: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:21 pm  

As a Leigh fan. I will swap you !!!


Like most seasons in the leagues second tiers, the season is all about 80 mins.

Fax for me are still the best team in the Championship by a country mile. Their unpredictability may let them down, but they play some super stuff.

Who would have thought Leigh are fighting relegation even though they have beaten Widnes twice ?

Its a top league which is getting better and better.

Widnes winning on Sunday did not surprise me. In fact, with the team they have, they should be fighting tooth and nail with you.

Anyone top 6 can win the GF IMHO!!

Re: Worried ? : Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:25 pm  

Pepsi Max wrote:

I dont know about anyone else but i am worried that we will finish this season with nothing ? We just seem to make too many mistakes and give away too many cheap penalties to compete for the full 80 mins against the better teams (Cas apart).
A few on here were saying last week that we dont want people like Robbie Paul and Lee Briers cos of this reason and that reason but to me this is exactly what is required now to take us to the next level.
We were in my opinion a much better team than Widnes yesterday, but we just panicked time and time again when we should have scored, also we all talk about all the play makers in the team but to be honest i think Penky and Gleeson although very good players are very much the same when it comes to the opposition defending against them and therefore they dont really have to alter their gameplan when they are swapped about. I also think that Penky although a fantastic player, is a shocking passer of a rugby ball and lots of errors happen when he is involved in the attacking play.
I hope i am wrong and just on a downer after yesterdays game but i would be interested to know what other people think lies ahead for the rest of the season?

I am worried too, I think we need a couple of more players like Said whose quick and hard as nails. Our forwards were bossed yesterday and I also think that now other clubs know they just have to "get in our faces " and rough us up eg yesterday and Sheffield then I do believe we will lose a few more too. I think we could do with someone who scares the living daylights out of the opposition.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:35 pm  

Snowy wrote:

Their unpredictability may let them down,

This is key to the whole of this thread and highlights the importance of being able to take it all to the final day of the season. Plenty have done it before us - Hull KR, Salford, Castelford etc..... They dominated the league and eventually also took the spoils. We are the best team in the league at the moment. Can we hold a steady ship in knockout footy? I'm not so sure. We've got nine matches left to send out a message to other clubs about how serious we are. We have to make them fearful again and give us more of an advantage when it comes to the knockout stuff again. We didn't play well yesterday. We didn't play too well against Barrow either. It's in our own hands to turn it around. The club currently gloating at us at the moment have lost six league matches. Let's not get into that habit and let's finish this league sitting comfortably at the top.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:50 pm  

The Dors wrote:

As much as I want to see the club in the top flight, if we don't make it I'll not lose any sleep if we keep serving up the drama we have so far this season! It's been excellent to watch (although I obviously wish we'd won yesterday!).

Totally agree, The Dors, I'm actually looking forward to matchdays nowadays whereas about 3 or 4 years ago I was on the verge of giving up and not renewing my season ticket after god knows how many years. Now bit by bit those who did give up are coming back .... we're getting better and I'm not worried in the slightest, see .....

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 5:50 pm  

The Dors wrote:

As much as I want to see the club in the top flight, if we don't make it I'll not lose any sleep if we keep serving up the drama we have so far this season! It's been excellent to watch (although I obviously wish we'd won yesterday!).

This.

As a fan who couldnt give 2 hoots or even thinks we have a chance of making SL, all i want to see is us playing great rugby, which we are, and competing as one of the best teams in the league, which we are.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:23 pm  

We are quickly becoming the biggest bottlers of games like Leeds used to be. Always the case, massive important game, loads of fair weather fans come down and we lose.

Even so I still think we will be in the GF.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:34 pm  

Haighy wrote:

We are quickly becoming the biggest bottlers of games like Leeds used to be.

Christ almighty Haighy, and how do you work THAT one out??!! We bottled yesterday (ONE match!!). Did we bottle Barrow? FFS ... some of you lot will never be satisfied!!

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:35 pm  

To be honest SL is not the be all and end all. Even if we win the GF or whatever next year i do not expect us to be allowed to be in SL-Bradford and Huddersfield will not want us in for a start! Also do we want to become cannon fodder or do we want to be usually near the top playing a brand of Rugby thats exciting?
The RFL/Sky will change the rules to suit as Widnes , Keighley etc know . One side of me wants us to be in SL and the other not. The Championship is a great comp with teams who have real fans not bandwaggoners. The fans from Gateshead, Barrow, Widnes, Leigh etc are similar to us. They have been through usually some tough times and have been treated like crap from the people running the game. These fans are salt of the earth who support the team no matter what not just because Wigan, Leeds etc are coming to town.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:36 pm  

Haighy wrote:

We are quickly becoming the biggest bottlers of games like Leeds used to be.

I think that's a bit harsh. We've only really had one game where we've properly bottled it and that was Sunday. Even then, it can be argued that it was a freak result given what Blacky did. Bottlers usually get tonked in these matches. As for our other play-off games in the last few years - we weren't favourites to win those. The last really important game for us was the York game (albeit it was 5 year ago) and we didn't bottle that. Let's see how this season finishes before adding such labels. If we finish top, we've got at least 2 home games to get to the final - surely we're not going to blow that. We now have to knuckle down to make sure we do finish top of the pile. There's plenty of GF winners who've fallen short in the NRC.

: Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:37 pm  

Tony Fax wrote:

Christ almighty Haighy, and how do you work THAT one out??!! We bottled yesterday (ONE match!!). Did we bottle Barrow? FFS ... some of you lot will never be satisfied!!

Haven in the play offs last year, Haven in the NRC semi final 2 years ago. In those knock-out, do or die games, we do seem to fall short since we beat Hull KR in 05.

To be honest I'm not satisfied with yesterday, no Fax fan should be really.