If next season's format was to be applied now....we would be playing Salford, Wakefield, Hull, Hull KR.

I reckon we would have the chance of a few points there with our current team.

Reality check needed, we struggled to beat dewsbury yesterday. This season has been fantastic so far but for us to have any chance next year we will need to strengthen

Despite our performance at Leeds their is a still a massive gulf between the divisions.

If we spend the sky money wisely then we give ourselves a chance
Full time will help us immensely

Can't wait to watch us in our quest for the holy grail

I couldn't agree more , we need at least 4 Quality signings next season to rise to the next level ,and compete not only with the 2 Clubs coming down , but the bottom 4 from SL , in the Mini League , though I do think our BOM know this as does PR and they will address this in the coming months .Full Time players will be great , but we need Experience as well .For me a clear out of maybe 6-8 players is needed , no room for sentiment , I have faith in our BOM and PR both on and off the field , currently the Pre and Post match experience atmosphere is Electric , well done to all concerned .

can anyone explain the exact system for the end of next season? I understand our top 4 play the bottom 4 of super league but what happens after that? Is there no grand final for the middle 8? Is it just the top 4 of the middle 8 that go into super league?

Richard , as far as I know the Top 4 in our League will play the Bottom 4 in SL , in a Mini 8 League , im not sure but I think some points are carried over to this League , though I could be wrong about this , then after this League has finished the top 4 go into SL .Salfordlad knows .

I do not know Charlie.

I thought you would

Dick Jones will know

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Not quite right charlie



Bottom 4 SL and Top 4 Cham go into a middle league of 8 and start again on 0 points

Play each other once with the 4 champ clubs getting 4 home fixtures and 3 away and SL clubs 3 home games 4 away

Top 3 in the league after 7 rounds go into SL for following season

position 4 plays position 5 in a play off game (1 millionpound match) for final SL Place

Basically we play off for the 4 remaining Superleague places

The bottom 4 include London and Bradford.

From what I have seen our performances have really gone downhill the last 2 games. The first loss does not appear to be far away. Lets hope they don't give Aston the opportunity to crow about it

Doubt Sheffield will beat us at the LSV www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5w-RMe ... tube_gdata

Doubt Sheffield will beat us at the LSV www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5w-RMe ... tube_gdata

I think he was assuming that they were already relegated to the Championship

Looking a bit tired but you add Pitman,Armstrong,Hickson,Acton and Gardner and thats some freshish legs and they will make a differance plus the players will not want to be dropped and will lift their game.

I think we will smash somebody soon as against losing a game.

Thank you Saley , that clears things up , but I think a few are still under the assumption it is different .I though will listen to you .

....and you would be right to Charlie. It is spot on unless of course they change it again

The reason Leigh are not playing well at the moment is in part due to bad handling and bad passing imo.

This wll be sorted soon enough I hope.

Think on the team we have we should be beating London & Bradford, maybe even Wakefeild & Salford, although Salford will probably be much better next season & Wakefield can up their game when they want to. Should be getting into that 4th V 5th game as we stand, with a few extra players who knows, might get straight into SL.

Derek , a Philadelphia lawyer couldn't sort out the RFL , im sure when the time comes for the said Mini League to happen we at Leigh will be ready , another question though is how are the 3 Home games and 4 away games to be chosen ?Plenty of food for thought , whatever happens , hopefully Leigh will be in the Mix , but I take nowt for granted .

Francis you keep harping on about Leighs poor form and dropped balls ,I forcast a while ago we will lose a game , though I don't know where , every team drops balls especially when they play fast flowing Rugby like ours , its just a fact you have to put up with ,I still think the League Leaders shield is wrapped up with our name on it , hopefully come play-off time we will have a fully fit squad , and mount a good challenge for the GF .Have faith .

LS both London and Bradford are not bad sides , but I agree we can beat them both , as for the other bottom 4 ?Its anybodies guess who will be in there , next season Cas might not be as strong , along with Widnes ,and both Hull clubs , which is why I keep on about needing to rise to SL level next year from the start , we don't want to be behind the 8 ball early on , but don't want to waste money on 3rd rate imports , I remember Jason Kent , from last time





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First order of business next season will be to finish in the Top 4 of the league (SL2?) , which will include 2 relegated sides from SL. Let's not get too far ahead of ourselves - the standard of SL2 will be a fair bit higher than the Championship -there will be London, Bradford, Leigh, Fev, Fax, Doncaster who will all be very viable candidates for the Top 4, plus Batley and Sheffield will have their own designs. We won't be playing the bottom 5 teams of current division so there really will be no easy games next year (except, perhaps the side promoted from Champ 1)!

I agree there will be no easy games next season , which is why I say we must recruit Quality players , but I think this is already known by the Club ,we will have the advantage of being full time though , im not sure about the others , probably London and Bradford will be , but with funds being so vastly different after the top 2 , it will be hard for the others to compete .

If we come top two and don't finish in the four something will have gone badly wrong
The clubs stated ambition is SL and I believe they are capable of taking us there and certainly putting the structures in place to do so
Congratulations to Ando JUkesy and Finny in joining Paul as FT coaches next season

Nossy , I bet your Dad told you .

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Mr F Blackburn actually