Don't worry - surely we pay more than Genesis do?

Knackered the pitch for one

Still at least the Warrington club have made money from the deal

Leigh Centurions on the other hand

Can work it to our advantage - anyone who attends a Dingles reserves game is handed a voucher on the turnstile for £5 off a Centurions game of their choice etc.

You are joking

Yes, I am. They should be given a voucher for a Genesis game instead

That sounds more like it

Certainly advertise upcoming games etc anyroad - it's in everyone's interests to do so.

Matt you are very much the exception , a fan of both sports and many clubs , if we have a premiership reserve grade playing at the LSV it will be of no benifit to us

With Blackburn being a non-RL area, I think there is definitely a certain potential to try and attract them back to the LSV to take in a rugby game. Maybe even get John Cookson doing the half-time draw or summat with him being a Blackburn lad?!

A fair number of LGFC fans also attend the rugby or, at the very least, take a keen interest in the club's fortunes. That said, neither will persuade me to go and watch the Dingles very often

Lets try and get the so called ' RL mad ' population of Leigh interested in coming to the LSV before we try to help the RFL expand the game

The people of Leigh are a lost cause Steve, you've admitted as much yourself in the past. Too much negatives in the past and too much of a bad stigma.

Let's get some people who might have never given RL a try before and let them come in to things with an open mind and let themselves decide whether they fancy coming on a regular basis. And we certainly won't be helping RFL expansion as they'd all firm Leigh fans before Red Hall created Ewood Ewoks.

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Dont think you'll ever find me posting that Matt

The ' ex ' fans are a lost cause but the people of the towns [ all three are far from a lost cause

They just need a lot of hard work , a bit of investment and a new angle of approach and they will come IMHO of course , and I have been known to be wrong before [ not often like



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One of Blackburn’s reserves has a major influence on the future of Leigh RL, he and myself have an agreement*, similar to a previous Blackburn player and a certain rugby club.

When he’s a super rich namby pamby footballer, he’s going to fund Leigh RL and I’m going to run it.

















*Ok so this agreement was settled on the basis that I’d stop putting his head under water and let him breathe, but nevertheless it was agree.

When is en ex-fan truly an ex-fan? As I've been saying on here since my first ever post being a fan is not black and white. Every GMR-listener has their trigger point to become a paying spectator again.

At the two extremes, for some it may take a SL Grand Final or Challenge Cup Final, for others they will go home and away no matter how low we fall.

In between there is a big long sliding scale ranging between 500 and 10,000. It would seem that I'm a fairly fair-weather fan who bails out at about 2,300!

Basil's appointment just jumped us up the scale by 500 I'd guess.

I wouldn't disagree with that synopsis at all, and with a few quality signings close season I'd guess you could push that to 800/1000.....ish.

And for a long shot..................................don't be "too surprised" if at sometime in the future (especially frosty/snowy weather

) the Sale Sharks Rugby Union team make the odd visit to "The Rupublic Of Leigh" !!

plus the change to Friday night home games.

we have to change from Sunday afternoons its killing the sport.

Never thought I'd say it, but I completely agree.

Also agree Fred. - Sat 6.30 / 7.00pm KO

I also have to agree. The opportunities for supporters are endless. For myself it could be a night round town with the lads post match or a quiet drink / meal with the mrs. Sundays free for family days or even an extra day round town with the lads...



"Yes Julia, Leigh really do have to play both Saturdays and Sundays on weekends. I don't like it as much as you but don't blame me, blame Lewis !!

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Agree.
Friday is still too much of a rush and hard on the awaya supporters, but still prefer to Sundays.

be quite a few that wont be assuming gateshead, toulouse , haven and barrow are all still in the same league

and hope they then want to buy it

My reasoning is that some have tried it before and decided they no longer liked it , but there are a lot out there that have never tried it

You chase both , problem is some will only buy ' the best ' and if you cannot provide the best they wont purchase , whereas others who have never bought that particular product might be willing to purchase something not quite the best but still a good product

Sorry I hate using all the ' buy and product ' stuff but it is the simplest way to explain the thinking