We need Ali. He's the only one who can break the defence near the line.
We'd have had 2-3 tries at Rovers if he'd been playing. The rest just can't do it unless it's broken play.

Why what has he said?

Why? Have you read many tweets from MICHAEL NORRIS?

Pedants corner, deflecting from your HEAD OF RUGBY

@derekabsundecks

Derek Beaumont the Director of Rugby or some such other title he's given himself.

He's never played the game at any decent level and doesn't hold any coaching badges yet has appointed himself head of Rugby over a knowledgeable guy like Paul Rowley.

In one of his other Twitter rants pre Salford he was saying stuff like 'I'm going to pick the team I want whether Salford like it or not'. To which someone replied that surely Paul Rowley picks the team? Suffice to say it got his back up and he delivered a short answer!

He's a moderately wealthy bloke (Andrew Glover level) and has allowed himself to get carried away with Leigh's success! He's certainly not doing the reputation of Leigh any favours and I'm sure Tommy Sale and Alex Murphy are embarrassed for him.

Ok then head of rugby. Maybe the chairman should be having a word with him this morning because the guy is an embarrassment.

Unfortunately I can't disagree

@derekabsundecks - Account does not exist.

Looks like somebody at Leigh has seen sense and removed it.

So what did he say since the twitter account no longer appears to be there. In addition, was it a genuine one?

Oh it was genuine. He got drawn into a slanging match with Alex Rowe of Batley. Some of the language certainly can't be put of here but lets just say the insults were flying.

If you go to @bulls1989 that guy has taken some screen shots. It come with a parental warning.

Apparently his account was hacked last night whilst he was out. The Salford 'rant' was in response to being told Hock couldn't play v Salford - did he play?? Wealth - he is self made and owns 100% of his business that generates £2m pa profits and has great assets and cash.
Derek wears his heart on his sleeve, is very generous and loves the club. It also seems the players/coaches love him also.
Ticket sales were over 1200 on Saturday, and I expect close to 2000 will be travelling over for a game that will either be very close or Wakey will win easily imo, our form has dropped off recently and we are missing players.

Could be a 0-0 thriller then!

It could be 42-43 looking at both defences recently

Don't forget to bring yourself over as well Mo, btw god forbid we would ever use the excuse that we have players' missing

The closest we'll get to a 0 0 thriller is if the game gets called off !

Looks like we will be without Matt Ryan. Grade B charge for the hit on Ben Cockayne, possible 1-2 match ban.

There will be no contest. Leigh will wipe us out in the first 20 mins. And we'll be embarrassed on national TV again, and Webster won't be sacked, and as night follows day Carter will have a dig at the fans.

There wasn't much between us and Halifax, granted we were slightly better but the reason we won was due to our superior fitness not skill. If Leigh are fit and last 80 minutes I think they'll narrowly beat us. They haven't lost since Leeds last season when they were unlucky to lose and will be confident. It'll be D-day for Webster, personally I can't believe he's lasted this long, but lose on Sunday and Carter will have no chance but to sack him regardless of the cost

Leeds never got out of 2nd gear and were never in danger of losing the game, every time Leigh got a score Leeds decided to score again and did what they wanted with Leigh's defence.

We're not Leeds, we don't have their class but if our players decide to show up and play Leigh won't have much of a say in the result

Serious question & not looking to wind anyone up, but if we bring close to 2000 across which is looking highly likely will we outnumber the wakey fans as it seems there are an awful amount of totally disillusioned fans who say they won't be going ???

I wouldn't be surprised.

In a word. Yes. This is a big game for you lot and you've got everything to gain, Trinity have got everything to lose and it's a cup game against lower league opposition, all be it very a good one. I don't imagine it will be high on the priorities of most Trinity fans, and there aren't that many of us in the first place.

If you bring 2k then you'd at least have the same amount of fans. We've been averaging pretty poor gates and I'd suggest a lot of ST holders like me won't bother attending.

Maybe we might get the chance to see Annakin get a game then.

Serious question and I'm not looking to wind you up, would it really matter whether you had more fans at the game than us, apart from feeding the vanity of some of your less sensible fans what come on here.
Just as a matter of interest what's your preference? a win for you or outnumbering the totally disillusioned Wakey fans!.