Everything Leigh Leopards coach Adrian Lam said

Here’s the review and rundown of everything that Lam said in the Leopards debrief.

Overall thoughts

“A bit of a car crash performance really. Frustrated in that sense, we haven’t been like that for the whole season. I know there were three late changes in the week in key positions and that probably didn’t help but I felt that we just didn’t give ourselves a chance.”

Was it a case of Wigan being too strong or Leigh having an off day, or a bit of both?

“Probably a bit of both. I thought they were outstanding and played finals rugby the way it should be played. They were awesome tonight but I felt we just errored too many times out of our own end and put pressure on ourselves and on the back of that came six-agains.

“I think the penalty count at half-time was 5-1 and it hasn’t been like that the whole season so when you give a team like Wigan that much possession in that end of the

“I think the system we stuck to is pretty much the same as every week we’ve had and that’s something we’ll deliberate post-season. We played Salford who (basically) had a week off with resting so many players the week before against Wigan and that was really difficult. It’s hard to play a top two team when they’ve had a week off at home and even though we went through that difficult period in the first half, I feel our errors put us under pressure, six-agains and then our penalty count was 5-1 at half-time which doesn’t help.

We were almost in our line when we committed those mistakes, and Wigan is a squad that moves quickly and can do serious damage. We would have entered at 10-6 down and the game would have been quite different if Ricky Leutele had thrown a dummy when Abbas Miski took the intercept, scored the try, and kicked the goal. We still had that belief at 10 (down) but I think it was a late score with two minutes to go that makes it 18-0 at half-time and they sort of took the wind out of our sails a little bit and then the error in the first tackle in the second half. It was merelyeza

“Unbelievable. I think we’ve got the best fans in Super League and the most passionate, like our owner (Derek Beaumont), a little bit crazy but we love them.

“I think they kept turning up for us through that difficult time, we asked them to stick by us when things weren’t going good and we knew we had the belief and faith that we could turn it around. It’s just a reminder to everyone that even if things aren’t going good through the season, whether it’s two years ago, 10 years ago, last year, this year or next year, just keep faith with us because we’re working hard and the systems we have and the processes we have are good and that everything is going to be okay.

“There is going to be a lot of change at the end of the year, there’s going to see a lot of new faces, they’re going to say goodbye tonight to some players that we’ll never see again who have etched some memories in our minds that we will have forever. That’s the sad part about tonight, that it’s the last time that some of those players will play for us.”