Anyone heard anything about players being retained or new signings. Don’t want to go through 2022 with only 2 wins! So we will need a squad. Is Haggerty retained as coach? Any rumours?

D.B has said (on GMR) that there was a Head Coach, that person has now reneged/withdrawn on an agreement & so now he will have to decide whether to stick with Haggerty or start a new search fir Head Coach.

I don't know why the *New Coach* would withdraw, a lack of confidence in Leigh as a club, advised against it by someone ? Lost confidence in D.B ? Doesn't want to coach at Championship level ? Had a better offer ? Any one or combination of these I guess.

Ste, Haggerty won't stay mate. DB will get rid of him.

It hasn't been stated Col, but it will be.

As always mate, I have zero inside knowledge which might/might not be a good thing so I just don't know past what D.B has openly stated. In fact maybe you & others could pass an eye over these highly contentious =#FF0000rumours ?

1. A now retired ex Leigh player punched John Duffy *allegedly*
2. 2 now retired ex Leigh players were refusing to play *allegedly*
3. Neil Jukes is unofficially responsible for recruitment of playing squad with direct input from the owner *allegedly* , important to stress that I have nothing against the owner.
4. D.B was refusing to pay the return air fare of one of our Aussie imports *allegedly Brendan Elliot* & that the team *allegedly* had threatened the club/owner with a strike & refusal to take the field at Magic Weekend if not resolved. !
5. D.B has suggested that he will consult with his lawyers over the possibility of sueing S.L/RFL which is Fact, however I read (probably on this site) that a member S.L Club cannot sue other S.L Clubs/the RFL as a condition of membership *allegedly* , I would think that in itself could be legally challenged !
6. D.B offered Shaun Wane £250k to see out the season at Leigh *when Duffy resigned* but Wane declined due to his England commitments & a possible return to Wigan as D.O.R !

All of these are rumours I have seen or heard either here on this site, from a guest in an Executive box, or on the terrace etc & all AFAIK have varying degrees of truth or absurdity !

Interested to have any of these *rumours* put to bed but equally if any have real substance could point to why Leigh is such a troubled club recently.

Updated for now !

Dont think thats quite the tune ! but know what you are getting at

A look at last weeks champ fixtures found just about all teams involved had at least 1 ex leyther in its ranks.
Do we expect to be full time next year hopefully, probably.How many other full time squads will we see 1 maybe 2.
Most full time players must come from SL who I believe will have smaller squads just down to finances.Pies are 8 million in debt and not all of that is soft debt to owners, ie they have to repay some of it next year.Will they have cheap young squad replacements.Saints face having to pay maturing stars the going rate some have gone, going.Have said before Wire seem to have the brightest accountants so may be less effected.
Within all of that must be some players becoming available who want to stay full time where will they go we have to pick the right ones with value for money..
Tough job innit but it does not mean that we should be in a flat panic.The possibility of SL teams having to run reserves is a concern given pool of players.Dont see that working.
Need to get our management appointed maybe they are persons still in work.
Maybe we have seen the best of RL Harry its certainly as tough a time at the moment as we have seen when trying to predict the future of the game.

The squad signed for 2022:

[u=#FF0000Joe Mellor - 1 Year Contract[/u
[u=#FF0000Adam Sidlow - 1 Year Contract[/u
[u=#FF0000Ben Reynolds - 2 Year Contract[/u
[u=#FF0000Sam Stone - 1 Year Contract[/u - may have SL clause opt-out
[u=#FF0000Joel Tomkins - 1 Year Contract[/u - may have SL clause opt-out

The current 2021 squad:

1. =#0000FFRyan Brierley - signed for Salford
2. =#FFBF00Matty Russell - possibly signed for Salford
3. =#0000FFIan Thornley - signed for Wigan
4. =#0000FFJunior S'au - possibly retired
5. =#FFBF00Lewis Tierney - thought unlikely to play for Leigh again
6. =#0000FFBlake Wallace - Retired
7. [u=#FF0000Joe Mellor - 1 Year Contract[/u
8. =#0000FFBen Flower - Retired
9. =#4000FFLiam Hood - signed for Wakefield
10. Mark Ioane
11. =#FFBF00Ben Hellewell - interest from Featherstone
12. Jordan Thompson
13. =#0000FFJames Bell - signed for St Helens
14. =#0000FFMatty Wildie - signed for Featherstone
15. Alex Gerrard
16. =#FFBF00Nathaniel Peteru - thought unlikely to play for Leigh again
17. =#FFBF00Jamie Ellis - interest from York
18. =#FFBF00Matty Gee - interest from Halifax
19. =#0000FFNathan Mason - signed for Huddersfield
20. [u=#FF0000Adam Sidlow - 1 Year Contract[/u
21. =#0000FFTyrone McCarthy - Retired
22. Craig Mullen
23. Tom Spencer
24. Keanan Brand - probable return to parent club Warrington
25. Brendan Elliott - ??????
26. =#FFBF00Nathan Peats - - interest from Hull
30. [u=#FF0000Ben Reynolds - 2 Year Contract[/u
35. Jack Logan
[uOthers:[/u
[u=#FF0000Sam Stone - 1 Year Contract[/u
=#FFBF00Jai Whitbread - possibly 1 year Contract ??????
Josh Eaves - probable return to parent club St Helens
Jack Ashworth - probable return to parent club Huddersfield
Rob Butler - probable return to parent club Warrington
Matty Foster - probable return to parent club St Helens
[uNew Signings [/u
=#00BF00Joel Tomkins - from Catalan Dragons

Would it not be easier just to put down the players that have signed ?

There are LOTS of players signed up but cannot be announced yet for obvious reasons and there is a few twists and turns yet.

If 2x10 in 2022, this season with a Parachute Payment might not be a bad season to go Down. After all, they voted to keep P&R, so next season should be no different, so 3 down it is !!!

Snowy, You say ‘There are LOTS of players signed up but cannot be announced yet for obvious reasons’

Please could you tell us the obvious reasons?

The Players not mentioned must still be involved in Play Offs both in SL and NRL

There are plenty of players worth looking at, we just need to be in there early enough, players id like to see targeted/retained

Gee
Sau
Ioane
Hellewell
Gerrard
Logan
Jordan Johnstone (Hull)
Alex Walker (released Wakefield)
Hankinson (loan)
Luke Hooley (Batley)
Brad Holroyd (Workington)
Bienek (Castleford)
Eaves (St Helens)
Inu (Salford)
Tee Ritson (before he signed again at Barrow)
Ashworth (Hudds)
Butler (Warrington)

A relative of Sean Wane told a sponsor Leigh had offered him a huge sum for 2022/3/4 a figure Wigan told him they could not match - that gives me hope that at last DB knows what we need

Come on Steven, there are other play offs being played too and a few with contracts still being discussed.

I hope you are well buddy.

Is Fletchers still Open ?

Yeah and he turned it down.

The fans request reality Mo.

I have no idea how to translate that statement

We should have signed Chris Hill for next season and made him Captain. But he has already been announced as having signed for Huddersfield (whilst still being involved in play-offs)

knockonknockon, I don’t understand your response to my suggestion that Leigh should have signed Hilly. He is 33 yrs old, we could afford him, he has strong allegiance with the club, and he came through the ranks at Leigh. Also it would have saved him a drive across the Pennines 4 or 5 times week.

He is Wires only prop imo, letting him go was a huge mistake. If we had been given the nod as to staying up I believe he would be with us - he wants a WC spot next season and wont get that outside SL

Wigan fans are claiming that Wane is the D.O.R at the Pie Dome next year !

Which has been the claim for a while, but the relative said Leigh offered a huge contract to establish them in SL that Wigan could not match - I assume that will be off the table if we are relegated

And thats one of the reasons we will go nowhere with DB's throw cash at the problem attitude. If he had accepted that alleged massive offer he would be coming for the money, I'd suggest an unknown Aussie for the next coach, its worked quite successfully before wouldn't you agree?

Cartwrights not unknown but is that another flight of fancy