We have a squad of 29 players is that small ? Used 28 of them so far, apart from Lewis Foster who is 'on loan' at London. But yeah, most clubs have injuries at the moment. personally I don't think we 'shopped' quite poorly, with most of the new signings being average at best (upto now)

But they're not your facilities are they Degsy doesn't have that sort of money, speaking of which remember the saying, a fool and his money are easily parted clearly this is happening at Leigh with a policy of if their available buy em choose how much they cost and how poor they are.

Honestly apart from Higham maybe, not one of your players' would get a sniff at Wakey, oh and fwiw we have Allgood, England, Kirmond, Williams, Johnstone and Topou injured all of which would grace your team, but we'll just get on with it and leave the excuses to such as you.

Agreed...we wanted to spend the max on the cap 2 years ago, and we (Derek ?) decided to scrap the academy's. Apparantly it was costing 90K a season to fund, and quite a few 'championship' clubs were unable to fulfil their fixtures due to a lack of players available. So we have quite a few 'old players' (mainly in the forwards) and no youngsters coming through. You live & learn I guess, and if we stay up via the 'middle 8's' then we can plan accordingly for 2018.

Probably one or two people hoping to revisit this thread on Saturday night. Which side they are from remains to be seen

After the shambles of ALL officials at Wakefield,it will be payback time. Leigh to win by 10.mom Drinkwater, att.4729.ref.C.Kendall.

Yourselves had a lack of youth coming through in 2015..What was it 9 in 11 out before the 8's? How long has it actually took you to start getting the youth coming through?

Well I've never been so insulted, Clown,Dullard and thick? however, i must protest, to sugget I would even consider to marry someone from Wakefield is disgusting and, should not be suggested on this forum

Quote: Budgiezilla "Agreed...we wanted to spend the max on the cap 2 years ago, and we (Derek ?) decided to scrap the academy's. Apparantly it was costing 90K a season to fund, and quite a few 'championship' clubs were unable to fulfil their fixtures due to a lack of players available. So we have quite a few 'old players' (mainly in the forwards) and no youngsters coming through. You live & learn I guess, and if we stay up via the 'middle 8's' then we can plan accordingly for 2018.'" Superdooper league looking the same.. www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2017- ... -postponed

Quote: Budgiezilla "Agreed...we wanted to spend the max on the cap 2 years ago, and we (Derek ?) decided to scrap the academy's. Apparantly it was costing 90K a season to fund, and quite a few 'championship' clubs were unable to fulfil their fixtures due to a lack of players available. So we have quite a few 'old players' (mainly in the forwards) and no youngsters coming through. You live & learn I guess, and if we stay up via the 'middle 8's' then we can plan accordingly for 2018.'" Superdooper league looking the same.. www.wiganwarriors.com/news/2017- ... -postponed

Really? You'd be happy with about 5k attendance? That's ambition for you.

Leigh fans should really be up for this match and trying to drum up loads of support on the terraces (as should Wakey but they're not known for massive away support.

This is a pivotal game for both side. If Leigh win, Wakey might face slipping into the mid 8s considering they have 2 other potential banana skins to avoid after playing yourselves. Loose all 3 (doubtful but you never know) and Wakey will find themselves fighting to keep in the top 8. If Leigh lose you might be in the bottom 2 and only get 3 home games in the mid 8s.

This may be an unglamourous fixture to the neutral, but games like this define your season.

Out of interest, what is your 'average' home attendance this year Gallanteer ?

This will be one of our lowest for 2017 by the way.

We had lack of anything in 2015, our youth won the SL 2008 I think but then lapsed a little but starting to pick up again now with a decent youth structure at the club.

Discounting the cup game, just under 7.5k thanks. Pretty much what it was last season when we were exceptionally bad. Plus this season away support is quite non existant (as I'm sure you'll remember down here).

Not that it matters. You're allegedly an SL team, struggling to survive and in a key clash of the season and you'd by happy with 5k? I know we didn't set the world on fire but that gate represents a 33% drop in attendance compared to us last year when we were just woeful.

As for squad size, 29 IS small. For any sort if hope, you need to be aiming for 35. We should know. Our small but expensive side got us relegated last season.