Cas fan here, Clare is an excellent signing for you, gutted he's left us. talent in spades but suffers with confidence, as long as he gets an arm around him and not a load of abuse he'll go well for you, can score them from anywhere too.

Another issue apart from what league we're in and the finance is it's pretty much impossible to know how good/poor we are. Was Sunday the high watermark against a demoralised team or a team that has finally found 3rd gear and have further improvement in the them? Was the week before a reasonable barometer of a gulf in class or a team who didn't believe they could win? Personally, I've no idea.

So far, the middle 8 table pretty much answers a lot of this. Us excepted it is an SL procession.

I think a settled side is probably beneficial for getting out of this division - though as this year has clearly shown, NOT having a settled side has been good enough for us to easily take 2nd spot. I do feel that we will most likely be in this division next year too, btw, so that is what we are now recruiting for. I'm sure the better players have two contracts - one for championship and one for SL.

To be honest Eddie, the only people who really think any of the sides in the championship could just go up and carry on, successfully, with the same squad list are deluded Leigh fans and they are so pumped up and full of themselves that they seem to inhabit not just a different world but a different universe. We, I think, with having more recent experience at the elite level, have a bit more comprehension of just how much difference there is. You get double the cap in SL and anyone who thinks you can be successful using only half of it is deluded, imo.

It's us we're discussing isn't it?

Absolutely. TBH, reading back I have no idea what I am getting at. I must have quoted the wrong post. Apologies.