Thats what I thought BS.

Taking into account travel, hotel, food ,ground admittance and,in my case, very little shandy I,d say Starbugs estimate is on the low side by a good margin.

Was it worth it for the individual fan ? I,m glad I went on balance and seems a lot of others were too and thats despite the result.

Bet the Toulousiannes were glad we went.



Lets hope their fans turn up in the same number and have a great couple of nights in Leigh.

And so you should be

I'll remind you of this in 2 years time when Toulouse have qualified for a SL Licence application and we havent

70 K a year would probably get that for us

Nah - would take more than that to buy out Lewis, Wood & cronies. No chance of a fair decision-making process with that lot in charge...

Toulouse will be in SL in 3 years time,the rfl want them in.There gates are allready being manipulated to make them look good 3500, it said in rl express,2000 tops i would have said.No chance of being relegated,5 aussie in your team,i think there is a pattern emerging here.

Yes , and you , me Frankb and another 250 leythers helped them to get there this weekend

Next week it will be another clubs turn , and then another

The RFL are not stupid , they know that the easiest way to get the clubs to agree to let them in was to bribe the clubs management with a ' freebie ' trip to France

They know that every club will have enough ' pish eds ' within their core support to make it a success over there

And we will all fall for it again and again

So we are doing the RFL's job for them , hope you're happy with that

I hadnt thought of it like that but i can now see were you are coming from good point.

But, if things are to be decided on attendances, turnover and the like then I think we've all got to admit that there's so much more potential in Toulouse than there is in Leigh, or indeed half of this country.

Hard to take though matt

Without a doubt

And yet matt you like me couldn't find anybody that even knew there was a RL club in Toulouse

And we all thought it was a ' sport '

I don't think barely 200 fans added on average to their gates will make much if any difference to gates that need to be around 2000-3000.
For their 1st season in our League they already have more going for them that we could learn from.

I found one

They also got half a page dedicated and snippet on back page about TO v Le Leyth in their local paper......As a much smaller rugby town without much competition sporting wise we barely get that in local. Goodness knows what writeup they got after beating us.
Also Leigh shirts where clocked a few times while we was walking, and connection made. But never spotted the famous posters though.

I think this is the attempt to bring back the boring "F" debate back by a poster who thinks we shouldn't worry about SL until we are sorted in this league 1st, but can't help bringing it up.
As Popman has said we won't get in SL in 2012. IMO We have too many volunteer workers instead of professional paid people to sort us out at the top and get us on right track. But of course we got no money, and not enough fans as yet. But of course if 2000 fans cancelled their holidays to Majorca etc and spent money in Leigh instead and donated to club we would be flying towards 2012

Without doubt , as Popman posted earlier on another thread




Toulouse a city with a million inhabitants , great weather and an excellent ' brazzilian band ' they have much more going for them than us

So maybe the time to start telling things how they are , and how they will be

Rather than chasing the impossible dream

So why keep bringing the whole thing up? They are well in front of us in a franchise race that we had little chance of winning anyway.

Why bother when Palma Pirates come in to the Championship in a few years time?

Just to remind people of some of the hypocrisy of happily paying a fortune to go on a weekend pish up in france that doesn't benifit our club at all when they are moaning about the price and quality of a beer or a hot dog back home

These same people will be grumbling about us not spending money we dont have to bring in some experience or how other clubs seem able to outbid us for players

We have had one fan post on here a thread about how he has spent almost a grand so far this year supporting his club but he seems to forget that of that grand the club has probably only recieved £ 140/200 in revenue

We are where we are , we have an almost impossible hill to climb , we will not even start to climb it until we start to think differently , until we accept what and where we are and the almost blind faith we will have to show to make even the 1 st step

Top post and doesn`t it highlight the point of why anyone ( fan ) would want to put any of their hard earned cah ino the club.................. If I win the Euro Lottery and the r/o .... I`d buy 3 boxes ..max ..family,friends ,a nd ex work colleagues..... doesnt stop me being a Leyther just a bit wise to the apathy within the town.........

TO are not our threat, they are in. Its the Widnes, Cas,Wakey, HKR, sALFORDS

I can understand above if it was hundreds paid out just to watch 80 mins of rugby like we do normally, but it wasn't and seems a strange thing to say. It made a big big change to the norm, to experience seeing Leigh playing a competitive game in Europe - which SL had to themselves up to this season. It was a good weekend with a game of rugby thrown in. You may as well have included Leythers other holidays in the year as I said earlier or gain more thousands by not going to any away games and paying it to the club.


Also above wasn't hinted in this......

And just to think that some of those 'volunteer workers' had to forego the chance of a jolly in France, to ensure things would be in place for the Featherstone game!

It was me with the thousand pounds qoute and i dont want a medal i spend it because am a leigh fan and always will be...However you are right we have to be realistic and until a) a rich benefactor arrives ...dreaming or b) we get a pro active go get em commercial manager/dept we are sliding further behind ....further and further behind

Rugby isnt about the 70`s and 80`s of part timers run by part timers sky have seen to that so we either try (again hard without cash i know) to go with it or we say this is us this is our level get used to it and get behind us ..no more impossible dreams..

So they got 2000 fans in, not 3500. Someone remind me what our attendences are against clubs that only bring a couple of hundred to visit?

And (the bit in bold) is exactly why I spent my weekend in Bolton-Le-Sands because they won't.

Another classic quote from the idiot looking for a village, we have had a rich benefactor for the last three years his name is ARTHUR THOMAS you know the guy who's appears to be wasting the cash he puts in (about £25K a MONTH and doesnt tell all and sundry unlike some pathetic little individiual who brags about spending ba few quid now and then).

I don't know,

how to win friends and influence people ehh! having a go at people who sponsor the club in one thread and trying to alienate the guy who's keeping the club afloat in another, take your grand and shove it where the sun don't shine, I won't tell you how much I put in the club EVERY year but it makes your grand look like chicken feed and thank god there are more 'little corner shops and chippies' like us, but with pratts like that why should we bother.

Are you honestly saying that we have spent £330K on the players this year? If we have we have bought badly imho. We are part time and have no full time players!

Again, for me the money sould be spent better. We have a coach and assistant. For me i'd have a coach and an assistant who s also a player - i.e. half back - combine their salary. You get a player to work in the community you get an extra £10k on the salary cap - you have a player and a development officer - also they won't be labouring on a building site but able to do more training/recouperation.

If it is true then Rowley is taking over as coach then I for one wouldnt say he's my first choice - or get rid of kelly at the minute, he has to be given the season unles we get very dire performances - but then at least he can prove his worth. How many times have previous coachs' blamed him for causing unrest etc. Also it is rumoured that he has not got the best reputation in the game - if its true then I for one cant wiat to see if he worth it