Swinton v Widnes res in a pre season should have no interest to any Leyther

You are right leigh1978 swinton wouldnt have been allowed to sign anyone unti leigh had completed team building. In fact players moving clubs should be outlawed especially over such long distances. Leigh havent signed anyone from anywhere else have they?

Agreed. It can only be a good thing if Swinton are offering a bit of healthy competition. And even then Armstrong wasn't our player, Higson was a squad player at best and Mills has obviously put cash ahead of silverware. Jimmy T would only have left as a worst case scenario.


Any game of RL is of interest to me.

Won't be going, my money is for leigh.

If I went, I'd be SHOUTING for Widnes, NOT silly Swinbury Shakerlions !!

I honestly can't understand this hostility to Swinton.

I have said before it is not the Swinton clubs fault that a couple of Leigh players decided to join Swinton despite them being offered terms by our club.

Now if Swinton and Leigh were playing different teams on the same day I would always go to the Leigh game.

One other thing if Swinton have a home game at the LSV and Leigh have no game that day I will go to watch them.

Are you prepared for Leigh being second best on their home ground Frank?

PS I have no hostility to Swinton, I'd just rather use my money to watch Leigh and buy Leigh merchandise at the LSV.

never liked Swinton, since my mate John Gunning joined them !!!

Don't talk wet! We will finish above Swinton

I'm in the same boat as Frank but I want us to smash them off the park when we play them.

Probably Ste, but can you be 100% certain. What with some of our fans funding the £1500 a month (before bonuses) salaries of several of their 'stars' you can not be certain. It seems we may have fecked up the Brierley deal, we only have one senior side and a small squad so injuries will take their toll. I do hope you're right Ste but I am keeping my rose coloured glasses off for the time being

and here I was thinking the average RL fan was better than the average football fan

Mcnally at scrum half & Clay at FB so we have a good alternative which should go well but given more bodies does help alot & is much needed

Well I have decided I will no longer be watching Leigh in protest at how they systematically stripped Widnes of the likes of Moran, Kohe-Love, Doran and Morrison in 2007.

I have been pondering it for the past 4 years but my mind is now set.

Pop Quiz:

1 Class act
1 Solid, but unspectacular
1 penalty merchant
1 sick note

Match the aforementioned players to the descriptions!!

"Viqueen" will not be expected to answer, as he'll pick the same one for all four players (dependant on who they were playing for at the time!!!)

I take my comment back re ryan. It seems it may now be sorted

Can not believe the amount of bad vibes here about Swinton.They have some good fans and Spelly is a top bloke who comes on the Widnes forum.Some of you Leythers are decent fans but some of you moan like hell.Frank B sort them out mate.

Well said





couldnt have put it better , spot on,Swinton wont be a threat to Leigh , not on gates of about 500, and neither will their team ,Ok they have a few ex-Leythers , but they dont worry me .

I will probably go on Sunday - can't see why not as I have watched them at Sedgley Park several times when we had no game as well as the odd Rochdale and Oldham home games. Nothing better than sitting back watching fans getting annoyed at the ref etc

and better still I can have a couple of beers beforehand.

I have no problem with any leythers watching Championship RL anywhere, SL on the other hand

I wouldn,t as you may be contributing to them being able to offer more money than us, to players we want to keep.

What is the average age of posters on here? 12? Grow up. It's all very embarrassing, the 'they took our players and are playing at our ground so they're getting nothing from me' thing.

I agree with you! But with some people there has to be an enemy around every corner.

Don't these people understand that strong local clubs can only benefit Leigh in the long run? We keep moaning that there are so few Championship clubs this side of the pennines!

These people make it sound like every penny they earn is flowing straight into Leigh's coffers by direct debit and they don't spend their money on anything else.

What's the harm in keeping a tenner in the local, non-SL game that we claim to love rather than spending it on 2 or 3 pints down the pub?

I suspect Leyther Matt and people like him are not about to change allegiances because of it.

I for one would like to wish our Lancashire (well at least Non-Yorks/Cumbria) neigbours the best of luck this season (except when they are playing Leigh).

Couldn't agree more, well said!
Its because of prats like those who post ridiculous comments on other teams why i very rarely post on here thesedays!

This has really shown up some people for what they are!

Its all about opinions the way I see it and I can see both 'groups' of fans having some validity in there respective stance.

Some Leigh fans like to watch any RL so don't mind paying to watch Swinton, Wigan or anyone so long as they see a match, whilst obviously having a favourite club they also like to pay to watch any pro or amateur club.
Other Leigh fans maybe just like to see the town amateur teams play and Leigh so concentrate on watching them.

Equally I'm sure Swinton fans will have the same divided opinion about watching Leigh/Salford.

Personally I'm glad in a way its slowly simmering as that means we may have got a club that people will class as a rival, after losing Hull KR to SL and now Widnes we need a fixture that has added extra spice