Wed 3rd-Sun 7th Aug: The Betfred Championship Match Thread

[JonM]

Widnes 16 Featherstone R 20 FT. Great game, Junior Moors and Davies particularly caught the eye for Rovers, some great defence from Widnes though - I'm sure John Kear will be very happy with the team's performance.

[spanishknight]

Knights make hard work of it against the Rams, pulled away in the last few minutes.

[crashmon]

David Hughes right now needs to be sat next to Mike Eccles with an open checkbook, and let him put what ever salary he wants to be LB coach for next 2 seasons.

[Jill Halfpenny fan]

Very happy with that Widnes performance, effort was first class.

[Harry Stottle]

1 hour ago, Davo5 said:

Town & Haven winning & Barrow all square at Leigh

And the Raiders were worth it all the way the better of the two teams but just 10 mins left let them down defensively.

Edited August 7, 2022 by Harry Stottle

[wilsontown]

29 minutes ago, spanishknight said:

Knights make hard work of it against the Rams, pulled away in the last few minutes.

Indeed, I was at the game and it was very much in the balance until the last 5 minutes. I could still see us missing out on the playoffs because we will drop more points.

[Harry Stottle]

The second half was Leigh dominated for most of it, in the first 40 it was so much one man drives and Mellor running up his own backside as usual with no one else having a clue what he was doing, it all changed in the second Leigh started using the ball and playing with confidence, but saying that Barrow never gave in and come back with probably the best try I have seen all year, fitness of a full time v part time was a factor but also the better player's in Leigh's ranks also told, saying that Jarrod Sammut was as good as anything on the field.

[spanishknight]

11 minutes ago, wilsontown said:

Indeed, I was at the game and it was very much in the balance until the last 5 minutes. I could still see us missing out on the playoffs because we will drop more points.

Think the Knights just need one win to make sure of the play offs.

[Fevrover]

23 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

And the Raiders were worth it all the way the better of the two teams but just 10 mins left let them down defensively.

How can you be the better team all the way but let 52 points in ? Sorry but that's not possible, Barrow probably gave it a great shot but best team ? Give over.

[Phil W]

At Thunder and as the score line suggests London were good value for their win.

But a very sobering experience from a Thunder perspective. Our season looks like it ended with the Bradford game. Now it can't end soon enough unfortunately.

 

[Simon Hall]

32 minutes ago, wilsontown said:

Indeed, I was at the game and it was very much in the balance until the last 5 minutes. I could still see us missing out on the playoffs because we will drop more points.

We’re 10 points clear of 7th place. It’d be some might turnaround for us not to qualify now. 

[wilsontown]

20 minutes ago, spanishknight said:

Think the Knights just need one win to make sure of the play offs.

You're right, I somehow missed that playoffs is top 6 this time, I take it all back.

We will do nowt in the playoffs, though.

[Simon Hall]

1 minute ago, wilsontown said:

You're right, I somehow missed that playoffs is top 6 this time, I take it all back.

We will do nowt in the playoffs, though.

That’s the spirit!

[phiggins]

16 minutes ago, Fevrover said:

How can you be the better team all the way but let 52 points in ? Sorry but that's not possible, Barrow probably gave it a great shot but best team ? Give over.

Speaking of not possible, somebody behind me shouted that the barrow defensive line was ‘30 yards offside’. Which if that were true, they’d have been stood 20 yards behind the play the ball…

[DavidM]

36 minutes ago, Harry Stottle said:

The second half was Leigh dominated for most of it, in the first 40 it was so much one man drives and Mellor running up his own backside as usual with no one else having a clue what he was doing, it all changed in the second Leigh started using the ball and playing with confidence, but saying that Barrow never gave in and come back with probably the best try I have seen all year, fitness of a full time v part time was a factor but also the better player's in Leigh's ranks also told, saying that Jarrod Sammut was as good as anything on the field.

Aye it must be tough being a Leigh fan Harold 

[wilsontown]

7 minutes ago, Simon Hall said:

That’s the spirit!

I am naturally a bit of a miserable sod, but on the evidence of that game we'll not be troubling any of the top sides. I'd be delighted to be wrong and it would hardly be the first time...

[Southampton Leyther]

28 minutes ago, Fevrover said:

How can you be the better team all the way but let 52 points in ? Sorry but that's not possible, Barrow probably gave it a great shot but best team ? Give over.

I assume Harry is referring to the 1st half from the post he quoted. Barrow looked a lot more lively than leigh at the start of the match and were 6 - 8 up at around 35 mins. 2 good tries in the final 5 of the half put us in a good position and we were 46 - 8 up by the hour mark. 

1st half our completion must have been 30% or lower, aided by a strong Barrow defence. 2nd half we cut a lot of those mistakes out and pulled away.

Fair play to Barrow though, based solely the games I've seen against Leigh they have been the best opposition in the Championship over both legs. Good attack, good kicking game and a lot of heart. Sammut is a slippery little sod and always poses a threat. 

Also, disagree with Harry on Mellor. I thought he was at the heart of everything we did well and would have been my MoM, just edging out Ipape who was fantastic once again.

[Wakefield Ram]

15 minutes ago, wilsontown said:

I am naturally a bit of a miserable sod, but on the evidence of that game we'll not be troubling any of the top sides. I'd be delighted to be wrong and it would hardly be the first time...

Thought Dewsbury tackled very well today and Ata Hingano looked a quality player. 

[DI Keith Fowler]

1 hour ago, JonM said:

Widnes have a try disallowed for offside, with a couple of minutes to play. 

I'd like to see that on the video, there were a couple of players offside but I don't think Fozard was one of them.

[LeeF]

1 hour ago, phiggins said:

Speaking of not possible, somebody behind me shouted that the barrow defensive line was ‘30 yards offside’. Which if that were true, they’d have been stood 20 yards behind the play the ball…

Was it Harry or Gubrats?

[Fevrover]

1 hour ago, wilsontown said:

I am naturally a bit of a miserable sod, but on the evidence of that game we'll not be troubling any of the top sides. I'd be delighted to be wrong and it would hardly be the first time...

Plenty of teams would gladly swop you places in League,good season for York.

[Phil]

Fax 22 Batley 8 ht 

[LINNERS]

1 hour ago, phiggins said:

Speaking of not possible, somebody behind me shouted that the barrow defensive line was ‘30 yards offside’. Which if that were true, they’d have been stood 20 yards behind the play the ball…

To be fair, that probably happens in most Leigh games.

[The Blues Ox]

Thought we looked class with the balls at times tonight but a bit of the worry that by the end of the game we had lost all 3 of our play makers and losing Woody was huge as we looked a bit disjointed in the second half. Still a pretty decent performance though and always tough to get one over on Batley. Sets up an exciting finish to the season to decide 3rd to 6th and work out who gets a chance at knocking off Fev.

[Rockingchair]

11 minutes ago, The Blues Ox said:

Thought we looked class with the balls at times tonight but a bit of the worry that by the end of the game we had lost all 3 of our play makers and losing Woody was huge as we looked a bit disjointed in the second half. Still a pretty decent performance though and always tough to get one over on Batley. Sets up an exciting finish to the season to decide 3rd to 6th and work out who gets a chance at knocking off Fev.

I’m hoping Keyes was more precautionary with the game in the bag , jouffret is ok and has posted on Twitter, very difficult to assess woody has he’s always on the edge of a hamstring or calf tweak . Overall fax played well and with real intent, difficult to assess Batley who understandably looked jaded .