Based on yesterdays attendance - sounds stupid as we have just been dropped - but deffo something to work on

Very true. I'm almost positive that, had said game took place at Hilton Park, we'd have been looking at at least 3,000 if not nearer 4,000. Going to have to be some hard work done by all parties during the break.

We've got to do everything imaginable, to get Leigh folk in there next season. Because we can no longer rely on the supporters of Halifax, Widnes, and Whitehaven to boost our crowds. Dismiss any thoughts or notions of SL - we have to sell the competition we are in as we will have even less home games, to earn income, next season.

Leigh RLFC/LSV and imagination dont really go together but a valid point....

There is next to no advertising for any home or away game in Leigh, its seriously needs looking into

I'm sure it's been mentioned before but why is it that Leythers haven't taken to the LSV?

We were lucky in respect to Naughton Park being re-modelled on the same site but your new gaff appears to be more accessible albeit further away from the town proper.

Have the walk up fans deserted?

It's marginally closer to town than HP was (starting from the bus station).

I think that we haven't given people anything interesting to watch until recently. Free coaches and better and more entertainment, have both started to get people more interested. More meaningful games have led to better atmospheres which seems to have led to more people turning up.

And lets not get tearey eyed about Hilton park - look at the facts and realise that not all was rosey in the garden there.

Completely agree, but it's not too long since it was almost the norm to have 3,500+ on - where have those people gone and what can we do to get them back?

If you could just pay at the turnstile, not asking much is it, rather than queueing for a ticket then having to got to a turnstile...what's all that about???

That can't be the sole reason though, surely?

I know people have had gripes about that at The Stobart/Halton Stadium in the past but it seems that it's just a cop out for me.

I reckon pay on the turnstyle was to stop any fiddling that goes on - another thing that people used as an excuse not to go to watch Widnes

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Why dont they do a season ticket that you can pay monthly ,for those that cant pay full amount up front that way the club is guaranteed the money ,maybe more fans would get one then.

You used to be allowed to pay it over three months I think up to the start of the season. One of the plus points of the season ticket is the club got the money up front which helped early in the season.

If you want to pay monthly it doesn't benefit the club as it should and to be honest if you only want to pay monthly, you might as well just pay every week. In the current climate anything could happen and people would be defaulting on monthly payments during the season, in turn making more work and cancelling season tickets would be a nightmare.

Or even for people who may so work abroad or down south half the year!

Then you could pay up for games your here for and not have the cost of the rest of the year / the pain fo getting tickets weekly (Though I agree most use it as a cop out!).

Oh well just a thought ,i buy mine as soon as they come out i was just thinking of those that cant .

Put Stella on at £2.50 a pint.

They must of brought 500 between!!

Wouldn't quite go that far, though 'Fax brought in the region of 4-500 but point taken about t'other two. I think this season's average will provide the most realistic figure in years in terms of home support though.

They have gone because the club has been allowed to fall from almost SL quality to the level of Swinton/Rochdale/Blackpool etc. what do you expect. It annoys me when people say "If our crowds where better we could afford better players" - well, as Matt states above, we have had better crowds but the club did not do their bit.


To get them back - for starters:-
1) tickets available from town centre shop/kiosk + maybe an ASDA kiosk.
If i didn't have to pay in my lottery money it would be an inconvenience to visit LSV to buy tickets and I would most likely have to queue on the day. I could imagine regular queueing would then become a pain in the ar$e.
2) cash turnstyle (Heard of several people saying that they would not buy in advance in case something cropped up on the Sunday - OK probably another excuse for not going but let's not give anyone any excuses.

So many people on here have very good ideas - wouldn't be a bad thing if some sort of group where formed to work with the club to get these ideas working. The club has under-performed in this area for a while. Just because you can afford to be a director doesn't mean that you know what is required. I'm sure that many clever, but not rich, Leythers would be only too willing to share ideas for free if it would benefit the club.

all things that the club have no control over. lsv control ticketing and gates

But its in the interest of both parties, and possibly even the entire town to get as many as possible into LSV.

We need to bang a few heads together, stop blaming one another, get off our collective s, start working together and make a few things happen for a change.

Why can't pubs, shops sell tickets on LSV/Leighs behalf, they sell Munster tickets in the pubs/shops of Limerick?

Why can't ASDA sell merchandise? they sell wire stuff at Birchwood.

My guess is because its someone else's job to organise it.



As Leigh24.7 says what we need is some kind of working party which includes representatives for all interested parties.

Where did I say that the club controlled these areas?

Let me say this.
If nearly everyone on here is demanding for the club to change. Myself included. Then why can't we as fans change aswell?
Will someone please give me a credible reason why you cant que up to buy a ticket on the day of the game to gain entry?
Why is it so important to pay cash on the door?
I think not going to a game because you cant pay on the door is absolute rubbish and a lame excuse.
You are asking for the club to make major changes but you refuse to even do such a simple thing as this.
Amazing.

If a small percentage did that then there would not be a problem. If, as at the Barrow game, a few hundred away fans also need to buy tickets then it appears that long delays will occur.

So why don't the LSV send tickets for away fans to away clubs so they already have them and don't have to queue up on the day.

Its time people moved with the times. We are not the only club who don't have pay gates at the stadiums are we. The way people moan you would think so. I turn up at 1.30 and head for easts with my ticket in hand after not queuing at all.

I think they do send away teams tickets, it's just that like our fans not all can make it to their respective clubs to get them in advance.

Would you not find it easier if you could go straight to Leigh East, and get your pint and your ticket together? Why restrict ourselves to only one ticketing outlet?