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.

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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!

The big question is, Why? All this thread has been mostly about is having another pop at RFL, and for what? We don't know reasons. This can be said about rest of clubs.
As for the repreive, they could have relegated us as the rules dictated at beginning of the season. Gateshead enabled RFL to do the sensible thing by allowing us to stay up. But a meeting at the RFL determined which league we played. If RFL are so against us as the Paranoia opinions on todays threads say, why didn't they take us out of the picture at that point ? Because its crazy to do so. Just like the club not being able to invest money in the community. Which tells me there is more to it.

I dont think they are against us in particular ,probably the area we are in .I really can't see where they are coming from i'm very despondent at the way they run this game .

some people who believe everything coming out of Red Hall s for the good of everyone in the game had better start to wake up and do it fast, I agree with Mr C but the trouble with that is that come the next round of 'good ideas' from Red Hall then all that be wasted, as it was once seen as a good idea that clubs had their own youth teams and structure.

The shared Academy never got off the ground

As you probably know what was Leigh Centurions Amateur Forum, is in the process of becoming Leigh Community Rugby League Development Group, we (Hannah

) have just established a draft constitution (awaiting approval/amendment from its members), the next stage will be to put organisational structures etc in place. This was already being done regardless of what the RFL is up to, but we would welcome any suggestions, ideas or input from yourself, or any other interested party. We have our next meeting on Monday please feel free to contact me, attend or pass your views on to Mick, to table on your behalf.



Representatives from Atherton Dragons, Golborne Parkside, Leigh East, Leigh MR, Westhoughton Lions and Leigh Centurions meet every month at LSV stadium.



Thanks to the commitment of all its member clubs, and especially their representatives.

Gateshead had absolutely no choice other than to do the decent thing and if the RFL had let us slip into the C1 there would have been a massive outcry not just from Leigh but the whole of RL. The RFL cannot keep changing the rules to suit their plans. Plans that it is very plain to see do not involve the Champonship clubs futures.

Yes i'm afraid it does look that way