If the LSV was full , would the experience be any better than it currently is ?

Who knows ? , but if others that do share his views , then they are just as culpable

What should be the very 1 st part of a sports club budget to be allocated every year ?

Saying free tickets don't work is bonkers how do you think most of us started to watch Leigh back in the 60's ..Free tickets from junior school to senior school every match started myself and many others on a lifetime of supporting Leigh Rugby home & away...

Free tickets do not work, a sponsored structured strategy involving them could.

As we have discussed , it is a relatively simple ' control ' issue , providing you have the neccessary staff in the 1 st place , we dont

If free tickets don't work how come myself and many others started to watch Leigh because of the complimentary ticket system in place for kids in the 60,s

If free tickets don't work how come myself and many others started to watch Leigh it was because of the complimentary free ticket system in place for School kids in the 60,s

I dont think he has an issue with kids tickets , it is adult tickets that are the problem , but as I have put , it is a relatively simple problem to solve if they are being controlled correctly , but then other issue's come into play and that is where we have a problem

Loved the miffed teenager quote thanks

Its a quid for a kid now but you don't see many.

A bit less telly and electronics in the 60's - free tickets don't work today unless they are part of a well controlled strategy sold to the market, instead of the announce and they will come mentality we employ

Noticed at Keighley last Sunday that under 16's were free. I got my free tickets in the 50's from Mrs Palmer at the Council School, it's kept me coming ever since.

Told today that one company had joined the scheme, hopefully companies like Widdows Mason and Leighton Packaging will soon follow them to set an example to other local companies

We've just had a re brand done by o, Neills so that why the potters have been delayed, they should be ready anytime now.

The new cover for tonight's programme is an example of the new 'brand' to be used on the posters. (although the text on the posters will be more high profile) Would be inetrested to hear what people think.

Certainly packed them in at Keighley that offer.

I would have assumed all Directors would have led by example where the business scheme was concerned.

Free tickets for school children will work. They are the future of the club and we should be doing our best to encourage them to attend. Another obvious solution is to move the games to Saturday 5:30sh. The older children are then able to get to LSV on public transport. Public transport is rubbish on Sundays.

However, with no possibility of getting into the top league we are just playing friendly games and there is no real possibility of increasing the gates until the RFL see sense and bring P&R back. Who wants to pay £16-£18 to watch a friendly game except for die hard supporters. This has always been the agenda of SL and unfortunately the Championship will be dead within the next few years if P&R isn't reinstated.

Thats why we have to get out of it, we have a great opportunity at the next licence fiasco - we are the best placed - it would be a pity to blow it.

So are you suggested die hards are stupid for attending to watch us try and win the two trophies that are available to us. Or maybe we just want to ensure there is a club in Leigh when the barriers do come down. Because if crowds do keep dropping and non attendance being blamed partly on the RFL for what they are allowing to happen then we will not exist in 2015 no matter what the club tries to do.

Reality bites.

Well i will go and see Mrs Palmer then

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We must stop confusing crowds with income, they are only relevant if crowds are the only income. We must start looking outside the cocoon we are in to generate income

Derek , at last a bit of sensible comment



no matter what the club does or tries you will always get some folk wanting more , they are the Neros of this world , most who dont come to games and post on here are ex Fans who have fallen out with ths club for some reason .

You wouldnt get some to matches if the club was offering a Chauffer driven service door to door , its not going to happen how many youngsters who havent seen a game read this Forum?NONE.

For me a message to ALL lapsed supporters should be , Cmon please turn up again , or we wont have a club to support , then all the "I told ya so " people will be in their element , we do need new fans , but we need the Lapsed fans more , supporting the Club , not knocking it .

There was Aristotle ,Socrates , Einstein , now we have Maurice



it beats me why Trevor and Keith Freer carry on , when you have ALL the Answers .Its not Soothsayers or Philosophers we need its Supporters .

Everyone has a line they wont cross,some peoples is no P&R and some people 'like me' wont pay outrages prices to watch reserve grade rl.
Its dissapointing that at least a couple of more clubs have not come out and said they wont be reserve clubs next season

We will not be a club at all never mind a reserve team if people use the reserve club thing for much longer. Rules will be changed and we are not anyone's bitch

Personally i am disgusted how the clubs have bowed down to the SL but realise my initial stance did not take into account that non attendance of any games would mean the twinned clubs outlasting my beloved club. Now how disgusting would that be?

My apologies but I thought this was an independent forum, and I do my little bit as you and many others on here do to keep a club in the town - as such I class us as supporters

Correct.

I'm going tonight because I love watching RL and support Leigh. It's not the clubs fault the RFL are hopeless, there's no point punishing the club by not attending.