Bad move, Rowley has little to no experience of being a first team coach (apart from a brief spell) and Kelly who has always been a coach of some sort and has a wealth of experience gets moved upstairs.


The Rowleys dominate your club and the sooner you part comany with both of them the sooner your club moves forward. Replace Rowley senior with a young energetic bright person with great ideas (me) and get rid of Rowley junior and replace him with someone like Purtill or whatever his name is at Huddersfield.

the only thing wot bothers me is that its been annouced to the media before the players have been told, one thing PR will do is get them fit anything else only time will tell

How do you know that is the case?

Presumably Rowley will now pick the team.

It will be interesting to see what effect it has on the line-up.

Good move in my opinion Kelly can do a job in bringing the right players
in and making sure the ones we have are looked after properly
Paul Rowley will get the team playing a more dynamic style and get them playing with pride and plenty of heart............ Hopefully

Will not work Swinton have had problems with father and son in sole charge looks like you will be in same boat.

I suppose it is obvious that if it doesn't work at Swinton it won't work here!

trust me i kno

Not sure on this?
It will be interesting to see which way this will swing the club.

We cant get much worse than the one man rugby that we are playing at the moment....can we??




who will be the first to post.. in Rowley we trust

I know this goes against the grain at Leigh - but can we not give the guy a chance before we slag him off?

if you was any good wouldnt you have the job at widnes?

Oh well that settles that then

any one who knows who i am on ere will kno its the truth, i kno a player who was told by a fan on facebook and the 1st team and reserves are aving a meeting tonite with the coaches

worked fairly well with us i would say, at the moment best team outside of SL with a "rookie" in charge

Purtill is no longer at Huddersfield. Plus he'll be ready to step into a SL job soon enough.

Just spoke to Paul Rowley and he was heading into the said meeting.

Best of luck to him in his new role.

The club wanted to get the news out as soon as possible before the usual criticism spread about not communicating.

As an aside I've worked in places before where being at the coalface I've not had changes at the top communicated to me until later.

I have been watching the site for some time now and feel that its about time the fans got together and force the club to get rid of THE MIGHTY HIGH ROWLEYS,
They have been the key figures in wrecking the club wake up everyone read all the post we dont attract quality players to the club because of these two!!!!!!!!!!
With the current news as him as the coach theres only one way the club will go thats down !!!!!!!!
I am prepaired to start a Fans Group to ensure facts and state of the club is well known to the true Leigh Fans.

Will be interesting if things dont improve which one goes.

...and your usual RLfans nom de plume is?

Well done Paul you'll do a good job and you never know you may stop these lot from whinging every day!

totaly agree bad move by the club think NK will do a good job upstairs but if the club want a new coach would have gone somewere else

Funny how so many people have turned against Rowley? For what reason? i know for a fact that the players like him they enjoy his an Knoxy's training sessions better than they did NK if they play for PR whats the problem? Everyone worshiped Rowles as a player so whats changed? Rumour???? Sh*t stirring ??? Gossip???? Give him a break!

I'll wait and see before commenting. Things can't get much worse, but is that all down to coaching ? If we improve it will have worked, but if things stay the same/get worse, it's either replace what players we can or afford to, or have another change in the coaching set up.
Good luck with your 'latest' role Paul.

yes paul was a cracking player just not sure about him as coach i have not seen him yet get to the touchline and motivate anyone just think we need someone stronger