Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:24 pm  

Well that was like pulling teeth in the second half. The ref never controlled the ruck allowing London to really slow it down. They can play when they want to with combinations out wide. Naiquama was a handful. With a superleague ref controlling the ruck we would have put 50 on them. Top of the league after 3 games, who would have said that before the start of the season?

Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:27 pm  

A second half to forget not helped by that shocking official who could ruin it for a virgin in a brothel - will someone tell him the 4500 hardy souls pay to watch RL and not him

Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:58 pm  

Too many loose passes/knock on which the ref cannot help but still allowed too much opportunity to slow down the PTB, sometimes 5 seconds elapsing.

3/3 thats why we're champions, BUT must beware and learn to play 80 minutes.

Main positive, Last season, on a day like today, the crowd would have been around 1500 so 3000 extra on today. Well done the Leigh public, the word is spreading, keep spreading the word. In the first half we were impressive ball in hand.

Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:24 pm  

I'd like to see the possession stats for that second half.Got to give credit to the Bronco's really in the second half for keeping hold of the ball,but equally matched by the Centurions defense.

Does anyone know what refs they will be using when the split happens?

Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:08 pm  

Agree, they must of had over 60% possession stats in that second half. Our defensive effort was really good, although a lot of ball was given to them by strange descisions made by the man in the middle. I think the middle eights will have a mixture of SL refs and the junior refs we get lumbered with. although most of the SL refs are of a higher standard, I have a sneaky feeling we will see a certain Mr Childs at the LSV when the Middle Eights come around.

Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:20 pm  

Leigh was poor really second half, but georgie porgie is seriously not a good official. RFL take note. In all honesty watching Ben Thaler referee in France on Saturday just shows how officiating should be done.

Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 7:42 pm  

My view is we threw far too much ball away in the second half. I could name one player in particular but my spelling is poor so I won't.

Refs are the same for both sides.

Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:32 pm  

On the positive side it's not always possible to say that every try we scored was a classic but I think that was true today.

Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 8:34 pm  

Also credit to Sam Barlow today. Ritchie Mathers was really trying hard to get into Sam's head from the moment he took to the field, every time Sam just laughed it off. Good to see from the big man.

Re: Leigh Centurions v London Broncos - Sunday 1st March : Sun Mar 01, 2015 9:24 pm  

Looking forward to seeing some of those tries again. On reflection there was some cracking tries scored by our boys today.