We've topped that league the past two seasons, but there are very few teams in it. Leigh were given the opportunity to play in a reserve league of SL teams (with no Qualifiers to suffer!!
) or once again play in the mini-Championship reserve league, playing everyone else about six times to have enough fixtures. The club acknowledges that running without a reserve team is a very short term policy - plus it will free up some room under the cap to sign any first team players!