...and Rocky Hampshire.

Thanks Meast.

As I said to a Giants fan post game, that was a great/almost comeback.
I had been trying to explain to my OH why this comeback was happening, "weekly SL intensity, pace & size in the outside backs, SL levels of fitness & stamina" etc, as opposed to her (6 games per season fan) "why are they doing this again/always do this", "not trying hard enough", "need to knuckle down/wake up" etc.

Really difficult to explain to her & she wouldn't accept my reasoning until I had an ex pat Leyther (lives in Yorkshire) & his fully fledged Yorkshire Son explain it in The Centurion after the game.

I hope you go on to secure SL status for 2017 because when you flow you are an exciting team.

It was nice to see fans from Wire, Wakefield, Wigan & Bradford enjoying a day out of RL.

Best of British.

TBF Salford have posted low 2,000 & sub 2,000 crowds & Wakey have lived on low attendances for a long time.

When almost 2,000 Bradford Bulls fans travelled, we posted [i7,500 ish[/i for an [iAll Championship[/i League match.

We might see a 10 > 15% increase in core fans + bigger numbers of Good Time Charlie's for what I will call the big attractions, Wigan, Wire, Leeds, Saints, Hull FC.

Leigh's average was 4,736 last time they were in Super League. Interesting to see if they can beat it this time around.

Even if they don't it Will still be a boost on Salfords numbers.

Maybe Huddersfield too this year.

What has gone wrong at Huddersfield? I guess with the predicament of last years treble winners Leeds, Huddersfield's fall from grace this season has gone largely under the radar.

Last season, they had a chance of winning the LLS in the last game of the season. Mathematically it was a real possibility. This season now they have finished bottom and have lost against the only 2 decent teams they have played in the Middle 8's. They brought in a new coach and it's made no difference.

I know salford are in some sh*t, but the ability of their team is top 8, they just had a points deduction. Hull kr will rally with peacock taking the field.

Huddersfield could well be the ones who finish up getting relegated.

Wow!



He must be bloody brilliant to drag the other 16 "non SL standard" players to 3 wins from 3 against SL teams.

Might whack a tenner on him for Man of Steel 2017!

Pato

Should beat it no problem. 3 potential 12k sellouts v Wigan, Warrington and Saints.

If we do well, 7k will be good. If in the bottom 4, around 6k.

Either way, It don't matter. Leigh away support will boost the coffers of existing sl teams too.

This promotion of Leigh to Super League is the worst decision in the history of Super League, other than the demotion of London and Bradford.

Leigh is a suburb of Wigan, with no train station nearby and hellishly difficult public transport connections. Yes, it draws bigger crowds than Salford, but that is no criterion for promotion. Bradford and London deserve to be back in Super League, and Leigh deserves to be in a better run Championship with the likes of Halifax, Sheffield, Featherstone and Batley.

I look forward to Toulouse decisively defeating Leigh in the Million Pound Game at the end of 2017.

Glad the middle 8s are actually doing what they're meant to now, hope Leigh can poach a few glory supporters from Wigan, and not go straight down again.

But it wasn't a decision though Jean, promoting Widnes was a decision, putting Catalans in S.L. was a decision, Leigh have achieved promotion fair & square.

I await with bated breath for you to tell me whose decision it was to promote Leigh and relegate Bradford and London, in a system that employs promotion and relegation. This should be good.

OK, perhaps "decision" with regard to the promotion of Leigh was a poor choice of words.

I should have written that I think that the decision to have P & R instead of licensing is one of the worst decisions ever made by the RFL. The promotion of Leigh, was, apart from the demotion of Bradford and London, the worst outcome in the history of Super League.

The sooner we get licensing back the better. We need London and Bradford, Toulouse and Toronto, and eventually Montreal and Avignon, playing in Super League. Only then will rugby league be taken seriously as an international sport.

Is it your aim to try and talk as much bolllocks as possible ? If so you've nailed it Jean

What a cap end... Catalans are doing a lot for French rugby aren't they? Some real top quality French players coming through and they don't have to rely on imports do they??? Hmmm

Quality French players who have come through:

Morgan Escare
Anthony Gigot
Vincent Duport
Fouad Yaha
Lucas Albert
Thomas Bosc
Remi Casty
Julien Bousquet
Eloi Pelissier
Romain Navarette
Antoni Maria
Gregory Mounis
Olivier Elima
Mickael Simon
Kevin Larroyer
Gadwin Springer

Quality?? You slate English players and come up with bang average French lads, really like yaha and early days of Bosc fact is Catalans offer no more to super league than Leigh will except warm weather

Bang average?

Bosc is still very good, and Julien Bousquet and Remi Casty are two of the best props in Super League. Anthony Gigot and Vincent Duport are also top quality, and Mickael Simon adds some starch to the Wakefield Trinity pack. Meanwhile young teenager half Lucas Albert is, along with Fouad Yaha, a star in the making.

Haven't you seen our attendances this year? Any glory supporters we had have gone.

Congratulations to Leigh. Good to see the system doing what it was designed to do. If we still had straight promotion and relegation a considerably weaker Leigh team would be just starting to think about how many players they could pinch off the relegated team. Leigh would be weaker because they would probably have been created to only beat other Championship opposition. Under this system they go up knowing that they can already compete at least with the lower levels and that they are in a position to strengthen.
P.S I would like us to be in a position to have a strong enough professional game to have P+R, but until that happens..........

After watching how you win a game I can see why. Like watching paint dry while a man blows a whistle a lot.

There is a malaise at the club, through the players and management and i believe it all stems from the "events" of pre season!
However they are professional sportsmen and as such should overcome these things and be professional and do the job they are paid fairly well to do.

Jeanette - You have forgot to mention Gadwin Springer at Tigers.

He is German according to Jean.