really looking forward todays game, hopefully we will see our backs utilised in this good weather

also what is todays team??

i know mccarthy is starting at 13

donlan
maden
blythe
nanyn
alstead
ridyard
paul
hill
mcconnell
armitstead
taylor
leuluai
mccarthy

goulden
duffy
bibey
emmitt

No suprise for me ,Haven, are the worst team we have played this season, including Oldham in that, havent changed my mind ,they will go Down, with the Cougers, i will bet 20 quid ,with anybody giving 7/2?

Thought we didnt play well ,but Haven were worse, very poor.
A question for Tipster Ste , what price Haven for the drop?I hope we go to Fax next week a lot better, we will need to bestill think Maden is very lucky to have a place in he team , was impressed with our Forwards ,and think Alstead ,should run more at the line, Dave you are not a bad player ,just get a bit of confidence , i know a win is a win ,but dont get carried away ,im not .

Agree with all of that. Oh apart from the Oldham bit.

Big improvement needed next week.

We wont get away with so many errors again and look so convincing.

I thought the ref spoiled it a little and should have taken action earlier over the cheap head shots.

Forwards grafted and dominated which gave us good field position. It would have been a special scoreline if we had been all tuned up on attack today however, Haven did let us of the hook on a couple of occasions and we stilled scored 44!!

Cant grumble at that - another win and another 3 points and no bonus point given away.

Consolation is the fact that we appear to got away with no injuries so hopefully will have a near full strength squad to chose from next week. Halifax wil be smarting but we should feel more confident then any other time in the last couple of years going to the Shay

We played average and scored 44 points...... Well done lads.We will have to be a lot better to turn Fax over next week - especially after they lost today.

Worst performance I`ve ever seen from a Haven team.....they got a lota work to do this season IMO.

I don't thnk it was just Robbie that was off today. Jock was less than below par and we only started to break the line when Duffy came on. Some of the short passing from our play makers is woefull. They were either below the waiste or a shoulder height. These are basic things that we should really have under control by now. Sometimes our defense just goes to sleep and they just stay in the middle of the park waiting for each other to slide across and no one does. That Haven side has got to be the poorest for 15years. I saw shades of last year today in our total lack of awareness and organisaton in our opponents 20. A wins a win but we should have put 70 or 80 against that side today and it should have been to nil. As my teacher used to write on my homework, can and must do better.

Story of the season so far. Don't see what McConnell brings to the side. Surely Duffy can do more than 40 minutes at his age!!!! McConnell should be in reserve for emergencies only!!!

I agree get Stanton back on the wing I say!

A good win.
Comfortable from beggining to end and still going in the right direction after last years relegation.
Keep the home form ticking over nicely and pinch a few points away from home and we might be dark horses for a shot at the play-offs in this league.

Need to cut out the errors and the concentraction lapses but generally we look like we are playing (and trying) some decent stuff which is the first time for a while.

Fax will hit our Right centre as Haven did today, its just that they are better and will punish us.
Would like to see Higson/Blythe or Mitchell/Blythe as opposed to Blythe/Maden.
Cant see Stanton making the 17.

Put Blythe on wing and Higson Centre for me

First half completion according to Mr M - 10/18.
2nd half - 21/24

Haven only had ten sets of possession in the entire second half.

By the time Leigh had scored their third try of the second half on 57 minutes Leigh had gone 14/14 in completions and didn't make a handling error for 24 minutes. In comparison the only time Haven touched the ball was 2 sets in possession and 3 restarts.

That improvement will do for me and my guessing if those 2nd half stats can some how be replicated at the Shay we'd win there as well. As it is I feel we need about a 60% share of possession to win next week, but I suppose we'll see.

The first 20 minutes today was poor, the second 20 experimental and not taking chances when they were created, missing out on 3 I can think of, the second half we steamrollered them.

Well I too thought Basil was experimenting in the second half and you can do that against a poor side.

Yeh we are currently third but our last two games have been against'I think' the 2 relegation favourites.Our backline speed is a worry as we may find out next Sunday.

this year haven are going to struggle in the half back positions, no one's creating a thing on attack, and some of the forwards are getting on now, and were really finding it hard getting back from kicks.

methinks ged should give some of his younger signings from the cumberland league their chance

Nicky was warming up just before the game with the lads so I thought he was playing, was he on the bench?

Maden played well again and deserves his place.

I'd have Stanton on the wing every time over Maden [size=85except against Barrow[/size. How many try's would he of racked up by now if playing

ALOT

Would he? And conceded how many? Millward knows best!

How quickly expectations change.
Last year we could win a game, yesterday we score 44 points and people are still moaning.
How many of you have changed your expectations for the season based on the NRC performance and the first 3 league games

What a stupid statement, the only way Stanton will score tries more than Maden is by creating an overlap/ feed. If that happens A LOT, then I'm not watching the same game as you. For all the people critisizing him Maden doesn't do a lot wrong (apart from that try yesterday, the pr1ck



).

Stanton still has a lot to prove for me, his size goes against him unfortunately.

we were very poor yesterday , but we did have a very weakend team out, i know you can only play whats in front of you and thats what you did fair play to you you won and won well

i would hope and pray that back in after injury and illness this week would be
leroy joe, gorski, govin, spencer miller, and kyle amor dual, if that team had been out yesterday i think it would have been closer, not saying we would have won, just too many young squad players and then loosing calvert after 3 mins didn't help the cause reducing us to a 3 man bench. people have said were favs for the drop, i would think our home form will see us stay, and keys games against the likes of des and batley will decide our fate

Hope you do stay up matey have always been top games between Leigh and Haven, good luck for the rest of the season.

thanks yes must agree since about 2000 some of the best games i have seen have been leigh v haven, they challange cup at HP sticks out with us leading by 10 with 3 mins to go and the rest is history

You may have had a weak team out there today ,but you are still very poor, i dont want Haven to go down ,i just think they WILL, sorry Haven fans , just what i think, no takers yet on my Bet offer.