Quote ="dddooommm"People are idiots. All this schadenfreude going about online portrays the sport in such a negative light. It comes across as though some fans of the sport revel in the demise of another pro club. Some of the people posting these comments should remember that we were in a similar state not too long ago.'"
I don't agree with negativity towards Leigh, but I do understand where it came from. It's clearly because people like Beaumont get people's backs up. I seem to remember the entire Leigh fan base thinking they would whup every SL team in the 8s in the first year it came into effect, and that level of arrogance filtered down from him. I think that probably irritated a few people back then and they haven't got over it. I didn't have have a positive opinion of Leigh for some time for those reasons, even though the standard of rugby they were producing under Rowley was brilliant.
It's a shame things have come to this for Leigh, but I have to question what the RFL were doing for so long, watching him get the club into a deeper financial hole. When they signed Bodene Thompson and Peter Mata'utia I gasped at the quality of signing, but wondered how on earth they could afford such players. I didn't expect them to stick around at Leigh when they got relegated; alas they did and this has surely contributed to the situation they're in. Did nobody from the RFL start questioning the level of investment in the playing squad and question its sustainability at any point? Christ, I'd hope that some idiot in the rugby league world could learn a lesson from us.
