Well unless it is so radical that we are all going to start cheering and rubbing our hands in anticipation of a new dawn, bringing with it hope by the bucket full it may well be to late, the club may have already lost a good number of the 'faithful'.

Had the club engaged with the spectators throughout this process they would undoubtably have kept some momentum going what they have done is nothing short of a reversed PR excersize, exclude everyone and hope for the best, diabolical!

You really surprise me Gubby, I must say that when you were giving us your thoughts of how you had plans of promoting interest in the town getting more people through gates, all you required was a budget to set in motion your thought process, you convinced me and had me in your corner.

Has this situation also now got to you?, the statement you make above sound's like someone who has lost their positivity and drive, akin to a whatever will be will be, like a "I don't care anymore" attitude.

I believe sponsors are being kept up to date

Not at all Harry , quite simply we know we are in a bad place at the moment , and yes next season might well be different to the more recent ones , but the quality of the side has never had influence over wether I attend or not , I support the club , therefore whoever wears the shirt will get my support

As regards my idea's , I very much doubt I will ever get the chance to implement them , they tend to go against the more common thoughts on running a club , so unless I could finance them myself I doubt I'd convince anybody else to give me ' free reign ' , as that is what would be needed

On the inception of licencing I approached several clubs including ours with an idea of working together for the common good , the responses I got back were , let's say disappointing , if they had followed my idea , I fairly sure we along with all the other clubs would have had a regular income stream building each year by now

DB has destroyed the club, almost as much as the Blackpool Mafia tried to do. He couldn't get enough of the limelight when we were doing well. Now it's all gone pear-shaped he's like the Scarlet Pimpernel. I hope his picture has gone from the side of The Centurion - It's laughable it was ever put there alongside the 'Greats'

Don't know what is going to happen to Leigh but these are very dark days indeed. We need a miracle but I believe we will be back again. COME ON LEIGH!!!!!!!!

Your last 10 words are the relevant part Graham , we will be ' back ' , exactly where ' back ' is we might not be sure , probably our historical place of between 12th and 16 th in the British RL ' ladder '

It might take a year or two , but that's fine , any that don't want to support the club through the ' getting back ' are entirely free not to do so ( free world and all that ) but I wish they'd stop whingeing about it

If this is the case, then wouldn't you have thought that some of what they were being "kept up to date" with, would have leaked out on here, or on Facebook?

If this is the case, then wouldn't you have thought that some of what they were being "kept up to date" with, would have leaked out on here, or on Facebook?

Maybe they aren't the sort to want to constantly pretend they have ' sauces ' and understand the requirement to keep ' schtum ' when asked

Would certainly be a first! Hope that's the case though.

I can't stand the uncertainty much longer, so I hope that something might leak out!

Indeed

On the inception of licencing I approached several clubs including ours with an idea of working together for the common good , the responses I got back were , let's say disappointing , if they had followed my idea , I fairly sure we along with all the other clubs would have had a regular income stream building each year by now


Care to share your ideas GB? Interested Fax Fan

Hi Mick , we have met before , I dropped you off at the train station in Manchester after a game once , can't remember which game it was now , anyway interesting you should ask this question as HX sports started up shortly afterwards

The idea was that rather than all the non SL clubs trying to get a decent deal with various kit suppliers all 20 ( as it was in 2008 ) would put £ 2500 in each giving us 50K to play with , we would find a smallish clothing company looking to expand and offer them the cash for a 50% share of their company ( the 50k would allow for the purchase of a laminating machine to produce the printed type shirts )

We would also be bringing 300/400 grands worth of new business initially , we would use a branding company into which a % would go into for every item produced

The clubs would own 80% of the branding co and the manufacturer 20 %

The branding co wouldn't initially employ anybody but would build up funds to start marketing sports kits that the clubs could then sell on , the 20 clubs would be the ' outlets '

Essentially the clubs would get kits cheaper producing more income , potentially income from the manufacturer ( as they would each own a 2.5% share of it ) and most importantly the brand co , which would build hopefully into several clothing brands , just as we see in the larger sports and indeed non sports retail outlets

HTH

Mm.. right ..i wonder why it never took off

A shortened version on here , but essentially working together to increase income , several other further facets to the idea to follow

Similar ideas work in the NFL and Super Rugby to create millions of pounds ( in fact probably billions in the NFL ) so it's obviously a bad idea

Just as a teaser , who are Leigh Centurions biggest competitors off the pitch ?

Thanks for the info GB food for thought hopefully see you all next season

At the moment id say leigh east under 11s

As I said Mick , it was interesting to me that HX sports set up shortly after , that was set up by a Fax director wasn't it ?

The usual childish answer

Inovitave probably, flawed definitely.

If you had pulled that off, IMO you would quite rightly be sitting at the U.N. top table.

I'd have been a ' shoe in ' for sorting Brexit for Mrs May

I quite like the idea of a single brand supplying RL be that SL & Championship or just lock stock & barrel.
ICS have almost a monopoly on NRL & SL & if ICS was owned by all NRL & SL Clubs then it naturally follows that margins & profits are greater if executed properly.

There may well be logistical issues to resolve to make it work but the overall concept is good.

ISC arguably the worse Leigh RLFC kit supplier of the last 100 years.

IMO of course

Ah Ste , the problem you've just brought to the argument is that you said SL clubs and Championship clubs , I had too many narrow minded lower tier owners and CEO's asking why they should help each other , imagine the response from the SL clubs ?

Not saying it couldn't work between the 2 divisions , just that the lower tiers would just get bullied in that situation

The idea was to get them to understand that they aren't in competition with each other , and that there are many other avenues for collective income streams