Hear hear!

If the club wanted to keep the fans informed what about -

"Due to a number of points on which the parties could not agree Leigh Centurions have decided to withdraw from discussions to sign Sam Hopkins.
The club wish him well in his future career."

Fans informed - respect maintained - professionalism exemplified!!!!!

Take a bow toadstool

The question then have to be asked

1. Why hasn't there been a deal done?
2. Why didn't Leigh strive to meet Sam's needs, ie, complete the contract as soon as they knew Sam wanted to play for Leigh.
3. Why did the Leigh East member invite Salford down and why where Leigh East still holding talks with Salford if he wanted to sign for Leigh?

All this is a prime example of why there should be a RFL/BARLA liason person at every Pro club.

Surely a deal can be salvaged out of this whole mess! There are no winners from the situation but the biggest loser seems to be the player who seemingly wanted to play for his home town club but this has been ruined by others. Without knowing the full details it seems to be everybody's fault but his so all the other parties in this debacle owe it to this lad to swallow their pride and make the deal happen!

Washing dirty laundry in public in a vat of sour grapes.
Petulant, amateurish, childish, knee-jerk statement.

A perfect example of why the RFL hates Leigh and why the amateur clubs can never and should never be expected to work with the pro club.

Got Rowley with a capital R written all over it. As if his clan hasn't done enough damage.

Someone with a PR background needs to get into Leigh and very very quickly, its a PR disaster zone - what a press release .

I'm all for speaking the truth (backed AR completley when he did it about the RFL) but this press release is about a untied youngster, potential to prove, put bluntly he isn't of that quality just yet.
A "unfortuantly it appears Salford nipped in at the last hour to sign him, we wish him well with the future" press release would have sufficed IMO.

However as the club are knocking the press releases out , how about releasing how much it will cost to watch Leigh Centurions next season
It was promised to be released some weeks ago - hope we've not gone back on our word

I would like to know who at the club issued this statement.

It's amateurish and petulant and that person should be removed from their post for a grave error of judgement.

Nobody comes out of this one looking good, especially the Leigh Centurions.

A statement needed to be made, but that was not it.

Interesting call that one

the statement from Leigh was quite a 'bitter' one. Just like the one when we didn't get a Super League franchise (horrible word), same author this time round ?

so from what i can gather hopkins aint signed for us, is this correct, if so then it is strange as it was announced in le on monday that he had.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good ' dig ' eh

There are only probably 2/3 people who actually know the truth in all this , but lets all have a pop just for the sake of it

I think we all need to take a deep breath here and instead of those of us' who don,t know all the facts' putting in our four penneth to keep out of it.

I would lock this thread for now if I was a mod and leave it for Leigh RLFC and Easts ARLFC and more importantly the lad concerned to sort out.

Slagging either side off doesn,t do either club any good in my view and at the end of the day we might see an outcome that will resolve the matter' hopefully in the best interests' of the one person in this matter who really does matter.

I always have my own opinion/view and I still have but for myself'on this one' I am keeping out of it.