Think it must have got to Schoey as well as he is predicting us to win by 8 in this weeks League Express

4 succesful penalties, keeping Leeds scoreless will be a challenge but we managed it for 40 minutes at Headingley.

I think that's a decent plan. Let's just drop a goal whenever we are anywhere near the line. Far more likely to succeed than trying to score tries.

Given how Leeds played last week and all the injuries they have we’ll never get a better chance to break our duck and if only we weren’t utter rubbish i’d give us a glimmer. As it is i reckon the Rhinos will get it by about a dozen.

Been reading that Leigh are yet to fulfil any of their reserve fixtures this season ??

There should be a huge fine and a big points deduction coming their way (maybe 20 points )

Seriously though, they are at a huge advantage here.

The points deduction was very much tongue in cheek AFAIK there would be no mechanism for docking any club league points for not playing reserve fixtures.
However, running academy and reserve sides should be a pre requisite for all SL clubs and not done on a "play if/when you want basis.
They have failed to raise a side for any of their reserve fixtures.
I know that we're mickey poor and we are where we deserve to be.
However, if they glean advantage, maybe even make the play offs whilst not fulfilling other "lower grade" fixtures, it's not right.

Leigh doesn’t have a reserve team. No idea why we were even included in the fixture list.

I believe DB was prevented a few years back from establishing an academy (leading into reserves etc) by the RFL as it could dilute the player pool for the other SL teams on our doorstep.

I agree that it should be a SL requirement.

Best wishes to Batch, out for an indefinite period and in a neck brace for 8 weeks.

This is why the current board are quite comfortable with the current situation. Under IMG proposals, Leigh would score better than us on league positions part but we score just as much the opposite way round when it's the reserves / youth team section.

" Under IMG proposals, Leigh would score better than us on league positions part but we score just as much the opposite way round when it's the reserves / youth team section. "

Regarding the above post, which category are you expecting "reserves/youth section" to come under? Because under the widely-published IMG points-scoring system, it's not there. You do need to have an Elite Acadamy licence to have a shot at category A status, but that's only likely to be 3 or 4 clubs in the near future.
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I see McShane is out for 8 weeks with a broken arm and they've picked up a couple more knocks as well https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/65892208 But the bad news is they've signed Riley Dean til' the end of the season https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/65897203

I see McShane is out for 8 weeks with a broken arm and they've picked up a couple more knocks as well https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/65892208 But the bad news is they've signed Riley Dean til' the end of the season https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-league/65897203

We've signed a Papua New Guinean called Nixon Putt for next season but are trying to get him over early.