We are no longer a feeder club for SL...We don't need to entice quality players,we make them.

I may well have got an odd one wrong but I make it that Leigh have 8 homegrown players out of a squad of 30.

I'd imagine that's not the worst, but it's hardly amazing. Leigh's strength is from astute signings.

Do you have a reserve side?

Yes, they're called the Hunslet Hawks.

3rd place in super league are on 8 points after 7 games and that's in a league of 12

Yes but that's in a competitive league where everyone is taking points off each other.

For Leigh to get 8 points and finish 3rd in the scenario mentioned you would need another SL club to slip up
somewhere.

No you don't. Leigh along with Bradford are beating everyone in the league (at time of writing this post) because they are both spending more money than everyone else.

You get carried awAy with that if you wish but in the real world the superleague clubs are spending a lot more than us. Like I said you're squad is less than average on paper in comparison to the superleague clubs.

It's possible but difficult and unlikely (as it requires lots of other results to help you out) that 4 wins from 7 would be enough for 3rd place. Using the teams you name Leigh would need two of the SL clubs (for example) Wakefield and Salford to both lose to the other two SL clubs (Hull and Hull KR). Salford then beat Wakefield. Leigh beat Wakefield and the other KPC clubs to get 8 points, the most Wakefield (still to play Fev, Bradford and Halifax) can now get is 6. Salford having beaten Wakefield beat Leigh and have four points with three KPC clubs to play. So for Leigh (8 points) to have a chance of getting 3rd Salford must also lose to Bradford (for example) and finish with at most 8 points if they beat Fev and Halifax and 3rd spot comes down to points difference. If Salford had dropped a further point by drawing with Wakefield (or Fev or Fax) then they finish 4th with 7 points and Leigh get 3rd. In that scenario Leigh would still need to manage to win against the right one of the 4 SL teams and get 2 SL teams and a KPC team to beat the other weak SL team to help them.

The odds do swing a little in Leigh's favour if in an otherwise identical scenario two of their 4 wins are against Wakefield and Salford as both of those will have then lost 3 games just as Leigh would. At that stage a dropped point for either of the two SL clubs in their remaining 4 games (v the other 3 KPC clubs and each other) means that they could not claim 3rd place as they could not reach 8 points. A draw between Salford and Wakefield or the victor of that game failing to beat one of Bradford, Fev or Fax would see Leigh take 3rd spot.

Either scenario rely on a lot of ifs and buts and helpful results elsewhere. Winning 4 of 7 should make you sure of a spot in the 4th v 5th playoff which still allows a chance of promotion but in reality the team that gets 3rd will probably have won 5 out of 7 games (or won 4 and drawn 1).

We, Leigh, are spending less than London and Bradford so far but understand we have 2 imports arriving end of June currently playing first grade NRL to bolster the push in the 8's

I'd love to know how you know thAt but it means shaft all. You're spending more than the part time clubs which is my point.

Who are full time in the Championship?

What difference does that make? It's your first team squad. Any players not in it are deemed not good enough for it.

As I said Leigh's real strength is from astute signings not from lots of top quality homegrown players as you inferred.

Bradford, London and Leigh

Ahh getting practice for the SL non development scenario then

Soon be dual registration time, but you can't practice that yet

I would have thought with someone who has 11165 posts,I might have seen someone at least trying..

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Back to google buddy..We already did that and won't be happening again.

Got anything else to add before the 18th April...