Sorry n s, but you either support what we have now, or you don't, it's as simple as that really.

MISH and NORTH STANDER are spot on. Derek (I won't walk away from the club) Beaumont has walked away to take a back seat because he can't stand the heat. He just loves the adoration of everyone knowing how rich he is, and how we must tug our forelocks to his wealth and generosity, and how much he has put into (loaned) the club he has almost destroyed. I got so bored of reading that ME ME ME statement. The man is 'inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity' as Disraeli once said.

Let's hope we can put all of this behind us and all get back to getting the club back to where it belongs. I just hope someone professional comes in to take the club forward and give DB his money back and we can all forget about this sorry episode and DB cn do one.

There's an excellent opportunity to get some serious marketing going here. Hopefully they realize that.

I've avoided commenting on here as it's a long time since I did contribute and I no longer live in Leigh. The last thing most people want is people who haven't even been to a game for some years telling them what should be going on. I have a feeling that this is going to turn into a Too Long, Didn't Read scenario, but you may want to bear with me.
Despite living a fair distance away for the last 30 odd years, I have always done my best to keep in touch with the goings-on at Hilton Park and the LSV. I think it's vital for a small club like Leigh to have a core of home-grown players, and what has been happening this week is making me feel much more connected with what happens next season than I expected. I don't know if John Duffy was given a brief when he was appointed, but I've watched his career with interest over the years, and he seems a canny chap. Signing so many players with Leigh connections has to be the perfect opportunity for the club to (re-) connect with the town. That doesn't mean I think there should be a "Local club for local people" scenario. The insularity that seems to afflict many inhabitants of Leigh (judging by comments on various Facebook pages) really has no place; there are a lot of people who have moved into Leigh over the past few years for reasons that, surprise, surprise, have nothing to do with the attractions of the town itself, or the rugby club. But they are there. They should be consciously tapped up as they and their offspring will be a large part of the future of the club. I've lived in Birmingham for nearly 30 years and from my own experience, I would say that a significant number of "incomers" anywhere are looking for something to identify with. Everyone has a right to chew on the bones of the past, but sometimes it gets obsessive and as other posters have pointed out, it's the future that matters.
Well, that's probably me done for the next few years on here, but I think I'll be in Leigh for the Toulouse game.

Derek has gone nowhere, he is still there behind the scenes and is funding things.

This time however he is staying out of it like all the fans wanted.

He still owns & funds the club, just quietly this time.

He is funding nothing.. Says so in the statement, read it..

So u think we're getting these players to play for us with just the£200,000 rl money for wages

Exactly mo, let's hope enough folk see it that way.

Spot on. Quietly ish for 12 months having removed over £1 million of wages and liabilities from Leigh RLFC.

It has all transpired as I predicted even prior to the quick fire sales of Hall, Crooks, Hanson, Pete et al

12 months PT, and we should then expect FT status again from 2020 and a full on SL assault, hopefully with Toronto gone.

Derek never was going anywhere.

What happens if Toronto Flatpack don't make it to SL this year & push again in 2020 ? Do we continue to stay PT until they are gone ?

How about taking our first steps before planning a run?

And a grand job he has done IMO to retrieve the situation, but based on your comments (which most of us very much appreciate) then lessons have not been learned. Surely we need some structure, and we seem to be signing people settled in a PT environment - do we scrap them all off again next year, that works well