The Watcher is happy that Beaumont has left our club, at times he was an embarrassment, with his drunken foul mouthed rants on social media. The Watcher does not believe he put in half of the money he allows people to think he put in. Leigh were given £1.25, plus gate money etc etc, that is a hell of a lot of money to run a club. The Watcher also agrees with Beaumont that he was a failure as a RL chairman & made a high percentage of wrong decisions. Beaumont has abandoned Leigh before & it is no surprise to the Watcher that he has abandoned us again. The Watcher for one says thank God the Beaumont road show is over.

You could be right as soon as he will have to put a significant amount of money in he’s gone

Why do you type like that?

Mooky, don't you know Remus?

Although i am not as happy as the watcher, the car crash has happened, photo needs to be removed from the centurion asap

who is the second?

No

2 top earning players were on £100k, some others were on between £60 & £80k. £1.25million doesn't stretch far when you are paying out those levels. There have always been short falls to cover every season under Beaumont. Incidentally those short falls were covered by loans from AB Sundecks rather than from Dereks personal bank account.

The Watcher can guarantee no player was on that kind of money.

please stop writing as a third person

Peter KAy is wondering why the watcher does not get slated for stating an opinion that doesn’t blow smoke up Dereks bum

#doublestandards

Probably because when something is posted once it is read, digested and either agreed with or not.

When something is posted ad nauseum, people stop reading them because it becomes a crusade rather than a comment.

Peter kay agrees , the watcher is king of nauseam

Did he not have an imput on changing the Championship Salary Cap? Without that we would never have seen SL.

Respect for that. Good luck to him.

Also the reason for him jacking , cant afford to pay it . They say you reap what you sow

Very true, but we still wouldn’t have got to SL without that change. Something the likes of Toronto didn’t have to deal with.

You definitely got the good, the bad and the ugly with Derek,

The good - Crowds up by about 2.5x on when he took over. Seeing the likes of Fuifui Moimoi that we never thought would happen. Promotion,
The bad - Series of bad decisions that has led to where we are now. Letting his ego / stubbornness / vendetta against the Rowleys cloud his judgement on the coach. Always had the impression he sees himself as part of the playing staff / the star. Don't know if other clubs have the owner front and centre of the team photo! Scrapping the reserves. Relegation.
The ugly - Social media (his brother is even worse), threatening to pull the plug every time someone criticised him

Overall, we'll know at the start of next season whether he has left the club in a better state than he found it in. Unfortunately for all the money, he's too volatile an individual to bring an established SL status to the club.

Maybe , let's just hope the next folk incharge do it in a more balanced way and without controversy

Personally I don't care if DB was on the team Photo or, in the team Bath! We would not have enjoyed the journey we have been on this last few years without his presence. As for being outspoken, Donald Trump makes him look timid!! We have seen the crowds increase and it was great to see families, in droves, attending the SL games at the wonderful LSV. Someone said it wasn't his own money he was funding Leigh with but, that of his company

His Company is him and, he could have thrown the money in Pennington Flash had he wanted to!
perhaps some people would argue its achieved the same result however, us supporters have had benefits of his input!
He made mistakes I personally would not have done and his Loyalty to some has been his undoing! DB will know this now and I'm sure he will be a wiser man in the future. I wish him well

Oh please he's left us in more or less worse situation than he found us . I dont care what you or anyone say leigh lost there way when rowley left the promotion to SL was just a smoke screen

Left or lost?

It will only become apparent next season, maybe the close season whether he leaves us in a better position than he found us. If we're in a position where the clubs can pay the players when he goes, then he has.

I hope its just rumours but a buisness man looked at the books & said he wouldn't touch it with a barge pole

Its RL who would touch it? Without having money to waste.

Well I wouldn't think the accounts of many RL teams would look pretty TBH

I think the crux of it boils down to what DB does with the loans - and yes I know what he said he'd do