According to Keith Freer we will now be taking young players from Cas to bring on with their development! After being Wire n Saints player development club the RFL really have got what they wanted. A closed shop in SL and feeder clubs below. They have killed my beloved team Leigh. The game is absolutely pointless now below SL. The game really is dying thanks to the idiots running it.

Message for Keith Freer - I dont want to watch a Leigh team with Wire, Saints or Cas young players, I want to watch a Leigh team with young Leigh players. Please heed that message or will the last spectator leaving the LSV please turn the lights out.

And that is the truth amen brother

Must admit in giving the bad news about Millward it seemed bizarre in posting in the same press release about Leigh trying to link up with Castlefords youth players.

If that was the positive in the press release then things are getting exceptionally bad !

+1

Just read that info...........FFS why do we need to tie up with Cas....... We`ve got enough talent this side of those damned Hills.

Could it be an indication that Millward will take some Leigh players with him?

Got to say that opening ' links ' with Cas seems pretty pointless to me , just a softening of the blow for the official line , totally unnecessary , we have a tried and tested set up of players from within a 15/20 mile radius , that is all we need , I wouldn't even bother with a Quota player any more , not needed

Idiot thingto say from the acting Chairman plenty good young players within the club and clubs within a 15 mile radius of Leyth..

Just trying to unnecessarily put a positive on bad news , not worth bothering about , we have bigger problems to worry about

There is absolutely no reason to be linked with Castleford in any way. The Acting Chairman hasn't got a clue.

So that'll be three from cas four from wire and one from saints,"great",at least we now know were we'll stand next season.

Nothing wrong with linking up with Castleford and taking some of their youngsters on, who for your information for the past couple of seasons at u18s and reserve level have been very impressive, you only need to look at the amount that have stepped up to the first team.

No-one complained too much when Evans, Blythe, Mitchell, Emmitt etc have pulled on Leigh shirts over the past two seasons. I'd place a bet on Leigh taking Ryan Brierley on dual reg next season if this is the case. A talented 7, who is probably better than what we have at the club going into next season. He probably won't be used by Cas so will be available all year round and he will be a cheap option to replace the outgoing Ellis.

At the end of the day, we're probably never going to get a team of Leythers/local players who are good enough to compete the way Leigh fans would want. It didn't work three years ago when Leigh took on young players Mort, Stanton, Reay, Meekin etc I could go on but they just weren't good enough.

Luckily for the moment we've got a few who are still young and will make the grade in Nicho, Pownall and Hoppy. There's probably a couple more in the reserves too but the reality of it is, that most of those players will end up in CH1 club or back at their amateur teams.

Cheers for that Basil.

Enjoy ya self watching other clubs reserves

A good educated response.

A very good response, connections with any clubs in the superleague can only be good for us. We may even get ourselves a few friendlies against clubs we have had deals with

Are you being facetious?

I don't really have aproblem taking on other clubs players as long as it is for a season and they don't get recalled every other week.

That is the only problem about dual registering, when injuries hit they will be recalled, Cas had that situation with York this season, Thompson, Massey and Davies, were sent out to them but Cas got an injury crisis and were quickly recalled, so probably they only played a handful of games between them at York.

No need to go further than 20 miles away for any of our playing staff , I've been saying this for years , we have hundreds of players to choose from within that radius

Ditto coaching as well

We will take 1 player max, won't be as bad as you think. . We'll get a friendly and half a gate reciept from it. It's easy money. if we played them at their gaff we would take 500+ if it's their first game they would want to see milward in his first game so the crowd would be 4 or 5 thousand

Lots of people including myself complained about this. Dual contract does not help us or our youth development.

Agreed.

However if the supposed link with Cas does bring Ryan Brierley to Leigh, he is from within 20miles of the LSV (comfortably!) and is a cracking young player.

Still want him at The Willows although that's looking less likely, even though he's a Reds fan

The only player that would realistically be at Leigh from Cas is Brierley with him being fairly local and in dire need of first team experience, cracking player that Matterson just wont give a chance to.

This is for Frank after talking with you tonight. Are you really happy that we are now a development club for Cas as well as Saints and Wire. I'm Leigh through and through and I have been for almost 50 years. Don't ever slag me off for wanting a team playing for Leigh NOT for SL clubs.