The swirling wind made the conversions to Leigh's six tries extremely difficult for the kicker Ian Watson. And that meant that the Centurions had to work that much harder to keep out a Rovers side that was never going to really trouble a determined, confident and commanding set of visitors.
Leigh had been heavily beaten on their last trip to the Chris Moyles Stadium in the Northern Rail Cup, but they were determined to show there would be no repeat of that set back with Neil Kelly in charge, as he looked to guide his team back to winning ways. With Ian Watson steering the pays around the famed small pitch, the Leigh pack dominated throughout as Gareth Price Lee Doran, James Taylor, Dave McConnell and Chris Hill all played their part superbly.
The wind may have kept the score down for Leigh, but it didn't stop them taking control once they had overcome the early set back of a Stuart Dickens penalty goal in the fifth minute when being caught offside after earlier threatening as Tommy Haughey and Andy Kirk chased a kick through only for Leigh's Ian Mort to hack the ball dead for the drop out under the posts.
But Leigh weathered the early home enthusiasm, and when they took the ball upfield , they ran it on the sixth tackle , whipping it across the field for Toa Kohe-Love to dummy and cut back inside for his tenth try oft the season. Unfortunately Watson could not land the extras on a day when kicks from anywhere but straight in front of the posts were a lottery.
Leigh had a nervous spell when Price was sinbinned for a high tackle, but defended well and soon after his return full back Mort made a good break only to be overhauled by Rover's winger Scott Hutton. But Leigh were on the rise and after a couple of penalties helped Leigh upfield, the ball was spread to the right and though at first it looked Lee Marsh had been held up the Leigh stand off managed to shrug off his defender and get the ball down for another ungoaled try.
Dickens was yellow carded for disputing the try and Leigh capitalised on the extra man when Taylor was able to find Watson in support and put him in for a third Leigh try , with the kick again being blown wide to leave Leigh 12-2 ahead at the break.
Leigh withstood some Rovers pressure at the start of the second half, but then debut centre Adam Woodcock linked on the left and stepped back inside the sliding defence to score a well taken try that again went ungoaled. Leigh were playing some good stuff and respecting possession and Aaron Smith grabbed their fifth try with Marsh his time adding the extras
Nathan Batty gave Leigh a worrying moment when breaking , but was hauled down, but Tony Tonks kept the Rovers momentum going and crashed in for a Dickens goaled try on 62 minutes.
But there was to be no shock comeback this time, unlike the game at Hilton Park, that had been Kelly's first in charge, and Leigh stitched it all up when Taylor claimed their sixth try four minutes from time to secure a welcome win.

Featherstone Rovers:
1 Loz Wildbore
2 Waine Pryce
3 Andy Kirk
4 Nathan Batty
5 Scott Hutton
6 Andy Kain
7 Paul Handforth
8 Tony Tonks
9 Joe McLocklan
10 Stuart Dickens
11 Sean Hesketh
12 Richard Blakeway
13 Tommy Haughey
Substitutes all used
14 Carl Hughes
15 Danny Richardson
16 James Houston
17 Nathan Massey

Tries Tonks (62)
Goals Dickens 2/2
Sin bin Dickens for dissent (30)


Leigh Centurions :
1 Ian Mort
2 Dave Alstead
3 Adam Woodcock
4 Toa Kohe Love
5 Steve Maden
6 Lee Marsh
7 Ian Watson
8 Mike Morrison
9 Dave McConnell
10 Gareth Price
11 James Taylor
12 Lee Doran
13 Aaron Smith

Substitutes:
14 Adam Higson
15 Anthony Stewart
16 Chris Hill
17 John Cookson

Tries Kohe-Love (9), Marsh (30), Watson (36), Woodcock(44), Smith (50), Taylor (76)
Goals: Marsh ½. Watson 0/4
Sin biun: Price for high tackle (12)

Referee: Michael Dawber
Half time 2-12
Attendance 1,227