Re: new signing : Tue Dec 08, 2015 10:36 pm  

newshy38 wrote:

And one day we shall have a team of LEIGH/local born players ?????

We aren't doing too bad with Riddy, Higson, Pownall, Hopkins, Higham all Leythers likely to be playing regular 1st team rugby plus Beswick, Spencer, Hock, Hansen from the dark side of the borough. Also lots of other lads like Brierley, Armstrong, Dixon, Emmitt etc all from the surrounding areas like Saint Helens, Westhoughton. Still a good solid core of local lads in our side.

Re: new signing : Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:02 am  

I have been told that Warrington and Saints are looking at Armstrong.

Will be interesting to see what happens if true !

Re: new signing : Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:20 am  

Nozzy wrote:

We aren't doing too bad with Riddy, Higson, Pownall, Hopkins, Higham all Leythers likely to be playing regular 1st team rugby plus Beswick, Spencer, Hock, Hansen from the dark side of the borough. Also lots of other lads like Brierley, Armstrong, Dixon, Emmitt etc all from the surrounding areas like Saint Helens, Westhoughton. Still a good solid core of local lads in our side.

Great post, the half empty glass brigade even rear their heads this week!

Re: new signing : Wed Dec 09, 2015 11:40 am  

newshy38 wrote:

And one day we shall have a team of LEIGH/local born players ?????

I'm sure will, whether that's once we're in Super League and have the RFL funding and the academy structure to develop our own players which isn't available to us at the moment, or if we don't get to SL, lose our financial backers & have no other players wanting to play for us down in the bottom half of the Championship, we shall see. However if we want to get to SL we need to take the best players we can get (which are great payers at the moment).

Re: new signing : Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:40 pm  

Nozzy wrote:

We aren't doing too bad with Riddy, Higson, Pownall, Hopkins, Higham all Leythers likely to be playing regular 1st team rugby plus Beswick, Spencer, Hock, Hansen from the dark side of the borough. Also lots of other lads like Brierley, Armstrong, Dixon, Emmitt etc all from the surrounding areas like Saint Helens, Westhoughton. Still a good solid core of local lads in our side.

Hansen isn't from Wigan.

I was told a couple of weeks back that Armstrong was on sick leave from Leigh, Salford also were interested.

Re: new signing : Wed Dec 09, 2015 1:44 pm  

Could be Craig Hall http://www.totalrl.com/gossip-hall-on-w ... wakefield/

Could be Craig Hall http://www.totalrl.com/gossip-hall-on-w ... wakefield/

Re: new signing : Wed Dec 09, 2015 2:21 pm  

Would be a quality signing can cover from 1-6 I'd start him on the wing outside Tonga to start with... If it is him

Re: new signing : Wed Dec 09, 2015 3:06 pm  

Not convinced on that one. Understood whoever we have signed has played for their country, cannot find anything with him that fits, unless I have missed it. Reckon this one will be for Bradford.

Re: new signing : Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:06 pm  

If he has a dual passport he could have played for any of the home countries.

Re: new signing : Thu Dec 10, 2015 10:44 pm  

Big Willie great signing, I've said it before I'll say it again we will not lose a game this year in the league