We have a squad of non first 17 SL players in the main, players who want a wage due to age but can’t get a decent one in SL as an ageing squad player. If we are told early enough that we will be in SL 2022 then I expect at least 12 better players than we have in the squad to compete for mid table

When we were the Champions in 1981, 11 regular first teamers were from the local area! Having said that, you have to build to get to that level.

and also he is an extremely ugly man.

so we get the scraps and tell the rugby league world we are superleague ready.
if we are told we will be in superleague 2022 then one of the other 11 clubs will have to go bust.

no other candidates but us neither. you are right that relegation isnt a certainty but its not looking good is it. what do think we should do from here now.

Well I think with the squad we have we have wins in us without a doubt - the starting 17 especially, whether we ever see that is another matter.

Looking at the other teams we don’t have enough wins in us not to finish 12th - if we can find a bit more quality, 1/2s especially we may give ourselves a chance

Elliot at FB could be a major factor- took a gamble with him, hope it pays off, backline of him Thornley, Sau, Gelling and Russell is not a bad line up at all

Just to add weight to my argument that creative player's are only has good as those around him, do you by any chance watch the NRL?
There is a lad playing in the half's for Sydney Rooster's completely and totally unrecognisable from the one who played at Leigh for the whole of the '18 season namely Drew Hutchinson, simply because his temmates are on the same wavelength, those around him at Leigh were way off the mark same as with Kev Brown.

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I reckon it will be like SL 2005, when we won just 2 games.

We applied to accept what was a tough brief and the difficulty may be the longer term implications as we will be judged on it even though the playing field was never level. Lack of prep time and lower funding. If we were given 2 years for taking this on that would have been better but things stacked against us from start. Saying that think with the 5 first choice player missing we would compete. But more players needed of better caibre needed to cover injuries. Where thes may come from who knows, possibly some mid season opportunities but will it be too late for 2021?

Anyone who thought it would be any different was deluding themselves, I did not want Leigh to be "The Chosen One" from the outset and I could not understand why the club and in particular Mr Beaumont wanted to put so much effort into securing the application if he had no intention of vastly improving the squad to compete in a much higher standard than the 20 assembled players to compete in the Championship.

I’ll ask the question too a business man. Would you have taken it on? The only way I would have taken it on is with prior knowledge of no relegation.

We need to remove the embarrassing superleagueready hash tag from our Twitter feed before fans from other clubs pick up on it and use it as a stick to beat us with.

That was when we had Leigh colts and Wiggin weren’t poaching all our youngsters. Note they always pass off players like Manfredi as their own.