10 YEARS ago (or so) this would have been an exciting fixture.
Coupled with the game being shown live on premier/valentines day....should be about 50 Leythers there....maybe.

Well I've planned the perfect valentines day treat. Train on Thursday at 1130 from Bolton (first class) change at Barrow to Whitehaven then a romantic meal booked for 5.30 in Table Table. Followed by a taxi into town for Haven v Leigh. Who said romance is dead.whitehaven is a romantic village in the lakes isn't it?

Slightly O/T from the thread but I think whats discussed here is exactly what the RFL should be looking at solving.
Whilst there are a lot of genuine reasons for not attending be it Thur Night clashing with work, Valentines Night, Don't want to assist a DR club, People working etc, etc the problem is that people are not attending a live RL match.
Is it because of those reasons above or is it because that in the broad scheme of things the match isn't viewed as vital - win or lose will it seriously effect our chances of winning the GF and being seen as successful.
I do wonder if we had first past the post whether fans would be thinking (already) that we must win to stop Fev pulling away etc, etc, obviously if we had P&R that would also be a factor but the gate slide isn't just relevent to Haven v Leigh as I think the RFL need to start looking at the reasons this is happening as a quick glance at the gates in our game show they are woeful at our level and its looking like visits from Ourselves, Fax and Fev are going to be the only chance some clubs get of getting a Four figure gate (and even with those clubs its still likely to be less than 1,200) - the alarm bells should be blaring out loud at Red Hall as the DR 'farce' aside from being a slap in the face to most Championship fans could be disguising some major problems at our level (and possibly at SL level - hardly bigger gates than League 1 Football clubs).

Could be some tough days ahead.
Just as a aside, does Leigh Centurions have a club affiliated Pub , one thats sponsors them but one that (for instance) would show the Leigh games when live on Premier with the club encouraging fans to go their if unable to travel with the club involved in the evening in some capacity, creating a matchday experience amongst like minded fans ?
Might help build up our supporter > club interaction which was brilliant in the Parky Pig 'era' but which has been missing since Pre SL.

Whilst I class myself as a fervent Leigh fan, even I draw the line at travelling up to Whitehaven for a night match, in the middle of February - especially with snow being forecast. I realise that we are probably something of a local derby for Whitehaven but, for my money, their Thursday night games could have been restricted to Barrow and Workington, where there would have been the bonus of a good atmosphere.

Whitehaven successfully appealed against travelling to Sheffield, in Summer, for a Thursday game but we weren't successful in trying to do the same. Oh, and by the way, when the RFL/Premier get round to finding a replacement televised game when Whitehaven are at Sheffield, we play at Workington. I wonder which game will be selected?

Huge applause for the diehards who are going up there on Thursday. Have a safe trip.

This is a home game for me, looks like there will only be a handfull of us leythers on thursday im sure we will make as much noise as possible to help the lads get through this tricky match.

Final decesion will have to be made late on today or first thing in the morning, Im just trying to get updates on how many re booked on the coach so far. Thanks LYnda

Going to see how bad the snow is before I make my final decision, but me and our Ol are hoping to go up in the car.

Is snow already up there?
Or is it predicted, as the game may get postponed anyway!
When would they decide I wonder if they were to call it off?

Snow is forcast tonight or tomorrow up there. But I don't think it will be around for long as the temperature is rising.

Just looked again and it will snow tomorrow turning to rain in the afternoon and through till thursday.

Shouldn't cause a problem then really.

Looks like the shed at the end will be the comfiest place with the wind and rain forcast. I think we will give it a go.

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Local forecast says snow early morning on thursday, not much and then brightening up in the afternoon tempreture around 7 or 8 so the game should be on, the pitch will be a bit of a mud bath though, come on leythers try to make it if you can.
Come on Leigh.

Whitehaven fans are very confident. On their site one fan reckons they will beat us 52 10. Several others predict a comfortable Haven victory.

Well naturally I think Leigh will win.

Got to win the arm-wrestle early on and keep on top. Big night for Parker, Hoppy, Ostick, Tommy G etc against Martins, Jackson, Cullnean and Houghton.

Slightly OT but I wonder what the viewing figures were for the Premier sports game that was televised on Sunday compared to their viewing figures for a Thursday night?

Hopefully they were double so we can all play our televised games on Sundays.

1 idiot predicted the 52-10 the majority of us with sense are predicting a hard contest that could go either way, personally i will be happy with a bonus point.

Well you can't have one so there!

Well only 16 people was going to go and that is not enough to cover the coach , so Ive had to cancel it unfortunately.
It's a long-time since we've not took a coach to an away game, we didn't make a game a couple of year back, when we got held up due to a jumper on a motorway bridge and then by the time it cleared it didnt leave enough time for us to get there, so we turned off the motorway and watched the last ten minutes of the first half and rest of game in a pub , near Sedgley Park .
I'm truly gutted really wanted to go, so it's pub for me now Thursday

It's just a really bad match to be on a Thursday night. I've had to book 1/2 a day off work for it but I know others who wanted to go who couldn't get the time off work.

With regards to the coach tickets, can we get our money back from the market? Just asking because we are going on the mini bus instead now so need to pay for that.

Coach money can be collected from wherever you originally booked

Cheers. Thanks for that

2 minibus seats available. £15 each, leaves the Atherleigh Way (Harvester) at 2.30pm.

Wonder how many would have gone if it had been on a Sunday? (2 of us for a start) It seems that, once again, TV is going to ruin a decent 'gate'.

I'll take those two minibus tickets if no one else has had them.
Thanks