NORMAN TURLEY spent Sunday night pouring over a video of Leigh's latest rocky horror show - and it made unpleasant viewing.

The new coach acknowledged he has inherited all the problems Keith Latham spent 18 months trying to put right. And Sunday's 54-18 hammering by Dewsbury has simply hardened his resolve.

Just minutes after seeing his side cave in alarmingly in the second half Turley was ready to put himself through the torture again. "I'm going home to watch the video and try to pin-point just what went wrong," he revealed. "I know these players inside out and it's a mystery why they performed as badly as that.

"What is it that turns a team which competed so well up to half time to come out for the second half and completely change character?

"We just didn't seem to want to know in the second half and I won't put up with that."

Leigh couldn't have made a worse possible start to Turley's first home game in charge had they tried. They were 6-0 down within a minute - Dewsbury quickly on their way to a first win at Hilton Park in 25 years.

Briefly Leigh got it back to 6-6 when David Hill motored 70 metres, and Turley admitted: "I was satisfied at half-time. We'd made two bad mistakes and been punished by tries and I felt if we cut down on the errors we'd be in with a shout.

"What happened in the second half embarrassed me and just isn't acceptable."

Dewsbury powered up the points. The white flag was already on its way up the Leigh flagpole.

John Gunning grabbed a try under the posts, Alan Hadcroft touched down late and Paul Wingfield added his third goal. But it was all academic.

LEIGH: Bowker; Hill, Arkwright, Wingfield, Hadcroft; Purtill, Murray; Grundy, Donohue, Pucill, Liku, Costello, Garces. Subs: Donlan, Gunning, Conway, Geritas.

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