personal axes to grind and will try and destroy the club in the vendettas, like I have said before I know people who haven't been since Murph went in 71, and some who won't set foot in the place because of what a certain ex chairman was supposedly doing in the 90's, to be honest if people get so depressed just by watching sport they just shouldn't go, unless they wear hair shirts as well

they must bge hell to stand next to or sit near

I agree! The lad has natural talent, and trains his socks off from what I hear. This is the type of player we should be trying to build our side around. Whatever we get offered, we have to keep him.

y r u dropping quite a few of your 1st teamers down to play in the 21s?

Probably due to the way some have been proforming, however on or two were the wrong ones dropped IMHO.

Presumably there are other clubs chasing him then?

They would be daft not too

seems we are the daft ones INHO

Trouble is Alan we could have tied him to a three year deal last year but the coach at the time only offered him a one year one.

I hear from a very good source he has already signed for Halifax for next season.

I thought Greenwood was the best full back in the league?

Or maybe they've given the coaching job to FrankB and he's going to play stand-off

If Leigh allow such a promising young player to leave then i,m gobsmacked i can honestly say with my hand on my heart
if this happens i will be picking my matches very very carefuly
for next season


MORTY IS LEIGH THRO n THRO WE SHOULD BE BUILDING AROUND PLAYERS LIKE MORT...

I would refuse cos I,d prefer to continue supporting Leigh and, as much as I want to bring Fax down a peg or two, I don,t think they could afford my beer allowance.

Good try lad but you,ll have to do better than that.

You are obviously upset about Penky leaving your lot during the close season.

And i myself share your view. I can honestly say that i do not know where these rumours are coming from, but if true then i am amazed that Leigh are allowing it to happen.
A certain person, who i respect immensely wrote upon Nanyns arrival " That this could be the end of Ian Mort" or words to that affect. For what it's worth i actually think the same.
Simply put and no disrepect to Stuart, because i rate him highly, Stuart was signed as a full back and as hardly played in that position due to Morts good form. This as now become a problem and i think the pressure as come on P.R to play him in that position. The arrival of Nanyn means that he will take on the role of goal kicker.
This means that Mort could well be phased out.
I,m now also aware that Morts contract is up at the end of the season ( fred parky on previous post) and as such, have Leigh renogotiated? Maybe they have, maybe they have not, maybe the offer is low, or maybe they have told him that he is not required. I do not know.
However if he as signed for another club it would be very nice indeed for the club to confirm this.
Maybe i'm over thinking here. However i wonder if my theory will be further fueled over the next few weeks?

Just wrote something about this on another thread, it WILL be a travesty if he goes its absolutely ridiculous! I for one am not happy at all and like i said on another topic Donlan wont be here forever and Morty is a young enthusiastic GOOD player that this club needs and should keep and if the club are even thinking along the lines of letting him go they should hang their heads in shame!Not happy ,not happy one iota and if you read this Leigh Centurions SHAME ON YOU! , and if you read this Morty DONT GO

Morty is the most obvious current example of the rewards reaped by our development of young players, just like Chris Hill & Jimmy Taylor a couple of years ago. He is obviously proud to wear the shirt, plays with passion, and shows that rare commodity in a Leigh player - pace. IMHO he's progressed quicker into the first team than I expected, has bags of confidence (which was Greenwood's biggest problem at times when he was with us) and is continuing to improve, even if he isn't the finished article in his position yet. As we said about Hilly & Jimmy a couple of years ago, he's exactly the sort of player we should be continuing to develop, signing on long contracts and aiming to build a team around for years to come. Even if a better player comes through behind him we'll always be showing our commitment to bringing the best young players through.

The debate about Donlan or Morty at FB has divided fans - personally I'm firmly in the Morty camp, but I can see the opposite argument as well. However, where will Donlan be in 2 years? 3? 4? He won't be a player we'll be wanting to pay top whack to and build a team around thats for sure. And we'll find ourselves scrabbling round the lower leagues for a fullback because while we massaged Donlan's SL ego we've let Morty, Dollin & co slip through our fingers like so many others before.

This season was supposed to be about youth (unless we were lied to as an excuse for not making any signings) but now we're favouring ageing SL & even NL players ahead of quality young players coming through. If we want to stick to the youth policy we should go with Morty and tell Donlan he plays where he's picked, not where he wants to play. If we let Morty go, use Nanyn as a kicker and Donlan at FB the fans will ask why the club lied about the so-called youth policy and why our signings were so poor. I wonder which it will be......

Good try yourself. Penky signed a two year deal with Fax the morning before the Leigh game. And thats not a rumour, thats fact.

If you say so Rafa

He is and Shad Royston is the 2nd best. But you can never have enough good players.

Everton are a small insignificant club btw.

Losing players to SL clubs you can just about accept, but losing them to fellow Championship clubs is not quite as easy to accept. Then again it would depend on who we get as a replacement. Now basing the quality of new signings on the last three years, I would say us fans will get the rough end of the deal. If they seriously want SL in 2012 we only have one season (next) to get it right, (at present I cannot see us reaching this years GF).

If we don't get it right, it will be two from Toulouse, Gateshead, Fax, Barrow and possibly Widnes.

Totally agree.

I'm happy to persevere with what we have because I'm watching local lads putting the effort in. Anyone can have an off game but in general Leigh lads will always put in 10% more playing for Leigh than a lad from somewhere else.

Give me 13 Ian Morts than 13 Johnny Journeymen any day of the week.

Potentially losing top young prospects for little good reason would send out the wrong signal to many.

I posted a while back regarding a certain business man trying or actually becoming a agent for 2 young leigh lads 1 being mort then going to leigh to try to double there wages which leigh cant afford so whaaat do we do ??????????

Its been done before Dave

As has been seen this season paying top dollar to players doesn't always work, we can only afford to pay what we can, if other clubs can pay more then so be it, but just remember the player in question last year would have signed a 20 year contract if offered but was only offered a 12 months one, ask yourselves who was responsible for that?