I'm Just watching the game again, and a majority of fans seem to have had a go at Ian Watson over the years he has played for us,

Big Barrie Mac says

Ian Watson was the best positional kicker he has ever played with, and the hardest to play against......

all credit to every Leigh player last night, all credit to the Leigh fans who created the atmosphere last night.

And all credit to the coaching staff, its started to turn round already

not a bad crowd, considering the rain, and being on sky

Widnes fans sorry...... but your following was pathetic

keep up the good work Leigh

And the fans will always back you up

One very Happy leyther

Come on Leigh

Something I felt necessary to point out on another thread.

Who knows best? Ex Professional GB players or moaning supporters?

i got to admit he did look the part last night. something he never did when played for fax.

Some around me were still moaning about him at fulltime!

Cant be right, can he? this bloke also said Des drummond was the 'hardest'
player he ever played against!

He actually said [ione[/i of the best etc.....

Watto disappeared in the GF against HKR for us, but overally I think he is a quality player.

Watson had a couple of poor kicks but overall an impressive performer - bar his great spot when Morty was out wide, I thought Webster was the weaker player of the two last night.

Think he had a touch of cramp late on as well, certainly seemed to be struggling in the line. I'd say we should learn from that should we meet in the play-offs, but I doubt he'll be there by the end of the season.

I know, I had one who went on all night but occasionally had to eat humble pie. It made me praise him more every time he did something good and I would turn to the lad and say out loud "hes poor that Watson aint he"

What a cock??

If your own fans can't be d turning out because it's raining

and it's on sky then why should other fans travel if it's raining and on sky you numpty!!
Obviously we didn't live up to the high standards we set but seriously.. you are having a laugh..
As I said on another thread.. Your attendance was appalling considering that there were a ton of free tickets in the west stand?? All we have to worry about is our performances you've got a lot more problems to solve

Agree about our own crowd, but it's the lowest following that Widnes have brought in years. Would go as far to say we brought more for a 6pm Thursday kick off at your place t'other year, and that was to watch a Darren Shaw team!

It ain't a competition Matt


You won that last night!

I think if you go on our board and look at the thread we were expecting a following of between 100 - 300. Not sure how many we took as it is always hard to gauge when you are in the same stand but it couldn't be anymore than that if we even reached it.

250 tops, I'd have said. Big loss of revenue from our point of view as another 600+ people, as you've brought in the past, would have been a nice boost to the coffers.

I thought the club did something else to promote the game then give free tickets, Widnes can obviously teach Leigh a lot about givring free tickets away being the most generous club in this area.

Your support was pathetic and no matter how bad Leigh have been playing over any season we would never of taken anything less than double the number Widnes brought last night.

From what I've been hearing Widnes have a lot more problems off the field than your teams on field perfomances,not a happy club at all at present.

To make a statement, you should be boycotting the home games not the away games, that doesn't make sense.....

Ha ha... I'm sure all the kids in the South West section of the game and the additional 50 cheerleaders that you sat there to make it look busy obviously bought tickets..
We do occasionally give out free tickets.. of course we do.. but look at our attendances when we do.. 6k.. and I think we might have got 8k for the Salfud game a championship attendance record... Our attendances without are still decent despite this little slump that we are in.

Last night's Widnes following wasn't great.. we've all admitted that.. but it's a bit like people in glass houses throwing stones considering your own abysmal home attendance even taking into account the rain and sky.. Like I said worry about that and not about us.

We're not doing well but we've identified clear problems that would account for that and it's going to be a hell of a lot easier to put right than you trying to pull another two thousand fans out of your !!

Hang on a minute, you're comparing the amount of freebies last night to the thousands you gave away for the Salford game?!

Who's boycotting anything???

If you decide that you are going to pick and choose your games which one do you attend..

A home game on your doorstep for which you probably have a season ticket or an away game for which you have to pay the princely sum of £16 to gain entry and remortgage our second homes to buy a beer and a pie!!

How many are they giving away for their game against Gateshead next week then.

According too Vikingman (who is suprisingly quite ), and another few Widnes fans i know, you lot are.
Do keep up with things ...

Does it matter?? It's just nice knowing that we can afford to do that..
unless of course SOC paid his family in last night and bought them a drink and something to eat!! We might be in financial ruin as a result of that..

Regardless we will presumably do a little better than the 2000 you managed last night.

I guess what I'm saying is that when the matches are all ticketed it's nice knowing we can draw on good attendance figures based on our 2,000 season ticket holders..

your still LOSING though

Well it did to you

The struggle is getting them to turn up Matt.. Don't be embarrassed, just have a word with our community dept and ask them how they do it. There are good relations between our clubs I believe!