Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:02 pm  

Well, Fax must be absolutely kicking themselves. They wont get a better chance than that to turn us over. Our discipline was poor, the amount of dropped ball was ridiculous, the attack wasn't anywhere near what we've come to expect and the defence wasn't at its best either. Our kicking game was poor (improved when Ben Reynolds came on for Riddy) and we just generally played nowhere near good enough. Fax had much more possession and in much better territory. Their pack didn't live up to the hype but they didn't need to as we just piggy backed them down the field time after time with pens and errors.

Good job Fax looked clueless in attack as we gave them more than enough opportunities in good position.

Tough game, nasty in the 2nd half and we will be picking up another couple of bans probably.

Didn't need to be that hard, we looked far better than them when we played out our sets but we played some seriously dumb stuff today at times. Winning mentality was in evidence again though and despite my criticisms we were still the better side and deserved our win.

Frustrating performance but very entertaining and that was a hell of a fight near the end.

Dixon and Wilkes were the standouts for me and Fui Fui made a big impact too.

24 wins in a row though, really impressive run. Bring on Wakey!

Re: Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:16 pm  

Nice report mate,glad you didn't include the standard "if we play like that next week we will get beat" line.

Good teams win whatever,and by however means possible.

Re: Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:27 pm  

Reading that back I should probably have given Fax more credit. I thought they defended superbly for most of the game and they made very few errors which was a massive contrast to our lads. Brought a good following too which added to the atmosphere.

Re: Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:31 pm  

Ben Johnston the fax player has just said in an interview that Fax sank to Leigh's level. Talk about deluded!

Re: Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:32 pm  

Thought defensively we were poor today while Fax were very good & managed to neutralise our attack while themselves being very difficult to tackle. Glad to see us get some repeat sets towards the end which lead to us scoring, wonder how the number of repeat sets we get compares to everyone else? However Fax did get away with slowing it right down & putting players into the tackle after it was complete & giving 2nd goes when getting up which should have been clamped down on rather than ignored by the ref.

Re: Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:33 pm  

Agreed , Leigh were nowhere near their best today but did enough to win,for me Fui looked ready to run through a brick wall , Dixon tried everything ,good games from Ryan,Pownall,Tommy G ,and I thought big Sam kept his cool , even when Bracek was reigning blows to his head in the Brawl.Acton deserved to be sent off he was counting on his fingers who to hit,Haggerty was clouted while he was on the floor ,then the Mass Brawl started ,Fax will no doubt blame Leigh,but it started with the assault on Haggerty, and that Tyrer is some wind up merchant.

It's great to get the 24 th win on the Trot,a winning mentality, final Question,will Fax ever beat Leigh?ONLY on Fantasy Island.

Re: Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:39 pm  

Lowton_Sparrow wrote:

Thought defensively we were poor today while Fax were very good & managed to neutralise our attack while themselves being very difficult to tackle. Glad to see us get some repeat sets towards the end which lead to us scoring, wonder how the number of repeat sets we get compares to everyone else? However Fax did get away with slowing it right down & putting players into the tackle after it was complete & giving 2nd goes when getting up which should have been clamped down on rather than ignored by the ref.

Sorry, but that is exactly what Leigh did as well in terms of 2nd goes, flops and generally trying to slow things down. I'm saying Fax didn't do the same, but please don't claim that we "got away with it" when your tactics were exactly the same.

Re: Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:42 pm  

Nozzy wrote:

Well, Fax must be absolutely kicking themselves. They wont get a better chance than that to turn us over. Our discipline was poor, the amount of dropped ball was ridiculous, the attack wasn't anywhere near what we've come to expect and the defence wasn't at its best either. Our kicking game was poor (improved when Ben Reynolds came on for Riddy) and we just generally played nowhere near good enough. Fax had much more possession and in much better territory. Their pack didn't live up to the hype but they didn't need to as we just piggy backed them down the field time after time with pens and errors.

Good job Fax looked clueless in attack as we gave them more than enough opportunities in good position.

Tough game, nasty in the 2nd half and we will be picking up another couple of bans probably.

Didn't need to be that hard, we looked far better than them when we played out our sets but we played some seriously dumb stuff today at times. Winning mentality was in evidence again though and despite my criticisms we were still the better side and deserved our win.

Frustrating performance but very entertaining and that was a hell of a fight near the end.

Dixon and Wilkes were the standouts for me and Fui Fui made a big impact too.

24 wins in a row though, really impressive run. Bring on Wakey!

Totally agree with you noz. Butt his performance cannot be justified in anyway possible today with the dumb way we played . It was unacceptable, the discipline is very very poor and MUST NOT happen again.
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Re: Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:45 pm  

charlie caroli wrote:

Agreed , Leigh were nowhere near their best today but did enough to win,for me Fui looked ready to run through a brick wall , Dixon tried everything ,good games from Ryan,Pownall,Tommy G ,and I thought big Sam kept his cool , even when Bracek was reigning blows to his head in the Brawl.Acton deserved to be sent off he was counting on his fingers who to hit,Haggerty was clouted while he was on the floor ,then the Mass Brawl started ,Fax will no doubt blame Leigh,but it started with the assault on Haggerty, and that Tyrer is some wind up merchant.

It's great to get the 24 th win on the Trot,a winning mentality, final Question,will Fax ever beat Leigh?ONLY on Fantasy Island.

That would be the same Sam that kept his cool so well that he felt the need to spit at the crowd at the beginning of the second half. Well done on the win, it could have gone either way, but it's becoming a bit repetitive to always have a fracas involved when Leigh are involved - I can't remember the last time anything kicked off in a Fax game unless you were the opposition. Can you say the same in return that it's only against Fax that these sort of things happen? I think not.

Re: Fax Reaction : Sun May 10, 2015 5:45 pm  

charlie caroli wrote:

Agreed , Leigh were nowhere near their best today but did enough to win,for me Fui looked ready to run through a brick wall , Dixon tried everything ,good games from Ryan,Pownall,Tommy G ,and I thought big Sam kept his cool , even when Bracek was reigning blows to his head in the Brawl.Acton deserved to be sent off he was counting on his fingers who to hit,Haggerty was clouted while he was on the floor ,then the Mass Brawl started ,Fax will no doubt blame Leigh,but it started with the assault on Haggerty, and that Tyrer is some wind up merchant.

It's great to get the 24 th win on the Trot,a winning mentality, final Question,will Fax ever beat Leigh?ONLY on Fantasy Island.

Charlie, that pop that you were supping in't George & Dragon must have had summat in it. Leigh were so, so lucky to beat us today. Sportsman, shudds
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