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What a big baby

Your choice Degsy, thanks for everything you’ve done for the club.- nothing can take away what the club have achieved this season, and for what it’s worth it was the VR that bottled it

If you dont put another penny in no complaints from me - que seraph seraph and all that

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Bearing in mind Col, the LLS & all the presentation equipment was there at the LSV, and yet it might have been needed at Saints, or Salford. Mmm

Yawn, he’s an emotional guy who wants a fair sport! We all know that officialdom lean to the big names in our sport. Did smell a bit fishy that there was no contingency to transport to other grounds. Salford not that far to go!

I was there when he said it and it needed saying. What other sport would have a ref taking charge of season defining game in which the game he's officiating in includes the Town he was born in? Impartial or not it makes a mockery of the game when you realise the trophy, the dignitaries and the Champions boarding are all there with no contingency plan to move them just in case Wiggin lose. Oh, but the ref from Wiggin disallows a perfectly good Leigh try. Wiggin were never going to be denied that night. The game was rigged! It stinks. DB has the guts to tell them. Good on him. And he's serious about setting up a rival competition. As he said, 3 years from now there will be a different league that will rival SL and the derisory £20million that SKY offer. And it won't have the woke MRP.

It's as though there isn't replica shields made for publicity purposes and things like this. They'll have had the same setup at all three grounds.

When members of the public can have their photo taken with a trophy in their local Morrisons, do you think that is the actual trophy?

If you read the report, you will read that everything was there and the RFL dignitaries were in his box. There was no contingency plan to make the presentation at any other ground should Wiggin lose the match. I know cos I was there and I heard it. So, seeing as a perfectly good try was disallowed, anyone will question the integrity of the sport. Derek also has years of experience seeing what goes on behind closed doors within the game which we aren't privy to.. These aren't idle threats about setting up a rival competition. He means business. He's seeing corruption within the game and he's blown the whistle on them. Congratulations to him. You need bottle to do that. It's so easy to turn a blind eye but that makes you as corrupt as them. One final point. Anything that involves Rupert Murdoch and his family is dodgy.

You are well in tin foil hat territory now.

If the RFL dignitaries were at LSV on Friday, so what? Where do you want them to be - at home? It's not surprising that they are at the most anticipated fixture of the night, where the LS winner is most likely to be presented.

And they did have a contingency plan. It was discussed well before Fridays game. Can you not remember everyone laughing about how the RFL can't afford a helicopter this year? They used replica shields.

Why didn't Derek whistleblow before a decision went against him? Was Leigh's prior success part of this conspiracy, or was it a rant of a sore loser?

It's no secret that the officiating has been sub-standard this year. That's why a controversial decision was made. I think it was the wrong call, but I also think Wigan's disallowed try was harsh too. Even if Leigh's try had stood, I wouldn't have guaranteed them victory.

I can't wait to see Derek try and start his own rogue league. Do you seriously think AB Sundecks is going to be able to bankroll a competition that rivals Super League?

Who is going to join him? It's going to be a great competition with only one team in it, as I can't see any other club cutting ties with the RFL and banishing themselves from the sport. He is living in cloud cuckooland, and I think you've joined him there.

It's never dull being a Leigh fan. At least this time we get to do it while holding the Challenge Cup.

Why did the Wigan born ref send off Joe Shorrocks in the semi final? Why did they allow Leigh to win the CC?

Contrary to what you'll read on a certain other forum, Wigan did not have a try disallowed - the whistle was blown when the ball was just over the half way line. Just because SOME chose to carry on contrary to the peep does not make it a try that was disallowed.

Are the RFL's "Compliance Team" also investigating comments made on SkY TV - ones that said that that was a try all day long (or some such)?

Will they bite the hand that feeds them, or merely avoid their hands being bitten back by continuing to sit on them - those hands must be nigh on flattened after all these years!!

I'm not really sure which other forums you are referring to, but it was the wrong call by the referee in my opinion. The whistle shouldn't have been blown at all, and Wigan would have almost certainly have scored if it hadn't have been blown.

That's my opinion from watching the footage, not what I've read on a forum.

For starters, only "A ([isingular[/i) certain forum" was referred to. If you don't know which one was alluded to then you are either of limited imagination or merely setting up a straw man.


Leeds (beaten twice by a team in WN7 this year) had a poor season this year and have problems down from Gary, through Rohan and right through the team. Maybe discuss those things on the Leeds forum (to which you seldom, in your dozen years to date until recently, contributed).

So much healthier than trolling!

Bye.

Derek is deadly serious about the new competition. He has the investors lined up. The derisory SKY money is peanuts to them. In 3 years time you will see a split in Rugby League. These people have the money to lure all the best players away from SL. SL will be the new Championship.

I will say this once again...there was no contingency plan. I heard this from the horses mouths.That is fact. No conspiracy theory here. Wigan were not going to be allowed to lose that game. Are you seriously so naive as to think the presentation was going to any other ground than the LSV?? SKY pay a derisory amount to rugby league. They run the comp. They treat SL as a filler in their schedules. They pull the strings.They aren't bothered about the integrity of the game. They just need their schedules to run smoothly.

It could be oneof several forums. But that really wasn't the point. The point was that the opinion was my own, not what I've read elsewhere. I think you know that deep down, that's why you are making none issues put of grammar mistakes rather than addressing anything in the discussion.



I'm not really sure what any of that has to do with anything.

I don't believe that for one minute. Who are the investors?



The contingency plan was to have replica shields at all three venues. These shields exist and are used for publicity events, so why wouldn't they use them here?

Sky even sent cameras and crews to every stadium to cover the action. Why is this the only week they have done it? To ensure they can film the presentation of the LL Shield to whoever won it, that's why.

Sky have literally no control over who wins games. It's not scripted like the WWE. What would have happened if Leigh genuinely beat the Wigan defense and scored more tries? What if Wigan failed to score a point? You are talking absolute rubbish.

If Sky really were in control of the outcome of the games, wouldn't they want Leeds to progress to the playoffs? Afterall it is proven that Leeds games draw the biggest TV audience, and that would suit the Sky advertisers better.

There are way too many holes in your conspiracy theory for it to make a modicum of sense.

Again that points to a lack of imagination, possibly one of self-reflection.

"Bye" was said politely (if less than heartily) but now there will be, yet another, pressing of the "Ignore" button for your collection.

Why use a public forum if you don't like discussion?

Maybe I am a RFL mole sent to infiltrate Beaumonts lemmings and lead them astray from their cult leader. Or maybe I just see the world for what it is.

Brilliant post, and if a grown man who has children and runs successful businesses can’t see that then he’s got issues.

He’s absolutely deluded.

Why on earth would SKY want that Leeds rabble to progress. That's the worst Leeds team I've seen in decades. It's a good job IMG have saved you from relegation cos that's what you would have been facing next season

Rigged by who?

For what purpose?

Why not let Field score his try then as many arguments can be made that his was also a try and not obstruction...

He has already said, they bring more views...

I gave the reason why. But incase you missed that part, it is because televised Leeds games are proven to attract larger TV audience than every other club. If Sky really controlled the league, they wouldn't have clubs with tiny fanbases in the playoffs - Leigh wouldn't be there at all. The fact that they are proves it isn't scripted by Sky.



It is the worse Leeds team in decades, I can't deny that. I don't think we need IMG to save us though. We are making some good signings for next season already, and we have the money, the structure, and the fanbase to survive relegation. In fact, a championship tour might be a nice break from the 27 years of Super League, but it won't happen. Our squad will be much stronger next year.