Mixed feelings about who I 'want' to go up. I've never been a fan of North American, or even French teams in British RL. However, I do think Toronto deserve a crack at SL, having proved themselves on the pitch. My own club has tried, with 14 wins out of the last 16 games, but couldn't overcome their dreadful start. And, to be honest, had we somehow got into the top 4, we would have been on the receiving end of some big defeats!

Toulouse may just upset a couple of SL teams, but can't guarantee beating their Championship counterparts.

Brilliantly as they have done, Halifax (yet again) and London aren't likely to sustain an effort over seven hard games.

His problem. He shouldn't be so desperate to break the bank for the glorified 'Soooper Greed' And brought a balanced sustainability to his club in the long term. Another clown with no professional business experience.

If he walks away then he'll face lawsuits from those players.

He's done no different to what Toronto are doing now. He wanted progression, and along with KR showed just how much it costs to break a system heavily favoured towards SL.

Sustainability is one thing progression is another. You progress to create stability. Otherwise you don't move anywhere.

I've said for a while that this league structure is dangerous. By dangling the carrot of promotion to super league and also basing future funding on final league standings, there is a huge incentive for clubs to take risks.
Those in charge at Leigh will have based contract offers and player salaries on the funding they currently had and also an expectation of what funding they would receive in 2019. Unfortunately for them the risk has not worked - for whatever reason they have massively under-performed this season to such an extent that they will not even be in the top 4 come season end.

The question now is, was this outcome budgeted for at the start of the season? Do Leigh have any kind of contingency plan in place for such a scenario coming to fruition?

As a Bradford fan, this is pretty much exactly what happened to us in our second year in the championship. I think it's safe to say that we definitely did not have a contingency plan in place. Hopefully Derek sticks around and Leigh can rebuild for 2019 and beyond.

Over on the Leigh board they suddenly feel promotion shouldn’t be based on on-field results, haha.

^^^^^ Obsessed.

You beat me to it

Halifax have had the toughest run. Only lost to Leigh away by been robbed as the winger was in touch for the last minute try.

Other than that we have lost by 2 in the capital against a full time team, beat the frogs who are full time and tought Fev a lesson. Given the hard run of games I think we can keep this up and turn over widnes and salford

The only team in the league to come to the shay this year and win was Toronto and even that was close. I aint writing these lot off the league table speaks for itself.

Toronto 41 points Spent well over the cap
Toulouse 31 Fulltime and probs spent over a million
London 31 full time and spent around a million
Halifax 31 Part time spent 300k
Fev 30 partime spent around 500k
Leigh 30 full time spent around 1.6 million as they had a 500k payment from sl teams on top

Write Halifax off all you want we was expected to finish in the bottom half last year and same again this year but to finnish on the same points as second is a massive achievement. Leigh, London Toulouse have all been beaten

Rubbish, Toronto haven’t spent over the cap

Provide evidence by way of a quote or several quotes to prove this is true Jean !
Must be plenty if =#FF0000"they" are saying it !

Havent threy got a cap dispensation, im sure I read that somewhere. I could be mistaken

maybe toulouse for widnes if it were to happen, widnes two years on the trot now finished bottom and dont offer much to sl

be great to see the toulouse and catalans derby !

No they haven’t

yes they have

Have ! & also a dispensation on Marquee too !
It will all come out in the wash !

Still not providing those quotes/evidence that any Leigh fans are saying this Kev/Jean/Chairman ?

I think that requires a rest period. You are simply trolling.. See you in a week.

Toronto have taken the p!ss all season sign who they like from the nrl. Hope we still finnish 4th as I think we could do them down at the shay tbf

Oh dear.....

I didn't know that you were Finnish at all! How cosmopolitan you are.

Well played Fev ! Widnes & Salford will be terrified at the prospect of facing Toronto in the qualifiers....

Attendance >8k according to TW website

Not afyer the Fev result they won't.

You can stick your 'hapless' Halifax up yer arris whatever you're calling yourself this week