Scarborough 2, Leigh RMI by Martyn Hindley

MANAGER Steve Waywell was livid with his poor RMI side after they surrendered to Scarborough for a seventh away defeat on the bounce.

"They played the right game against us tonight. Our ball from defence was

too short, it came back to us too quickly and we never squeezed them at all in the 90 minutes," he said.

"We didn't deserve anything at all tonight. I thought that we were very poor and individuals need to look at themselves because we were too 'pretty-pretty'. We need to look at ourselves more and ask ourselves why we are not more direct, because we needed to be tonight."

Leigh certainly short-changed their travelling support on a chilly evening in North Yorkshire. The major talking point of the opening half hour was how RMI managed to keep a full compliment with Wayne Maden, Andy Heald and Neil Durkin all cautioned in a frenetic 10 minute spell.

Durkin's yellow was a blessing in itself after an erratic lunge on Paul Shepherd could have earned a red on the half hour mark.

But soon, the Railwaymen would have bigger problems to contend with. Gareth

Stoker's hanging cross impeccably picked the gap between two defenders and

offered a perfect opportunity for Fatokun to powerfully head the ball past a stricken Stuart Coburn.

It was a goal that took the sting out of an already lame RMI set-up. Phil

Salt and Ged Kielty were woeful in their midfield role as they were second to every loose ball, Dino Maamria and Chris Ward received poor service and the defensive duo of Durkin and Maden were defending so deep that it was only a matter of time before they were beaten again.

A chronic lack of second half imagination cost Leigh dear. Stoker again went close as he tried his luck from distance only to see his effort dip just over the bar. Sillah was not so unlucky as his thunderbolt screamed off the underside of the bar and kept the points on the north side of the A64.

Waywell's men had few chances of their own. Maamria headed in during a brief period of RMI keep-ball in the second half, but it was ruled that he had interfered with Andy Woods' attempts to clear the ball and the effort was disallowed.

A miserable night culminated with RMI staying in the bottom three. On this evidence, it would take a brave man to bet against them climbing out of that zone.