Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:44 pm  

fun time frankie wrote:

So apart from your near first choice squad there is nobody else

Nope, all our funds were put into achieving SL

Reserves and academy to begin next season assuming we don't get relegated

Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:46 pm  

ColD wrote:

Nope, all our funds were put into achieving SL

Reserves and academy to begin next season assuming we don't get relegated

Wow!

Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:06 pm  

10 start on coupon or 3-1 for the win.id expect Leigh to have the cup as a low priority as opposed to super league survival? Does seem a big price on first glance

Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:28 pm  

Salty mouse wrote:

Wow!

How do you suggest we fund a quality first team and running an academy (which I understand next season will be £200k for the academy) - without years of SL funding. £1.8m is it, that's a hell of a gap to fill for teams in the championship

Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:32 pm  

ColD wrote:

Nope, all our funds were put into achieving SL

Reserves and academy to begin next season assuming we don't get relegated

Sorry I was been sarcastic it was just your fans were saying all week how you'd struggle to raise a team and yet you name a near full strength team

Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 7:47 pm  

ColD wrote:

How do you suggest we fund a quality first team and running an academy (which I understand next season will be £200k for the academy) - without years of SL funding. £1.8m is it, that's a hell of a gap to fill for teams in the championship

I wasn't having a pop.... just shocked you have no contingency, seems bizarre to me to think you have set pool of players and that's that.

Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:08 pm  

We're just getting our excuses in just in case we lose !

Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:24 pm  

Budgiezilla wrote:

We're just getting our excuses in just in case we lose !

Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:42 pm  

Salty mouse wrote:

I wasn't having a pop.... just shocked you have no contingency, seems bizarre to me to think you have set pool of players and that's that.

The contingency in our case is survival.
Personally, after years of watching champ rugby, SL is brutal in terms of intensity and we have been caught out a little - a lot of it down to bad luck, but hey ho

For me we're always going to be in the middle 8's - come the business end we will have the majority of the current squad plus additional quality available.
It's a different game than just straight promotion/relegation

Re: challenge cup draw : Thu Apr 20, 2017 8:53 pm  

Your season has been a bit reminiscent of our first season in super league, I reckon you will be alright I fancy Widnes for the mpg