This is the result of operating like a charity , rather than a business

Ste, I too think it's a great shame that the club can't find a way to pay them 100 pence in the pound. If they had, or could get, the money, I'm sure they would do. However, everyone connected with the club is 'feeling the pain' at the moment, and I believe the players fully understand this.

Maurice, by claiming that 'Miner' are a bigger club than Hornets is in itself disrespectful.

As a semi-professional club Hornets have to fulfill many more obligations than an amateur club have to. Leigh Miners are a very well run organisation but if they were to enter the Championship[ One they would have to make much bigger decisions as regards most of the facets or running a sporting organisation is concerned.

Anyway, as I said in my original post, Leigh can go one of two ways.

1. Work out what each bidget can be given by calculating the realistic income the club will get over the season and then give each department a budget based on those figures.

2. You can continue to employ players like Hunter-Paul who command massive salaries and risk the possibility of a shortfall at the end of the season.

I don't want to see any club being lost as we need everyone but going down the second option is always likely to end with tears before bedtime!

Small though Hornets may be, all our players and staff got paid last month!

Pugwash.

obviously paying the players/staff is important, but surely getting hmrc of our backs has to be the priority, they are the guys who could wind us up, all you have to do is look at oldham and various other clubs who have had years of problems with hmrc.

We're going for option 1, Pugwash. We have now got rid of our higher earners. With R H-P there were other benefits, but you're right, nobody in this league should be able to afford SL-type contracts - or overseas' players, come to that.