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Quote: Pumpetypump "Yeah but with respect we can find you a similar clip of his wife saying how enthusiastic they are to get Bradford, or another about what a great idea Liverpool RL is. He's got an aimless interest in Rugby League which you might benefit from but perhaps he'll lose interest tomorrow and try setting up a club at Birch Services. The game needs his wealth but with more focus.

I have zero axe to grind with Leigh, but I'm not convinced that a very wealthy man going to a club with an existing wealthy owner is where our sport needs Koukash to go.'"

It would either be a marriage made in heaven or Frank Carno's Circus, no in-between !
If it happens, as a Leigh fan I would be both excited & terrified.

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Quote: orangeman "rlhttps://www.autumn-internationals.co.uk/2021/rl

Marwan is another quick fix....it's why league flounders. It wants to be relevant, but only played on its own doorstep....and then the keyboard warriors whine when the BBC treat it like a local hobby. If Marwan wants the game to do well, he should buy Swinton and build from there, because Leigh or Salford have already hit their heights.....they'll always be in the shadow of Wigan or Warrington....'"


Oh dear me icon_sad.gif icon_sad.gif icon_sad.gif

Sorry but remember Leigh winning the challenge cup, and moreso winning the Championship with Saints 7th.Wire 8th. and Wigan 11th. It's a rich owners game and Leigh have two now so they already top that table icon_lol.gif icon_lol.gif icon_lol.gif

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Quote: RagingBull "Degsy and the Doc, what could possibley go wrong.....
You hope!
It must be gnawing away at you, that little Leigh can attract this kind of wealth, and your club has had aspirations of doing so for years but alas no one comes a knocking.
C'mon please be sensible any body going through the gate will be stuck with 'first inpressions' that will not dissapate and that is long before looking into the financials, sorry Jake- you are LaMotta I take it - you have no hope of ever getting that financial comfort blanket, but good luck any way, and I will look forward to our clashes with the Bulls next season.

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Quote: Donnyman "Oh dear me
1. 40 years ago.....they've been poor relations for 2 score years.
2. Marwan has never made a rich list although apparently worth 2 billion....he's promised loads and delivered nowt
3. Salford are in strife, Swinton are worse, there's no Liverpool RLFC club and his wife didn't get Bradford in the cheap.....pi55 and wind ...
4. Leigh will be in the 2nd tier next year....deckboy and redwine man will be big fish in a tiny pond....

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Pretty much any club would welcome a guy like Koucash and having a multi, multi millionaire coming into the sport has to be a good thing.
It will be interesting if Leigh is where he ands up as, I dont see DB as the kind of bloke who wants to be "equal" or play no 2 and neither does Koucash so, there may be an almighty fall out at some point.
There is also the cynic in me that thinks that this could be Leigh trying to ensure their SL survival as, a sport so short of cash, wouldn't want to be seen to be pushing Koucash back into the wilderness and with a restructure on the cards, Leigh (or any other serious contender wont want to risk being the wrong side of any drawbridge that may be pulled up). Their best chance of a SL spot is to find a way of remaining in the top flight.
If MK and BD are such close friends and have been so for such a long time, why is it only now that MK has stuck his head above the parapet and why wouldn't he take on a club where he could be the No 1. this makes it all seem a little bit strange, certainly in terms of timing.

On the plus side, the bloke is seriously loaded and he was happy to mix things up as far as the power base in RL is concerned.
Without him, we wouldn't have the marque signing and there is sure to be demands for a salary cap increase.

This wont help the smaller clubs in the comp but, it may help the sport.

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Quote: orangeman "1. 40 years ago.....they've been poor relations for 2 score years.
2. Marwan has never made a rich list although apparently worth 2 billion....he's promised loads and delivered nowt
3. Salford are in strife, Swinton are worse, there's no Liverpool RLFC club and his wife didn't get Bradford in the cheap.....pi55 and wind ...
4. Leigh will be in the 2nd tier next year....deckboy and redwine man will be big fish in a tiny pond....'"


Deck boy and Redwine man, really, that is a bit condescending, I would dearly love to hear your story of how you amassed your millions?

Yep and big fish gobble up little un's, you see this falls straight into my thinking, Leigh now instead of just purchasing a team that could win the Championship next season go out and get a squad whereby most of the players can make the transition to SL, i.e. buck the trend of waiting until the GF seeing if you are successful and then start shopping in a store that has all but sold out and the shelves are bare with the exception of the mostly returned goods that did not function as expected so marked down in price for a quick sale.
There are lessons to learned by observing what happened at Toronto, anybody with any RL nounce about them (sadly Noble and McDermott do not come into that category) knew that the Toronto team would struggle in SL it simply in it's make up did not have enough of the quality that could make the transition to SL hence why they would fail, I fully expected them to struggle and I consider that 0 from 6 would have had a much longer tail of dissapointment.

So c'mon Leigh attract the right personnel give them a 2 year contract - nobody of any note is going to accept less and let's take it from there.

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Quote: wrencat1873 "Pretty much any club would welcome a guy like Koucash and having a multi, multi millionaire coming into the sport has to be a good thing.
It will be interesting if Leigh is where he ands up as, I dont see DB as the kind of bloke who wants to be "equal" or play no 2 and neither does Koucash so, there may be an almighty fall out at some point.
There is also the cynic in me that thinks that this could be Leigh trying to ensure their SL survival as, a sport so short of cash, wouldn't want to be seen to be pushing Koucash back into the wilderness and with a restructure on the cards, Leigh (or any other serious contender wont want to risk being the wrong side of any drawbridge that may be pulled up). Their best chance of a SL spot is to find a way of remaining in the top flight.
If MK and BD are such close friends and have been so for such a long time, why is it only now that MK has stuck his head above the parapet and why wouldn't he take on a club where he could be the No 1. this makes it all seem a little bit strange, certainly in terms of timing.

On the plus side, the bloke is seriously loaded and he was happy to mix things up as far as the power base in RL is concerned.
Without him, we wouldn't have the marque signing and there is sure to be demands for a salary cap increase.

This wont help the smaller clubs in the comp but, it may help the sport.'"


Did you listen to the radio programme, there was a disclosure and something I was unaware of that Dr. Koukash is very recently divorced, perhaps over the duration of what I would expect to be a very stressful period the timing has not been right in looking for another street to walk down, that having now been resolved he may feel that the time is right to get involved again in what he said "Rugby League is now in my blood", and what better way to do it than to have a confident and good friend to share it with.

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Quote: Harry Stottle "You hope!
It must be gnawing away at you, that little Leigh can attract this kind of wealth, and your club has had aspirations of doing so for years but alas no one comes a knocking.
C'mon please be sensible any body going through the gate will be stuck with 'first inpressions' that will not dissapate and that is long before looking into the financials, sorry Jake- you are LaMotta I take it - you have no hope of ever getting that financial comfort blanket, but good luck any way, and I will look forward to our clashes with the Bulls next season.'"



This is a thread anout Leigh. Please dont derail it and bring Bradford in to it.
Theres a good lad icon_thumb.gif

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Quote: Harry Stottle "Did you listen to the radio programme, there was a disclosure and something I was unaware of that Dr. Koukash is very recently divorced, perhaps over the duration of what I would expect to be a very stressful period the timing has not been right in looking for another street to walk down, that having now been resolved he may feel that the time is right to get involved again in what he said "Rugby League is now in my blood", and what better way to do it than to have a confident and good friend to share it with.'"


If he has been divorced,in England, he won't have much money left - now, or in the future.

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Quote: Harry Stottle "Did you listen to the radio programme, there was a disclosure and something I was unaware of that Dr. Koukash is very recently divorced, perhaps over the duration of what I would expect to be a very stressful period the timing has not been right in looking for another street to walk down, that having now been resolved he may feel that the time is right to get involved again in what he said "Rugby League is now in my blood", and what better way to do it than to have a confident and good friend to share it with.'"


Divorce or no divorce, the timing, just as the relegation axe may be about to fall on Leigh, is probably no coincidence.
Right now, it's only words and no investment has been made.
However, with RL so bereft of any money and the POSSIBILITY of Koucash coming back, the powers that be will do everything possible to keep a big fish on the hook.

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Quote: RagingBull "This is a thread anout Leigh. Please dont derail it and bring Bradford in to it.
Theres a good lad Fair enough, but I did feel you were being let's say a little patronizing towards Leigh, so I hit back, apologies if I was wrong.

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Quote: Bulls4 "We do rely on rich owner and sugar daddies. It’s a shame one never found his way to Bradford'"

Koukash was blocked from taking over Bradford Bulls by Nigel Woods.

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Quote: Boss Hog "Koukash was blocked from taking over Bradford Bulls by Nigel Woods.'"


2 things:
1. MK did not bid for Bradford
2 Who is Nigel Woods?

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Quote: Mr Dog "2 things

Wow. That's taking pedantry to a whole new level. But yeah Mrs Koukash bid for Bradford, and of course that S on the end of Nigel's name makes it almost incomprehensible.

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Quote: Harry Stottle "On Radio Manchester today, the good Doc spoke of his desire to join his good friend Derek Beaumont at Leigh Centurions, he stated he has been approched by a number of both SL and Championship clubs but his heart is telling him to join up with his friend at Leigh, probably not a lof of people know but as families the Beaumont's and Koukash's take holidays together and their wives are very close friends, in summary the anchor men at the Radio Manchester Rugby League programme said expect an announcement very soon tk the effect that Dr Koukash has joined Leigh Centurions,.

That should shake things up a bit especially has a lot of people are calling for an increase in the Salery cap.'"

How's his plan going to having a club from Liverpool playing in League 1?
Is this the same Mr Koukash who cut the Salford Red Devils academy for financial reasons?

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