Just been talking to Mickey Higham at Howe Bridge Sports Centre, (we don't know each other), he was very optimistic about SL 2017 & while he obviously couldn't/wouldn't name signings, he did say there might be 1 or 2 more yet.

i thought beaumont said leigh were signing players from the top 4 teams

nobody from fc signed yet? unless whiting was that player? abdul was linked with a loan move seems but that seems to have gone quiet atm

My sources tell me Bailey to be announced next Friday

@_MarkJTaylor has tweeted that in conversation Jukes told him Leigh are very close to signing 2 or 3 more up soon.

League Express reporting today that Leigh are moaning about being unable to sign Ben Harrison from Wire, because of his £100k valuation ( ) for salary cap purposes. Presumably that's his value salary-wise? Although it seems a tad high to me!!

Smithy's favourite..

It sounds like it must be something like that C&W - surprised if Wire are paying him that though!

He was a big player for them a couple of seasons ago and NRL teams were sniffing around him.

FTFY

Harrison has a testimonial in 2017 maybe if he moved he wanted the 'lost earnings' to be included in his salary at Leigh...?

He certainly won't be on anything near £100k per year.

I should imagine he would be reluctant to move and forego a testimonial.

Any particular next Friday?

I notice that Centurions twitter was welcoming Keiron Purtill and Ste Mills to their new jobs, starting today. Perhaps that indicates that their previous contracts expired on 31 October. I assume that applies to players too, so that a restriction on announcing new signings (i.e. they were on contract somewhere else, until today) has been removed.

Pre-agreements with free agents will become contractual.