All wire fans welcome to come and clear the path over the bridge on saturday , Frank b will buy all who turn up a pint beforehand in the goose , bring your own shovels

Half a pint he said Starbug you will give him a heart attack.

Bloody pensioners , He's loaded , he can afford pints

Takes us all our time to get one of him

only joking Frank

Indeed, you're all plonkers.
I reckon it's because the average Leigh fan is pushing 60 and you're just so out of date with everything. I call it 'the bloke in the pub said' syndrome, everyone knows it.

Can't wait to read your study in to it

Plenty of codgers, but more than a few younger ones as well.

There doesn't need to be a study, it's EVERYWHERE in its different guises.
In Leigh a symptom is whats known as the 'flatcapper', where said old fellows congregate in a watering hole before watching dear old leythhhhh, still unaware that we no longer use unlimited tackles, still unaware we don't collect pidgeons anymore, so out of date with modern Rugby League practices.
In Warrington the disease has mutated! Here wherever you go someone wants to offer you the same opinion on how 'said player is garbage because...wait for it...a bloke in the pub said so!'. Unlike their passionate poor town near neighbours these fellows have only been to one game since 1996, Wembley and couldn't offer you an intellectual view of their own.

A backhanded compliment, I suppose! Mind you, we've more than a few "how did we go on today pal?" types in the town centre on a Sunday.

You mean me , and the fact that I dare to question the decisions made by the RFL , you however are one of those townsfolk in the ' Emperors new clothes ' , you are a sheep , blindly following and agreeing that isn't it all wonderful , look at the colours , look at the pattern , when in fact , there's nothing there , you are stupid , but worse than that , you are happy to be stupid

Anyway get down to Leigh on sunday , a real town with real people in it , with a real RL team

Actually Starbug you're one of my favourites.
With living not far from your god forsaken town I know quite a few Leigh fans and you're all as behind the times as your town looks. There's some on here that couldn't string a sentence together if their lives depended on it and only ever log on to go to the Celtic board and spout abuse.
Your wetherspoons is quite nice and your shopping malls okay. It's about time you updated the rest of your dump.

Have you been to Warrington town Centre recently? After Golden Square, thats it. The once bustling bridge street has more empty shops than occupied ones, Warrington Council need to get some ideas together as to how to fill them again. The money spent on the centre has been wasted and the memorial to the Warrington bomb victims will just be seen by the 'youth' that collect at the top and the underage drunks of the town. It really makes Leigh centre look good

You've lost the plot.

Will the tickets that are bought from the club shop reserved seats or not?

It's unreserved for the Pies the following week, so I would imagine it will be the same for yourselves.

Thanks for that

That'll be a pint. I'll be in Wetherspoon's from half 11.

Turning out late aren't you Matt

are you not going out for breakfast and beer with the lads

Only my opinion but Bridge Street is a disgrace retail wise. The pretty artwork put up in the empty shop windows just emphasises the empty properties. Hope you enjoy your visit to our new stadium. See you Sunday

The recent trend of destroying smaller towns in favour of investing in larger ones, has all but killed off the traditional town centre, this moves onto the next level when you factor in the trafford centre.
Leighs town centre is shocking from what it used to be, but we have cars and choice.
Guess what though, my choice isnt Warrington town centre, its Manchester or Trafford centre, and thats why Warrington is feeling it now.
This can be repeated across most of Britain.
Seeing as Dico gave his definition of Flatcapper the other side of the coin is of course the , one who blindly follows the Fuhrers direction, never questioning the reasoning and abusing those that do. AKA as I'MALRIGHTJACKS
The perfect fan is somewhere in the middle, who understands the need for change but not at any cost, who questions policy whilst caring passionately about the game at all levels.

I would agree maurice. Sadly I don't come across many of them in Leigh.
They tend to be collecting a pension and won't even enter into a debate on expansion.

I wonder if they'd feel differently were they sat in Hull Krs position now

If you continue hanging around post offices on pension day thats who you will see, guess what - its the same in every town.
Know many Wire fans, many of whom recall the dark days surrounding the 'FIRE' and the move from Wilderspool, they all even know that RL existed pre SL - the 4000 gate days.
Life turns over some interesting cards, ever wonder what RL in Warrington would be like if you hadnt made SL or the new ground never happened?
Anyway enjoy your RL, we do.

We'd probably be in a similar position to Hull Kr.
Warrington's too big a town to have a Chp club unless things went disasterously wrong, which they almost did, yet somehow...didn't.
I know I certainly wouldn't be one of the bitter folk you see in Leigh's ground because guess what, im under 40

Your Harry Gration

And I claim my 5 pounds

U40 is obvious, the smart money is on U14. The full man profile goes something like spotty teen, few friends, little life experience, opinionated, 2 mouths one ear, easily led, wants to be with whoever is winning, possibly being bullied at school and brings a letter from mum to PE every week, are we close??