i agree

I agree with everything you have written.

not all our overseas and big name signings have been a waste of money such as geoff clarke, adam bristow, heath cruckshank to name a few.

i agree with a local youth policy but i would still like to see overseas signings of the calibre of clarke and bristow. it is upto the club to try and ensure these are the right signings.
the balance needs to be right.

i dont need a leigh season ticket to watch committed young enthusiastic players giving 100 % every week i just need to go the east and miners.

i still desire to watch profeesional players with a high skill level and the young local talent could learn a great deal from them

i totally agree but select ambitious players who still want to achieve something,and can compliment and add to what is happening at leigh there is no point in paying a over the hill player who really doesnt want to be at the club to sit in the treatment room no young player will learn owt from that

Some and I reiterate SOME overseas 'blood' in any team gives them strength in experience and ethos, we at Leigh have been lucky over the years in having perhaps more good overseas player (yes there have been mistakes) than most.

Our import will add that.

cant wait for him to arrive

Darren Lockitsname won,t be coming this season.

Doesn,t matter, if u are going to have a sport whose governing body has already decided that any club inside the heartlands,must stay outside where you might realistiically might be despite success on the field, whats the point ?

Should any club develop their local talent to such an extent, they will eventually lose their best prospects to a Non relagation club ,unless that club offers enough money to keep that promising prospect to stick with their current club for a good percentage of their playing days.

Tough one isn,t it ? A million and a half plus for a Non relegation club to fund their signings and how much for those clubs outside?

What a brilliant ridiculous idea franchising is, to ensure mediocrity for most ,at the expense of a few

I think we have some good uns but we won,t be able to keep them.




There isn,t even the benefit of transfer fees anymore. All a club needs to do is pay up a contract.

They dont even do that Frank , they just tap up the player and wait

You then have a choice , either let him go and get an academy friendly in recompense or continue playing an unhappy dismotivated player till his contract runs out

A no win situation

Just seen on the Fax site that they are not running a reserve side this season despite getting to and winning GF's in the last 2 seasons

They dont see it as worthwhile , no doubt they will ressurect a team in 2011 when franchises are back up for grabs

YAY!!!!!

aye Experienced, but hardly a 'match winner'.

You are right, in my opinion, 'sf'. However, when you are older than 47, you become more cynical with age, and experience. The older you get, the dizzier you become, watching goalposts moving about! My money, (if I had any, in the current economic climate) would be on the RFL, giving the "we're getting a new stadium" brigade a few years extra, because of the 'credit crunch'. In other words, the criteria may just change again!

Without a doubt , I cannot see them dropping anybody down in 2012

The proverbial goalposts will definitely be moved by time the new franchises come around again. The only scenario I could see a club lose its franchise is if they go into administration....but then again I wouldn't hold my breath.

I to think the goal post will move, but I also agree with what SF said lets worry about us not anybody else. If we get our act together, pulling in crowds, are seen as a club that develops players, good links with local community, playing attractive rugby in a well organised facility, could they refuse us? [iDon’t answer that![/i

I've said it before we need to somehow make it so they want us, we have to be better than what they currently have.

You never know - W***n, Saints, Warrington, Salford may all go bust. (not that I would wish that on any of them, not even W***n!) But then the RFL would argue that we are geographically too close to Catalans, (NSW) Crusaders, and 'The Mighty' Quin(s) to qualify!

By the next time it comes around they would have found away to get rid of half the english teams and get, more french, Russian, Romainian, Welsh and a few Scottish teams in so just like this countrythe English will be the minority

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