Ah, but I was suggesting that the downturn in S/T's HADN'T harmed our crowd, based on one match - but it's early days yet, I suppose. And yes, I believe there was a mini-surge in S/T's before the season started.

Who have Hunslet played so far?

Haven & Swinton

Or half-full:

We've beaten two Superleague teams.
We've beaten two of the last 3 grand final winners.
We remain unbeaten at home.
In our five games so far this year we've scored an average of around 38 points per game - and only conceded an average just over 16
We appear to have found a natural successor for Chris Hill
ditto Jamie Ellis
Riddy appears to have now got his goal-kicking eye in....so, "Mick Who?"


Jimmy T on his way back.

Plenty of reasons to be cheerful!!

Agree Walt, after all we Hindley Greener's have to stick together.

Depends on the value you put on 'non-competitive' ie friendly games. It would also seem that one or two players are not performing to the standards they set in the three friendlies

Eeeh - that avatar of yours was well chosen, eh, Del??



For me, twenty minutes in one game does not define a season......not 2 games in anyway!! Lets at least get the group stages out of the way, and play a couple of Champ games before we refund everyones season ticket and shut up shop, eh??

Only playing devils advocate...I may have more to say after Batley and Featherstone in a few weeks mind.

All that, and we've survived financial ruin!

Bit early in the season to make a decision on what will be a tough fixture or not as its early days for everyone but Hunslet have done well thus far in the NRC so will be no push overs.
I think it could be a tough game on Sunday and the players will need to be fully focussed for 80mins, hoping Duffy is back and we can get a bit of consistancy going in our performances and team selections.
I'll be happy with a win by 8, Will be very pleased if we play as we did v Barrow.

on sunday after arriving back from sheffield i was very depressed, and not just because frank shirked his final round

no i do not like losing, show me somebody who does. However it was the way we lost that upset me, but now some 3 days later i have turned that thrown upside down, and feel a bit more comfident, the crowd will be similar to the last home game, the result also similar, and fingers crossed we will have duffy back (boy we missed him at sheffield) and bibey back, so all in all we will be fine.

I you watched the highlights two of the best tacklers in the game dropped off two that allowed a Sheffield players a free run to the line. I would say that is just a glitch on the system that will have been put right this weekend. I'm very confident that we will win easy.

End of the day the season means nothing does it? no promotion no relegation and I have forgot do we have to jump through any hoops to get the tick,the tick mind you, does nearly going bust count against you? mind you widnes went belly up and still got up.

Main thing is get through the season without going bankrupt again will be worth more than any trophy

Or alternatively Matt sit at home - as I will probably be doing - to watch my favourite football team on a channel that I have already paid for. Rather than £18-00 extra to watch my favourite Rugby team (and as a point of interest, I only paid £21-00 to sit in the Kop last Sunday).

This, unfortunately, is what the club is up against.

You could also tape the footie buy a ticket for our match before Friday and join us in the North Stand for £14.

so 1 your too idle to get off your harris and go online or get an early ticket to get in for 16 quid

or 2 your that disinterested in 'my favourite rugby team' and sooner watch a bunch of overpaid nancies kick a ball about

or 3 your just looking for any excuse not to go

or 4 you do not possess sky+ or a dvd recorder

or 5 your a typical so called supporter who jusy looks for any excuse

your pathetic no matter which way you look at it why the hell do we want to know what you are doing this is for leigh supporters only

what the club is up against is half baked so called supporters who look for any excuse not to go

Or we could welcome everyone and anyone as often as they can make it.

Well i still think ColD makes a ligitimate point.
There are hundreds possibly thousands of bolton,man u,pool or city fans that live in and around leigh,so to go up against one of these teams on cup final day seems a bit daft.Obviously i hope i'm wrong and we get 1800+ on.

Watch out col d top leyther is on the rampage



Its a free country people pays there money and takes there choice,me like a few on here are picking and chosing matches this season,why? because its our choice,does it makes us any less of a fan?

I suspect the biggest stumbling block is people of our age remember games on a regular basis against your wigans and saints and wires of this world

And the way the game is structure now these games are light years away

The biggest worry for leigh is once you get out of the habit of going it gets harder to go back

People can do what they like it's their money. I'll be watching the Liverpool game as well as it happens and I haven't been to a Leigh game yet this season. As it happens I never go to the opening rounds of the NRC and I was away for the only pre-season game I wanted to attend which was the Wigan one.

I've been going for 30 years and I'll spend my money how I see fit because there isn't a lot of it spare.

If you have an interest outside of Leigh on here it's like some kind of crime... grow up!

Each to their own, I guess. From a personal point of view I'd understand if people were either going to Wembley or were Anfield regulars, but to watch it on the box? Just seems a bit odd, that's all. And I say that as someone who will freely admit missing a Leigh game because it clashed with a cup final, but I did actually attend said final.

If I wasn't attednding another event "live" Leigh would be the first choice for me any day of the week, theres always sky plus or catch up on demand

Armchair supporters first to have a go but they never go, Leigh is full of them.

your making yourself look a right pr1ck