We heard all this off the Barrow fans and look how that turned out.

Another player past his prime. Coming to a end of a fantastic career. Big names don't mean success. Cant see how Leigh are keeping to salary cap. The gap on spending is becoming bigger and i thought the whole reason with a salary cap was to make it a competitive league. You have Bradford Leigh spending alot more than other teams such as Swinton, Oldham ece.

Going to be like the Leeds teams of the early nineties, overpaid players way past their prime trying to bleed someone dry, in this case DB.

Good afternoon Greg ,hope you are well?As for Derek B and his money?He has already been asked about his investments in players ,it's obvious by giving them all 2 year contracts this is not a short term thing,I think Derek has made it clear this is the second year of his 2 year plan and he doesn't want the same thing happening again like it did at the end of last season.
I think it's a win win situation with away Clubs benefitting from increased crowds as opposing fans turn out to see their team compete against some of the Stars on show,if we are successful and get into SL after next season I think Derek will then go for some younger established players,and hopefully we can invest in our own development of younger players, as we do have a few out on loan in Championship 1.

Lots of talk of us signing players at the end of their careers, but we'll actually have a younger pack next season than we had last. Wilkes (35), Aspinwall (34) and Tommy Goulden (34) leaving or retiring, with Dane Weston (28), Corey Paterson (28) and Harrison Hansen (30) coming in. Maitua is the oldest to come in, but even he's a year younger than the first teamers to leave.

If anyone was wondering whether Leigh's thuggery would calm down next season then the bolded players above will have something to say about that!

Paterson gave McNally a whack in the cup game (sure that's helped him win over many Yorkies!), but don't recall Hansen and Maitua spending too much time at red hall.

I assume you've followed Weston's career closely then?

DB wont be just buying players he wants. It will be in consultation with the training staff and coach (I know that's obvious) and Paul Rowley knows a thing or two about players and coaching them. They have been the most successful Team in our league for the past few seasons.
I'm looking forward to next season more than ever. The standard for the top 5 teams has, in my opinion improved. If we go full time in 2017 there will be 5 full time teams and this will again improve the standards of this league. This will start to worry the S/L teams if the lower teams are already not keeping an eye on us.
Let DB spend his brass, we will spend what we can afford too as will every other club and lets see what unfolds in 2016. Cant Wait.
UPTFAX!!

Thank you for a very sensible level headed post

no cheap shots about thuggery, or breaking the salary cap, no jibes about Derek's over spending or the age of the Leigh pack, just an opinion by a Fax fan looking forward to the coming season,and hoping the standards of Rugby improve as well as the Teams themselves,Enforcer take note of Faxlore post, a credit to your Club.

Haha, you're joking about Reni right? Niggly and dirty! Definitely banned whilst playing for both Featherstone and Salford and hardly displayed cool-headedness in the past has he?!

Serious question for the leigh lot..

You should be in super league IMO, fantastic all season but we know how it ended, amusing at it was.

IF that happens again his season, what happens then? Surely he's putting all his eggs into one basket...