It’s a very difficult situation. Leigh built to challenge for SL, not actually be in it. Lot of work to be done now.

It is going to be difficult but hopefully with a few more additions doable, the play off system has proved championship teams can beat SL teams in one offs, and last time we proved we can raise our game and beat the top teams, what we didn’t manage is to beat those teams around us, which will be key to us having any chance of staying up. #beleighve

Atomic - Yes 3 places. Stated as Winger, Utility Back and 2nd Rower

https://leighrl.co.uk/wp/v2/blog/2020/1 ... art-eight/ Sorry my bad - Winger, Outside Back, and Back Row Forward. Any chance it is Krisnan Inu, Bryson Goodwin and AN Other?

https://leighrl.co.uk/wp/v2/blog/2020/1 ... art-eight/ Sorry my bad - Winger, Outside Back, and Back Row Forward. Any chance it is Krisnan Inu, Bryson Goodwin and AN Other?

I know someone had to fill the 12th spot, but gifting us a place in SL just destroys the competition , we have a good application yes I agree, probably the best , but this freezes out the other clubs and destroys incentive . We have all bitched and moaned about this kind of cronyism in the past so I am just being consistent. It's like we have been allowed into the old boys club to keep them happy for a while . We are slowly destroying the sport and the fan bases are contracting . IMO they should have done an on field play off between the applicants just to give it some credibility seeing as the season is b0llocked anyway . take this sort of stuff to its extremes with all this BS talk of equality and maybe they should just award of the SL title because we haven't won it before .

A little bit flawed as an idea to have an on field play off. There has been no training, no games, no Covid testing protocols a la Super League & nobody to pay for it's implementation !

He has two posts in two years. Don’t bother amusing him.

You got there first, Ste. Will just point out in addition that Toronto's expulsion was announced on November 2nd, ie the day after an awful lot of contracts expired. The proposed play-offs might have seen a good few clubs unable to muster a matchday seventeen - of whatever fitness. Also, by the time all the preparations were made and all the C-19 boxes ticked, the 2021 might have been almost upon us with all the teams involved having been unable to plan or budget for the actual flight in which they would find themselves after said process.

Sorry, Doc, whilst your desire to shy away from inconsistency that you fear would be interpreted as hypocrisy is laudable, the fact is that a Super League team folded at a time when the whole sport (not to mention the rest of society) was facing the most exceptional set of circumstances since WW2. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures.

Why TWP were not kicked out following the previous meeting a month prior to November 2nd, at which point some (but just SOME) of the issues above could have been avoided, is now moot. Prevarication on the part of TWP's owner or of the eleven other SL chairmen, or was it the bl00dy lawyers as usual?

A premeditated and altogether more sinister plot should be left to the conspiracy theorists.

I see that we have just signed the lad, Keanan Brand from Warrington (on loan). Must confess that i had never heard of him. Not exactly the type of earth shattering announcement i was hoping for.
In contrast, I see that Geronimo has this week signed for Swinton, Now that's what i call a big name signing.

Excellent Jack. Summed up my thoughts exactly.

Seen Keanan Brand play a few times for Warrington and looks to have a lot of potential but would have been more suited to a year in the championship. Think it is a numbers game as well as quality squad needs to be that bit bigger for SL as tougher comp with more injuries. Sure Derek and John will be doing all they can to bring the best players in we can but usual scenario have only a couple of months to make it happen when other teams have been planning and negotiating.

W/ow you and Jack join within a day of each other.Must be due to our elevated SL status, that draws fans from other clubs!!!