Get over yourself peawapp.

Quite honestly Swinton fans who use the excuse that the club have been out of the town for 20 odd years really get on my nerves. On the assumption we ever got close to a Challenge cup final would those same fans say that.......No they would be the ones spouting off about how they have watched them for years, in my opinion it's an excuse not to go.

I always thought that as a supporter you watch your team through good and bad times and if that means I have had to watch us play at a number of different venues then I will. Don't you think that every Lions fan would be much happier at a ground we can call home, of course we would. But harsh facts of life have dictated that we can't so for me the next best thing is watch them wherever they call home.

I have to say I have never witnessed any animosity from Lions fans towards the Leigh fans indeed on Friday I was sat with a Leigh lad who I have got to know quite well from the gym where we have good friendly banter so I don't know where your dislike of us comes from.

I'll be there on Saturday along with my son and I will watch us play the French and then will stay and watch the Leigh team...why because I recognise the help your club has given us in the past.

You carry on with your wittering about "Swinetown" but you are so way off the mark.

So Halifax are charging their fans £7.50 and Leigh are charging their fans £18 against an amateur side.

I know which club I want to be successful and the one that really deserves to be successful

With two seperated kick off times it wouldn't be a double header, it would be two seperate games that could be priced accordingly and would attract more fans the the eighteen quid nonsense.

BTW, there aren't four amateur sides playing.

Harold, your post is technically incorrect. Correct if you only watch one game. Incorrect in that it is sold as a double header.

Charlie I think the guy you are referring to is a bloke called John Waye..he was Chairmen for a short while when we still had Station Rd, a nive guy I recollect. Sadly he was around at the time Station Rd was ripped from the heart of the club by the infamous Malcolm White. Again I can't recollect Mr Waye's involvement in that sad episode if any at all.

You are more than likely correct Marshy , he seemed a nice bloke , i must admit all the Swinton connections made us feel very welcome , a big thank you to them .

I see your point Demon.

Personally speaking I would only ever want to watch Leigh's game so to me it is extremely over priced and I shall not be attending. So that's nil revenue to the club from my pocket.

Those who want to watch both games will admittedly be getting a better deal but what take up the club can attract for that really does remain to be seen.

I also appalud Halifax RLFC for pricing their match extremely fair so to add more appeal to their encounter and I really hope they pull in a decent crowd and make some money on the back of it.

Can't justify it either H.

I can't justify it either H

IT STINKS....me and my 4 mates, Stopping In !!!

Seems like every other professional club is charging around the £10 mark.

Whichever way you look at it, there is no way you can justify £18. You'd just about pay £18 for Leigh v Fev/Fax/Sheffield. Never mind East Leeds in the 3rd round of the cup.

Where has common sense gone?

The Kidds are never there if Sky have TV games, cos both do the stats for the S/L games, and i understand one went to FC, and t'other to the DW.

crazy idea why not have the west stand north as a double header £18 a ticket and then west stand south as single game £10 ticket??????

The west stand north could be left alone and then the west stand south cleared after the Swinton game to allow in the single game Leigh fans. Rocket science??

Both options then available to both sets of fans with very little admin! and as both parts of the stand are segregated should be easy to put into action or have I missed something

The only thing you have missed is the incompetence of the decision maker(s).

Are the Leigh Club aware of the strong feeling of the fans. They must be blind, deaf and dumb if they don't. I have spoken to many fans who are not going, its turning into a protest against the Club.
It only needed a bit of thought to administer 2 separate matches, after all one kicks off at 3, the other at 5-30pm. Leigh fans should have been charged say £10 (max) but could not enter the ground until 3pm. Swinton fans would also pay a tenner for their game and leave the ground by just before 5. (OK if someone hides in the toilet, so what, good on them) The £18 ticket would apply if fans wanted to watch two games - a discount of £2, how easy is that. An additional 600 fans would turn up with that system - as the meercat would say - "simple"

If that was the case, they'd see BOTH games!

What the club could do now (taking into account some tickets must have been sold) is say we are opening the north stand for the Leigh match only. £10 entry and this removes the need for people leaving the ground confusion. surely this must be a better option than fans boycotting the game because of an £18 entry fee even with the cost of opening an additional stand??

If it was a nice summer afternoon I wouldn't have any complaints, but I really can't be bothered with a four bus round trip to freeze my nackers off all afternoon, so N Wales v West Hull at Wilderspool for a fiver it is for me!

I agree . It's 4 home games in 16 days costing 70 pounds per person plus whatever they spend in the ground , a programme , a beer and a burger and a half time draw ticket , it works out at a dear do



Add all that to competing against other huge sporting attractions on at the same time , Man Utd in the cup on live freeview telly and the Grand National , and all this passes those that be by , Why ?

When are they going to play the white man with the Leigh public ? , it's the " Field of Dreams " syndrome with them still " If We Build It They Will Come "



Well obviously they're not !!

Obviously when I posted my last post I should have typed more carefully, I obviously intended to say that Leigh fans would not be admitted until 5pm (not 3pm) Im sure everyone understood what I was getting at.

At least no programme to spend money on for the East Leeds game!

I love how their is no OFFICIAL comment from the clubs, apart from "you can watch 2 fascinating games of rugby league for a bargain £18"....GET REAL !

Extract from the club's announcement

"The Board decided that a double header would provide an opportunity for fans to see 2 games for the price on one. In this economic climate there is very little opportunity for the clubs to give something back to the supporters. In normal circumstances the admission price has to be agreed with the opposing clubs as it is a shared gate. [uTherefore the idea of a double header arose as a way of doing something for the fans.[/u The gate receipt will not be shared equally Leigh and East Leeds will receive the same but Swinton and Toulouse will receive a reduced percentage to reflect attendances and to ensure their is parity between all four clubs."

Why don't the fans appreciate it has been done for their benefit? Because it is ?

The Board are so out of touch it is frightening.

Hiding in the Toilets



that could catch on

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Tried to get 3 together in the stand and was unable to do so