It seems that at the Halifax Q&A at The Shay last night that Leigh and Featherstone were accused of breaking the salary cap this year. Strong charge to lay from someone surely using only circumstantial evidence.

Sour grapes maybe ?

I can understand their thinking though as we have recruited one hell of a team

What a compliment from a rival

From what I can gather it is alleged to be being done as any punishment wouldn't come into effect until 2015 .

Surely we wouldn't want to incur a punishment that season either, though?

That's what I thought Alan. Train of thought seems to be that as we would effectively be a full time squad playing in a part time league that we would be able to absorb any points penalty imposed on us and still finish top four in the division next season. Hence putting us into the middle Super League group against the demoted Super League teams.

Sounds like a cracking idea to me.

Sounds ridiculous to me. Surely no club would want to start off that season with a points deduction, regardless of whether they were full time or not - and it hardly sends out the right message to the RFL.

I have great faith in our board, (especially our FD) and would be very surprised (and disappointed) if they chose to take this route to achieve our dream.

Sour grapes indeed from a club who are getting a bit worried about being left behind.

Spot on Mish, the finances could not possibly be in better hands.

Absolutely nothing to worry about in fact we still have space in reserve on the cap believe it or not.

Our FD has all aspects of finance in hand and is in regular dialogue with Blake Solly and the RFL and we are a very well structured and sound business which not many clubs in our league or above can claim to be.

Im happy to go on record and state matter of fact that some of the players we have brought in actually turned down more money being offered by Fax and other clubs to sign for us and some of the existing players who were given new contracts took reduced terms as they were desperate to stay at Leigh and be a part of the vision and something very special which is now even clearer than it was months ago as happening.

Let others worry about us we are Leigh and we are going places.

Andy

The batley fans were saying same things .
sour grapes

It seems they are worrying Andy!

The muck has already started to be be flung!

It's no secret that our FD is tighter than cramp!

Ostick spencer brierley and Kay all work for community dept so part of their wAges don't count on salary cap

Spot on Andy, I can well understand players accepting a few quid less to be in our set-up.
The whole package coming from Leigh Centurions must be the envy of many SL teams, not just the Championship sides

Anyone that's been to the last few LISA meetings will know there's absolutely nothing to this. As Rowley has said we don’t actually have a huge squad, just similar to other top teams it's just that we've achieved so much with such a small squad over the years. Derrick Beaumont has talked about the type of contracts we have which are mostly full of incentives so players are only actually paid as well as they play and as everyone has said many times the atmosphere and the belief in the plan that has been put in place at Leigh means players have turned down better financial offers to come and play for Leigh. I trust our board much more than an opposition club's jealous fans.

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