Re: Leigh : Sat Sep 03, 2022 10:05 pm  

BigTime wrote:

That won’t help. I was always pleased to see him in our team ....except when he occasionally did that step hard to the right as the attacker brushes past his left shoulder and over the line to score move.
I also thought he seemed a good guy off the pitch so I hope if he does pick up a ban it’s not too long.

His defence is indefensible - Leigh have signed well since but that first factor weighed heavily against him.

Regarding your last line, yeah, was impressed by seeing him, when on loan at Rochdale, in the Leigh dressing room after a win (in a Centurions outer coat whilst that night's players were in varying amounts of game kit) banging the empty Eski cum cajon to lead the victory song. If he has two brain cells to rub together, he must have known he'd played his last game for us but he was still one of the lads when amongst his squadmates.

Is "squadmate" a word? It is now!

Re: Leigh : Sun Sep 04, 2022 12:58 pm  

It doesn’t look like the foot is coming off the gas:

Aekins
Ferguson
Chamberlain
MacDonald
Inu
Lam
Mellor
Sidlow
Smith
Amone
Wardle
Stone
O’Donnell

Ipape
Charnley
Ioane
Nakubuwei

Re: Leigh : Sun Sep 04, 2022 1:09 pm  

33/1 Broncos to win. Worth a punt? I've only seen Leigh once and they lost. 1/500 Leigh to win mind!

Re: Leigh : Sun Sep 04, 2022 5:12 pm  

Well beaten. Shows how far we are from where we need to be.

Based on the ones around me, if there was a championship for whinging fans, Leigh would take that comfortably too.

Re: Leigh : Sun Sep 04, 2022 5:54 pm  

Some observations from me.
Leigh’s interchange bench is dynamite.
Their back room staff is significant in number they really must have a few quid knocking about. Was that Gary Megson ex WBA manager as a water carrier?
Leigh were metaphorically a different class but I thought Broncos worked hard.
A bit unlucky to have a try knocked off and had a decent 15 minutes in the first half but that was probably about it.
Boy does Inu take a long time to take even the simplest of kicks,
We only had one drop out today and, to sighs around the ground, Leyland did his 15 metres short kick offf.....and it worked and we got up the other end of the park before gifting Ferguson with a break away interception try.
Walker takes the kick offs. He is perilously close to hitting it too long most times- can’t win can you!
Parata had his least effective game Leigh very effective down the middle.
As to Leigh’s fans seems Ok to me but I do question quite why fans are so inter- mingled it is a recipe for disaster. I’m. Sure they could have allocated Leigh a stand. Maybe it was just too much hassle.

Re: Leigh : Sun Sep 04, 2022 7:08 pm  

BigTime wrote:

Their back room staff is significant in number they really must have a few quid knocking about. Was that Gary Megson ex WBA manager as a water carrier?

Tony Clubb as assistant coach seems to be enjoying the pies now his playing career is over.

BigTime wrote:

As to Leigh’s fans seems Ok to me but I do question quite why fans are so inter- mingled it is a recipe for disaster. I’m. Sure they could have allocated Leigh a stand. Maybe it was just too much hassle.

Perhaps they were supposed to be in a separate section, but for all the security I don't see any checks on where you sit.

Re: Leigh : Sun Sep 04, 2022 7:16 pm  

Bent&Bongser wrote:

You don't like Hughes.....

I don't dislike him.....he's probably a lovely bloke but he's ruined the club I support, which is why I post on that clubs forum.....now jog on you northern monkey
Happy we didn't get totally embarrassed by a SL standard squad, but we do look very lightweight in terms of competing for anything other than survival in 2023....we are certainly no nearer SL than we were last February.....and nowhere near the 5,000 fans that we had in 2007 when Hughes took over and he now says he needs after ignoring them for 15 years ....

Re: Leigh : Sun Sep 04, 2022 7:24 pm  

jbuzza wrote:

Tony Clubb as assistant coach seems to be enjoying the pies now his playing career is over.

Perhaps they were supposed to be in a separate section, but for all the security I don't see any checks on where you sit.

Yes I noticed Clubb as well. You can see by the way he ran onto the pitch how much damage the game does to the body.

Yes from back at the start of the season when there was more security than fans there appeared to be just one on the doors of each block and one solitary guard ensuring no one ran onto the pitch. Financially shrewd move but if it kicks off they’ll struggle.
What do you think the attendance was? On the other forum someone said about 350 but I think it was more than that although the perversity of using a 9000 seat stadium and opening only one side and using only about 4 blocks in that stand is more and more obvious every time I attend. Leigh fans were in good voice, Broncos fans probably down a bit- no one likes watching their team trounced, I’d say about 700.

Re: Leigh : Sun Sep 04, 2022 7:58 pm  

BigTime wrote:

.....Their back room staff is significant in number they really must have a few quid knocking about. Was that Gary Megson ex WBA manager as a water carrier?.....

Haha, Bongser is guessing you saw Tom Nisbet (on loan from Saints), decent player but not getting an awful lot of game time lately, wears No5 when he does play, but Leigh have recruited heavily since the beginning of the season. 9 appearances (other than "aquaman"), 5 tries.

Good luck next week with the visit of a Barrow team that, knowing Batley are away at Leigh, will fancy nicking home advantage in the eliminators. Mind you, Dewsbury had them sweating today and London Broncos is a better team than Dewsbury.

Re: Leigh : Sun Sep 04, 2022 8:05 pm  

orangeman wrote:

.....now jog on you northern monkey .......

Classy riposte, Orangeman! Bless you. Hope you and the kids are well.

Your friend, Bongser.