Thats true if you were talking about an existing championship player moving to Leigh but that does not really apply to Sykes does it ?
I reckon that he has probably been paid the same money from Fev as he was offered full time, so won't have the daily travelling and will only have to train 2/3 times a week, and at his age maybe its not the be all and end all to get back into SL.
Also it gives him an option to work if he needed/wanted or set up a little business..as his career is now coming to an end and.
If he was younger and ambitious and was hell bent on getting back to SL, then based on that criteria he would have probably chosen Leigh and rightly so.

I msg DB a couple of months ago after reading that Sykes wasnt being retained and would be worth a look at......he said we had spoke to Sykes`s agent but WE decided against it as we had better players offered to us.
WE turned him down not the other way around.......sour grapes to me from Sykes.