Quote: charlie caroli "As you so rightly say this has been the BEST finale to a season in years , far far better than the play off system, we at Leigh knew the rules and accepted them it's no use complaining now because results have been what we expected ,for me these 8s have been a learning curve, before we started a game a fair few Leigh fans were saying MOST of our current Squad were good enough for SL standard and how we might go through the 8's unbeaten,well it's been a severe wake up call, a good percentage of our Squad are not up to the week in week out SL challenge which is why Derek feels the need to Strengthen next year.As for the [sizeConspiracy Theory by the RFL[/size ,I think not .'"
Spot on Charlie we need to just learn lessons and admit that we haven't been good enough in these eights its that simple. You only really need to beat the 3 championship teams and you would be in the 1m game though its not over yet and we could scrape in.
I'm sick of hearing the excuse of the cap, Halifax didn't sit around worrying about status or cap and have been competitive throughout especially playing against us spending 1m as a FT professional club with all the trimmings they out coached, out enthused us and kicked our ass.
Also these folk calling for increased cap without any understanding of how a clubs finances operate need to remember the cap is there for a very good reason to stop clubs going balls out, poop or bust for Super League spending money they don't have. We have been there many times before and would hate to see us make the same mistakes again......