So we are now seeing the player drain as Super League clubs feed off our best players once again. We’re will that leave us next year. Also how good a team of ex Leigh players that play in SL now could you put together.

Ryan Brierley off to Salford as well.

The problem leigh have had is you got promoted when you shouldnt of and you wearnt ready and if your honest didnt deserve it henceyou have struggled but the few players that has stood out will move on so now it just puts you back a year or 2.

Who did deserve it? and would they have survived in Superleague? And if they did ,to who's expense? BTW - It's easy now to come on here spouting that $h!t knowing you are safe. Good day Sunshine.

Leigh didnt deserve it you was a mid table championship team featherstone or toulouse deserved it esp featherstone they where the ones who got to million pound game.i was actually saying its put you back and not done the club any favours.there be more players leaving i would assume too which doesnt help you..but if you want to be like that about it im glad you came up made our job easier having you there.

Leigh had won 4 out of 4 when they were admitted. What happened the season before is irrelevant. I would have preferred it if all championship clubs had refused to accept the invitation,and let superleague sought their own mess out. No team in the championship was superleague ready,but now it seems like folk are coming out of the woodwork now preaching $h!t3, because they know Leigh are down. Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it? BTW - It is NOT officially confirmed yet what the structure will be next season,but some folk can't wait to spout off thinking they know it all. If Leigh had won 7 or 8 games this season, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

But teams where more ready than yous the season before does matter cis its the season before when you get promoted anyway dohh.no nothing is confirmed if you win what 6 games out of ya last what 8 or 9 games then you may stay up and if that happens good luck to ya.i actually felt for the club the rfl did you no favours you would of been in a better postion to rightfully earn a place now had you not been promoted as othi thread suggests you will lose your better players , players you may of well kept.never mind not like your use to spending more than a year in sl

Leigh need new clientele.

We have lost average SL players and still living in the past in regards to most.

Fresh eyes and fresh legs will do leigh no harm. Good luck to the players who have got new clubs.

Even the players we were linked with now are staying put , apparently Danny Richardson is staying with Cas next season , can’t blame him though , we will probably get the half back from a lower championship Club , unless Mo knows something else .

Regardless of whether we can stay in SL or we get relegated I doubt we'll be able to attract a good lot of strong calibre players either way.

I've commented about how the 2020 season was shaping up to be a great ding-dong between us, Fev and TO but we can only dream of what might have been.

I fully expect one of those two to be promoted and then we can get back to a championship where it is hopefully a bit more unpredictable, wherein the one who didn't make it to SL dominates the league and the rest of us can scrap it up in competitive matches at nice grounds, with cheaper prices and better food/beer and surrounding pubs.

Or the 2022 season will be curtailed because everyone will be falling down with winter flu and we'll be having the same discussions all over again.

Correct.

Or does it? I’m not sure all has been stated yet. Championship declined to play and now they are playing want everything back to normal. They wanted sod all only furloughed when the going was tough now they want SL.

Get rid of the salary cap!

Think that may be a good shout short term or increase the cap then the top teams can recruit better Aussies and the quality could then push down. But not a longer term solution.. academies for all to increase participation.

We have has an unsettled squad for years, i think the last we had some consistency was under Paul Rowley

Did your Club vote to give Leigh *or whoever was selected* only £1M of the £1.8M Sky TV money ?

Or at the least double it !
Now that would put the cat among the pigeons !!!

Promotion only returned in 2015 and quite a few changes 14 to 15 and even more after the 15 disaster for the promotion season

Honestly no offence intended whatsoever, but I genuinely don’t see any super league standard players in your squad that any other super league team would want or need? Just being honest like, would be interested in any Leigh fans thoughts as to stand out players?

The obvious answer to the above is the players that go to SL clubs are clearly, by those SL teams, considered to be SL standard.

Speaking personally, Liam Hood has always been a stand out and not just against the many teams Leigh have put together over the years he's played for us but against any opposition, including any super league team.

What do you think the total player spend is at clubs in the T4?

Every club applying knew they were the terms BEFORE they applied.

It's too late to complain about that now.

You shouldn't have applied, nor should you have been selected. TO and Fev were miles ahead of you.

In fact TO and Fev would beat you if you played this weekend.

Every top champ team year on year will normally best the poorest SL team. Leigh themselves have done it against Salford and Huddersfield in recent years. Totally different that week on week SL campaign.

Time will tell long term if taking this opportunity was the wrong decision. Could depend if it has given us some financial advantage for next season. At moment we don’t know either way. A lot of our players have gained SL experience and improved we need to secure those for 2022.

After last nights Wigan result and performance and if the Doc does come and increases the spending power, then I wonder in Ian Thronley has considered if he made the right decision?

Didnt all clubs applying know that and money hasnt been the issue for you guys.i havent had ago at your club i simply said having this season in sl has done you many favours.you will lose some of your best players like hood and now you will needto rebuild again which even if you get the drs money(lets face it didnt do owt with salford)can take time you may of now been challaging for place in sl where you would of had longer to prepare had you gained opposed to the few weeks you had this year.

Yesi said you didnt deserve to be in sl cos if your honest the performances on the pitch the season before covid didnt , its fair to say featherstone should of been in as losing million pound game to toronto

You produce more sheeite than a herd of cows with runs. Fev will be lucky to be alive next season after TO win the promotion spot. You even seem to forget Fev came below Leigh in the League placings 2019, but Leeds reserves helped out in the play offs when others were depleted. So Leigh finished above Fev in 2019 and would have rattled 50 past em in 2020.
Team building is well under way, even to those who dont want to see it. We are building a formidable team for the Championship or a competitive team for SL - whichever call we get. Stone, Whitbread and Tomkins is the bones of a great pack. Mellor will run the show and hopefully we keep Bell(if off quota) and Brierley. Can see Eaves on a full season here next year and 1-2 Aussie centres, as the UK have none of quality available.
Great times for a well run club who helped the SL out this year and got shafted for the favour