Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:09 pm  

No McNally makes the job much harder for Drinkwater and Riddy, no Patterson takes away more offensive options, No Higson then no Worthington left us with few options. I do believe that if McNally had played we would have scored first, and that would have made things intersting

Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:59 pm  

DemonUK wrote:

He would have caught Segayarro though. As for the ref, hewer never does us any favours. Was interesting to read some of Silverwoods views on incidents in the game

I agree, Smith looks larger than I remembered him, however he wasn't as slow as people seem to make out. Watch Chico's try again & you'll see Smith starts chasing back some distance away, makes ground and isn't that far from catching Segeyaro.

...however Segeyaro isn't the fastest hooker out there.

Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:15 pm  

Dawson and one other (can't remember who) did catch him on another occasion....and quite easily too

Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:19 pm  

I agree with most of these comments, I thought Lee Smith had a poor game today(yesterday) and was surprised when he was chosen ahead of Greg also would like to have seen Hood given a game ahead of Burns.

Fair due to Leeds they played with some great Intensity

Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:31 pm  

It was already mission accomplished for Leigh. When it mattered, McNally was chosen ahead of Smith every time. Last night was a dead rubber, so fringe players were given an opportunity.

Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 3:34 pm  

django wrote:

I agree, Smith looks larger than I remembered him, however he wasn't as slow as people seem to make out. Watch Chico's try again & you'll see Smith starts chasing back some distance away, makes ground and isn't that far from catching Segeyaro.

...however Segeyaro isn't the fastest hooker out there.

Is that Chico or Cheeky ? sarcastic waving to chasing players has a habit of coming back to haunt you! I look forward to the future!!

Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:06 pm  

kirkhall wrote:

Is that Chico or Cheeky ? sarcastic waving to chasing players has a habit of coming back to haunt you! I look forward to the future!!

Very True Kirky, I remember Ryan Field house doing it against us at the Shay, he was reminded of it a few times after we beat them on a regular basis.

Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:18 pm  

kirkhall wrote:

Is that Chico or Cheeky ? sarcastic waving to chasing players has a habit of coming back to haunt you! I look forward to the future!!

A bit like Acton's infuriating habit of patting opposition players on the head, when they have made an error. Totally disrespectful.

Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 4:55 pm  

Bit like Barry Sheen giving the V's to Roberts as He passed only to be overtaken a lap later!

Re: Smith!!!!! : Fri Sep 23, 2016 10:54 pm  

Personally (I watched it today on Sky+) I don't think one Leigh player had their very best game & overall Leigh played poor.

HH & Dayne did a good enough job although Dayne looked a little overly wound up for the game.
Hock got caught up in the niggle as did Travis Burns, the ref had no option with most decisions against us as we were our own worst enemies & he got most things right.

Lee Smith didn't have his finest hour but I think he was selected for his better defensive ability. A few years back he would have chased Segeyaro down easily & buried him but did look a little portly & slow last night, in fact I said this to the Mrs.

Leeds played well enough to control the game without being anything great, the penalty count, lack of respect for the ball (not clamping the ball in the tackle & allowing multiple offloads) killed us, lots of metres made on offloads by Rhinos, lots of metres lost on penalties from Leigh.

Yeah it was a nothing game but this was the minimum level *shown by Leeds* that Leigh have to reach in 2017 to be competitive.

Hope all the lads & Derek/Jukesy enjoy Portugal & get refreshed & fit for SL 2017.

Hope that the signing being announced Sunday is NOT Kevin Penny *POOP*.