Leigh Centurions 18, Dewsbury Rams 54 NORMAN Turley spent last night pouring over a video of Leigh's latest horror show - and it wouldn't have made pleasant viewing.

The new Centurians coach acknowledged he has inherited all the problems that Keith Latham spent 18 months trying to put right. But one thing for certain is that yesterday's hammering has only 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 whey they performed as badly as that.

"What is it that turns a team that's competed well up to half time, come out for the second half and completely change character?" he asked.

"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 allowed the Rams to regain possession from the kick off and with less than 60 seconds gone Adrian Flynn had scored in the corner.

When James Arkwright went high in a tackle soon afterwards Barry Eaton landed the first of nine goals And the Rams were on their way to a first win at Hilton Park for 25 years.

Briefly Leigh got it back to 6-6 when David Hill motored 70 metres but generally they couldn't find the killer passes when they had The Rams under pressure. The first of Matt Bramald's four tries put Dewsbury six points clear again.

"I was quite satisfied at half time," Turley admitted. "We'd made two bad mistakes and been punished by tries and I felt that 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."

Fourteen points in the first nine minutes of the second half put paid to any chance Leigh had of ending their losing sequence.

Matt Long bumped off two feeble tackles for the first of his two tries, Bramald went in for his second and Eaton added three goals. The white flag was already on its way up the Leigh flagpole.

Skipper John Costello was put on report for an alleged trip and Arkwright was sin-binned for obstruction as Leigh slipped from bad to worse.

John Gunning pulled six points back with a try under the posts after clever work from Costello and Bowker but between the 58th and 72nd minutes the Rams put the Centurians to the sword with further tries from Bramald (2), Delaney and Brendon Williams.

Alan Hadcroft's late score and Paul Wingfield's third goal were academic as Long collected the Rams ninth try in stoppage time. LEIGH: Bowker, Hill, Arkwright, Wingfield, Hadcroft, Purtill, Murray, Grundy, Donohue, Pucill, Liku, Costello, Garces. Subs all played: Donlan, Gunning, Conway, Geritas.

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