Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:05 pm  

Bottom line is that the responsibility should rest with dB . He should have made a decision far quicker ref Niel Jukes who managed to pee off and sell the better players and keep average.

Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:13 pm  

jensenFF wrote:

Bottom line is that the responsibility should rest with dB . He should have made a decision far quicker ref Niel Jukes who managed to pee off and sell the better players and keep average.

Agree 100%, I said Jukesy should have gone after the Barrow away defeat, which was a joke , we threw away a decent lead, and the after were comfortable against Toulouse winning by around 16 points,and LOST that game , Jukesy was out of his depth but Derek stayed loyal and we lost 5 of the first 6 games.

Derek paid the players inflated contracts, gave them 2 year contracts at that, the local lads were shown the door, the rest is History.We don't possess a kicking game whatsoever, and our defence is terrible.

Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:27 pm  

Charlie, Alan and the rest of the Leythers, it’s very upsetting to see your club back in this position as you guys don’t deserve it. Derek has tried his best, possibly to much at times as his money has been given to players who don’t deserve to wear the Leigh shirt. The extra £500k should have been spent more wisely, 4 year deal to Acton, pure stupidity for me.
Good luck in the next few weeks (as long as it’s not at our expense) and hopefully you’ll have a club to follow next season. You just need a Barra to do you a favour.

Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 12:39 pm  

[quote="Norman Bates"]Charlie, Alan and the rest of the Leythers, it’s very upsetting to see your club back in this position as you guys don’t deserve it.
Good luck in the next few weeks (as long as it’s not at our expense) and hopefully you’ll have a club to follow next few weeks. You just need a Barra to do you a favour.[Part quote]

Well said Norm, come on you Leythers you can get through this and Up The Fax.

Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:04 pm  

very sad for the Leigh club - hope they get sorted for next season now - I just hope he doesn't get involved in another club with his mate FlashKash

Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:11 pm  

charlie caroli wrote:

Agree 100%, I said Jukesy should have gone after the Barrow away defeat, which was a joke , we threw away a decent lead, and the after were comfortable against Toulouse winning by around 16 points,and LOST that game , Jukesy was out of his depth but Derek stayed loyal and we lost 5 of the first 6 games.

Derek paid the players inflated contracts, gave them 2 year contracts at that, the local lads were shown the door, the rest is History.We don't possess a kicking game whatsoever, and our defence is terrible.

It's often forgotten that Jukes actually went after round 4, and KP lost his first two games. Damage had been done in the off season sadly.

Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 1:12 pm  

harry1 wrote:

very sad for the Leigh club - hope they get sorted for next season now - I just hope he doesn't get involved in another club with his mate FlashKash

Koukas doesn't walk from debts does he ?

Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:03 pm  

Sad times for Leigh. The backer is jumping ship so to speak. It happens unfortunately. Maybe his timing could of been better. They have adopted the same approach as Bradford Bulls and banking on going straight back up. The high profile players struggled early on and you never really recovered from slow start.
In my opinion the troubles started when Paul Rowley (love him or hate him) left for Toronto. He was a far better coach than Jukes and keeping faith in Jukes was your downfall.
Charlie clown will have to dig into his pockets.

Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:22 pm  

chazzerboy wrote:

Sad times for Leigh. The backer is jumping ship so to speak. It happens unfortunately. Maybe his timing could of been better. They have adopted the same approach as Bradford Bulls and banking on going straight back up. The high profile players struggled early on and you never really recovered from slow start.
In my opinion the troubles started when Paul Rowley (love him or hate him) left for Toronto. He was a far better coach than Jukes and keeping faith in Jukes was your downfall.
Charlie clown will have to dig into his pockets.

Chazzerboy, my pockets are deep , but my arms are short,lol,in the past before Derek B, I raised a fair few quid for the Club, running Poker Nights,and I had a Boxing Night for the Club along with Andy Gregory.
I'm a bit old now to fundraiser, my health isn't great.You are right about Jukesy though, I never rated him, though I liked Rowley and thought Riddy and Brierley were great,Derek got shut of them though, and went for 2nd rate Aussies and foreigners.
Whatever happens we will survive, I will watch em wherever we play,good luck to Fax in the 8's.

Re: Leigh look to be in trouble : Wed Jul 25, 2018 2:35 pm  

Hudd-Shay wrote:

Aye, happen.

Not much "happen" about it.

The logical thing would be for the deadline to fall in the interregnum but it always falls on the Friday of Game 23 weeken.

Not sure of the thinking behind that. Especially as the deadline could fall before or after Game 23, depending on what day you play.