No..

He tries his best and thats all you can ask but clearly never SL standard.

He is unfortunately one of those players who if you saw his name in the opposition line up, you would immediately fancy your chances.

Leigh 1, 6 and 7 abysmal... Brown dominated and dictated the game. The lack of passion and fight in the second half was alarming to say the least. The opposition was supposedly our relegation rivals and they were supposedly fielding a weakened side at that... Worrying.

Ah well it is only St.Helens up next.

Salford were absolutely shocking too, yet the slightly lob sided scoreline would have doubled if it was any other side in SL.

It was just a terrible, drab, slow game to watch. Did the half time team talk include Pie and Chips ?

He promised we would be prepared, I wished he put as much effort into building the team as he put into the application for promotion, to my mind he is just pinning all his hopes on no relegation this season.

What did you expect, In his short stint at Leigh Kevin Brown was the classiest player we have had at the club this century, but his type of player is only good if the team is capable of playing with him.

Pity he didn t do anything for us in that loan spell in 2019.

Just read this-he did absolutely nothing in that loan spell!!

This is what sport is about different opinions.

As I said people had to be capable of playing with him, just like the conductor of an orchestra he/she is only as good as those playing the instruments.

If there have been problems recruiting players of the required standard it would be helpful if there was some communication from the club to explain this to fans. The excitement generated in fans by rumours of potential quality signings is part of sport.

Is the pool of players of sufficient ability to be competitive even smaller than it was in 2017?

If recruitment of players of sufficient quality has been a genuine problem, and this is in some way COVID related, then it would be fair to cancel relegation this season.

We have a squad of non first 17 SL players in the main, players who want a wage due to age but can’t get a decent one in SL as an ageing squad player. If we are told early enough that we will be in SL 2022 then I expect at least 12 better players than we have in the squad to compete for mid table

When we were the Champions in 1981, 11 regular first teamers were from the local area! Having said that, you have to build to get to that level.

and also he is an extremely ugly man.

so we get the scraps and tell the rugby league world we are superleague ready.




if we are told we will be in superleague 2022 then one of the other 11 clubs will have to go bust.

So who out of the other candidates do you believe were more ready than us, especially with the uncertainty of Covid

And a lot can happen between now and the end of the season - relegation is by no means a certainty

no other candidates but us neither. you are right that relegation isnt a certainty but its not looking good is it. what do think we should do from here now.

Well I think with the squad we have we have wins in us without a doubt - the starting 17 especially, whether we ever see that is another matter.

Looking at the other teams we don’t have enough wins in us not to finish 12th - if we can find a bit more quality, 1/2s especially we may give ourselves a chance

Elliot at FB could be a major factor- took a gamble with him, hope it pays off, backline of him Thornley, Sau, Gelling and Russell is not a bad line up at all

Just to add weight to my argument that creative player's are only has good as those around him, do you by any chance watch the NRL?
There is a lad playing in the half's for Sydney Rooster's completely and totally unrecognisable from the one who played at Leigh for the whole of the '18 season namely Drew Hutchinson, simply because his temmates are on the same wavelength, those around him at Leigh were way off the mark same as with Kev Brown.

were from

I reckon it will be like SL 2005, when we won just 2 games.

We applied to accept what was a tough brief and the difficulty may be the longer term implications as we will be judged on it even though the playing field was never level. Lack of prep time and lower funding. If we were given 2 years for taking this on that would have been better but things stacked against us from start. Saying that think with the 5 first choice player missing we would compete. But more players needed of better caibre needed to cover injuries. Where thes may come from who knows, possibly some mid season opportunities but will it be too late for 2021?

Anyone who thought it would be any different was deluding themselves, I did not want Leigh to be "The Chosen One" from the outset and I could not understand why the club and in particular Mr Beaumont wanted to put so much effort into securing the application if he had no intention of vastly improving the squad to compete in a much higher standard than the 20 assembled players to compete in the Championship.

I’ll ask the question too a business man. Would you have taken it on? The only way I would have taken it on is with prior knowledge of no relegation.

We need to remove the embarrassing superleagueready hash tag from our Twitter feed before fans from other clubs pick up on it and use it as a stick to beat us with.

That was when we had Leigh colts and Wiggin weren’t poaching all our youngsters. Note they always pass off players like Manfredi as their own.