What a great advert for championship rugby. Great game well done York

Another great game from the Championship

Be great to see York and another Yorkshire club in SL. York seem to have built steadily and put firm foundations in place rather than the boom or bust model of Leigh with Beaumont.

Leigh 100 - 4 York

Never let cold hard facts get in the way of sentiment.

But unlike many clubs who got promoted in the past

They already have a team good enough to do well

That backline of ferguson inu macdonald and Charnley is better than most SL teams backlines

But yeah great game but still think leigh will batter York

Leigh have 13 overseas players currently, will need to release at least 6 if they get promoted next year

I would be interested to know which seven SL teams you feel have a poorer back line than Leigh based on the players you mention.

No they don't, and why are you so concerned?
How many times does it have to be said, that Leigh are/ have been building a Superleague ready squad all season with some more exciting signings to come in. This is the only way a promoted team have any chance to be sustainable in SL, which demonstrates how skewed the system is. And yes, we have to get promoted first.

12 according to Leigh website

Well it's not that either.
Have another go.
When we beat York 100 - 4 there was 9 overseas players in the 17 that day, and 4, maybe 5 of them will not be here next season.

There WILL be 7 top class overseas players in our squad come next season.



We certainly won't be making the numbers up, don't you worry about that.

I count 12. Think Higano, Hitchcox have both left.

Ferguson, Mcdonald, Ipape, ODonnell, Ioane, Stone, Inu, Aekins, Amone, Lam, Asiata, Nakubawai

They are trying to get Lam off the quota.

Think they've signed Leutele for next season too. A fair few will have to leave

McDonald rumoured to go to Leeds
Aekins, loane, Nakubawai, Stone & Inu will depart.
That leaves 6 atm, and 5 if we're successful with getting Lam off the Quota. With Leutele we are still within the Quota.

How many you actually play is immaterial. It’s how many you have on the books that is important. Are you just trying to be pedantic for the sake of it? I hope you do make a go of it next year assuming you get promotion. You will however need a lot more than a SL quality 17 squad.

No I'm not trying to be pedantic, I'm struggling to get through to you. I've explained everything you need to know about Leigh and quota's, but yes, we will need to be a lot stronger in depth, but that goes for all clubs.

What are you trying to say then? The original point was that you had 13 overseas players. You said no. I pointed out that according to the Leigh website you had 12. You said this was incorrect and mentioned the York win.

Hope York beat them

OK, so if we had 12/13 or whatever players, so what? We will have 7 top class players within the quota should we get promoted. The players who will be departing will be replaced with SL or NRL standard players. My only concern is if we're not strong enough in depth, but i have every faith in which way the club is finally being run. The point i made about the York score was that we had 9 overseas players in the 17, so just 2 over the quota of 7 in SL, not a bad result eh?

Is this surreal or what? A Leigh fan arguing with a Dobbins fan on an FC forum


Only FC would let it happen. Karen.

These forums are for discussions, and debates for everyone are they not?

Whoever they sign, they’ve got Lam coaching them. Good luck with that.

As Irregs said, come on York.

A few of the FC fans are very precious about what they consider to be “their” forum.

You mean the one that reads "Hull F.C." at the top? Yeah, nothing to do with Hull FC that one, clearly!

See what I mean Cokey. Even though this particular topic is headed Halifax v York. Sad isn’t it?

Do the Leigh fans know there’s a game on today, judging by the empty stands?

No, we haven't been informed. Marketing must improve. I bet your team could play like that though eh?