[quote="bren2k"]That was hard to listen to - the poor dog kept skulking off when I was yelling at the radio; he only re-emerged when we pulled away in the second half.
I was as disappointed as anyone to see the big lead slip away, but it's unreasonable to put that all on our players; Leigh were obviously cack in the first 20 and were always going to put some things right and have a say. I'd suggest that more credit is due to our players - who would have let that change in momentum stick for the whole game in the past - but they regrouped and put the game away fairly convincingly in the end.
Judging by some of the sour grapes tosh from some Leigh fans, we must have done something right.
Interesting to note the talk of Leigh adding some quality players before the M8's - I wonder how many of them joined Eddie in branding us cheats when we did that last year...?[/quote
Indeed.
Leigh fans were our fiercest critics at the time (when Brian Smith came in) and there was a feeding frenzy against our "rule breaking", which we clearly weren't. In fact, many clubs in both the middle 8's and Super 8's have "copied" that style, either to compete within the "new" part of the season or, to avoid ending up there.
The system is still bonkers though and the sooner that we admit that there simply aren't any other clubs worthy of SL (apart from KR and in a couple of years Toronto), we can all get on with enjoying our RL and plotting to beat The Aussie in a major competition.
Before the abolition of "Franchising", there were increased numbers of juniors coming through at all SL clubs and the game has started to go backwards.
Some clubs dont even have their own academy set up
(Obviously this was a separate incident.)
