Quote ="maurice"Help me out here then as I am looking from the outside in. At present there are very few Leigh lads playing SL - FACT. We have only 1 Leigh team in the premier divisions at 13-15 age groups? The local SL clubs hoover up everything and at 40 player squads at 16 yo Scholarship the vast majority will not make it, yet they were deemed good enough to be hoovered up. Championship clubs do not have the infrastructure to offer these kids the best chance and cannot afford to create one, our best chance until we are an established SL club is to pick off whats available at 20-21 as these will have had the best possible grooming at Saints/Wire/Wigan. Until then we should be working with the junior clubs and schools to grow participation and fans imo'"
Spot on about the way Centurions need to operate at the moment - however, you underestimate a little the level of players at youth and junior level. Miners have teams in the Premiership at 13 and 14's with the 14's coming third. Miners 16's came runners up in the Prem and East 15's should get promoted to the Prem next season. Miners 12's are in the Lancs Cup final this Sunday - there is definitely some decent Leigh youngsters out there and they have/will be picked up by the Wigan/Saints/Wire scholarship system. I just wish that Leigh would show some interest in the towns youth and perhaps get involved in some coaching sessions with them - there are enough coaches at Leigh surely to give a couple of hours a week in getting to know the towns young players with potential.
