Potential for an upset today.

Fev in decent form despite last weeks defeat.
Unbeaten away from home (except in Blackpool).
Beat Bradford away recently by a big score.
Stinging from last weeks loss.
New coach always seems to give sides a boost.
It's our 3rd game in 7 days, Fev had a full week to recover and prepare.

I'd love a big win to boost our points difference and if we show up well we could do but with all the above taken into account, I'll be happy to sneak any sort of win.

Leigh by 13.

No disrespect to Hunslet Nozzy but Wednesday was like a full contact training session for the boys. They will be ready for today.

Well IF we win today, I recon that will be it for the Championship. Can't see Bradford catching us on goal difference looking at their run in - even if they manage to beat us. This will be tough today though.

Correct me if I am wrong guys, is this the 18th time this season that Leigh have posted 50 or more points in a match ?

Dire 1st half performance with lots of dropped ball & stupid offloads in our own 20/30 & the wild pass into touch by Ryan on the 1st play receiver.

A skinny 10 & a lot of back to the play from the ref 1st half but for much of it I thought they out enthused us & played marginally better.
Despite this, to go in at half time 28-12 up & playing poorly was good news.

2nd half much better controlled & never a danger of a reverse in this, playing towards the North Stand & both Fui & Ryan bagging hat tricks.

Can't now see Fev making the 4 in the middle 8.

On a side note *since starting this post* Eagles are up 22 - 6 at home to Bradford.

Again another side note on todays match.

4127 the attendance, which I actually find slightly disappointing given our season, the way the team play exciting rugby league & the opportunity to play for a SL place in the 8's.

Still, only 300+ short of Salford at home to Hull KR *how many of those were free ?*
500+ less than Widnes v Catalan & lots more than Wakey at home to Wire.

Thought we might have achieved 5,000 today, maybe people are saving up for the 8's where I am sure some records will be set.

First 20 minutes today we were pretty terrible. 4 errors in our own half, 3 of them unforced. 3 soft penalties too. Gifted Fev so much possession and territory. Yet we were only 10 - 12 down despite playing badly. Soon as we strung some sets together we ran them ragged and scored almost at will.

Forwards smashed Fev all over the park. Paul Wood worked hard and Maitua punched a couple of holes but overall their pack got hammered by our lads today. Dicko, Wilkes, Hoppy, Haggerty and both hookers did a massive amount in defence which left Moi Moi, Hock and Barlow fresh to terrorise them in attack.

We tailed off again in the final 20 and bombed several chance which could have put more of a gloss on it. Should have had 60+ but concentration slipped near the end.

Very good performance, comfortable winners and could/should have been more.

Ref let them play at a slow pace which was frustrating.

Barlow a clear MoM for me with Moi Moi, Brierley and McNally close behind him.

Love smashing Fev!



Easy! Easy! Easy!

Was pretty disappointed in the Fev support today. Thought they would bring a decent crowd but wasn't really worth opening the South Stand for them. This was half way through the 1st half. They would have brought 3 x that that 3 years ago.

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Can't wait to see the double Sam offload try on LCTV. I also thought that Tom Armstrong played very well today.

Fev's board is Suspiciously quiet too...

They mustn't have much to say..

"Dirty Leigh" maybe

Actually no, with the obvious exception of Gareth C0ck, you were remarkably well behaved today. You look like world beaters when you turn up and just play rugby.

Well played today, showed some real class.

Oh and where does Emmit get his engine? The bloke must be well into his 70s and is carrying a few extra pounds round the belly, but the bloke just doesn't stop. Much respect.

Very nearly didn't go myself, I think a lot will have stayed away knowing there was little chance of a result.

Can anyone explain why e-cigs aren't allowed? It was quite funny getting told off by some power crazed geriatric in a high-vis for blowing a bit of water vapour into the open air.

Despite his unusual shape and retro haircut Emmitt is only 26. He was rested on Wednesday and was sat with Andrew Dixon and Jonny Lomax at the Hunslet game. Seems odd that the 3 of them all came through the Saints ranks together. Still only 24/25/26 years old!

Emmitt gets through an unreal amount of work for his size and was offloading really well today which isn't usually a big part of his game. Big minutes too as always. One of our best signings of recent years.

Would like to add that the Fev fans in the Wren before the game turned up in decent numbers and were great fun too. All added to a great atmosphere today so fair play to the ones who did show up

No excuses Homer J, this is a less than poor Fev turnout for a game so important to you, having such a good away record and a new coach on top of having turned over Bradford.
My comment obviously does not apply to you personally but your team deserves much better support than this away from home.

I've been teetotal for a couple of years (got something wrong with my liver, nothing life threatening), so sadly I have to give the pub a miss now, I do miss a bit of pre game revelry

If we were playing anything like a decent brand of rugby this year, there would have been plenty more. Our crowds in general are down quite severely.

The new coach has come too late in the season for it to have any impact on our fortunes and I think Mark knows that, I guess he's planning to be 200 grand light in the budget next year. (Which will probably leave us in a similar financial position to this year, we had to use a fair amount of the RFL money to clear up Feisal's mess).

Factor in the Pontefract Liquorice festival, which the local schools make a big thing of and encourage lots of kids to go and we arrive at probably our worst away following of the year.

Do Sheffield have an annual Liquorice Festival Homer?

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lol, Ive seen Leigh Bring less than half the fans we had today to POR for a Grand final Semi. same game 3 years ago would have had less than 1500 there. Very short memories you lot. Amazing what a bit of success can do for you.

fans were never gonnna turn up for a game we had no chance of winning especially after the result against Dewsbury.

It'll be even less next season if we play you after the behaviour of your stewards today. Wouldn't leave the young lads (most dressed as women) at top of stand alone all game. They were constantly hassling them trying to get a reaction. Until a fev fan turned round and started videoing the stewards on his phone and all of a sudden they finally all left. Some blokes stick a high vis on and become fecking hitler.

As for the game, just as I expected close first 20 leigh dominate the middle 40 and then close again for final 20. Some slightly dubious refereeing decisions but nothing game changing.

Were just not good enough, although sharpe would probably had scored 5 tries had he been selected on the wing today instead of backmore, shocking finisher for a winger.

When we played Fev at Blackpool I said we should have put 40 odd on them. Today we did that with ease. After a very sleepy opening 20 minutes we stepped it up and blew Fev away.

Easy. Well done, boys.

And the same game had hardly any Fev fans either, judging by the 'shared gate' you guys announced!

Feel awful now! I've been criticising them for their 'support' at ours and for the NRC Final, when there have obviously been significant counter-attractions!

Would they be the same "young lads" who had cans of alcohol confiscated at the turnstiles, were repeatedly asked to sit down in an all seated stand, were asked to refrain from constant swearing and were caught on the stadiums cctv trying to rip out the seats at the back of the stand? I suppose its alright because they were dressed as women and you can do what you like at Post Office Road.

Yep, those 15 year old scrotes were an embarrassment by 1.30pm outside the Wren. They were desperately trying to come across as 'characters' but in fact were just immature s who over stepped the mark several times even before kick off. No surprise they continued to act up once inside the ground. A few of them wore a dress, hilarious. No excuse to be an ar$ehole all afternoon.

Even for 15 year old lads they really need to grow up. Made tits of themselves today!