Good advice, Leigh should take note and do exactly that. London are now reaping the rewards.

London dont have Wigan 7 miles away

And we have Huddersfield. Look at their squad and you can see plenty of Fax lads.

Wardle, that’s both of them, ( one now at Cas).
Ollie Roberts
Adam O’Brien
Kruise Leeming
Jake Connor now at Hull


And those are just the ones I know about, no doubt more in their youth setup as well as at Leeds and Warrington.
But it didn’t stop us from having a reserves team.

Have you heard of Wigan, Warrington, saints etc. Quite decent teams with a bit more pull than us

You don't quite have the same problem do you - and good luck to you by the way, because it will pay dividends in the long term

Bradford have Leeds and Huddersfield nearby and still manage to sign decent academy players. Leigh have no excuse to not look at the academy option

Very true.

The academy we running at the moment is a pointless exercise if you not going all in you won’t attract the best youth players as there bigger and better clubs just down the road that do it as it should be done

They do when Wigan play their home games at Millwall

We need stronger amateur Teams Miners, East ,and Pats are not what they use to be most of the top amateur sides are in Yorkshire

That's true Norman, Fax used part of the additional central funding to start a reserves. Does this mean with the additional funding next season, Fax will be fulltime?

Why would they adopt a bust and boom strategy and change it short term due to a one year increase in income. Thats Leighs downfall. You rolled the dice and didn't get a double 6 and will now pay the price.

Rubbish, It got us into SL. Poor management got us the bust.

Have you not stopped rubbing your hands, or whatever, since Sunday ??

We have no idea what our situation will be either for the rest of this season or next - so you sure as hell don't

Never write off the Leythers

Im not suggesting its the end and wouldn't want that for anyone, but I suspect the gamble you played this year will push the club back for years as you try to recover.

To be fair i've been rubbing my hands all season watching the Leigh roller coaster. I thought it was a Toronto Leigh 1-2 in either order with the rest fighting for the other 2 positions.

You and me both - said at the beginning of the season it was going to be quite boring waiting for the M8s to kick in

Sport never ceases to surprise me - even at my elderly age

Anyhooose, it is what it is - onwards and upwards, LTID