Last season then. Makes no difference, it still happened.

It does though. New chairman this year (albeit he's leaving at the end of the season) who has focused on making ends meet.

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The Top 6 all had 11 games against their fellow High Flyers. At the seasosns start any pudit would have probably seeded the games the way the fixtures came out....Toronto and Leigh being the favourites, London and Toulouse being the other full- time pro clubs and Fax and Fev being the next best sides.....at the seasons end for this mini league of 33 games:
Toronto have 20 points
Toulouse 11
Leigh have 10
Fax have 10
London have 9
Fev have 6

I've heard Leigh fans complain that their 3rd game v Toronto is the reason they missed out, but the reality is that it's their performances against non-top sides that have cost them, because their performances against London, fev, fax and Toulouse have been enough to get them to 3rd...but the loss to Barrow was the real reason they (will probably) fail.

As for next year, if the owner walks then that'll be them spent as a challenging force....it seems the elderado of SL and the hunt for it will be the undoing of another club......

Attendances are not great, but are slowly increasing. It's only a few every week, but getting closer to 2000 home fans. As a part-time club at the top of the Championship, 2000 attending is good. I believe the budgeted figure is around 1400 for Fax to break even.

Slow and steady, but if we can get those extra 600 bodies every week then the momentum builds.

All I've got to say is well done to Halifax, who've (last game permitting) made the top 4. They won't get promoted to SL but I'm pretty sure they are well aware of that themselves. Hopefully they'll continue to get stronger each season until they may be in a position to make a genuine push to reach the top flight.

Unlike Leigh, who've made a pigs ear of it this year & that's the bottom line! DB has caused this mess & now he's walking away. He's the not first & won't be the last, but it's nowt to do with the system, just rank bad management.

Yes Derek unfortunatley put Keiron Cunningham in charge of recruitment , who felt it neccessary to decimate last years squad and install his own , who have proved they are no where near as good as they thought they were
Its called sport

Ah but we did get there , and were very very close to staying there as well , we were nowhere near disgraced in SL last year
Its a bit like buying a lottery ticket or having a ' punt ' , you know its highly unlikely you'll win , but it does make the heart beat faster , proving you are actually alive

It's called having AMBITION. I'd rather have the last 4 years as a Leigh fan, rather than a Halifax one.

Each to his own, but I'm happy at the moment.

That's your call, but I wouldn't. At some point we are going to start losing clubs & people will start banging on about the system when it's bad management, certainly on this occasion. They didn't have to blow their entire budget on a suicide mission. The parachute payment plus hopefully top 4 money could've funded sensible recruitment for a few years.

Sensible ? , explain sensible ?