How I love you lot when you've lost to the little old Wakefield

Leigh's forwards ran harder, straighter and stronger in the first half and I thought we would get pumped in the second half but they blew up and must admit, Hock trying to be the ball playing forward was not one of his best ideas.
Thought a big turning point could have been when Fifita pirouetted into touch on the first tackle just after we had scored.

Another win from coming behind. Massive win after what was a dismal first 40 - talk about a game of two halfs.

Obviously happy with the win however there is still lots to work on.

Hadley at hooker? Someone care to explain? He's a solid hardworking second rower who runs some good lines. Why change that?

I actually thought it worked quite well, I'm not sure why but it did.

Because if any team is THAT good, the Ref is irrelevant. I'm being gracious in a narrow defeat, and in a game where at half time I thought we would win. Pleased for my mate Wildthing...but that's about as far as it goes. Looks like our home form will decide on where we finish in the league table.....

It absolutely didn't work. I don't know what you were watching but he was poor at passing and poor defending. A risk that failed, bring back Scott Moore.

Hadley didn't work at hooker, summed up in the first half with his shocking pass from acting half to Williams.
He's a wide running second row but he's played in an unfamiliar position when asked, in a team that he's only been with a couple of weeks.
So to play him at hooker was folly.

Other than a greater enthusiasm for playing the game in the second half I though KeegannHirst made a significant impact when he came on... big strong mobile ... dented the defensive line and won most of his wrestling matches in the tackle


A fine debut I felt!

Half way house for me... our game fell apart when Wood came on and only picked up with Finn at Hooker

Great second half performance tonight, it looked like we had swapped shirts at HT.
Every aspect of our game improved. line speed (attack and defence), completion rate, hell, we even put a couple of moves on them !.
The 2 forward pass call were huge (and correct) but, we dont often get those decisions.

The head shot on Miller, if judged in the same light as the tackle on Burrow last week, was a definite sin bin and if he stays down, it's a red but, credit Miller for getting up quickly.

The main fault in the second half is our inability to make a mistake and not concede a penalty on the back of it.

Fantastic effort though and whatever Chester said at HT, I hope he remembers, because we were a totally different team in the second 40.
A HUGE win, well done boys !!!

Well clearly I haven't got your expertise



However it did work IMO AS WE DID WIN! though I'm not suggesting it's a long term solution.

Bring back Scott Moore, yeah right

I just thought Leigh lost a bit of intensity, like they shot their bolt in the 1st 50 yet were still capable to the end, there was a lot more who wants it? from ahb instead of willing runners, dropped ball and general disorganization after ht.
I dunno how much of that was down to Wakey, Leigh interchanges or position changes or what, its too subtle to pinpoint without analyzing both halves side by side, probably a bit of everything.
I don't think Wakey were that bad in the first half, it was the penalties that killed us.
I mean, I've already decided we can't defend a set of 6 against a half decent attack from 20 yards out, so the quick fix is not let em get there in the first place.
Whilst I thought we kept hold of their running game fairly well, something that was non existent last week, we conspired to ruin that with holding down penalties and miscellaneous rubbish.
I'm already sick of squeaky bum games, but its working for us at the moment, it just leaves you feeling a bit fragile.

A proverbial game of two halves!

Half time came at the right time for us for a change.

I can see why he started Hadley, presumably he's been training at hooker and looked ok in training, but didnt quite do it today. Although having that bigger pack at the start against Leigh is not a bad idea.

Referee helped you by not at least sin binning Hock for the dreadful high tackle!

He's played at Hooker a fair few times before.

Oh yeah for sure, but he didn't look comfortable with the ball tonight. Deffo a backrower.

The 1st one was a poor decision for me, not even a penalty, thought he got a long wrong g in our favour which makes a change so I'm not gonna complain too hard thinka draw would have been a fair result myself. Great 2nd half turnaround.

Well I certainly agree on the last point but I think we deserve a bit more credit than Leigh losing intensity. I think a fair bit of that was down to us, and keeping Miller and Hirst in reserve waiting for the new boy fizzle did actually seem to work to me. When the Sky boys were scratching their little heads at the selection pre match, I thought, well, there might be a method in the madness there. Miller can be fragile with big lads running at him but when they are getting a bit leggy he can carve em up

The tackle on miller from hock wasn't even high, no contact with the head at any point of the tackle.

If your on about the miller tackle it wasn't even high, no contact with the head at any point. Watch it back and I'm sure you will agree.

I quite agree! I sometimes get it in the neck if I post anything 'negative' I would say that Leigh are a very good side and in all their games I have seen they can really cut sides up with their go forward. Perhaps a bit more experience in the top flight will help. We were heaps better and your intensity seemed to wilt under the threat. A bit of naïve play and poor game management also. But I think you have as good a chance as a few teams of making the 8

Go away silly person, if Miller hadn't had his arm up Hock would have taken his head off

Don't be silly.....not the reason we lost of course, but you are being SILLY !

2nd Half,I agree. It was a game of two halves, and you guys took the spoils,so well done.The ref was generally poor,and i watch quite a lot of NRL games ,and our officials look like amateurs compared to theirs.