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.

Leigh have a very nice little stadium. They deserve to be in the top 6 of the Championship. But next year, with Derek Beaumont gone, will they be in the top 6?

Of the current top 4, Toronto is likely to be promoted to Super League in 2019 and Toulouse is a possibility. That means that in 2019 either 2 clubs (London and Halifax) or 3 clubs (London, Halifax, and Toulouse) of the Championship teams will each be getting £1.25 million and Leigh will be on £200k

So Leigh will almost certainly not make the MPG, and may not make the top 6, in 2019.

Derek Beaumont just wanted the glory of Super League. Without that he is not prepared to support Leigh. He is not a real club man. He is just a glory seeker and a quitter.

There you have it folks...the verdict of Manfred Man (as he's known on TRL).....aren't we lucky he's here

I think you'll find that they will get 750K and not 1.25m. Leigh received that this year due to 750K central funding and 500k parachute payment.