Well if true it would turn our Academy from a worthwhile endeavour into a possible game changer.

There is no doubt that we have some good young players coming through as it is but with a three year licence we could do seriously well.

It’s not just the players we have or the local youngsters either. The U17/19,s world is very fluid and if you happen to have an academy that offers good access to first team - then you become very attractive to ambitious young players like - Corey Hall.

The absolute dream would be to produce so much talent that we have to sell the surplus - that’s sell not let go. However more realistically we wil no longer have to carry that group of filler players. Instead when needed we can blood young players we believe to have serious talent.

TBH I’ve always believed MC and later JM were committed to the Academy on ideological ground as much as anything else. But if they have anticipated this then hats off, a coup.

It will take our friends across the common a decade to catch us up assuming they can.

JM said that the club received an apology today from Sky Sports relating to the "tone adopted" during the previously mentioned report.

Foundation to build on? You’ve scraped another survival and your reserve/academy coach is now head coach. Good luck.

Thanks
That's much appreciated

You’ve got a ground you don’t own.

You’ve had two attempts at SL and failed miserably. Come and lecture us when you’ve been in SL for 25 years.

Your owned by a bloke who makes sun loungers (selling well at the moment?)

You have no youth system.

Your team is full of Aussies who’ve been holidaying in the championship for a year.

You’re in SL to make up the numbers assuming you make it.

Still I like Leigh, you though are a bit of a saddo

Good luck on all that.

A apology is nothing ,the damage as been done. Sky doing all they can to show we are not good enough for S L

You come across as a bitter Leigh supporter. Most fans on the Forum call for more young British RL coaches, more home grown players. In Mark Applegartn, we have such a coach and a BoD prepared to give him a chance on the success he’s already achieved at Trinity. It’s true we had a difficult season, but your claim that Trinity scraped another survival is way off the mark, Trinity finished 10 points ahead of the bottom club and above a fashionable club Warrington. I believe Leigh have 13 overseas players of which 6 will have to be released from before next season, we’ll see how your team rebuilding works out if you achieve promotion.

Yep he’s bitter and tragic.

I’ve had my moments with our mods on here but they have never trolled other clubs forums. Maybe Atomic could learn from them.

Don't think he's a mod now, there a quite a few decent Leigh fans on Rl fans and he's managed with great ease to get up they're noses as well, that's maybe why he's no longer a mod on there.

Leigh can only dream of "scraping another survival", you may get your chance next season but, need to make it into SL first

Good Luck

There will be a lot of fallout from this season in the Championship. Both Fev and Leigh have gone for broke to get in SL and I fear Fev may well already be broke.

Beaumont is betting everything on getting into SL before licensing returns. I don’t blame him but it will come at a cost.

People have this ludicrous notion tha Beaumont is a rich man, he isn’t, he’s Glover level. He’s borrowed to do this and the debt will need to be paid. Even if it does go to a three year liscence it won’t make life financially any easier for Leigh.

There will be a day of reckoning for at least two Potential SL clubs in the near future, Salford and Leigh. Looks like Salford may play their way out of it, I seriously doubt Leigh will.

You know why this is.

It’s not because of Marks age or experience its pure snobbery.

If Mark had been a great player and thus famous they would be lording him now.

Sadly Mark was a fairly obscure player even to Trinity fans so his name carries no kudos

I hope in a years time Mash can stand in front of those Sky cameras and face down cheap shot merchants like Wilkins and say to them, as the great Ali did, ‘what’s my name!’