they did update the website, it said the match was on, if the match was off they would have updated it again saying so, its not brain surgery is it?

Enjoyed the game today. Got a few funny looks with my bulls hat and fleece on, which I assume were along the lines of "have you got lost?"



Nice close game though which was enjoyable for a neutral. Nice little ground too. Easy access, easy parking, nice place.

Glad you enjoyed the afternoon and result. Downside is no rail link within 100yds.

A positive vibe and a few quid in the coffers that the club would'nt have seen if not for Alan's ( and others ) postings on various websites........cost to the club = Nowt, cost to the LSV = Nowt..............the twitter idea is good too ...........time to think "outside the box".

Did you manage a drink and where did you go?

but thats the problem with the internet..if you are going to use it effectively, you have to keep it current, and "current" is measured in hours, if not minutes. This is especially true when the weather can turn nasty all of a sudden. I can understand why it may not be possible to have someone on hand capable of updating the website, which is where Twitter comes in...anybody can do it..

Now I am 36 and considered quite past it by those in their teens and early twenties. They are far more geared in to instant communication/updates through texting, mobiles, social networking sites. and if you want to crack that market you have to connect in that way...the good news is that most of it can be done at very little cost...

Nah, we got to the ground and went straight in, then got a coffee inside. Usually take the mother to games (it's great when the best treat you can give your mum is to take her to the rugby) and she was cold so didn't fancy messing around.

You owd bugg@r how the hell do you manage to work the internet so well

Telephones are a wonderous machine are they not? the ticket office was manned from 11:30am.

My computer must be slow - the message I'm reading was way back on 23/12/10, stating that the game would be on, providing there wasn't heavy snow. The people who contacted me, were from a fair distance away and they DID have snow. I had put my head above the parapet, by 'advertising' the game, and then couldn't give a definite answer, when asked if it was definitely on. Lesson well learnt - I'll leave the publicising of games to the experts in future!

As you probably know, I don't go in for slagging off the club - I'm merely stating my experience of ringing them, (before 11:30 as my contacts needed to set off by then) and two officials, who weren't answering their phones.

I hope others weren't put off from attending, by not knowing whether the game would be on or not.

Completely agree, with there being snow elsewhere then I fear those travelling from further afield might have assumed the game was at risk and not bothered making the trip just in case - regular updates are vital, especially as any sort of casual fan would check online before ringing the ticket office etc.

Course they would Matt.

Forget this media tripe. Can anyone please tell me how many first team players Salford had out today as they are claiming that was their reserves.

Well despite living in a very unusual part of Salford I know little about their team but I would say 8 or 9.

On a more serious note I think confirmation that todays game was definately on should have been on the official site first thing this morning.

Ratchford
Matty Smith
Boyle
Sidlow
Godwin
Nero

To be honest, no-one really knows much about team for the forthcoming season yet as there as so many new faces.
However, the 'reserves' comments are a slight exaggeration?! We were only really missing our foreign imports (injuries aside).

That said, I'm won't worry about the 2011 SL season because of today's performance.
(despite a Leyther posting on our board about how many Wigan would put on us this year, based on today's showing?!)

Gibson
Ratchford
Wild
Broughton
Neal
Jewitt

Did both Ratchford's play today? Didn't notice the other one??

Sorry tired after the cheering

I'm not, surprisingly?!

To be fair mapleleyther makes a good point and had I thought about it in advance I would have updated my twitter page to show the fact as well. I shall do this from my account in future but as you can appreciate it gets a bit busy towards kick-off time.

I'm on twitter as @DParkyRL and I know I've got a couple of followers already from this messageboard.

The club actually has a twitter account, set up by yours truly last year @leighcenturions on twitter.

In fairness it read like constructive critiscm with a few 'pointers' on what could be done do to improve comunication on the day.

I'm sure the club will pick up on it and try and improve it even more for the next time.
Lets not forget the club did great on the lead to this game with a early advert that it would be on baring any snow, I suppose a 'Its definatly on' message this morning would have finished it off and convinced non locals the weather was not a issue in Leigh (it was in plenty of other places).

Having said all that well done to all at Leigh for getting the match on

we had mostly our reserves playing most of the match today, think only matty smith and rachford played the full game, godwin came on 30 mins into the match then was knocked out 20 mins into the second half, nero, broughton, gibson and the forward pack were constantly interchanged throughout the game, we had 9 under 20 academy players in the 17 tonight also, i was impressed, all of them held their own against a top championship side, mind you if we had our first teamers out all match plus, feka, v. Andersom, Patten, henry, cashmere, holdsworth, and baily playing it would of been a cricket score but whats the point in that? If we can't test our youth in friendly's when can we.

I say well done lads a couple more years and you'll be there or there abouts.

Jenky - yes it was indeed meant to be constructive. I know there are about 4 people trying to do 300 different things on match day and leading up to it. Its easy for me at my desk 3000 miles away to make "helpful" comments.

All the same, if things can easily be made a bit more professional, then its worth at least making the suggestion. If only I was more local I would be able to do something a bit more tangible!

According to one of the back room staff, Salford had 7 players out, in what would have made the first team squad, as they were still in Oz.
So by HIS admission, Salford fielded 10 first teamers yesterday.
So in effect Salford was almost at full strength.