PACK star Tim Street was on Sunday sent off for the third time this season.

Now Leigh are asking the worrying question: Have referees got it in for Tim Street?

He was red carded this time for two technical offences - obstruction and dissent.

Leigh officials are fast coming round to believing Street is a marked man as he again faces suspension and a possible early end to his season.

Barred from speaking publicly for fear of RL reprisals, Leigh can only voice their concerns to League bosses in private.

Street's aggressive style will always get him in to bother.

But when his second offence is to simply question a high tackle that caught him flush in the face and goes unpunished, something is wrong.

Street readily admits he treads a tight disciplinary line every time he steps onto the field - but rightly asks for a fair deal.

If referees have him, or any other player, marked down as a troublemaker then the game has real problems.

Leigh need some reassurance from Red Hall this week. But I doubt they'll get it.

Yet, despite their 26-18 reversal at Dewsbury, Leigh did manage to reassure their travelling fans that last week's win wasn't a flash in the pan.

And, had they played with the same sort of adventure in the first half as they did in the second, Leigh could have had a first away win of the season.

Instead they paid the price for a tentative start which saw them 20-0 down.

That was no more than they deserved. Frequently failing to complete their sets of six and turning the ball over to the opposition in key areas, they invited trouble.

That's what they got as Dewsbury threatened to run riot.

Leigh hadn't been in the game until just before the interval when James Arkwright and Anthony Murray punched a hole through the home defence.

A moment later Arkwright sucked in the markers and unloaded for Stuart Donlan to ghost in for a try.

Leigh's recovery seemed strangled at birth when moments later Dewsbury stretched their lead.

However, the half-time introduction of Safraz Patel for his first taste of senior action since last season ignited a rousing Leigh fightback.

Ironically, Leigh scored their two second-half tries with Street off the pitch.

The first, with Street in the sin-bin, came thanks to a marvellous defence-splitting pass from Patel which put co-sub Phil Kendrick through from 20 metres.

The second, right at the death, had more than its share of luck as Arkwright appeared to knock on before Dewsbury winger Dennis Bailey coughed the ball up for Andy Fairclough to collect and scoot round to the posts. All three tries were improved by Paul Wingfield.

LEIGH: Donlan; Wingfield, Hadcroft, Fairclough, Hill; Arkwright, Gunning; Street, Murray, Bent, Liku, Costello, Garces. Subs: Jenkins, Kendrick, Patel, Bowker.

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