I have never seen Toulouse's Aussie half back Wynne play before, but he is huge for a scrum half, and top notch.

Nor have I seen the Toulouse centre Sebastien Planas be as exciting and dominant as he was yesterday.

After Salford got thumped by Catalans, coach McRae gave as one reason that it took the team 11 hours to get to Toulouse. Did it take Leigh fans that long? How could it take so long, when the air flight is only 90 minutes.

Salford are strapped for cash - it's all gone into their magnificent new stadium. Think they hitched to Catalans!

just got back from toulouse and yes leigh wernt good but to be fair toulouse are a very good side, size, strength, speed all over the pitch and i dont think any team will go there and win the rest of the season the only thing that will stop them getting in the top 3 is how well they travel to away games widnes wer very lucky to play them wen they did, they will be in SL next time the franchises are up

I have been home 30 mins and I,m not reading all through the thread cos I,m tired.

Toulouse surprised me because they were bigger faster and passed properly.

In contrast we didn,t pass well, tackle well and dropped too many passes.

I thought too many players had bad games at the same time and injuries to Donlan and Higson didn,t help.

Word is our stand off problem might be rectified sooner rather than later and maybe we can turn this around.

We have played 2 at home and 4 away and this season was bound to be one of good days and bad. I would like a more expansive game but you can,t play that if passes are going to players ankles or around the shoulders. Maybe that area of our game could be looked at.

Will we win Thursday ? Well the players I talked to after the game know the team played badly on the day. Lets hope for an improvement.

PS couldn,t fault the ref.

Quel surpreese as we say in the posh part of Salford.

Food in Toulouse is very good and people very friendly but the price of the beer is extortionate.

Top chap who took the banter in good heart




Tha still supped enough of it though Frank



Very disappointing performance and I thought criticism of our half-back partnership was a little unjust as our forwards simply didn't lay the platform for them. Toulouse were bigger, faster, stronger and, quite frankly, played some bloody good rugby at times, with a couple of the tries being applauded by the Leigh fans as well. Very impressive side and Wynne at scrum half is an absolute monster.

Well must admit I had a few too many on Saturday after the game but that was cos I suffer very badly from depression. I have no idea why but I find going missing when its my round always makes me feel better.

The beer was good I thought and was also impressed with the red wine which I have to drink for medical reasons.

Hey, you must have what I've got! If you search the internet hard enough, you can also find that white wine and rose, are good for some complaints. To be honest though, I find that sheer volume is best to help forget our games!

One thing I'd like to know from those there, how warm was it, as the Leigh lads were flagging after about 25 minutes.

Not too much warmer than when we arrived back at Liverpool this afternoon, in truth. Late teens, early twenties in centigrade, at a guess.

Make no mistake............................this is just the ticket






It cures just about everything

Those were the days - when we had an Empire, eh?!

Ask the Aussies who were in a Toulouse pub last night whether or not we still have an empire (of sorts)

The Watcher was very disapointed with Leighs performance in France.We are making simple rugby look extremley difficult.The team needs to get back to basics & work on getting the completion rate up to around the 90% mark,after they have managed that the rest will follow much easier.

I've heard this roumor as well .

Rowley had the team playing entertaining rugby during his short stint as coach , be interesting to know what input he has in to the crap that is being dished out .

IMO Kelly's had his chance and blew it but can we afford to get rid ? , or can we make Rowley head coach and have Kelly as some sort of director of rugby ?

Wont cost a penny to get rid Mr.Kelly as never signed a contract.

sorry but he as signed a contract

Get rid of Kelly brilliant solution more money down the pan.....unbelievable post!!!

Hey hears an idea it might just be that the Rowleys could be at fault?? (shoot me down after all they are true leythers cant possibly be their faults???) much easier to blame the yorkshire guy??

Lets go through coaches managers etc etc ..we arnt a well run club end of...but in true leyther style always blame the outsider..

Neil Kelly is always available to chat to always an approachable bloke at away grounds and in the shop...are the others at the club?????

Goes back to what i thought at the time how can you take a job on and be told who your staff are going to be???(thats the only thing i blame him for...)

Having had a few days to reflect on saturdays game, i would like say that everything was stacked against us as soon as the fixtures came out.It is never easy playing games over easter,but to play 3 games in 9 days and do all the travelling aswell, made it near impossible to get a result against Toulouse. Toulouse only had 1 game at easter and that was at Batley were they got there 1st win, they were allways going to be full of confidence as we lost at home to Batley.If you go back a few days to easter monday at half time,most Leigh fans were thinking were going to be top of the league by the end of the day and then things started to go wrong.I still think we will see the effects of the easter programme and the Toulouse trip on thursday,most SL teams would struggle with that sort of fixture planning never mind NL 1. I hope we can put on good show on thursday, but the fans really need to get behind them and give them a lift and show Sky and the RFL that were still here fighting our corner.kEEP THE FAITH

Echo everything in that post.

Put it this way its somebodys fault the team are playing boring yed down
no moves poor defensive RL look at the points for and against
that tells a story If its not the coachin staffs fault it must be the players
who are not of this standard and cant follow game plans..
Back to game plans

i agree it is someones fault but why always the outsider?? am not saying it is or isnt rowleys kelly knox(i know he`s a freebie) but its to easy to just say sack the coach how about looking further a field sometimes ..just a thought

If Kelly goes, it will be a real blow, as we won't replace him with the same calibre.

I cannot see the sense in it one little bit, and one or two on here seem to be a little bitter against him.

Why ?

Two reasons probably

a, If your an outsider you have to be an aussie

b, its easy to pin it on a non leyther

would be a disgrace if he was the one to kop for it a real disgrace!!!!!!

Neil Kelly has won two Grand Finals in this divsion with two different teams and he was also 'Super League' coach of the year. I was on the terracing at Halifax in our promotion year when, Leythers were singing and advising the board to appointent Neil Kelly as coach, then!
Neil Kelly is a good coach however, the players we have are not the best so we cannot expect the best. How many of the people were calling for his head after the win at Widnes? Doncaster,Widnes and Sheffield venues that are traditionally difficult places for Leigh to get a result! If this new stand off can influence the team then fortunes may, change. As for Toulouse that was always going to be a tough game, Widnes won't be looking forward to going there,I bet, they'll remember their last visit in the Challenge cup when they were Super League and Toulouse were? Widnes were thrashed by Justin Morgan's team!