At the end of the day all our young lads have stepped upto the mark over the last 5 years. However they can't make a team when it is supplemented by journeymen on decent money.
The best strtegy Leigh could have is to invest in our young players and show them ambition.
Ambition is all well and good but you need to back it up with finance and proffessional acumen. The first part is done if all I have heard comes to fruition and people like Chris Hill will stay and benefit. What he and others will be concerned with though is the proffessionalism of the club and its directors and board members.
We really need to stay up this year and then get a grip of the club to take it to the next level. Learn from 2005 and look at Hull KR and we may just be smiling in 2012.

By whom? Surely not the coaching staff? I think Chris has developed his game through self determination and the will to succeed, but you can only get so far with that. Leigh should do the decent thing and release Chris from his contract, he has given his all to this club (97 first team games) and he should be allowed to progress his career elsewhere.

I dont think at this moment Chris wants to leave he just wants Leigh to do well, but he is a bit fed up at the moment.

Chris will be hopefully packing down with 2 great hookers and 3 other huge props in 2010

But dropping down will go to a £200K cap from £400K, won't existing contracts have to be re-negotiated?

We only spent 76k this year

If we did then one player is taking more than half of that!

Nobody would get £40k in our team surely

I hope you are having a laugh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dont LISA part fund a player for about 20k

Mr Donlan

Only know our big signing to replace a gamebreaker/creator like Moran was a very brave winger/FB who had lost his pace.

I thought he was totally funded by LISA. If any of those players are on more than 20K for playing part time then there is something fundamentally wrong with the business side of the club.
I must admit to being ignorant to how much our players earn and what they do for the club to justify the wages. However I am now taking an interest and can't believe what I am hearing.

It wont be just down to our club though.

If half decent players are being offered £20k+ by the likes of Barrow, Widnes, and Fax, then thats the marketplace we're in.

It's crazy money... telephone numbers being talked about....

How do they stay within the salary cap then?

Creative accounting , I think is the term

Oh dont start that one

Apparantly the firm that makes brown envelopes have tripled there turnover and are taking on extra staff in the Cumbrian and Calderdale areas

Jamie Rooneys cat is now official rat catcher at Barrow on 100k a year!

Bang out of order.......

You can say that again ,a few of us cheered him off and he did'nt acknowledge us he looked well and truly pd off.

I am surprised he didnt as he has a lot of respect for our fans

Certainly in Cumbria