Did anyone else in the West Stand (you probably didn't see it in the North stand) witness the farce concerning the MC for the game - it was supposed to be Mr. Ollerton?

About ten minutes from full time he could be seen exaggeratedly counting Leigh players, and then strode down to the 'bench' to point out something to the coaching staff. As a result, Leigh shoved Tommy Goulden back onto the pitch, giving us a complement of 13 men! The coaches wanted to bring Goulden off, but the MC kept telling him to stay on. So, at one stage we had 13 men on the pitch, when we should have only had 12. Hopefully, nothing bad will result from this! In the end, the message must have got back to the MC, that we had had a player sent off, and sanity prevailed.

The MC is supposed to be in charge of all that goes on in the game. Where was he when Alstead was sent off? And people are criticising the ref - when he has someone like that advising him?!

What an idiot haha

An idiot that could get our points docked

Well if thats the case its the MC who should be held responsible and not the club.

How long was Goulden on for?

Got to hope that that would be the case, particularly given the margin of victory, but I'm sure the RFL will be wanting to look after their own.

Unfortunately the radio link was not working AGAIN, between ref touchies and Commisioner, that could be the reason.

Ooops thats us done for then ..... Dickie Lewis will be saying we did n`t have those problems at HP............In all seriousness I can`t for the life of me think why the club should be penalised because the MC can`t do simple maths........

Surely the MC didn't physically force TG onto the pitch - I am sure he is big enough to have said "No".

No thankfully its the RFL's own communications system its garbage to say the least.

The MC appeared to be telling the Leigh 'bench' that there weren't enough players on the pitch. Leigh staff then shoved Tommy on. I don't think it involved any communication with the ref or TJ's Fred - they were waiting for Nanyn's goal kick, from a try.

Got a downer on us tonight have `nt you.........tut tut.

Just playing devil's Advocate!!!

yeah but hang on, everyone in the ground knew Dave had been sent off in the first half, if the commissioner didnt wouldnt that mean he was not doing his job properly?

Surprises me.Is there a rule that says for example if you have 10 players on the pitch when you may legally have 13 it is illegal ?

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What's it got to do with the MC if we only have 12, 11, or 10 players on the pitch - as long as we don't have too many. I find this a bit strange

I was in the box next to the Sheffield Directors and as soon as Tommy stood on the pitch they were yelling "Aston they've got too many players on the pitch". I hope the MC has officially recorded the incident or we could be in trouble.

If anything comes from this ie Eagles complaining then it would look like sour grapes after loosing against 12 men ,surely they would'nt stoop so low

How long was he on for

didn't notice it to be honest.

Aston is renowned for his liking of sour grapes.

The MC isn't linked up anyway, only the ref and TJ's use it. Bizarre incident if true

Did he play any part in the game when he went on or did he come straight off again.

to be fair, it looked that the MC had twigged there were too many players on the pitch, and was telling the bench staff to get goulden off.........well thats the way it looked to me, as it was right in front of us!

In answer to Ian C, Tommy Goulden played no part in the game whatsoever. He was literally on the pitch for all of thirty seconds maximum and this time was punctuated with him being brought off and then back on again and then finally off again. It was that farcical. The time that Tommy spent on the pitch was during a break in play so he had absolutley no effect on the game at this point.