Am I the only person who's dismayed that we only manage to practice for a grand total of three hours a week? OK, so they're only part time, but I'd expect an amateur side to be pushing that for training.

dont agree at all. its upto leigh to put the rugby league in a position were they cannot refuse us.

i have watched leigh every year for 40 years and if i thought for one moment the gate had been closed for ever i would stop going and watch east and miners instead.

i still am convinced things can turn around despite the doom and gloom at the moment.
but then again i am a piscean( eternal dreamer)

And thats were the crux lies as individual clubs we are nothing but as a body they should have more clout, its no good blaming the clubs in this division as even its members see it as a nothing league, but honestly does anyone really believe that there are loads of big company sponsors out there when bankrupcies are at a 15 year high? you get your money as a RL club where you can whenever you can and to belittle that process is rather sad.
Starbug has lots of ideas and I for one only wish he'd have had more time to continue his forward thinking when he was a board member -ar$e licking? not in the slightest Steve was one of the good guys there are far worse than him. (give me a couple of weeks and i'd think of a few

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believe me they do train more than 3 hrs a week

TFFT

I was only going off the OP

depending on playing days if Sunday then they train Mon evening, Wed evening, Fri evening, & Sat morning

All our players train in their dinner breaks at THEIR DAY JOBS!

hello all well am quoting direct from conversations with players on friday night...so sorry if facts wrong about full time and training....but surely if thats the case it makes us look even worse then


As for the training on LSV thats a definate and that is shocking !!!!

ooh forgot to add am glad some of you got what i meant...you have to go and get it in these times it wont come to you !!!!
and thats everything oooh err ha ha

the lads train mon night, wed night and fri night 6pm till 7.30 but some go in early to do extras and satarday morning for an hour. but during april it has changed to tuesday and thursday nights and sunday mornings.
Some of the players do extras themselves, ive seen hilly and stewart at bodyimage training three or four times a week before they train with the rest of the team

Your field and goal kickers have to practice on the l.s.v how else can they judge the distances etc that is a must.If not it will just be like playing away.

Funny you should say that , as I'm sure I've heard it mentioned on here before

Well you see, this £500k pitch we've got can only be used 42 times a season; thats less than once a week or it will turn into soup.

So whilst they'll whore it out to anyone who wants to pay they won't let us practice our kicking unless the kicking tee leaves big divots in the pitch.

For 500k it should be a lot tougher than soup , got to agree though it seems a case of if The Price is Right then please feel free to use the pitch

Absolutley stinks IMO

To be fair, it will still be in its 'maintenance period' and will still be maturing, so if it gets hammered in the first year and doesn't hold up, who pays for it to be redone?

But if there is more than 30 games played on it in the first year I will be very suprised so a few hours kicking practice and a few drills every other Saturday morning wont exactly hurt (provided Genesis are not playing obvioulsy).

Most honest thing on the forum

Not a ' dig ' here but as I've posted elsewhere , Of this £ 1,000 or thereabouts , how much of it has actually gone into the bank account at Leigh Centurions ?

70 K spent this weekend but not a single penny to Leigh

Championship Fans will contribute over one and a half a million pounds to Ryanair/BMI baby , Toulouse Olympic RL club and the bars and hotels of Toulouse for the next 3 seasons

Toulouse Olympic and their fans will contribute how much to the other Championship clubs and our towns over the next 3 seasons ?

One last thing as well , in France and Spain the local councils tend to be the biggest contributors to their local sports teams finances

The Toulouse local government pour several million pounds per season into the local RU team , if they do get the nod for SL they will no doubt support Olympic in there financially as well

Can you seriously see W1g4n Council tipping up 500 K a season to help us get into and stay in SL ?

Obvious unrest in the NK camp then..............

But similarly, would the Toulouse local council pay for two clubs in Super League?

I really do hope not !!!!

The way things are at present I agree the fans of Toulouse will not be seen in any numbers ever at any RL ground in the UK.

I am still not sure franchising will be around for the length of this experiment. I won,t go into the arguments for or against but I fear quite a few Nonrelegation league clubs will suffer significant drops in their home attendances as the season goes on.

One final thing. Never say never. I never thought I,d be watching Leigh RLFC win a challenge cup final at Wembley and before AJM arrived I doubt any Leigh supporter did.

The never say never only aplies to English fans of course.The basically Australian sides in France and Wales are hardly likely to take fans to away games in the M62 corridor.

Course it all depends on what Sky want at the end of the day but it might kill the game in the medium term.

True, but realistically how many fans do Batley, Gateshead, Doncaster and Sheffield bring these days?

No the French and the Welsh are never going to put back in what they take off their M62 counterparts and just think how the average numbers are going to look in Sooper Dooper League this year.They have Quins ,Celts,French all fetching no crowds I cannot understand what they get out of it.If I was Bradford for instance where they are already strugling with numbers then have a significent percentage of games where you have no show fans.I think I would have prefered to see some club who fetched a crowd.Lets see if any of them complain at the end of the year.I know once I realised we would not manage promotion this time I was glad the Celts got promoted ,let the Soooper Doopers subsidise them I`m quite happy to see Widnes`coaches of supporters turn up to my ground than the 6 carloads of Celts.It may be a selfish way to look at it as they say expansion is the way forward but I have yet to see what benifit NL1 and under get out of this expansion dream there is certainly no extra money from the RFL so unless I see otherwise I will not be buying into it thank you.

Cracking post that matey.

its already happening, look at bradford