Was,two daughters and a couple of holidays, soon gets eaten into Zulu. If it wasn't for the interest,I'd be struggling.

In the statement he says: "Should the worse happen and the contractual liabilities force the Club into liquidation then I give my word I will ensure that a community Club is formed and give it a cash injection to ensure it can operate and establish itself going forward with no liabilities and no involvement from me whatsoever."

Would it not be better to use that cash injection to avoid liquidation and transition to a club with the sort of budget where outgoings are covered by the club's turnover?

Dereks stated cash injection into any new Leigh RL community club probably suggests it will be considerably less than what 3 players, alleged to be holding out for full contract money are allegedly due from the club. Which by my best guess will be a cool £250,000+ in 2019.

Listen, there also has to be a collective responsibility from the players that they also failed to deliver their part of the deal to trigger year 2 payments. IMHO.

If I was a player paid handsomely this year by the red hot championship favourites, it would have been glaringly obvious to me that I and my team mates were required to deliver a top 4 finish on the field to secure the finances to pay the remainder of my contract.

Good luck to these players however, because as obvious as it may be to I, it was apparently not down in black and white for them in the contract.

Was it the players fault they didn't deliver or, was it the Coach/s ?

In all of this conjecture I know who's not to blame, the FANS
Unfortunately its the fans who will be hurt the most

Contracts should've been incentive driven. i.e Bonus for top 4, and a further bonus for promotion.

e.g. 20k for season - 20k for top 4 - further 20k for promotion.

Has there been any negotiations with players regarding next year's contracts? Not sure how a player can be said to be holding out for full contract money if all they've been offered is the chance to completely walk away from the contract.

How attractive would those terms have been to players who could have perhaps got similar/better terms elsewhere ? I don't know by the way, i'm only pointing out the options a player may have had ?
When you think our Maruqee player was reputed to be Kurt Baptiste, you can see the problems that prospective employers of Rugby League players have !

Those figures are an example as stated. The point is,large sums of contracts are being paid, even if there is failure.Now regarding better terms,here is one example - one halfback was released that would've cost us a 1/4 of the price as a current halfback(and i know which one who i would have). There were also other players from last year who could've done a job for us this season without the culling of last years squad with a revised contract. consequently, we had to out bid interest from other clubs to pay excessive contracts to get the players this season. I believe that players could've been found and given an incentive performance driven contract, and we wouldn't be in this mess we find ourselves in today.

I believe reduced terms have been offered and subsequently declined, followed by contract severance pay offers which have also been subsequently declined.

All further 2019 contract negotiations have therefore been placed on hold.

Hi Harold - I don't suppose you have an idea of the extent of the problem? Is this 3 players or 20 players? I assume other players have accepted reduced terms.