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

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 ?

My feelings for Leigh are well known. However, I feel sorry for their fans. Even boyroy. That said I can’t stand Beaumont. He’s a keyboard warrior, happy to threaten people over twitter with violence. Leigh fans deserve better

Regards

King James

That was not meant at a dig about Halifax. But surely at any sports club, ambition is better than just surviving. If Leigh had another 2 points, I doubt todays events would have happened. Beaumont has 'walked before' and he's done it again. Always best to have a 'consortium' in charge, rather than one individual I know. It's not like businessmen will be queing up to take over our club, or many other RL clubs for that matter. **** happens I guess, and it just did today.

Do they have dictionaries in Leigh or calculators for that matter?

The funny thing is in 12 to 18 months we'll have the usual suspects on here saying that Leigh has thousands of fans waiting to crawl out of the woodwork & a great stadium, let us back in SL.

It is partly the fault of the structure, as to make it work, the Championship has to produce teams capable of challenging the super league clubs in the Middle 8's. The problem is that to be sustainable, they have to work on the assumption that they might not make the Middle 8's and budget accordingly. We saw with Bradford and now Leigh that if you spend on the expectation of the top 4 and you don't make it, you are in deep doodahs. The reality for the ones who are there is that the Super League teams will beat them with relative ease, and the Middle 8's will just be about who plays Toronto in the MPG.

The only sustainable way forward is franchising, but the emphasis was wrong last time. It should be based on inclusion, not exclusion. What I mean is that last time there were a finite number of places and more applicants than places. It meant teams who were perceived to be vulnerable couldn't attract investment or players.

Instead, they should re-introduce franchising with the current top flight, and if any clubs want to join, they are considered as additional clubs. That is, the effort goes into how to manage a bigger league. It could be through a conference set-up, and with an increased overseas quota, in case the talent pool is too thin. Then clubs can attract investment, knowing that the future is about security and growth, which would be good for the sport.

Or we could introduce a gimmicky new structure that we want to abandon after a few seasons.

1. 6 Wins is a disgrace......Salford with 6 wins this year are propped up by Widnes and you were propped up by Widnes.....all three clubs have not a snowballs chance in Hell of winning SL, but they are canon fodder for those trying to reach the Holy Grail that is the safety of the Super 8's......
2. It's not the buying of the Lottery ticket of the betting slip....it's whose money is used to buy it and the expected returns......Del spent money, Del arranged to get more money when Leigh went down, Del has spent that money and now Leigh look to be heading part time at best......I have no doubt the short term buzz of SL was great, but I am also sure that the long term damage it did will hurt for a fair few years.....like the 3k fans who haven't bothered this year.....attendances will shrink and the SL trip will fade into time.....

bit harsh that. ambitious owner, and we finally beat wigan (scoring 50 points) for the 1st time in over 30 years, and saints, warrington, & hull.

it's not our fault our ego maniac of an owner has no interest in owning a part time championship side that can only hope they make the top 4. He isn't prepared to 'cash up' on us staying full time, and having a chance of getting into SL...that's the problem.

Ah....so when you follow the egomaniac to SL it's cool, but when he dummy spits it's his fault
6 Wins v sides who made the top 8 is great.....but as I say, at what cost to the club has the drubbing of Wigan come at?

No. who said it was cool ? It's the 2nd time he's left us in the poop. see you next season.

Oh...I dunno....



....kinda looks you enjoyed the ride but not the consequences.