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.