work for it, all of Leighs points came of our mistakes which has cost us the game. Charnley will sit out the next couple of weeks to someone else's benefit, the refs will carry on as normal with zero consequences from their blatant incompetence, how a 5/6 man officiating team can't/choose not to see the Clifford incident is beyond me, one of many reasons the game is dying.

Dont understand your point ? Is he meant to be happy.

I get every season youve being in SL youve being the whipping boys but Im sensing Leigh fans appearing to have a chip on there shoulder.

Nothing worse than a bad winner, I wonder how many Hull fans went gloating on the Leigh board after our many wins against them.

Onto the game, once again good effort but far too many errors and penalties. Saying that we were right in the game until Clifford went off and had Charnley recieved some punishment which he should it could have changed the game.

Leight are a good side, we have too many players not good enough and that's probably the reason for the errors and penalties.

While not fully responsible, most tries came down Mcintosh's side, he seems to consistently be out of position or make thr wrong choices. Dwyer cost us the last try, running out the line, leaving a Hugh gap.

Also we need to improve defending scrums, we seem to concede a try every week from a scrum.

For any chance of beating Saints, I think we have to try Litten, Hoy and Truemam.