I fully expect a table for 4 to be arranged tonight somewhere within LSV, round it will be Mr. Arthur Thomas (Leigh Chairman), Ian Millward, Ian Lenagan and Michael Maguire.

Discussions taking place will be the loaning out of talented Wigan reserve players to Leigh RLFC. This would suit both sides, players experiencing gameplay of a higher intensity than the Reserve leagues which would help our players progress at a far faster rate. For Leigh, the chance to sign temporarily some top class youngsters which will not only help them win games but hopefully put them in good shape when the next franchise lottery results come along.

If I was Leigh Chairman, I would be frothing at the mouth in anticipation tonight!!!!

I hope it happens - clearly in both clubs interest. A higher level and better experience for our lads future development who won't get first team action this season - additional depth and talent for Leigh who need it.

I am sure it will be something MaGuire will look at in the forth coming weeks. He will now have a much better idea of how the younger lads are looking and developing. I'm sure the most promising bunch with the most potential may be given some game time at a higher level, but some other lads like Liam Farrell and Ben Davies may be seen as useful now to us and will be kept around the squad.

Under the dual registration system I'm almost sure there is a limit of 3 players from one club that another club can accept.
Leigh could take a maximum of four but only three could be from Wigan.
I would imagine there may have been people from other Champ clubs at the game having a look who they may possibly take.

This player loan link up certain to happen?

At the last Fans Forum in the summer, Ian Lenagan was desperate for Leigh to avoid relegation and admitted that he would love to see Leigh back in Super League performing well - for two reasons. (This caused a bit of light hearted boo-ing around the room

), however it does make sense both financially and tactically.

A small number of Wigan Reserve players on loan to Leigh, playing at a higher intensity would be better than them 'going through the motions' like last season. They would come back to Wigan better players, enabling them to slot straight into the first team squad. He then hoped their presence would assist them into SL, he wants them in Super League and stated it was financially beneficial in them being so, harking back to the days of the Wigan/ Leigh derbys played in front of solid crowds: 4-5,000 screaming leythers in the North Stand as opposed to a few hundred Wakey fans and a good following from Wigan hoping to smash their near neighbours.

So it makes sense for both sides to 'get in bed with each other' for a few seasons. I'm all for it..!!

It seems only right that certain players get a chance to test themselves at that next level, whether that's with us, a championship team, or another superleague club we'll have to see.

I wonder whether any players after todays performance will have forced there way into contention for a starting spot against Celtic?

Except I remember the last time Mildred coached a load of Wiganers................

In that case it may be none as Warrington are sending 2 or 3 there I think.

tbh I woul rather see the better youngsters play at Crusaders than Leigh

the result today shows that there is very little difference between NL1 and the standard they are at presently. therefore we should learn from the success of the Mossop loan and send the better squad players out to sides like Cru and Salford.

If we run into injuries, then a few games at SL standard will be better prep than a few games at Leigh standard

In that case it may be none as Warrington are sending 2 or 3 there I think.


Sorry, what I was getting at is they can only take three from an individual club. They could take three from Wigan and one from Wire or the other way round.
As for forcing their way into the squad to face Crusaders, again perhaps the other way round, will they force themselves into the Cru squad to face us?
Bearing in mind what's going on in Wrexham.

If Mr Lenegan and Mr McGuire really did want to help the Leigh club they would have put a better squad out today

Sorry but this is not what was agreed last year , if you intend to do the same next year , dont bother , we dont want you to come here , yes you have 2/3 players in the team today that would improve us , but all that happened today is we were dragged down to the level of your u 18's

If we had played as we did last week we would have put 30/40 points on your juniors

The team put out today showed a lack of respect for the Leigh club

What? So because last week you played super league players you played better, but today because you played reserve players your players decided to play to our level instead of setting their skill and showing your fans what they can do?
Don't talk f*cking stupid, and dont talk our teams performance down. Fact is your first team is no better than a super league reserves team and im sure every fan in that stadium today enjoyed that match alot more than they would have enjoyed watching a full strength wigan team tonk the leythers.

I'm sure you would have settled for another 70 point thrapping? Sometimes to play a pub team you have to send a pub team..!

Our full strength squad would have put 100 on that team today.

Either way it would have been an embarrassment. You're right, Leigh should have put 30/40 points on us but they didn't. They could be accused of a lack of respect for our lads.

Where is this "agreement" the Leigh supporters are talking about?
As far as I am aware the only agreement is to play a friendly v Leigh at LSV in 2009, 2010 and 2011.

As anyone seen a document that says Wigan will send a full strength team?

Why did Millward not name his team?
He did for the Warrington game.

The attendance today was higher than any Leigh had for their Co-Op Championship games in 2009.

Our full strength squad would have put 100 on that team today.

Either way it would have been an embarrassment. You're right, Leigh should have put 30/40 points on us but they didn't. They could be accused of a lack of respect for our lads.


But I think you realise you're talking crap and this is a pure trolling exercise from a very bitter Leigh fan who has just seen his/her side nearly get turned over by a group of College kids.

Possibly a lack of respect , possibly a lack of motivation , as I said , if we had performed as we did last week we would have won easily

We let ourselves down badly today , my point being it is not what we needed

The result last week was skewed heavily in Warringtons favour due to being 18 points down in 10 minutes without us touching the ball , and that was a team probably better than your 1 st team

Your younsters showed a lot of enthusiasm which carried them through , we were total rubbish

If you are only going to send what you sent today then it would be best not to bother next year

Try telling you club that. Wasnt today higher than most of your attendances last year? Im sure the Leigh club would 100% disagree with you.

Yes it was , and next year it will be half what it was this year as a result

Not sure I agree with you Starbug.

We should be more concerned with the value of the exercise from a playing perspective than from a financial one.

Yes we may have had a bigger crowd today (and next year) but to have a heavy defeat with a possibility of more injuries would not have been a good option either.

We (and IM) learned a lot about some of our players today - had they been playing 15 internationals they could hide behind that fact.

Yes we did , we learned that if we cannot raise our game against a load of kids we will be relegated again

the guy on the mic was sure relieved at the end of the match , did anyone hear him cheer as the final WHISTLE went?

The way him and the rest of the Leigh fans celebrated was funny, it was as if they had won at Wembley but really they had only just beaten a reserves Wigan side in a pre-season friendly.

Quite sad really