Leigh Sports Village this coming sunday, NRC action.

I think we'll lose unfortunately, Leigh 36-16 Eagles.

I'll go with a defeat too, still be happy if we improve drastically on last week though. They seemed to let a few easy ones in last week so..

Leigh 48 Sheffield 22.

Im going for a draw again.

Easy win.

Leigh 28-Seagulls 14 no wagging fingers from Bergin this game,



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I'd rather win in the playoffs than an NRC group game to be fair mate

Did he wag his finger? The camera was too busy looking at a Leigh player on the floor than who actually won the game.

im on the same boat especting a lose but the boost of alex szotak could be a match turner. if he plays. d mc may not be a half but he has two sisters on his cv.lol

Good Doctor , he deffo wagged his finger ,and what is all that waving of his fingers about after scoring Sheffs first try? Still i think it will be a close game ,but a Leigh win is a cert.

Leigh Centurions v Sheffield Eagles 3pm
Ref M Thomason TJ J Ashton TJ S Johnson RR R Jones MC P Golmour

Don't know about it being a cert Ian, think like you say it will be a close game.

If there is no Wood and Brown and keeping much of last weeks team I fear 50 points against us with us being luck to get a couple of interceptions!

Duo doubtful for Eagles


HALF-BACKS Kyle Wood and Simon Brown look set to miss Sheffield Eagles trip to Leigh Centurions at the weekend.


It is a major selection headache for coach Mark Aston with a place in the knockout stages of the Northern Rail Cup just about guaranteed for the winner of Sunday’s game.

“We will go with what we have available on the day.” said Aston. “We’ll have to look and see who’s fit – I’m not sure Simon will be fit. Kyle has a dead leg and we’ve got to check on him.

“The team won’t be too much different from last weekend because we haven’t got many options.”

Wood, on loan from Huddersfield Giants, was injured in the draw with Whitehaven and Brown is struggling to recover from a groin strain.

Hallam student and English Universities international Pat Smith is likely to get the call-up at scrum-half with loose-forward Dane McDonald continuing his stand-in role at stand-off.

Facing them at Leigh on Sunday (kick-off 3pm) could be the experienced pairing of former Kiwi star Robbie Hunter-Paul and Mick Govin.

It is a crucial game for both teams with, at the half-way point in the group stage, Leigh unbeaten and Eagles having recorded a win and a draw from their opening matches.

I suppose we're due that combination, we've not had the same half-back pairing yet all season

Join the club! I'm dreading Sunday, think we might get a bit of a shoeing.

You're confusing Eagles with the Wednesday.

No, that's tomorrow. I feel like I've got a ticket to watch my cat get kicked to death.

The team in the red and white hoops will win. Trust me.

Well, Leigh don't play in red & white hoops, and I can't see Eagles playing in them either, as that would clash with Leigh's predominantly red kit!

Well, we'll see. But you may be over-confident.

How's the cat?

Certainly not over-confident griff. I've still got vivid memories of two games against you lot, last season!

Even worse after that shower of sh*te today. What an absolute waste of a Sunday afternoon, defence was embarassing, take nothing away from Leigh, they were excellent, but we did ourselves no favours. The only highlights were three or four huge hits by Menzie and an excellent individual effort from Jamie Cottle close to their line to pick up our solitary try. Hope Robbie Paul is ok, never nice to see someone get stretchered off.

I'm not sure where we go from here, and I don't like to single players out but we CANNOT persist with Dane McDonald at stand-off for ANY longer. We'd be better off playing with twelve men, picked up a couple of great assists today...shame they were for Leigh tries.

complete and utter sh*te today ,if any one can tell me what the game plan was for today i would gratefull because from what i saw there wasn't one but thats what we'll get from mr aston( we didn't stick to the game plan ). now apart from a few good performances like jamies try and menzies tackle on hunter there was nothing of note , and how can any say that dane is a stand off( apart from aston who must think the sun shines out of his a*se )must be watching a different game because no one else does . leigh today showed how to play basic , simple rugby where as we could do nothing right we couldn't pass the ball we couldn't tackle and we showed no spirit what so ever . i don't think we will get to the quarter finals on this performance and i think hunslet and leeds met will fancy their chances against us . something needs to change and soon or we will lose more supporters and all that will be left are the hard core supporters that have been there through think and thin .

I was disappointed with Eagles today. In defence, you were missing both half backs and two vital overseas' players, plus maybe Szostak. (?) Reading the programme notes about Eagles, one thing struck me immediately - the guys who made most appearances last season, are gone. That's a lot of key players/experience to offload in one go!

However, I thought there would have been more spirit displayed.

Mind you, it's a funny game - at this stage last season, we beat Featherstone 36-6 and look what happened after that! No doubt we will see a different Eagles side, when we meet up in the Championship.

By the way, Robbie was concussed trying to tackle Menzie Yere head on! Apparently he came around and went to hospital, purely as a precaution.