You really are bitter, Leigh would bite his hand off especially with Chester on board and rightly so. Drop the nonsense, big Dave would revitalise any Championship club (assumed) so long as he was injury-free. If you are still in the Championship who is the Aussie you will sign, SL is already scraping the barrel.

So let's get this straight, the Head of Rugby won't be involved in player recruitment, so what will he do then.

Vasty you are in a world of your own. Now stop this jealousy streak..

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No matey but I think you are, even your own forum members are embarrassed by what you post at times.

If you don't want Big Dave, your loss.

Seems to be the same on your own forum regarding you. We don’t want Big Dave.. Back to your drivel, there’s a good boy. We are busy here creating something to smash Wakey back to the past..

Good luck.

About 4 short of a squad. Assume focus on forwards. Should we have kept a couple more from last year? Any rumours who we are chasing? More overseas signings? Would be nice to have a couple more announcements to drive Season Ticket sales. Second favourites to Feath at moment who are a bit further on with recruitment.

Totally agree Leyther14, having watched the videos on the web site It was encouraging to hear of imminent quality signings, but all has gone quiet again and with the season weeks away unless these signings arrive very soon they are not going to benefit from a full pre-season. Any rumours Monty or Harold?

It would be helpful for season ticket sales if we could be given an update., Personally I believe the secrecy counterproductive.

I think we all agree we need around 4 or 5 more signings ,and I’m sure Derek ,Lammy ,and Chester feel the same .
For all we know we may have signed these players and are just waiting for the right time , which may mean they are already training with us .

Most definitely Charlie. People don’t seem to realise the implications of a signing. Surely people take a new car for test drive these days..

Atomic, does that suggest that we are about to sign Austin?

I would be happier a couple of forwards in. But pace as always shown a winner in Champ. Add as they go for me.

I'm thinking 6 or 7 needed personally. How many do we have signed now 18/19 & some of those young lads who might be fringe players. So we have 18/19 now, add 4/5 & we're only looking at 22 - 25 maximum. We have seen before what happens when we have 5 or 6 players out injured, scratching around to make a team with many out of position. I would have thought 27/28 would be a minimum. Super League clubs run 28 - 32, if we have ambition then we need to be close to that.

Hard to disagree with that but I wonder if they will wait to the business end to make a couple of key additions to get it to the 6-7.
I’m not saying they should but maybe there just are not 6-7 available of the quality we want/need right now.
Personally I trust that we have the owner, head of rugby and head coach to win this and make the team what we need to do it. I would be a little happier if we had a full squad, but would it be a good enough squad if we did right now ?
This going to be one hell of a season……. Again

I think they will get the players they/we need, it's just a case of if they will gel early enough.

Yeah the coming together as a team is the big issue when you go up and down between divisions as we well know! The first challenge for our new coaches.

I’ve got a feeling that the majority of the team are already in place , just names ready to be released ,and I think cometh the hour , cometh the man , we will be ready , have faith .

Hope so. Feeling nervous.

Agreed Charlie.
Never a dull moment in Leyth Land. (It’s like Disneyland with mud and lobby, and a roller coaster would be fine addition to the LSV to go along with our fortunes and emotions)

Its about time we announced our squad numbers.

I notice Barrow have 27 in their squad, Dewsbury 26, and Swinton 25. Announcing our squad numbers would give fans an idea of the strength and depth of the squad whilst deciding whether to invest in a season ticket.

On paper although some quality we loook lighter than last year on numbers and we ended up playing people out of position then so a lot of work to be done. Think a bit of sensible retention Hellewell, Thompson, Gee Mullen would have put s in a more stable position and given us a bit of continuity!

I don't understand this post. There are about 18-19 squad members and presumably there will be another five or so added in the next few weeks, but those ones are still either still in negotiations or waiting for visas etc.

So if they announce squad numbers for the 18 or 19 players that are already known to be signed, how is that going to give an idea of the strength and depth of the squad?

The Phantom Horseman, I am delighted to see the latest player to be announced today.
Welcome to Leigh John Asiata!
My post was reflecting on what Charlie Caroli wrote which was…….
‘I’ve got a feeling that the majority of the team are already in place , just names ready to be released ,and I think cometh the hour , cometh the man , we will be ready , have faith .'

Kieran Dixon is currently having trials with us



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You sound worried!

How do you get that from my post?

Every year fans of several Championship clubs (including my own) start panicking from about September onwards about the state of their squads, despite the fact that a lot of the bigger Championship signings are announced in November, December and January.

Not every post on a rival club's forum has to be a partisan/trolling post. Leigh are clearly assembling a very strong squad and certainly look to have by some way the biggest budget, Fev should be strong again, Fax look much-improved on paper especially in the backs, and there are possibilities about the likes of York and Newcastle improving a fair bit too (amongst others). So it should be a cracking Championship season, Covid permitting.

The biggest budget doesn’t prove anything as already proved in the past. But for clubs that where in a position to progress and just simply milk it or pay debts off is the reason for not progressing. The reason the game doesn’t progress.

It’s a formula 1 scenario, 2 teams in it. If you call that a cracking season, not really worthy of a league.

The league carries two full time squads.Newcastle and Leigh. Is that acceptable?

No it’s not.