Nah they will put Salford Wakefield Cas back in the championship and put those teams into SL

My mate has been to see Lewis and his cronies as a representative of the Irish RL and he told them a full time RL team in Ireland is not viable at present.If this happens the RFL wil have to fund most of it themselves, the Irish economy is bankrupt and Unuin and Gaelic games will all get funding before RL.

sounds a bit like Wales then, thats it they are shoehorned in

Bl@@d@ He@@ how much more 'local' can we get a Derby match than that! Expansion? the name of game! Obviously East have no ambition otherwise, they would have applied for SUPER LEAGUE !icon_lol.gif

Ok then they are merging the current championship wiith championship one and calling it the championship and Leigh East are joining the new championship 1, Im I right????

Thats why you said Leigh wont go down no matter where they finish come on Im right or not?

Just because you are off the by-pass, it doesn't mean that you are not in the M62 corridor. No chance!

More teams in the Championship, add a couple of top amateur teams to Championship one bingo Now am I right

I am proud to support this club Keith, always have been.

any team from Leigh

Now thats a difficult one

If the rumours are true it sounds a good idea. Reprieve 2nd bottom and invite 3 good winter teams to Championship 1 to have both for 12. I'd go one step further and invite 8-10 fairly good winter sides to join Bramley, Hemel, Nottingham and Warrington Wizards in a Championship 2 (then put the rest of the RLCN into Premier Divisions), but the latter might be a later plan.

Of course it may just be that the 2nd bottom in the Championship is reprieved to make up for the team called up to SL when Crusaders fold. Knowing the RFL rather than go for tried and tested amateur clubs they'll let poorly thought through Irish and Scottish sides into Championship 1

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That would be great for Leigh Centurions in SL their feeder club next door