5th-8th is mid table mediocrity. More so this year as 1-4 were decided 8 weeks ago....you were playing dead rubbers and FC in freefall combined with Catalans still drunk after the cup and "bi-polar Huddrsfield below you is no real feat....ad you get the same money too.
ergo...now for another handout.
crumbs from the table....they couldn't just pick from the top 4 teams, but they really should have!
Thanks and as I've said, I don't really think we should go up and believe we may well be favourites to go up next season
We have pedigree....it's you lot that do the in-breeding

Back to the topic. Will Leigh be able to field 17?
Can't see past a hiding from Fev....Fev 50+ Leigh 6

Thackeray & John Davies suspended today.

If we are in anything like the state we were in last Sunday, it WILL be one-sided. I think Reynolds should be back for Leigh, maybe one of Adam Walne/Mason, maybe Dawson-Jones (if he gets paid!), maybe Cox, if he isn't working. To balance that, Dagger will be out, and I hope Higham recovers from Dewsbury!

Was it only two you had suspended?

Once the LSV is finally demolished, how many houses could be built for local residents in its place? 400+ I expect?

Ladies soccer will keep it going.

Surely the RFL could allow leigh or featherstone bring in BARLA players or 'free agents' for this game. Even allowing for any payments that may not be forthcoming, as long as they are insured, this is best the solution in my opinion.

This was my thought aswell. Dont quote me on this but im sure years ago a SL team was allowed a dispensation after the deadline because of injuries etc. I cant see why a dispensation cant be applied in this case

Regards

King James

This makes grim reading, from the Leigh board. 9 currently fit players, 3 more to face fitness tests on saturday. https://leighrl.co.uk/wp/blog/2018/10/0 ... enturions/

This makes grim reading, from the Leigh board. 9 currently fit players, 3 more to face fitness tests on saturday. https://leighrl.co.uk/wp/blog/2018/10/0 ... enturions/

It's certainly been the craziest of crazy seasons for these two clubs.
At the outset, both will have had genuine aspirations for making the 4 and Leigh possibly expecting to have another shot at SL.
Ultimately, the rapid rise up the table by everyone's "favourite" expansion club, Toronto, "stole" one of the coveted top 4 spots, with London taking the other and then the brown stuff started to fly.
It's certainly a sad state of affairs when one or both clubs will struggle to field a 17 man squad and it has to be asked how this could have been avoided this season and then to make damn sure that it cant happen again.
As for the game itself, just how much appetite is there for a tight hard fought final, when both sides are down to (and probably have less than) the bare bones of a squad.
Fev will probably win the game but, there are far more important issues to sort out, both for the sport and the 2 clubs involved.

Lets hope that we get a decent game between 2 very proud RL clubs.

Imagine the scenario were Leigh are forced to take the field with 9 men (against Featherstone's 11, let's say). The winner of the game would be the team that managed to keep at least 9 men on the pitch. If a Leigh player got injured in the first 5 minutes the game would have to be abandoned. Surely the RFL has a duty to avoid this type of scenario and let common sense prevail. It was a tinpot trophy to start with, so would it really be the end of the world if the game was not played?

The RFL have definitely 'put the boot in' on this occasion. Thanks very much !

How is it the RFL’s fault? The position Leigh Centurions are in is solely down to Mr Beaumont

I remember when Bradford Northern were really scratching around for players and had a Challenge Cup Semi-Final to play against Wigan. We played the odd young man that was never seen before or since but we raised a team. And what's more we were right in with a shout of winning it up until the last 5 minutes, eventually going down 71-10.

I do think for player welfare there should be a simple rule of 15 players turning up or it doesn't get played. It's a hard enough sport as it is for the brave lads that play it, without them having to risk injury slogging their guts out without the full compliment of men.