Tuffour knocks on with the tryline looking close...

Penalty to Leigh, Ridyard kicks it, 14-8.

Finnigan in for his hat trick, Ridyard conversion, now 20-8.

TRY - Brierley. 24-8

Come on Lads - Bonus point would be a good result today....

Oh Dear....

Try Penkywycz.

32-8.

Conversion Brierley. 34-8.

Can anyone who has gone today tell us if Goulding was making some wrong decisions as sounds like it on here and heard very little of cooke?

Final Score Leigh 34 Dons 8

Shame we seemed to be going well in the 1st half .

A lot of the play making was on Goulding's shoulders. Cooke had a quiet game. Dons faded in the second half, after a strong first half performance.

we can be encouraged by first.half, game ran away from us in second half, but they are expected to be up there at the end of the season. Onto Hunslet and a very winnable game.

I am not sure how long we can go on picking 3 half backs , may be time to pick 2 out of 3 & have an extra forward .

In the end I didn't play ... as it turns out, a fortunate decision.

It was Clare at FB with Sando on the wing.

Not a lot between the 2 sides in the first half. 12-8 to Leigh a couple of minutes before half time, 2 tries each but both converted by Leigh, neither by the Dons. A late penalty giving a slightly flattering scoreline (14-icon_cool.gif in favour of the hosts.

Second half from a Dons point of view quite poor. Too many penalties conceded and far too many missed tackles (uncharacteristic).

Today was always going to be one of the more difficult fixtures this season and as you say next week offers a better chance of getting a positive return.

A wise move.

Although, on the evidence of the first 40 minutes, it looked like it was going to be close. As for the penalties it was 12-9 in Leigh's favour. (but 7-4 in the second half) The referee was clearly frustrating both sets of players, with some of his apparently random, 'nit-picking' decisions.

GINGER spoilt the game....he is useless.

Surprised that Butterfield was not included today is he injured or out of favour?

Thought you guys played some good rugby in the first half and at times had us on the back foot, we did seem to play better second half though, but if you play as you did in the first half i think you will do OK this season and beat a good few sides.

Anyway good luck for the rest of the season guys.

Looking at the table this morning, we are above the teams I hoped we would be and below those who I assumed at start of season we wouldnt, so all in all, not too bad.

No mention of Waterman in LE this morning ref any injury?

I also think looks hard on Butts who looking at Twitter seems to becoming V distant from group.

Butterfield at the moment seems to be a bit out of favour as you say, with Waterman injured i thought he would have come in , but went for Clare, can't really blame him for being a bit disillusioned . But TM is the coach, we have to back him, he's done a good job so far, even if sometimes we can't understand some selections. Guess that's why he's a coach and im a supporter.

We have already Fran Welsh leave and I think Butts could be next. At first I was happy with the dual reg but I'm not now. If we alienating loyal players because of being "obliged" to pick dual reg players, who may be back at the parent club the following week, then this is wrong. This showed up yesterday with fawcett, goulding and cooke. Cooke looked out of position at loose, and gouldings inexperience showed out. Playing all 3 at the same time does not work.

On another note I have heard that the RFL have banned teams from using the phrase "feeder club".

Yes i agree, we lose cookes organising ability when he's not at stand off, as for dual reg , well it seems to be overshadowing the season doesn't it.

As I have posted , time for a decision Cooke plus 1 other & get Carl Hughes in at 13