this is indeed a sad sad day, it's almost enough to make a chap want to register on Leigh Life.com, almost but not quite.

I'm pretty sure we have

lets hope we get toulouse in the NRC revenge will be sweet & I wouldnt mind giving it to gatehead too

Toulouse aren't in the NRC. How much you want to bet that they already qualify for SL?

And rightly so

its ridiculas stupid french!

I'd read somewhere that they're in the NRC next season, though I'm not sure how true it is.

If they are expect a mass of dual registration players flying out the country on Easyjet & BMI Baby circa February onwards





I couldn't understand who knocked it back for playing in it this season, was it the French Federation, Toulouse Oly or the RFL

The agreement was that they would play in the French Cup, but the other French sides voted them out of it - obviously they (the rest of the French sides) hadn't been told the 'benefits' to them of having a team in the English Championship.

We all have things we regret in life i was 19 and p!$$ed





The season we beat Hull KR in the NRC final was my last full season as a fan so it wasn't a bad time for the club, i didn't like the way the club got rid of Tony Benson so my support started to fade. The year after i went watching every now and again but spent more time in the bar and gradually fell out of love with the club untill i totally feel out of love with the sport and can honestly say i haven't watched one single game of RL in at least a year as i feel the sport is a complete joke.



As for roller skating i take it you mean RollerDerby which is one of the fastest growing sports in the UK, since it came to London 3 years ago it's exploded and now has leagues formed all over the uk



* Brighton Roller Derby

* Central City (birmingham)

* Cardiff

* Birmingham

* Auld Reekie (Edinburgh)

* Dundee

* Glasgow

* Granite City (Aberdeen)

* Leeds

* Lincolnshire Bombers

* London Rockin’ Rollers

* Rainy City (Manchester)

* Middlesborough

* Rebellion (Bedford)

* Royal Windsor

* Severn (Bristol)

* Sheffield

* Swale (London)

* Triple Sword (Essex)

* Fair City (Perth)

* Plymouth

* Bedfordshire

* Wakey

* Romsey Town Rollerbillies

With Liverpool, Chester, Preston and Stoke in the process setting up leagues the sport is continuing to grow.



When Roller Derby gets full acreditaton(sp?) from skate uk (hopefully by the end of the year) it will become the biggest sport in the uk involving skating (bigger than Skateboarding, figureskating, Icehockey etc). It's taken three years to build a nationwide sport it's taken the RFL 100+ years to expand outside the M62. Oh and in the next 12 months i'll be travelling to Berlin, Stuttgart, Zurich, Salsburg and should be reffing at Roller Con in Las Vegas and you'll be going to Oldham and Rochdale

VISA applied for so hopefully goodbye but they have the internet overthere so i could still laugh at Leigh RL from 3000 miles away

Sadly missed..............