LeytherRob

O'Brien, Mulhern, Ipape, Asiata, Holmes all missing today that would be in the 17 usually, plus Amone was first game back after only playing twice this season. We've been pretty severely understrength since round 2.

Yeah I'd imagine Fev will likely be his next and final destination to round off his career, probably with Tom Briscoe following.

Happy with the performance considering the injuries, was expecting a battering to be honest. Good luck in the semis KR fans! Think Hardaker has to go at the end of the year, he's been really poor this year, even in defence which carried him last year.

My comment was more about avoiding embarrassing scores rather than winning the next couple. I'm not expecting anything until we play Cas at the start of May.

Very happy with this, big boost in the short term making available for the cup and upcoming Wire match, improves our bench options once Ipape is back.

I'd be shocked if this is anything but a fairly convincing win for KR. They're in good form and playing well, we're in a hole with the injuries and lacking confidence, not to mention Dwyer won't be available for us. Still, Amone could be back this week much earlier than anticipated and Mulhern is a maybe so there is light starting to appear at the end of the tunnel and we can hopefully start getting the bulk of our salary cap back on the field.

Is that why they have the coverings on the front few rows?

You have no idea what did or didn't go on behind closed doors at Leigh in terms of disciplinary or suspension, especially considering the actual incident occurred weeks before it actually came out in the press. A 1 or 2 week suspension with no public consequences(which you were crying for with ZH) for inarguably a worse offence since he also allegedly assaulted a police officer is hardly a case for trying to claim some moral high ground. Nor would I describe it as classy.

It is a salaried position these days for the media role at Leigh and has been for a couple of years now.

Back to the match last night, it went pretty much as i expected(especially after seeing Mulhern was missing). We were far too outgunned to have any realistic chance unless Wigan had a serious off day, which they definitely didn't. Not one to usually single out players negatively, but Nakubuwai HAS to go. I struggle to think of a worse prop at Leigh when playing in SL. I'd much rather see us play the kids such as Jacob Gannon/Lewis Baxter who at least have room to develop than a guy approaching 30 who struggles to break a light jog.

I forget his name now, but we had a great media guy for the first half of last year who ended up leaving for a job and Preston NE. The new guy isn't nearly as good.

It's funny you say that now, when you were saying essentially the opposite on the Zak Hardaker thread less than 2 months ago

Best case for Leigh is we continue to keep it reasonably tight and stay within 8-14 points. Despite only winning one our points difference is decent, just need to hang in for the next few weeks til we get our better players back.

If anyone deserves a ban its Danny Richardson for the pathetic dive

It's people doing precisely the opposite that got the overly zealous rulings on accidental head clashes reduced significantly. If everyone just got on and accepted things, we'd still be having hookers milking penalties by intentionally passing into retreating defenders.

As with most changes to the rules, it got used in abundance for a few weeks at the start of the season then we forgot all about it and went back to normal. At this point I think we have to accept that in SL rounds 1-3, 4-27 and playoffs will be refereed to 3 different tolerance levels of the rules, gradually relaxing until you have the GF where almost everything is let go to let the game flow and we all have our yearly discussion about how good it is seeing refs just let a game go.

Was it just me or did it sound like the VR was eating his tea whilst talking through that decision?

It's kind of funny seeing a guy most famous for(on the field that is) his no nonsense approach tk knocking his kneecap back in place in the middle of a tackle so he can continue playing, clutching his face like a premier league footballer.

They really need to do something about players feigning injury hoping for VR intervention. It's getting ridiculous now.

When he first started at the BBC on SLS and CC broadcasts purely as a studio pundit I thought he was actually not bad and was a bit of a refreshing change at the time. Since he's moved to sky though there seems to be a deliberate effort to be more controversial and argumentative as soon on Monday night football with Carragher/Neville/Keane etc but as you say it comes off sulky and petulant these days. He needs reigning in significantly by sky

Nope, came close a few times. We were 19-18 up in 2019 before Higson got himself binned leading to a winning try for KR. 2017 I seem to remember Abdul absolutely kicking us to death to win 23-10 which was the widest result, the other 4 were no more than 6 points in it and 4 of them also involved drop goals.

6 in the last 8. We lost at home in 2017

Death, taxes and Hull KR in the cup. I make that 2017(h), 19(a), 20(a), 22(a), 23(F), 24(a) now.

Yes I would think so, certainly can't think of any bigger crowds in recent years at this stage. I find it very encouraging to see the numbers in the east stand steadily growing too, seems to be quite a few building habits and becoming regulars in a stand that has probably been used less than 10 times prior to last season for Leigh games. Makes the ground seem a lot fuller when we have all 4 sides populated.