The problem leigh fans have is that they'll look at the losses of the middle 8 teams to top super league clubs, and look at their wins against poor championship teams and then think ''we're gonna do this lot, easy''.

Have another look at your form in the regular season and then, take a look at your form in the "middle 8's" and you may just get it

MPG is flawed as it allows either to team to sign a pretty much new squad if better players come available even if they only play one game to get them out of trouble.

It's a new competition for Giants and I don't see us taking it too well to be honest.

Million pound game for us against Bradford.

Giants Win...

It's always going to be difficult.
Leigh look great but they haven't had a benchmark this season to show where they are against SL opposition like they did last year.
That might help as the SL teams don't know what to expect but Leigh certainly under performed last time out.

I'd like to see Leigh give it a go, but equally I don't want to see anyone drop out.
It bugged me last year when everyone picked us but if I was picking a team to drop out it would either be Salford or Huddersfield. Hull KR and Leeds bring way too much to the SL party to want them to drop out, but it is decided on results, not how many fans you have or how good your stadium is, as Wakefield proved.

Agreed. RL should have a cut off point for signings from preseason to the week before the Easter Period.
It would promote big squads and a healthy youth system.

Leigh and Bradford certainly have great foundations to deserve a chance.
It's a shame it has to be at the expense of anybody.
They really are recruiting well. The championship hasn't looked so strong than it has since the new system.
I'm a big fan of it.

Will you still be a big fan if Leigh or Bradford get promoted at your expense

From the Championship, you have to think that Leigh are the most likely candidates to make the MPG, although London could be dark horses.
And from SL, it looks like KR or Huddersfield will be the weaker teams, although even in defeat KR looked far too strong for any Championship club, so it's going to be a big ask for anyone to gain promotion through the MPG.
Unless one of the SL clubs slips up in the MPG, it's going to be as you were and expect a change to the system when it happens (even if it's just a tweak)

I suspect KR weren't particularly bothered about getting through the rounds of the CC given how they were embarrassed last year. And they certainly had no issues against the championship sides in the 8s before......

Are you really saying that their performance last night, even in defeat, wasn't good enough to beat ANY Championship opposition, remembering of course that Leeds beat Wigan last week ???
Defensively they were very good and they looked after the ball well, although they did lack some craft in offence.
What they did or didn't do 3 months ago is simply irrelevant.
It's going to be interesting to see if the performances of Leigh, London etc will be any improvement on the efforts of last seasons Championship contenders.
IF Leeds, Huddersfield, Salford & KR get their act together, we could see some cricket scores.

last season we won 7 from 7 with the distraction of the cup final and without Kelly and Campese who played no part in not going to say that will happen but everyone has us nailed on for the MPG plus last night we had 11 out

As long as Rovers don't get more injuries I think they'll be in the top 2 in the middle 8.
They have experience of it for one thing. It's a stressful campaign and Leeds and Huddersfield are going to have to learn quickly.

Perhaps the championship clubs have learned from last season and be better equipped for the games ahead Leigh have totally rebuilt there team and style of play this season .

The battle for the 4 spots highlights the growth of the teams in the championship this season with 4 teams fighting for the last 2 spots on the final weekend ,why even Oldham crushed hull kr in the cup this year seems the clubs are getting better

I wouldn't like to predict how the M8 campaign will go, other than to predict that the 4 SL clubs will finish in the top 4 of the M8

Based on the SL table, you would have to expect either Huddersfield of KR to be the lowest placed SL club, which puts one of them in the MPG.
As I said in my earlier post, it's very hard to imagine any Championship club gaining promotion but, there will be 1 SL club in the showdown.