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Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:00 am  

DrFeelgood wrote:

Pleased to see that you can manage expectations!

Haha, not sure it's best do 'expectations'.

things we'd like to happen are fine - it's only when we start 'expecting' them to happen that serious disappointment springs into view.....

Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:37 am  

Alan wrote:

It was an attempt at irony Doc. He is, I believe, expecting us to finish 1st, 2nd, or 3rd. Personally, I'm never that confident. I'm in the "I'll believe it when I see it" school!

I'm not sure about that.

After your victory over Wigan yesterday I'm expecting a tsunami of posts predicting not losing a game all season, promotion, cup glory, Man of steel awards, the onset of world peace and the ascension of Derek Beaumont to Gods right hand.

Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Mon Jan 18, 2016 9:42 am  

Of the small amount of Leigh fans I follow on Twitter, I've seen the yin and the yang.

On one hand, the sensible ones that realise friendlies don't really mean a lot, and that the Wigan side was far from a full strength team, whereas Leigh's was only missing one or two players. Happy with the victory, optimistic, but not getting carried away.

On the other hand, I've seen at least one thinking it's a famous victory against one of the best sides in the country and it proves that Leigh are mighty and will destroy all this season.

Every club has the crazies, and every club has the sensibles. If we managed to pull off a fluke and beat Leeds on Sunday, I'd fully expect to see similar comments from some of our fans about how we're amazing and better than the champions.

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Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Mon Jan 18, 2016 10:08 am  

....and don't forget the ones who would think we ought to replace the Whinos in the WCC!

Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Mon Jan 18, 2016 11:58 am  

Missing More than 2! I'm not a crazy by the way and a few Leigh fans are stupid! But with the squad we have I really do think we will go through the season unbeaten before beating Widnes in the MPG

Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:11 pm  

IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY!!!...

After last season you may have thought that they'd wind their necks in a bit. What is the point in making such predictions? You just look like a tool whatever the outcome.

Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:23 pm  

oggy123 wrote:

Missing More than 2! I'm not a crazy by the way and a few Leigh fans are stupid! But with the squad we have I really do think we will go through the season unbeaten before beating Widnes in the MPG

Think Leigh will finish top comfortably, but will be very surprised if go through first 23 rounds undefeated. Got to play Bulls 3 times and i expect at least 1 Bulls victory. Fax seem to be on a crest of a wave and a lot of good things are going on there. They're stronger than last year. Sheffield are FT but it will take a while for their side to gel.

As it stands, Leigh are favourites to get promotion and i'd say Salford are most vulnerable IMHO

However a lot changes throughout the season. The squads will likely have changed a lot come Late July.

Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Mon Jan 18, 2016 12:41 pm  

I don't think fax will match up to last years performances, Sheffield haven't really improved even though they have gone FT! As for yourselves i think you have missed out not getting a halfback take some pressure of Gaskell! I think my prediction is based on our improvements as well as the other teams not really improving all that much

Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Mon Jan 18, 2016 1:34 pm  

oggy123 wrote:

Missing More than 2! I'm not a crazy by the way and a few Leigh fans are stupid! But with the squad we have I really do think we will go through the season unbeaten before beating Widnes in the MPG

That will do you absolutely no good whatsoever... Unbeaten, going into a comp where the intensity will be far greater!

I believe our poor form at the back end of last season put us in better shape going into the middle 8's to be honest... Ignoring the fact we lost the MPG of course but we did reach it at least.

Re: Nielsen departure confirmed : Mon Jan 18, 2016 2:32 pm  

Considering we've only lost 1 game each season for the last 2 years and how the squad has strengthened you would possibly expect us to go undefeated. However even the best teams have off days and bad days at the office and everyone will up their game against us so I doubt we'll go undefeated. As for the prediction we'll win automatic promotion, I think the team we have is Super League quality, if it's a better quality on the pitch than the bottom SL teams in 7 months time you can't really say before the season has started. Looking forward to finding out though.