ah what's the point in this game anymore.

There isn't one, time for us all to start making a big noise, I'm sure the press would listen

Or rather down the local park with some cider and instead if having something to train and aim for......., is lost to the game all together! As other scholarships would pretty much already have their player quota sorted... Ish!

Bad bad news for the youth and our club!

Before we have more threads where people are frothing at the mouth at the brutal Leigh Haters in Yorkshire, can we have the meat on the bones explanantion if anyone knows it? And b4 the person that usually says contact Allan Rowley to find out ( ) I am not that interested to know but some on here I think need to know because there must be an explanantion better than "no you can't run one next year" and thats it.

It's not only us its ALL Championship teams with the exception of Widnes, see no need to ask Allan as Arthur told us at the LISA meeting, I will attempt to find out more in the forthcoming week or so when I next speak to Garry Eccleston that is unless someone else wishes to do so that is, then feel free.

I'm having another Reggy Perrin moment. Do you know what vision comes into my head when I hear of these meetngs that the RFL have? The spitting image sketches of the tory party cabinet office meetings but without Maggie. Why without Maggie? Because she had a brain.

Surely we have served our penitance from the irregularities of a few years ago and if we wish to put money into a youth structure we should be allowed to do so, as should any other Championship club. A heck of a lot of hard work and dedication by the hardworking scholarship coaches will now be wasted, if Leigh are willing to put money and time into a youth structure for the future of our club then what gives anyone the right to take that away?
Looking at it with a cynical view perhaps its a way of after this round of franchising is out of the way to stop any other club being in a position to fullfill the required criteria for any future applications?
Imagine this happening in any other sport there would be a national outcry, that plus now what happens to those youngsters that arev at least kept off the streets for a couple of nights a week and are involved in an healthy pursuit in the summer months, yes most (if not all) are involved at other levels of the sport but the above still is true.

I still find it difficult to believe that there is not a reasonable explanation for this. Its crazy for governing body not to encourage clubs to contribute to its communities as such. It will be interesting to know the truth in this.
All we know at the moment is the big bad RFL are doing one on Leigh again just for sake of it - according to this thread. The same governing body that thought we could add to the current league we are in, and gave us a reprieve instead of relegating us.

All (pretty much) will play at a certain amateur level. but what of all the hopes and aspirations for the future now? Totally squashed! 1 or 2 may get snapped up by other sl club but what for the other 18 lads? So poss 20 lads at one age group so that's 40 lads just from our club (2 age groups) add to that a further 7 or more clubs! Makes err roughly 320 lads missing out on better coaching, better fitness, more skills, professional habits, diets knowledge etc etc going to waste!

And the rfl actually want to improve our national team???? Hahhaahaa good luck you bunch iof f*** wits!!

Why have 30odd clubs when you can have 14 Suuuuuuuper Mega Clubs.

We'll all stop watching Leigh and watch Wigan instead, don't folk understand?

A couple of thousand extras at each Suuuuuuuuuper Mega Club can only be good for the game. Whats the point in wasting resources on village pit teams when they can ALL be channelled directly into Suuuuuuuper Mega Clubs?

It's a no brainer and I dont know why we didn't do it decades ago.

Wiiiiiiigan Wiiiiiiiiiigan Wiiiiiiiiiigan.

See, it's easy.

Sounds sensible that.
Whatever happened to the meetings you had in the last years at HP?

In the RL hour tonight on GMR I didn't hear one caller ask why the scholarship had been stopped for eveyrone bar Wignes.

Don't you already share an Academy with the Pies?

If so, couldn't you also share a Scholarship scheme?? (officially or unofficially)

I know it's not ideal but it may be a good way of making the best of a bad lot?

But its not just Leigh though is it ,its all clubs bar Widnes,and as for giving us a reprieve they couldn't do anything else but after what happened .

Wigan had a pretty good 16's last season and a very good 15's who only last a game narrowly against saints! And they will have an even stronger 16's and 15's this coming year! Think there was 3 players from leigh area at Wigan last year and maybe just 2 this year (over both ages). So very much doubt ther is any chance of any sharing going on! Plus it's far healthier for Leigh in the long run to have their own! Plus what of all the coaches etc? Think Wigan would have any from Leigh on board?? Errrmmm nope! Chris radlinsky is over theirs!

So what for the coaches too? They are all just by the wayside too' not sure if theyyre all volunteers or on staff? But that's others hard work down the drain too!