jOHN I ASKEDTHE QUESTION AND WAS TOLD WE WAS NOT BECOMING A FEEDER/twinned CLUB FOR WIGAN.
Since I asked things may have changed!!!

Just spoke with our coach and he told me we have a partnership with Wigan just like we had last year and we will be getting some "duals " from them,we will not become their feeder club the duals we have will be 3 or 4, although we will not be forced to play them.
The South Wales Club are their twinned club.

Because of our budget, we need duals to bolster our squad ,but we have 20/21 players of our own signed up, so the duals will just make up the squad and we will pick the best players each game, if a "dual" plays bad then he can be dropped as one of our players can.Wigan will not be forcing us to paly their players, this is from our coach, so you can all put the feeder club rumours to bed now. I know I feel better now...........

Also we wont be able to get players from Warrington as they have "twinned" with Swinton for next season.

So that sounds to me very similar to the last two years, so no excuses now to say we have finished with our club, or we are not buying a season ticket.

I now feel at ease, thanks Lynda.

Well what’s it matter what you call the Wigan Players D/C or Under 23s But you can bet this if a Wigan player is on D/C at Leigh their is only one Team he will be playing in guess what he wont be the under 23s regardless off what our coach says
Also ask yourselves this the partnership between Leigh & Wigan is for the benefit of who To Give Wigan 1st Teamers a game of Rugby at the expense of our own under 23 lads trying to make the 1st team
So please lets get real this partnership is about Wigan keeping their players fit and giving them match practise
Also Championship Rugby is a step below Super League why do you think Super League Clubs send their players out on dual contract
The way i see this going Leigh could have at any one time have anything between 1 and 10 players wearing a Leigh Shirt
in the 1st Team or in the under 23s

Is your point you don't think Leigh should have any DC players from any club or just Wigan ?

Last season I thought the DC players did well for us and I doubt many fans would object to having Tom Spencer on such a basis next season although I'd prefer a season long loan deal.

What is clear is that Leigh RLFC will remain an independant club.

Just to clarify;
If you partner with another SL club, then you only take their DR's. Leigh will not take any Wire or Cas players next year I understand.

SL clubs can partner with 2 clubs if they wish. However the second must be with a club outside the M62 corridor e.g. Lakes or South Wales, or more specifically in this case South Wales Scorpions. Saints have two partnerships; Rochdale and Whitehaven.

From the (25-17) 8 players that are not match tied by the SL club, I would guess 2 may be injured at any one time and a further 1-2 may be being rested. That would mean typically around 4-5 players would be looking for a game to keep them match fit. Presumably, this is how they arrived at the number 5 DR's.

Warrington, like other SL clubs have already released half of their 15 and 16 year olds, as there will only be a U16 age group next year. They are also in the process of releasing their U19' / U20s. So Brooke Broughton is going to Doncaster, Bradley Brennan to Barrow, Ryan Duffy to Leigh, Ben Hellewell to Fev., Bobby Goulding to Wakefield.

These changes as I understand it, were opposed by both Warrington and Saints. Until the very late announcement by the RFL, there has been no official notification of the changes. Neither is there any significant detail of how this new process will work.

Well I believe what our coach tells me and that is we will only be using the system like it was last year.
We will not be made to play any players.
We are not like Swinton who have twinned with Warrington, Wigan and Leigh arrangement is a partnership.
Wigan have an arrangement too with the South wales team also , so theres room for their other players aged between 19 and above to play that will not be ready for first team yet.
Wigan are running an under 19's and15/16s like us.

Where 3 or 4 of their fringe players get the benefit of first team rugby as they aren't having an under 23's and we benefit by having these 3 or 4 players extra to the 21 we have signed up, under a very tight budget.
It allows use of more players without having to spend more then we can afford.
This years budget is similar to last years, as we are runniing a reserves as well, which all comes out of the playing budget.

I know this because I asked.

Deffo not 1 and 10 Wigan players it will be 3 or 4 who are dual reg. You can have up to 8 we won't take that that many.

Well you Leigh supporters are probably the most fanatical of the lot, and I know you have done a huge amount to get the club back on its feet after the problems of last season. So I genuinely wish you well and hope it works out to your benefit. I am certainly not on this board 'stirring it', I am just hugely saddened by this move that the RFL have pushed through and the manner in which they have done it. The youth system is the lifeblood of RL, if it is damaged then we will feel the repurcussions for years to come.

Thank you Lynda to me this clears up all the continuing confusion and rumours doing the rounds about our club , lets stop the Scaremongering and get on with supporting our Team and Club , again i cant wait for the new season , and again i will do all i can to assist the Fundraising we need to help our Coach .

THAT CLEARS UP THE FIRST TEAM RUMOURS,THANKS.

Will our u23s be young lads stepping up from the younger age groups or will it be stacked with the players wigan dont want at the moment?.

If its the case that our u23s are mainly ex wigan players, will the wigan club have coaches on the bench as is happening at other clubs?.

Take a look guys on the goons board about the club partnership thread, one goon fan says all this is our own fault for being a small club in a small league, then they wonder why they get a name for being smug.

Re coaches if it's a Leigh side it will be a Leigh coach. Our clubs coaches give our sides instructions and the idea our coaching team will be instructed by a Pie coaching team will never be acceptable to our club. I am convinced of that and I don't need to even ask our coaching team or our Board members.

So we have entered a partnership agreement with Wigan?

We can only have DC's/loan players from Wigan?

Plus we don't have own community dept but share with Wigan?