Some and I reiterate SOME overseas 'blood' in any team gives them strength in experience and ethos, we at Leigh have been lucky over the years in having perhaps more good overseas player (yes there have been mistakes) than most.

Our import will add that.

cant wait for him to arrive

Darren Lockitsname won,t be coming this season.

Doesn,t matter, if u are going to have a sport whose governing body has already decided that any club inside the heartlands,must stay outside where you might realistiically might be despite success on the field, whats the point ?

Should any club develop their local talent to such an extent, they will eventually lose their best prospects to a Non relagation club ,unless that club offers enough money to keep that promising prospect to stick with their current club for a good percentage of their playing days.

Tough one isn,t it ? A million and a half plus for a Non relegation club to fund their signings and how much for those clubs outside?

What a brilliant ridiculous idea franchising is, to ensure mediocrity for most ,at the expense of a few

I think we have some good uns but we won,t be able to keep them.


There isn,t even the benefit of transfer fees anymore. All a club needs to do is pay up a contract.

aye Experienced, but hardly a 'match winner'.

You are right, in my opinion, 'sf'. However, when you are older than 47, you become more cynical with age, and experience. The older you get, the dizzier you become, watching goalposts moving about! My money, (if I had any, in the current economic climate) would be on the RFL, giving the "we're getting a new stadium" brigade a few years extra, because of the 'credit crunch'. In other words, the criteria may just change again!

The proverbial goalposts will definitely be moved by time the new franchises come around again. The only scenario I could see a club lose its franchise is if they go into administration....but then again I wouldn't hold my breath.

I to think the goal post will move, but I also agree with what SF said lets worry about us not anybody else. If we get our act together, pulling in crowds, are seen as a club that develops players, good links with local community, playing attractive rugby in a well organised facility, could they refuse us? [iDon’t answer that![/i

I've said it before we need to somehow make it so they want us, we have to be better than what they currently have.

You never know - W***n, Saints, Warrington, Salford may all go bust. (not that I would wish that on any of them, not even W***n!) But then the RFL would argue that we are geographically too close to Catalans, (NSW) Crusaders, and 'The Mighty' Quin(s) to qualify!

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