Appears to me that Fev are a mix of part & full time but mainly Full Time players. Leilua, Chisholme, Hall, Cuthbertson, Moors, Briscoe & the new Aussie Half on his way plus others all Full Time.



Fevs Ex Leigh players all seemed to play well against us & as a team wanted it more than us.



I've said it before & I will say it again, I backed Ben to come good the first few years but the last few has shown he isn't Super League standard & SL standard is what we need to get there, he just doesn't have the vision or off the cuff play & his kicking game is garbage. I also can't get my head around that brain fart late shoulder on a tackled & grounded Fev player.



I felt sorry for Dixon because you could tell he was really working hard but the errors ruined him, maybe trying to hard.



Hopefully talks are ongoing & lead to some good player's coming in.

In the pre match interview Lam sounded like he wasn't really happy with Mellor & Reynolds but chose his words carefully. Maybe Lam & Chester can apply some influence to go out & get a classy 6. Gelling would also be a bonus at centre.



Green out with suspected broken arm in the 2nd game already which highlights the vulnerability of a thin squad.



Having said all of that I am reasonably confident it will all come good & Leigh can do the business.

We all know are squad is too small, apart from DB.

Brand is a squad player at best, its no coincidence Warrington have released him after his performance against them in SL. Having him and Nisbett on one edge is asking for trouble.



We have spent all this money on players again and then have a loanee at hooker and wing.



We were exposed at the weekend by a club that has chosen the right players to get the job done. Id rather play the big lad Roberts who spent all last year in the Championship getting great reviews.

Agreed. For me, I thought last years squad just needed tweaking a bit, but no, we seem to want to cull the squad again, and then we end up starting with a small squad. Our next 5 matches could turn out to be tough, and anymore injuries, and we could well end up in the brown stuff. Let's hope and pray

we can get through it.

Derek , we can’t say how many of last seasons squad wanted to go and how many wanted to stay , in reality the ones who left on their own accord I would have let go anyway , and kept maybe Hood , Brierley , Bell, and Thorniley , but they didn’t want to stay , I m sure Derek B and Chester as well as Lammy know they need to sign players , but at the moment nobody is available , we have lost our hardest game of the season , let’s get worried if Bradford , York , and Widnes beat us , get Hitchcox fit , Ipape arriving , Sidlow back , we will be ok .

Quite simply put.



Though being beaten away at each of these said teams would make for a more interesting season.



Fev were and are favourites for the top spot, it might have been different if we hadn't done SL a favour and gone and got the promotion but we are where we are.



Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water; Monday's game highlighted things that need sorting, good, get it out of the way early. Two games in and we are still finding out how this season will shuffle out given some other results already. This next game week promises to be quite revealing.

Ian, I get what you're saying but, we are a little fragile,and just feel when players do finally come in they have to gel. I'm also not comfortable with our spine, and if we do pick up any injuries, the pressure will be on. After everything Iv'e said in all my posts on this, I sincerely hope i'm wrong.

Put those players on the LSV pitch.. That pitch was a disgrace to the sport.Played nowt on it with Covid and still a bog.

Yes the pitch was awful, and so was the weather. It was like that for both teams. Most pitches in the championship are crap, so let's play all our games at the LSV shall we?

The pitch was terrible, as was our performance for 60+ minutes, early days yet though (for our small squad).

Wow. Just wow.



To be fair most Leigh fans seem to have acknowledged that conditions are going to be like that when it's February and it's been battering down with rain for hours beforehand (and on previous days). And they were, as has been stated, the same for both teams.



But there's always going to be one or two sore losers like this, I don't doubt we'd have a few too in the same circumstances.



Leigh will be fine this season, there are some quality players in that line-up. McDonald is clearly going to be a standout player in this division. I thought Ioane was absolutely outstanding, he had a HUGE game. Asiata and Amone will clearly be very good with a few more games under their belt, Mellor is a fine half back at this level, McDonell looks very promising.



Conversely Nisbet and Dixon struggled all night, Aekins looked like he wasn't up for such a tough challenge, Smith had a poor night and Reynolds, I just don't get why you're going round with him again.



We'll play you again at least twice and probably more, and those games will be very different, but we'll have to see in what way. Leigh will look different next time and will fancy themselves more on a quicker track, and so will we.



I don't think Leigh fans should be too worried yet, other than perhaps Atomic who ought to be wondering how Fev can score five tries (four of them from fluid attacking movements) on a pitch that was a "disgrace to the sport".

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All in all a well put post,Fev were the better team on the night no doubt , we had a couple of men hiding and a few showed promise , I’m not to downhearted,we lost a battle yeah, but a few moreahead and not just with Fev.

We are light of troops but things will improve , I said before everything went wrong for Dixon , but these things happen and young Nisbet will improve , Brand was invisible , but I like the lad ,give him a chance ,we lost Green early on ,and a Sidlow before the game so let’s regroup and get ready for Monday.

I agree what was said about Reynolds and Mellor playing on opposite sides of the pitch ,IT DOESNT WORK they are a partnership ,Reynolds has to start being involved , start running at the opposition defence,not keep moaning ,our pack is very good and will improve as the season goes on ,and for Cokey , my spine ,is sore at the moment .quote="The Phantom Horseman"