Good point about injuries, you definitely need a little luck with regards to keeping a clean bill of health this year.

For about a month last season (around April) Leigh constantly had between 10-13 first team players out injured. Even with a reasonable squad size we still had to go out and bring in Whiting, Charnock and Owen on month long loans just to get 17 players onto the pitch.

A glut of injuries like that could make a very hard task into an impossible one.

Does anyone know if the club plan on running any supporter coaches and if they will be selling tickets or whether they have to be bought through KR

They just tweeted that info about KR tickets will be released shortly. But they also tweeted that yesterday and then it didn't happen, so I wouldn't hold your breath.

I know they're busy at the moment but the lack of being able to contact the club except to actually walk into the shop, is harming them a bit I think. I for one can't get to Odsal at the moment so they may well miss out on some money from me. I'd be surprised if I was the only one. You can't even tweet them to make enquiries as it seems whoever is controlling the account isn't replying to fans.

Correct. And Nigel woods said on Twitter they assumed the Bulls would have our previous squad when they picked our league and minus 12. So they assumed that was a suitable punishment for a top half team, not a collection of kids and leon. Put a bad injury run and no reinforcements on the horizon amd we'll be lucky to get above zero. We desperatly need good luck with injury and some more forwards.

The more you think about the RFL's decision and thought process here, the more bewildering it becomes.
Did they honestly think we would keep the entire squad intact after being liquidated? Really?!
And on top of that, what would we pay them with considering how we were only getting £150k of funding?

Just utterly ridiculous, short-sighted, naive, call it what you want.

We should have gone into Champ 1 and someone else (Toronto?) should have taken our place.
Instead we are now going to have to endure a tortuous season of hammerings and humiliation before we are (probably) relegated anyway.

I agree entirely, and it's really p!ssed me off that that comment and explanation by wood has just gone unchallenged. It demonstrates unhinged thinking and leadership. And whilst our previous owners all set the bonfire up and lit it, in trying to put out the fire the rfl repeatedly seem to think petrol is just the trick. And we're supposed to be thankful for all the assistance...

But back on topic, all i want from the kr game is no injuries and another good effort for 80 mins hopefully building some combinations for the more realistic games to come. But I doubt we'll keep them under 50.

Our one hope of avoiding a complete drumming is that it's early in the season and the KR players will still be getting used to playing as a team - they have a lot of new faces.
It will probably finish something like 42-10.

Going to keep a keen eye on what handicap we're given by the bookies.

Where on twitter did Woods say that?

And once the RFL granted dispensation on the cap and quota, SL clubs were always going to fill their boots.

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HamsterChops got the link, and you're right, all the best players were going to sign elsewhere. You me and the rest of the rl world knew that, but not Nigel apparently. Also, he's just wrong technically, when they made the desicion the players had been made redundant, so we had zero players, not "the bulk of their squad left" as Nigel claims. Demonstrating he was either lieing about his revision of the events or incompetent as to understanding what was really happening. Either way it's not the actions of someone I'd trust to help sort out our problems.

So why not change that decision given what he now knows?

Good question. I'd hoped one of the rl journos might have picked up on it and asked some awkward questions or (God forbid) done some investigative journalism..... #doesn't hold breath#

It makes me think the failed bidders might have a point about the process not quite being fully transparent or fair.

Also, apologies for the thread drift, probably not the thread for my whinging!

I suspect you could come up with your own answers for that

I asked the original question on twitter fully not expecting it to be answered so was surprised it got a response - more than the journos seem to have gotten - even if it does raise more questions.

My follow up - which Mr Wood had plenty of time left in the chat to address but chose not to - is when was this "decision" made? The first public statement was after it had been announced the club was liquidated, so how can they realistically expect the squad to stay together.

Also the implication for his original answer could be read that he no longer thinks the Bulls position is fair! Thanks again for that top favour then Nige! Surprised no journos I have seen have picked up on it, as it's quite a frank admission for a tweet. Maybe now it's been posted on here it will...!

That said LE do seem to be pulling on the thread of the liquidation and the RFL's vested interest a little more every week. For me, they aren't pulling hard enough but something absolutely stinks about the whole process from somewhere and I hope it won't get dropped - alas like the past admins I fear it'll be forgotten by everyone else quite quickly