Quote: Greg Florimos Boots "Im going to disagree with a lot of that. The worrying thing for the other teams in our league is that whichever team does not go up can almost certainly afford to run a similar standard of squad next year, Leigh because of Beaumont willing to pump money in to the club and Fev because they have income streams that far outweigh every team in this league and a few teams in SL. Regards to the squads when they go up, I think Fev have the best chance of staying up although at this point I feel they are a little behind Leigh in the race for that spot in SL but if they were to go up I think they will end up keeping the majority of their squad and with a few good editions should be able to keep their place the following year. If you want to compare then they are a little bit like Hull Kr when they were in our division and they built year on year to get to this point. Leigh on the other hand are likely to lose a lot of players, firstly because of the quota rules and secondly I would imagine because a lot of their players signed 1 year contracts which looks like a chance to put themselves in the shop window and with squad rotations like leigh have every year there will be very little loyalty and most of their players will be out for what they can get which is why I think Fev have the upper hand in that respect.'"
Well, Fev fans keep telling us a lot of their squad are part-time. I'm not so sure myself, but if they are right then those players are either going to have to go full-time or leave, since SL rules require a full-time squad. They've also got quite a few older players, although McDermott seems to be phasing them out.
So I think they would need a good bit of squad turnover. I agree that they have good income streams, so that's a positive.
As for Leigh, well, who can predict what Beaumont will do? He has previous with spitting his dummy.