Not sure why Holmes wasn’t allowed to comment, yet Hardaker was? Could be some mischievous reporting there.

Fair point about the lack of academy. Leigh will have this challenge every year until the new academy starts to produce

It was all a bit bizarre. Hardaker has comments on his announcement. Chamberlain and Holmes didn't, apparently Degsy wouldn't allow it.

Then Chamberlain joined us on loan. Seems like a fall out from the Asiata thing to be honest.

God know what will happen if we do actually sign Lam

Yeah, I fear for the fallout with Lam, especially if someone has screwed up the contract.

I do think the fall out from Asiata has been overegged a bit to be honest. The talk was that Chamberlain was recalled as part of a dummy spit. But he then played every game bar one in between his loan spells. That one he missed being the last game before going back to Hull.

It all seemed abrupt with the loan recall, but he was still a leigh player I guess. Don't think Beaumont helped afterwards with the few videos put online re Asiata, he's made a few sly digs at Hull too the weeks following.

Just glad Asiata is finding some fitness and form now for Leigh to be honest.

We'll all hear a loud bang from the LSV if the Lam thing happens. I'm not really convinced though

If Lam goes he goes, he’s certainly helped the team over the last 2 1/2 years but he isn’t irreplaceable on the money he is on, we are only in year 3 of a 5 year plan spelled out to the fans when Lam Snr came on board, our reserves are doing well, we finally have an Elite Academy licence and the women are 10 from 10 and odds on for promotion to WSL.

We have come up and finished in the playoffs and won the Challenge Cup give us a few years of SL stability and there’s no reason we can’t have a good spell of success.

That's certainly a better post than your first post that sounded very bitter.

Although no idea what the success of the women's team has to do with anything.

I'd have Sam Tomkins for a year playing and also coaching.

Guarantee him playing an absolute blinder at the weekend.

Will definitely score, I'm sure he made his first Catalans debut against us and scored.

Think he seemed to score most times he played us, some players have the knack of scoring against certain teams, Blake Austin was another against us, Yeaman against Rovers etc..

But I'd take him for a year then into a coaching role, the guys an absolute winner.

he is going to Leigh unfortunately

They do seem to pick up some good overseas players. Must have good networks

Not heard anything concrete on that. Chances are, he was about to sign for Leigh, but then Richie Myler nicked Chris Chester’s homework

They are all key performance indicators of the direction of travel of the club, all of which help the club in the eyes of IMG, now Academy is up and running ir shouldn’t take to long to see some young talent come through from Leigh Miners and Leigh East. We finally have a place for all the young we have been losing to other clubs like Jacob Farrimond, Brad O’Neill etc