wll said dparky.The team needs our support,lets give it to the french aussies big style.they ruined my trip to toulouse.I even went to bed early after the match,admittedly much the worse for the ale after the match and a short sojurn to the melting pot.so come on u LEIGH!

Im no better than anyone else, neither am i any worse, and Im well aware of the shortcomings of the team, as, im sure they are, but that doesnt mean i have to be pessimistiic, I can be hopeful about things. All im saying is that we should be supporting the side, not writing them off.

I know that we havent scored more than 32 points in a league game this season, I also know that with this weekends results, we are in a better position than either Batley or Gateshead.

We have 4 games left 3 at home and we need to win 2 of them!!!!

If the fact we have a game in hand puts us in a better position then fine. However with the teams we have left to play I am not sure you can say we are in a better position. Has anyone looked at our previous games against Fax/Toulouse and Haven this year, and then remember we are not the same team as earlier in the season

Yes you will stay up, esp with the home games.

If we do stop up can we adopt the Great Escape as our main fan's chant?

I'm sure ther are probably 1300 Leythers out there who know exactly where it went wrong this season.

Recruitment was poor, pre-season perhaps not the best, the lack of a dedicated gym... some see these as excuses, but being realistic you can't expect to improve enough over the course of a season. When other teams are able to do that and overall our budget for the season was largely spent and pinned on the faint hopes of 2 Aussie halfbacks who the closest they probably got to the town was this messageboard.

I do believe with those same Leythers backing the team it will make for an interesting end to the season.

Not one fan is more important than another and never has been, we all have a part to play, always have. That teamwork - backing in unison this bunch of players may save us, it may not, but lets enjoy the ride and build for next year.

Well said. It's no use booing and making our already fragile confidence even worse, lets rally as a team, a set of fans and give them that extra lift. It certainly worked for the W***n when they was in a dog fight so lets get the team through this one.

Theres plenty of time to feel down after the season ends if and thats a big if we do not stay up but until then have a half full attitude and think possitive it rubs off on people plus you dont want any of the team reading all this doom it cant help .Its not just the team that can keep us up either the fans play a huge part and so need to cheer them on regardless it can only have a good effect .COME ON YOU LEIGH .

Dave some of your posts are screaming out to this club that you arte the man for the publicity job. I think you are that man. Come on club give thisa lad the job.

Current Table:

Barrow 36
Halifax 36
Widnes 36
Whitehaven 36
Sheffield 33
Featherstone 33
Toulouse 27
Batley 25
Leigh 24
Gateshead 23
Doncaster 8

First of all, may I say what a fantastically competitive competition it is this year! Barring Doncaster (unfortunately), all teams are within 5 wins of top spot, so late into the season. Unbelievably, Leigh themselves are only 4 wins off. If you think about the 2nd half at home to Barrow, the two Featherstone games and the Batley home game, all games which we could have won, Leigh could have been up there! Yes we've been poor, shockingly bad at times, but we're unlucky that our bad year has coincided with the most competitive league in a long time. I think this could be a wake up call for all teams in the future, that no team is safe in this league. Poor off-season recruitment, a bad choice of coach or even an alarming injury crisis could send a team down.

Remaining Fixtures:

Bold - Win
=redRed - Bonus Point

Barrow v =redWidnes
Sheffield v =redHalifax
Leigh v Toulouse
Doncaster v Featherstone
Whitehaven v Batley
Leigh v Halifax
Toulouse v Doncaster
Widnes v =redWhitehaven
Batley v =redHalifax
Featherstone v =redBarrow
Gateshead v Leigh
Sheffield v =redFeatherstone
Barrow v Gateshead
Halifax v Toulouse
Doncaster v Gateshead
Featherstone v Batley
Leigh v Whitehaven
=redSheffield v Barrow

I think Batley could beat Halifax at home, especially as 'Fax play us during the week before, although Halifax are chasing top spot and they might do us a favour. I can't see them winning at 'Haven (although anything is possible in this division) but they may be able to pick up at least a bonus point at Fev.

I've presumed Gateshead will beat Doncaster but I can't see them getting much from a trip to Barrow.

I haven't predicted Leigh's results for obvious reasons.



Which leaves the table as this:

Barrow 46
Featherstone 43
Halifax 41* + game vs Leigh
Widnes 40
Whitehaven 40* + game vs Leigh
Sheffield 40
Toulouse 30* + game vs Leigh
Batley 28
Gateshead 26* + game vs Leigh
Leigh 24* + 4 games
Doncaster 8

If Gateshead beat us at the Thunderdome (which I think they will), that leaves us needing 5 points from our 3 games against Halifax, Toulouse and Whitehaven. We're basically looking at two wins to stay up!

With Toulouse, it's impossible to predict which team will turn up. They seem to turn up one week and vanish the next, which doesn't bode well considering Gateshead thumped them last night

. I certainly think we're capable of winning this one provided the team show some fight, similar to the games against Sheffield and Widnes.

Then we have Halifax at home in a midweek game. Obviously Halifax chasing top spot doesn't do us any favours and on paper this should be no contest. But 'Fax have been abit wobbly of late and with it being a midweek game, Leigh have to be looking to take something from this game.

Next up is Gateshead and I can't see a Leigh win here for the life of me. They've hit form impressively over the last couple of months and they look like a far more capable team than we do. Time may run out for Gateshead yet, as they left temselves with an awful lot to do, but they're, currently, a much better team than we are, and I don't think the midweek game against Halifax will do us any favours. Obviously, if I'm wrong about this one then that would make life a hell of a lot easier for ourselves.

Finally it's the Whitehaven game. Again 'Haven could yet be chasing top spot which wouldn't do us any favours but we have already beaten them at home this season, so it's possible that we could do it again. If the lads need any belief going into this game, then surely the coaching staff can point to that?

Can we do it? Well it doesn't look good, but as I said earlier, anything seems to be possible in this league. If we see the same shower that we saw at Barrow, Toulouse, and at home to Gateshead then we're screwed! If the players' heads have gone now then we're in deep trouble.

However, I still think that there could be another big performance left in the team yet. The team that got embarrassed by Barrow, Toulouse, Halifax and Gateshead is still the same team that's beaten Widnes, Sheffield, Whitehaven and could so easily have taken something from a number of other games. I think there's still reason to remain positive and get behind the lads from now to the end of the season. Everything is still to play for.

We will beat Toulouse next Saturday which will keep us up cos Batley won't have another win.

Really enjoyed that post Paul. I've not known a season like it!

Batley wont win another game IMO and cant see them getting a bonus point either.................think we will just scrape survival with Batley for the drop.

Many people are writing Batley off, but they've been in this position so many times before and they've yet to be relegated. They're survival specialists.

Not this year with a bit of luck

Thanks TV BOY but I've got much to learn yet! That said, it would be fair to note that my love and enthusiasm of the game has been stronger this year than at any other point. In previous years I've been flagging at this time of the year but the hospital stuff ive done for Warrington and Widnes has really been good and I hope I've done my bit to get news out there in the Journal and Bolton News too.

Hopefully with people like Robbie Paul and Ian Millward coming onboard the media stuff from the club and it's persona can flourish.

TO be honest our problems been, that the officals at the club didnt think it possible, for us to be relegated, up to the last week or so, they were saying what us we,ll never go down.
Hopefully we,ll survive, I certainly will behind the team, however there are factors in like;-

We are scoring 10 less points on average per game than any of the teams involved and have been all season.

We have to play Gateshead at Gateshead and we are only 1 point in front (maybe be more or even less by then)

Batley have been scoring well and seem to be able to get bonus points.

The system were signing for next season are done before the end of this isnt helping us either, they will be next week several players playing who havent had a contract offer for next year.

IF we win Sunday we will instill more confidence, as I think thats what we are missing atm. Fingers crossed, come on Leigh.

The way we played played first half you lot might actually be within a shout when you play us


But then again we always could play like we did last 15 mins

So how many points lead do you think we will need at H/T to be safe ?

40 , 50 ?

We'd need to play 240 minutes to get that many

Still don't think we'll stay up.

Will back them at games but it will take a huge swing in form for us to get out of this.

I havn't forget just how dire and uninterested a lot of players looked v Barrow and Doncaster, I'm hoping Batleys players looked as unbothered or unable in todays defeat, they are what we are up against.

Comes down to which set of players want it the most , ours or Batleys.

Considering a large majority of our side know they won't be here next year, surely theres only one winner there and unfortunately, it's not ours.

Toulouse H
Halifax H
Gateshead A
Whitehaven H

with these games i think youll get a result aganist tolouse and really with batleys remaining fixtures i think youll only need a bonus point to stay up because batley play four teams in the top 6 who are coming ino form at the end of the year (Sheffield, Whitehaven, Halifax, Featherstone maybe apart from FAX) and it will be tough for them in the run in to pick up points

All have good form , very similar but slightly worse than Batleys

I have no doubt that all the players walk onto the pitch intending to do their utmost to win the game , I would never question any RL players attitude as they enter the conflict

But when things are not going to plan

repeat this chant on saturday night

WE ARE STAYING UP, I SAID WE ARE STAYING UP

keep the faith remember being a leyther is for life not just the good times