I think Spencer is a good player but for some reason hasn't played enough this season, I do think we should have played him more.
Fui does what Fui does, he makes meters by charging up the middle, he doesn't make many breaks but who do we have that makes bigger drives? Plus I think we've not used him as we should, need to be passing him the ball as he's running 5/10m from the try line.
Beswick has been outstanding this year when having to step up after loosing Penky, don't know where the rumour about him going has come from but I hope it's not true.
Tommy is a good player & always gives his all and I think can sometimes takes opponents by surprise not being a big name. He's still more than good enough for The Championship but probably not for The Qualifiers. If we intend to do more squad rotation next year I'd keep Tommy involved playing most of The Championship games.

I had forgotten about Maden, Platt & Barlow.

Seems like Barlow wants a return to Fax & if true should be allowed to go, we don't need any player who doesn't really 100% want to be a Leigh player.

Platt just doesn't have it anymore, so thanks but bye bye, same goes for Aspinwall.

Steve Maden has been a loyal Leigh player & so a great servant of the Club, without ever being a great player. Sure he has now retired.

Wilkes has already signed for Barrow for 2016 & what a great message he left for the fans on his departure. Good Luck Ollie.

Tommy G will probably go out on loan, does this free up some cap money ?

Pittman as I have mentioned previously can't break into the team so can't be good enough or PR doesn't rate him, so I reckon he's gone.

Armstrong is a good centre but I wonder if he is considering other career options now that he has his qualifications.

I have to disagree with Beswick, he has been very good for Leigh & done some long hard minutes 'on his own' in a 2 hooker modern game. Bob should be retained by Leigh IMHO even if it is as cover/options as an experienced specialist 9.

Reynolds IMO should not be allowed to go anywhere, in fact I would improve his contract again to keep the vultures at bay. I see something in him & predict a very bright future for Ben, he could be the future for Leigh.

I would also like to see Foster get brought in to first team RL for the Club, start to build on his game, again a future asset.


So a quick ready reckon & I can see 9 or 10 departures with more to come & only 5 inbound if the Chase deal is done. That leaves a bit of room for 1) a big fast winger & 2) a quality centre, then it starts to look like a very strong squad.

My worry is,were will the players come from to rotate? As you said possibly 10/15 players leaving, to pay for the wages of the inbound 5.

We can't do the same as this season and have 7/8 players all requiring operations at a crucial point.Should it happen.

Don't know what's happening with Barlow but it does look like he preferred being part time, a shame really as he had some real skill with his offloads & we've missed that. If he can be persuaded to be given a last chance & to focus he could be a really top player, if he'd rather go back part time then he can't fit in with what we want & will have to go. But that's a matter for Sam, Paul & Derreck.

Thought Platt was playing quite well up until his injury now he's disappeared. Not sure what he'll be like when he comes back. Agree on Aspinwall though.

Think Maden only stayed on to make 10 years at the club & have a testimonial. He'll be retiring now.

Think Tommy is still a good Championship player, I'd keep him for The Championship then maybe send him out on loan for the Super 8s & bring someone else in then.

I imagine all the players who've been out on loan all season Pitman, Walker, Beaumont (is there anyone else?) (Bate, Briscoe & Ward have already gone) will be let go.

Only he (& maybe Paul) knows that but considering he wanted to be part time to finish them but has now gone full time suggest he fancies a go at professional rugby first.

Agree

Would agree but with Chase coming he's moving even further down the pecking order, will be a great player in a few years but he's already good enough to start for some Championship teams does he really want to be 4th choice at Leigh?

Maybe, he's still a bit small at the moment though. Get him in first team training & pre-season see if we can bulk him up a bit, he will be a prospect for the future though.

Foster has been training with the first team all season as was Tracey until his loan deal , Since both Hankinson and Tracey signed their contracts Leigh have brought in Dixon, Hock, Hanen, Patterson and the other forward from Salford! What sort of incentive is there for the young lads when the club go out and buy players in their positions ?

In fairness I have said that after the 8's but during the season the Championship was a lot tighter between Leigh and Bradford as we went for top spot so I would have also kept a winning team playing - as it was that was probably one of the factors as a lot of the team that had played so many matches started to look jaded after the 3 back to back SL fixtures.
Next year I think we will spread the game time around amongst the players and start to see any reserve / squad players on the bench which may mean the odd blip here and there but the long term goal has to be try and get promoted and in all honesty finishing top this season actually gave us the worst fixtures to start with of any club in the Middle 8's so we gained no advantage by finishing top save for the Trophy!

I think we made a few errors this year. Pitman did a great job at centre in 2014 until losing his spot to Platt, he would have given us options to rest players at worst and Hankinson also fell into that category.
Joe Bullock should have got game time too imo, our pack was shot by Fax away

I'm disappointed that Joe has now left the club, to join Barrow on a permanent deal.

He has been after a return since the start of the season but Im not sure he is wanted back tbh. As for players and 100% there was a rumour going round 2 of your new signings asked for releases as the 8's panned out.

Graham Parker ?

Not sure who you mean.

Graham Parker & the Rumour, British Group 70s/80s

At least Reffy 'is cool' and knows his British Rock Bands...nice one !

More cold than cool these days.