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They'll be lucky if they can muster a club /team together for the start of the season no matter which league they start in. Theyll be worse off than Bradford were

I have no sympathy with Leigh and am 100% on the players side. Leigh offered the players the contracts, in which there was no promotion clause or top 4 finish clause. The players will have mortgages and bills to pay, why should they give up their contract? It’s a short career.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if the contracts of the two players involved would take up 40% of the budget, what’s he’s saying is they can in fact afford to honour the contracts they signed, they’re just going to hack off their nose to spite their face and choose to go bust as some sort of blackmail to welch on their commitments?

Who are the two players in question? Mortimer and Hutchinson?

Ste100Centurions wrote:

I have a feeling Les Catalans might get auto relegated .....

HXSparky wrote:

I'd predict a MPG between Cats and one of Toronto or Leigh.

Towns88 wrote:

Leigh will be top . Great turnaround.

JEAN CAPDOUZE wrote:

Leigh will not be top. Once Darcy Lussick finds his feet the Toronto Wolfpack will start to tear pieces out of the opposition packs.

Leigh will even find it very hard to make the top 4, given what Toronto, Toulouse, London, and Featherstone are capable of..

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

The Championship is the right level for Leigh and Featherstone. It would be great if Toronto, Toulouse and London all gained promotion. However I think only Toronto will gain promotion (if Super League 2019 stays as 12 clubs) with only a small possibility of either London or Toulouse joining them in 2019.

Jean and myself were spot on with our predictions (ok Toronto didn’t go up) despite the ridicule we faced through the year. I guess there’s a lesson to learn, respect other people’s opinion or it could end up biting you on the backside.

QwerkyCat wrote:

Who are the two players in question? Mortimer and Hutchinson?

Rhys Evans & Kevin Larroyer.

p.s. I knew you'd reply Mr Sinfield, but I'm not biting. You're not worth another 7 day ban.

Newbridge_Wolf wrote:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but if the contracts of the two players involved would take up 40% of the budget, what’s he’s saying is they can in fact afford to honour the contracts they signed, they’re just going to hack off their nose to spite their face and choose to go bust as some sort of blackmail to welch on their commitments?

40% of the 200K that we'll get from the RFL funding. That is all we are going to spend on players for next season (allegedly).
All the other players accepted 'pay offs' or signed for other clubs. Kevin Larroyer should be able to find another club, but Rhys Evans (on 80K a season) was injured constantly, but has a 3 year deal.
Derek Beaumont has helped create this 'mess' but he's not prepared (this time) to bankroll us out of it. It happened to one of the biggest clubs in Bradford Bulls, so the fact that it is happening to Leigh Centurions is hardly 'earth shattering'.

Answer to the thread title ?

Quite probably , but as ' budge ' above has pointed out , bigger and better than us have recent history of the same , it isn't necessarily the end of the world

Sir Kevin Sinfield wrote:

Jean and myself were spot on with our predictions.

1. No you weren't..... Toronto didn't go up
2. Throw enough shi7 at a wall and some will stick
3. No you weren't.... Toronto didn't go up

Trolls gotta troll I suppose