All I've got to say is well done to Halifax, who've (last game permitting) made the top 4. They won't get promoted to SL but I'm pretty sure they are well aware of that themselves. Hopefully they'll continue to get stronger each season until they may be in a position to make a genuine push to reach the top flight.
Unlike Leigh, who've made a pigs ear of it this year & that's the bottom line! DB has caused this mess & now he's walking away. He's the not first & won't be the last, but it's nowt to do with the system, just rank bad management.
Yes Derek unfortunatley put Keiron Cunningham in charge of recruitment , who felt it neccessary to decimate last years squad and install his own , who have proved they are no where near as good as they thought they were Its called sport
The Top 6 all had 11 games against their fellow High Flyers. At the seasosns start any pudit would have probably seeded the games the way the fixtures came out....Toronto and Leigh being the favourites, London and Toulouse being the other full- time pro clubs and Fax and Fev being the next best sides.....at the seasons end for this mini league of 33 games: Toronto have 20 points Toulouse 11 Leigh have 10 Fax have 10 London have 9 Fev have 6
I've heard Leigh fans complain that their 3rd game v Toronto is the reason they missed out, but the reality is that it's their performances against non-top sides that have cost them, because their performances against London, fev, fax and Toulouse have been enough to get them to 3rd...but the loss to Barrow was the real reason they (will probably) fail.
As for next year, if the owner walks then that'll be them spent as a challenging force....it seems the elderado of SL and the hunt for it will be the undoing of another club......
Ah but we did get there , and were very very close to staying there as well , we were nowhere near disgraced in SL last year Its a bit like buying a lottery ticket or having a ' punt ' , you know its highly unlikely you'll win , but it does make the heart beat faster , proving you are actually alive
All I've got to say is well done to Halifax, who've (last game permitting) made the top 4. They won't get promoted to SL but I'm pretty sure they are well aware of that themselves. Hopefully they'll continue to get stronger each season until they may be in a position to make a genuine push to reach the top flight.
Unlike Leigh, who've made a pigs ear of it this year & that's the bottom line! DB has caused this mess & now he's walking away. He's the not first & won't be the last, but it's nowt to do with the system, just rank bad management.
It's called having AMBITION. I'd rather have the last 4 years as a Leigh fan, rather than a Halifax one.
It's called having AMBITION. I'd rather have the last 4 years as a Leigh fan, rather than a Halifax one.
That's your call, but I wouldn't. At some point we are going to start losing clubs & people will start banging on about the system when it's bad management, certainly on this occasion. They didn't have to blow their entire budget on a suicide mission. The parachute payment plus hopefully top 4 money could've funded sensible recruitment for a few years.
That's your call, but I wouldn't. At some point we are going to start losing clubs & people will start banging on about the system when it's bad management, certainly on this occasion. They didn't have to blow their entire budget on a suicide mission. The parachute payment plus hopefully top 4 money could've funded sensible recruitment for a few years.
My feelings for Leigh are well known. However, I feel sorry for their fans. Even boyroy. That said I can’t stand Beaumont. He’s a keyboard warrior, happy to threaten people over twitter with violence. Leigh fans deserve better
That was not meant at a dig about Halifax. But surely at any sports club, ambition is better than just surviving. If Leigh had another 2 points, I doubt todays events would have happened. Beaumont has 'walked before' and he's done it again. Always best to have a 'consortium' in charge, rather than one individual I know. It's not like businessmen will be queing up to take over our club, or many other RL clubs for that matter. **** happens I guess, and it just did today.
Do they have dictionaries in Leigh or calculators for that matter?
The funny thing is in 12 to 18 months we'll have the usual suspects on here saying that Leigh has thousands of fans waiting to crawl out of the woodwork & a great stadium, let us back in SL.
It is partly the fault of the structure, as to make it work, the Championship has to produce teams capable of challenging the super league clubs in the Middle 8's. The problem is that to be sustainable, they have to work on the assumption that they might not make the Middle 8's and budget accordingly. We saw with Bradford and now Leigh that if you spend on the expectation of the top 4 and you don't make it, you are in deep doodahs. The reality for the ones who are there is that the Super League teams will beat them with relative ease, and the Middle 8's will just be about who plays Toronto in the MPG.
The only sustainable way forward is franchising, but the emphasis was wrong last time. It should be based on inclusion, not exclusion. What I mean is that last time there were a finite number of places and more applicants than places. It meant teams who were perceived to be vulnerable couldn't attract investment or players.
Instead, they should re-introduce franchising with the current top flight, and if any clubs want to join, they are considered as additional clubs. That is, the effort goes into how to manage a bigger league. It could be through a conference set-up, and with an increased overseas quota, in case the talent pool is too thin. Then clubs can attract investment, knowing that the future is about security and growth, which would be good for the sport.
Or we could introduce a gimmicky new structure that we want to abandon after a few seasons.
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