Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:05 pm  

Noel Cleal wrote:

Bodene Thompson to Wire confirmed

Rumours are...

Hanson and Hall to Widnes

Matautia and Thompson to Cas

Crooks and Hood to HKR

Thompson to Leeds

Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:12 pm  

Nothus wrote:

Some strange takes in this thread from that statement. Gutless pond life?
Derek might be outspoken at times and as a Bradford fan I have plenty of reasons to dislike the bloke, but he loves Leigh and all he ever wanted to do was see the club prosper.
God only knows how much of his own money he has invested in the club over the last few years and whichever way you look at it, the squad Leigh put together this season should have been enough to see them make the top 4.
Yes they probably paid over the odds for some players but that is the risk you take in this league structure as I have already commented on in another thread.

These will be a difficult few months for the Leigh club and its supporters. I've been there before only too recently and I know how much it stings so they have my sympathies.

No he doesn't love Leigh, he loved the reflected glory. I love Wakefield and I could go in there with a load of borrowed dosh and for a few month all would be great then bang that would be it. I'd have thought as a Bradford fan you'd know this kind of club ownership doesn't work and would have learned a lesson - clearly not which frankly beggars belief.

Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:13 pm  

Nothus wrote:

When your league standings determine your future funding - to such a drastic level as we're seeing here - every single club in the lower leagues is rolling the dice to some extent.

Rubbish and certainly not like this posturing fool.

Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:15 pm  

vastman wrote:

No he doesn't love Leigh, he loved the reflected glory. I love Wakefield and I could go in there with a load of borrowed dosh and for a few month all would be great then bang that would be it. I'd have thought as a Bradford fan you'd know this kind of club ownership doesn't work and would have learned a lesson - clearly not which frankly beggars belief.

Leigh won't be the only club taking risks, but you only ever find out when it goes wrong. Like I've said elsewhere this league structure was a disaster waiting to happen.

Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:26 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

Makes those criticising Elstone and his mob look rather silly too

I don't think it does in the slightest. Unless you want to keep using the RFL as a lightning rod for problems at club level (which, granted, seems to be a popular thing to do).

There's a common theme across all of the clubs that have recently issued financial distress calls - they aren't generating enough revenue, not enough people are watching them, and they're spending too much.

What Elstone and Lenaghan have proposed doesn't change any of that. They're pinning their homes on improved sponsorship and TV deals that I genuinely don't believe will materialise because these changes don't address the fundamental issues as to why we don't have those things in the first place - that the TV and advertising landscape has changed, and we don't have the audience to be able to demand those things.

There's some merit in what Elstone and his puppet-master are proposing, but there are also enormous flaws that they have failed to acknowledge or address.

Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:34 pm  

Not been a great week for RL news wise. Just makes you wonder if there is anymore trouble brewing on the horizon?

Feel for the Leigh fans. I don't know if it's a massive dummy spit or he genuinely can't sustain the club, but always thought DB was a bit of a (door)knob.

Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:00 pm  

Take the personality out of this and we are left with Leigh, Salford and Maybe Widnes, all struggling.
It does seem like the dream of SL is a very costly dream indeed and the games administration have made a right royal mess of creating a pathway into SL.
With some clubs overstretching themselves chasing the dream and others having to do likewise to prevent relegation, perhaps we should indeed "raise the drawbridge" once again.
In the three seasons of the current format, we have seen Bradford drop like a stone, Salford on the brink and now Leigh in trouble plus, Widnes struggling badly.
And the solution "found" by Big Nige, is/was to spread the jam ever more thinly and expand SL to N.America ??

You have to feel for Leigh's fans, who are undoubtedly passionate (if just a little too loud on occasion) but, nobody wants to see clubs going to the wall, there are few enough clubs to begin with.

What really irks here is that the guy who created the "every minute matters" nonsense has ridden off into the sunset, with a huge pay off and been gifted another overpaid role within the sport, its an absolute disgrace.

Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:36 pm  

Clubs in the championship are rolling the dice when we were promoted in 2006 I know if we hadn’t made it we would have been deep trouble probably administration it’s a fine line

Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 4:09 pm  

Hanson has signed for Widnes

Finn on loan from Wakefield until end of this season also.

Rumours we’ve signed Craig Hall from Leigh along with Charlie Gubb from the NRL

Re: Leigh : Wed Jul 25, 2018 7:30 pm  

Been here before , but wont criticise derek for chucking loads at trying to get SL at the LSV , we were very unlucky last year to not retain our status , for all but 4/5 games we were competitive last seaon
So thanks for the ride derek , its been a blast , all tyhe best for the future