what does my head in, is you have 3 years to make a team!
1st year widnes goes up they are going to be cannon fodder
2nd year they may recruit some decent players if lucky finish in the lower to middle table!
3rd year possible finally signed a decent team and finish in the lower levels of the top 6
don't get me wrong i think leigh can do that and most championship clubs also
to me its if your face fits.Red hall don't want to destroy any SL clubs by denying a franchise because it will happen so if they do not give a franchise to a SL team red hall will give them such an advantage to stop them from folding that it will make the champ comp a farce again



sad sad time for leigh



i will be there till the end and i feel its not too far away



this is just my own opinion

not a happy bunny hope leigh can survive



i need a

To be fair, don't take this the wrong way because i don't mind Leigh but you shouldn't even be in this division.
Only another clubs misfortune kept you up so even though you have a great stadium the club itself is nowhere near SL, obviously i hope this changes in the future.

Wrong wire yed, we didn't finish in the relegation zone last year. I don't get what Leigh did wrong last year, we finished outside the relegation zone, got relegated because of the RFLs determination to 'expand' and then ironically were saved by an expansion club going pop because the RFL don't know how to expand the game. Nothing in this is Leighs fault, go and have a go at Toulouse, Gateshead or the RFL.

could be wrong here,but the franchise is for three years.that means you get two and a bit years to get it right before they tell you your not worthy.

although they are likely to move the posts again like bringing back P&R for a season, no religation for non heartland clubs knowing all three of them are going to finish in the bottom three,massive parachute payments for the club/s that lose there franchise allowing them to stay professional.its all pretty logical really.

We are in this division because a club cheated, we finished in a relegation spot because Toulouse couldnt be relegated.
RL is corrupt as a sport, let the cream rise and the sheeet fall - the basic rules of British sport for over a century ignored by the penisheads in charge.
If we are sheeet then we fall but when you take away the dream the sport falls.

that club cheated..it got what it deserved.

this debate is not about leigh,its about the direction RL is going outside SLE.

Remember Salford cheated too, they lied about the stadium. They didn't get what they deserved. I don't think for a minute that the RFL 'don't care' about teams outside SL. I think the TV companies and SLE couldn't give a monkeys though and unfortunately they're the ones with the money. We need a TV deal and a big sponsor in the Champ and Champ 1. Get rid of sky and get ITV CH4 or CH5 to broadcast and do the highlights to our games.

Would love to see your evidence of this. Will happily read your apology when you can't produce it.

Still, don't let the truth get in the way of a good rant.

This stadium discussion does my nut in to be fair, as long as it's safe and has a roof that's all i need.

The Watcher gets it right 12 months in advance again.

Theres only one man to get in touch with, Barry Hearn, if he spots an oportunity in sports then he will take it. He's done it with darts, snooker, pool, even fishing and I honestly dont think he'd think twice about rugby league if he was aware of the opportunity.

A lot of SL fans complain about the away end at Leeds because that hasn't got a roof and they get soaked when it rains heavy, not just Leeds though there are a few i believe.

Only you didn't did you, another Championship club has been guaranteed promotion

Which one ? And when was that promised ? Do you have a link ?

Only if they meet the varioius other criteria laid out by the RFL

The rest of the forum would have been more impressed with The Watcher's Nostrodamus like powers if The Watcher had predicted the Crusaders situation, rather than The Watcher's observation on Widnes getting a place.......he might as well have 'predicted' that the Pope was Catholic, or that bears s**t in the woods!!!

Why dont everyone in RFL country cancel their SKY contract to see what Eddie and co can do for the game with no RFL broadcasts.

Because thats what's known as cutting off your nose to spite your face, but hell, if you want to do that, you do that. Of course Sky will be crying into their cornflakes at one man from the lowest advertising demographic cutting off his dodgey set top box and saving himself 12 quid. Ruperts buying the tissues as we speak.

Because I quite enjoy watching live RL, and several other sports?

Not our face Dico. Your face, as we get next to naff all from SKY. I refuse to have sky as I don't believe in paying to watch sport unlees I go to the game.

My SKY subs are going after this years Championship GF and I get to save £50 @ month. I`ll get to buy plenty of tissues DICKO..........

I think all this criteria and box ticking nonsense to get a slim chance of opening the SL door is just a ploy by Dickie and co to give us underlings a hope of getting an invite in to the closed shop and keep us quiet for another 3 years .

I think the RFL landed on their feet when Crusaders withdrew from the SL , meaning they didn't have to pull the rug from under one of their buddies . How on earth Cas and Wakefield got an A licence with the holes they play in is beyond me .

Sport should be about what goes on on the pitch not all this 3 year box ticking bollox , how is it the likes of AFC Wimbledon can progress up the Football League ladder by ticking only one box , winning the play offs with out all this nonsense .

Now the RFL have got their hands on the National Conference League I wonder how long it takes for them to stuff that up as well ? .

Cas & Wakey didn't get A licences they got C licences

And when that bloke was asked about taking away their licence if they didn't comply he said that he didn't want it to be a threat hanging over them ,like I have said before thats exactly what it should be ,a threat otherwise whats the point in putting clubs in different categories