Good players Mitch and Sam will do a job

I’m very disappointed in the timing and style of DBs announcement even though I get the business side of it for him personally. It appears to me to be solely for personal benefit (as in mitigating any more personal loss) and not for the benefit of the club as a whole. If I’m wrong, I apologise, but it just looks that way from the outside.
That said, under Derek’s control I got to see a dream that my Dad would get to see Leigh make it back to SL and that I would be with him for the first game. Both those things happened when I was beginning to think they never would, and his last ever game was our first win which I also got to see with him.
So all in all I say thanks for trying Derek. It almost worked and along the way you made some people very happy for a while.
I hope there is more benefit to the club in how this last 24 hours hasn’t gone down than I can currently see.
Regardless I will be tuning in on Sunday for my usual breakfast game, I will cheer on whoever wears our shirt (even if they can’t hear me and I will continue to support our club in any way I can through the rest of this and our future seasons.

Totally agree about the timing and it seems unnecessary and over-dramatic. Surely he has a job to do until the end of the season to get us into the best place possible?

Maybe he sees this as the best way to do that - offloading large contracts to make us financially viable and a better prospect for potential new owners

One word. GUTTED. Lets hope the timing of this just might mean there is interest already out there.

Which begs the question why we didn't hang on to the majority of that team?

Been moaned at for pointing this out from before season started . As derek said in his statement the buck stops with him .. his fault totally

I feel desperately sorry for you guys, the supporters of Leigh. You were unfortunate to go down last year and I thought you added a fair bit to SL. Your fans travelled in good numbers and created a great atmosphere most weeks. Just this year's start was chronic. Derek was causing mayhem on social media. However, since the end of February he has stayed off. Coincidence or not but results massively improved. I actually think prior to this week you as a club were more sustainable in SL than at least 2 other sides. I genuinely wish you well with the future. It may take a couple of years but you can bounce back.

Hopefully selling some players now will steady the ship and you can have a sustainable part time or hybrid side in the championship.That would be the best outcome by the looks of it. If it’s worse than that and a fresh start in L1 then it’s still not the end of the world. Leigh will be back. In some ways the ride back can be enjoyable in a weird kind of way. Best of luck.

Are they selling or just offloading to reduce wage bill?

Wish you guys all the best. Hoping you can come through this dark time better for it.

Either way they need to steady the ship.

No worries, I never read it as a swipe so all good.

Totally agree, loved the couple of seasons in the same league and looked for the fixture first. Great stadium facilities, great atmosphere in the ground, pubs right on the doorstep for before and after the game... whats not to like!!!

Hopefully it doesn't come to administration or worse.

Admin would be stay in championship with points penalty (-6?), worse (liquidation) should be relegation but start on 0 points, but hey, this is the RFL so they could come up with whatever they want!!!

Releasing highly paid players is a sensible (but sad) move, but you have 3 high earners (I imagine) who don't seem to going anywhere, namely the 2 Keiron's and Anderson. I would imagine they have a combined pay package of approx. £200k, not sure how that's going to play out.

YEAH, good point and they are all contributing factors to the clubs demise especially that Cunningham fellow, it was essentially his team sourced and signed, he's as much use as a button on a sock