Can't see it being any different from whats been happening at the club already .PR stated he does not want any senior players who want game time after injury .

It's up to the Championship club in as much as "we want to give you player x, do you want him?" but that's about it, as I understand it. Whether there's additional pressure added to that is obviously something very few of us will know for sure. The issue isn't the who's, when's or how many's, but the fact that there is any arrangement in the first place. Already it would seem that additional U20 players have been drafted in from Wigan, to the detriment of players who had been signed with the squad for months. As Jenky mentioned, it's not as if we're at the bottom of the league desperate for extra bodies, is it?

Thats what im saying , it doesnt matter who Wigan send of offer to Leigh , its up to PR if he picks them .

And how does it work , surely it doesnt work by Wigan telling Leigh they are sending X amount of players to Leigh , it must be Leigh asking Wigan who they are willing to send ?Thus meaning its Leighs final choice , if we dont want them they dont come , as for Swinton , again they must have wanted the said Wire players .

Exactly that .The team we have at the moment would not benefit from any Wigan players other than Tom Spencer as he was with us last year so knows the lads and how PR wants the team to play plus we have players ready to come back soon so don't need any from Wigan .Can't see anything different happening .

I hope I am wrong but It would appear to me that this is another step in the gradual process of 'The partnership' as it is called by the clubs these days.

For me the time is now to ban DR's completely if we are going to maintain the integrity of Rugby League as a viable sport outside Super League

If SL clubs can't afford to keep these players release them. If they want to develop players do it. It shouldn't be down to the championship clubs to do it for them. IMO we were going to do this at the start of the season, until they heard the outrage over it.

Hope its not the start of the slippery slope. There are one or two naive views on here. Oh and Charlie of course Swinton wanted the players they didn't have enough of their own. I think you'll find that the 5 who 'signed' for swinton still train FT at wire.

So despite previous assurances we are now in a formal Partnership with Wigan with regards to players.

Will these players be dual-registered? According to the RFL don’t you have to have a ‘Twinning Partnership’ to have players on dual register?

Whilst we are developing their next Sam Tomkins, where does our next Sam Hopkins further his development?

What’s the latest with regards to the Community partnership? Has that gone ahead?

Whilst I await the answers instead of being at LSV tonight, I’ll take my wife to the pub and watch it there. They don’t need my support they can simply just borrow from next door.

Oh and one other thing Frank if I was you I’d give over saying ‘Leigh Independent Centurions’.

So fans are deserting already....nice one.....

I'm worried and I'm going to need to carefully consider whether I'm up for this any more.

Why not wait and see how this actually affects the first team for future games. I am not jumping just yet. I have walked a step nearer the edge though. If it turns out to be an official twinning then bye bye. Another problem solved for the rfl.

The coffin must have a large lid to accommodate all the nails being hammered into it. Is there anyone actually in charge of the club?

Who has now decided to walk on the back of the announced 'partnership' other than Glow....I haven't unless it turns out to be an arrangement recognised by the rfl as twinning. Easy way to tell, if any player comes as DC then we are twinned. Remember that non twinned clubs can only have 'loan' players. Twinned clubs can have DC players.

I am now giving it serious thought Derek.

exactly,any dc players from the pies and i walk away from the club i love.We need our individual identity.