How? Wane plays his percieved strongest 17 at every opportunity and gave a second rower the 4 shirt ahead of his two back up centres. I would like to see Gelling at 4 and Hughes off the bench in the back row but instead I think it'll be Hughes at 4, Flower on the bench, Gelling and Thornley in the stands unless injuries kick in

Yes he did. HOWEVER, he really kicked on when he was loaned out to Huddersfield.

If Gelling and Thornley need game time then it should in SL, not the tier below.
We have certainly done this in the past few seasons (over in Humberside, Vikings, Giants ...), and this would be a preferred option for me.

FWIW I think both will get enough exposure to the game day 17 at the moment, as they are the 'first reserves' for centre/wing/back row.

Murphy is possibly a player who could get good experience at Leigh, although again he is probably one who we should look to bring in to the 1st team at the earliest opportunity or loan out at SL level.

From what we were told at the Leigh fans forum the loans don't need to be a season long loan they can be minimum month loans, hope that helps in this debate.

Rugby League is a lot about confidence. Give the fringe players some time in the Championship to build confidence and then as you correctly pointed out, loan them to a SL side to build on the rest.

Confidence is key and loaning them to another SL club to have the p*ss taken out of them doesn't make sense.

Or bryn Hargreaves, Paul Prescott

Yet sl clubs still sign players from the championship