Doncaster Rovers 4

Leigh RMI 0

STEVE Waywell and his Leigh RMI side must want the season to end right now, after their defensive frailties were exposed in dramatic style by Doncaster Rovers.

Leigh were outplayed in every sense of the word and should have fallen behind in the 14th minute. Simon Marples' cross was headed home powerfully by Jimmy Kelly, only for referee Perkin to bring play back for an earlier infringement on Nicky Spooner.

With every attack after the disallowed goal, the hosts looked dangerous in the form of lively young forward Tristram Whitman who was involved in almost everything the Yorkshiremen created.

Doncaster broke the deadlock with a goal that was a carbon copy of the one that decided November's clash at Hilton Park. Swan was penalised for impeding Barry Miller on the six yard line and the influential Jamie Paterson dispatched his penalty low and hard into the bottom corner.

After the interval, Leigh collapsed with a regularity that was formerly a by-word of the England cricket team, and Rovers' netted thrice in ten minutes to replicate the heavy defeats also inflicted by Stevenage Borough and Yeovil in the last ten days.

Leigh looked in vain for a consolation, and were denied five minutes from time when substitute Andy Mason slotted home, only for the linesman to flag for handball.

Leigh were well and truly beaten, but will look to raise their game for the big championship clash with Yeovil Town at Hilton Park tomorrow.

RMI: Dootson, Trees (Mason 58), German, Spooner, Farrell, Swan, Monk, Ridings, Kielty, Black, Jones. Subs not used: Felgate, Hayder, Morrell, Connelly.