I guess he sees it as an investment, to get out of the Championship, to where the 'real money' is?

I have a feeling that the pot at the end of the rainbow might not be quite as overflowing as Degsy's thinks.

We still have to get to the end of the rainbow, to find out though, Norman! I have a feeling THAT won't be as easy as some Leythers think!

Totally agree, I think this coming season will be tough, and damned exciting, with a few results that people probably aren't expecting. I think most teams will drop points, it will be the ones that don't drop the silly points that will come out on top though I do expect you guys to be up there if your new signings click.

A season to look forward to.

When he gets there, that's when his problems will start.

Investment, mo thóin.

I'd say that was true under the old format but now I am not so sure. There was no need to spend that sort of money in order to be the best club in the Championship but when you have to be better than some SL teams in order to win promotion I think you need to be spending at least a comparable amount to what they are. Going FT for a start immediately ramps your costs up massively.

Wakefield were the obvious 'weak' link last year but they look to have improved quite a bit since then with some good signings and I think anyone wanting to go up needs to improve just as much to stand a chance.

The problem obviously is that if we don't go up then the costs are very high for a team with Championship funding, income, attendances etc but I think it is a chance we need to take whilst we have somebody in charge who can afford to do so.

Just need to be careful that it's not promotion at all costs, we've all seen how that ends.

Its certainly not sustainable for a club just to have 1 person pumping in all the money and really it boils down to how long they want to do it for or more likely in DB case how long he can afford to.

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Sheff but Fev to run top four close. Not sure on Bulls still got Lowes think Leigh again but not as dominant in reg season as last year

Very true Mr Hall ,does anyone think the signing of Mr Chase will improve Leigh or improve their chance of SL?

of course he'll rip teams to shreds but they know the price to pay if he messes them around (bigger burden now if they fail in 2016) but think they are def gonna be the team to beat again if we're all honest

Chase is either spectacular or awful in the games I have seen of him. His kicking game is not the best, but on his day magical.

Very good Ian but......It's no laughing matter that Leigh are blatantly breaking the salary cap. Why should the rest of the Championship teams start the season at a disadvantage? It's Barrow all over again and are we going to sit back and watch it happen? I would like to hear what our club has to say on the subject. Bradshaw Bellringer?

Are we? We have let a lot more players go than we have brought in. Gone from a squad of 30 to around 24. Reducing in quantity and improving in quality has probably left us at a similar cap level to last season before bringing in Chase.
Rangi was obviously going to be a struggle, hence the large delay in signing, but the new ruling yesterday gives us an extra £300,000 of cap space to spend. More than enough to cover Rangi with plenty room to spare.