We must have played the last of our Get out of Jail free card.

We stay second in the table. Leigh won again.

Perhaps the players read the RAB score projections and thought they just needed to catch the bus to the ground.

Bloody lucky today.

Lucky escape.

Played poorly, but at least we came away with the points.

Surely Shaw has to play each week for his kicking, kept his cool under a lot of pressure.

Hopefully Purtell & JPB back soon.

Sounds like we were well off the pace today and Batley were very up for it. John Kear will have really got his players fired up for this game so in some respects it is pleasing that we've found a way to win. But only just by the skin of our teeth. Maybe a bit of a wake up call for our players that we have to keep intensity up otherwise we will slip up againt one of the smaller clubs.

Another 2 points on the board though.

Absolute nerves of steel from Shaw to land that touchline conversion to make it 20-19. It didn't matter in the end but he wasn't to know that.

Edit: London lost at Whitehaven today. Nobby might be having second thoughts!

Good Job you didn't draw Leyth int Challenge Cup.

Massive wake up call for the Bulls today. We played well for 5 minutes in the first half and then 6 minutes in the second half. I think we missed JPB, Ferguson and Purtell on the outside flanks.

Today's result will be a big reality check.

For a full time team i am surprised that our fitness isn't that much better, Batley and Whitehaven were not that much off our pace at the end of the day.

We will face much better sides in the CC if we progress. If we beat Workington I would be looking beyond the likes of Leigh to test some of players against seasoned SL players.

IF? You don't sound that confident.

Leigh fans winning the the cup and the middle eights in March then

How we won that I will never know. Got out of jail big tome. Didn't really deserve to win it.

I think scoring that early try probably did more damage to us as we seemed to have the mind set we wouldn't have to work very hard going down hill to score.

Batley had the John Kear trademark stamped all over them.

Sidlow should have been spelled much earlier in the game. He looked out on his feet most of it.

Had a big wake up call today and still won so can't complain too much. Will do us good this match.

Batley at home is a tough place to go and we've managed to play badly and come away with two points.

Next week I think we need to rest Sidlow and give some longer minutes to Lauaki and Flemming to get their fitness levels up.

On another note, Saw the amount of players we had on sideline today. Showed how much depth we've got.

Davies, Addy, Ferguson, Mellor, Purtell, JPB, Blythe, Uaisele are all first team regulars and we still had a strong team out. Take seven players out of other teams and they'll be struggling.

With Whitehaven beating London today, it shows just because we're full time that we're not just going to be able to turn up and win.

I'm not that arrogant that I assume we will be in the next round before a game is played.

No, Later on in the year.

Well you have got gareth hock to come in who is unwanted by every team in superleague so you're probably right

It's not about being arrogant, confidence and a winning attitude, is a better approach to success. [size=150NOT[/size assumptions.

NEVER easy at Batley, we (Leigh) should know !

IMHO I think the signing of GH will be an excellent signing. I also don't think that nobody else wanted him. Time will surely tell. But i think Leigh have got him at the right time, and with the family culture at Leigh, it will do him a world of good and bring the best out of him, and he will prove what a world class player he his.

No trouble last season.

Got out of jail with that one

I suppose, trying to find something positive to say, we found a way to win when it looked for all money that we were staring down the barrel of defeat. And its not so long ago that you wouldn't have thought we would have the mental strength to that.

Having said that, there were some worrying aspects. Siejka was very poor today. He offered nothing, literally nothing, on attack and completely failed to dominate the game like you need from a scrum half. We need more of a plan than relying on a bit of magic from Gaskell, because when he gets shut down like he was for large parts of today, we don't look like creating anything.

Bringing back Siejka and putting Mullaney back to full back made us look a LOT less potent than last week.

And why, when we had three props on the bench, did Sidlow play for so long? Anyone notice that Fleming, who had only been on the field about five minutes, got taken off after he let Batley score a soft try. And Lauaki only did about 10 minutes again. We can't keep flogging Sidlow and Clough or they'll be knackered by the time it gets to the business end of the season.

Fair play to Batley, they played really well and will probably feel they've had their pocket picked today

Today's crowd 2223. What a fiddle. At least double that. 3500 Bulls there. On todays game,we got lucky. Referee was appalling in second half. Our attacking play was too slow. Batley treated it like a cup tie, we took the game too easily. We woke up just in time.

Only thing I can think it's either a fiddle or they haven't counted the tickets the bulls had the print themselves yet. I'm sure there chairman will want to get it into the press

Referee Stokes is the worst ref in the business. We had him at Leigh v Broncos and i swear i will not attend a another game when he is in charge.