The cooperative league launch was held at the LSV this lunch time, well attended but not by all the clubs -dont know who was missing - everyone was complimentary about the Stadium and facilities and me and Alan ()off here) 'blagged' a free butty or two (Alan got more than me cause he's a greedy so and so

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If anyone gets chance to see the launch video please point out to me if we were on it though, our Dave recons so but i must have blinked, not withstanding that very action packed, well done RFL and well done LSV, lovely grub very very nice surroundings (last time I was in the Banqueting suite it wasn't even plastered).

Well at least we must of been there this time!!!!!

yah me n our Dave and that freeloading Alan (he reckons I can't wind him up

) oh and some guys named Kelly, Allan Rowley and Arthur Thomas (whoever they are) lovely buffet you all missed it, anybody wanna crumb?

[url=http://www.therfl.co.uk/home/news_item_top.php?id=13230The new look Co-operative Championships were officially launched today (2 March) at one of the league’s newest venues, Leigh Sporting Village[/url

So where's the pics for it then?

I didn't take a camera, me n Murp were only there for the grub

he ended up with my 'gift box' though he's still fast on his feet

right thats it parky im putting my fee up cos you get all the freebies all the time without handing any to the other members of the team

iv never seen one man get as many freebies

Mmm how strange that I seem to be in possession of said 'gift box'!!

Me too apparently!!

Now, you're a stickler for facts. I definitely only had one butty. However, as for the spring rolls, pizza, beef and courgette pasties, (never catch on in Leigh, them!) etc............ well, I may have had more than one!!

Fred did you not save a butty for your lens monkey ?

Was big ' Nige ' there today ?

There was food on, wasn't there?!



At one point, Jack Dearden asked me if I knew where 'Big Nige' was. I pointed him out - behind the wide screen.

Actually, Mr. Wood had some very complimentary things to say about 'our' stadium.

Nice new trophy also.....would be good to be the 1st team to win it and get the clubs name on it.

I thought it looked good as well, but didn't want to be the one to post it first

Edited

WHich venues are newer than ours?

None, hence my sig. Now lets see when I have to change it

So what lazy journo has had to refer to it as 'one of the newest'?

That was the RFL! Don't forget, John Wilkinson will have told them Salford has a new stadium, Cas will have told them the same, Wakefield, Saints, Bradford and Celtic likewise. And there you are, ours is then one of the newest!!

Precisely. News management and it speaks volumes.

Had it been a new stadium at any of the above it would have been billed as 'the most recent state of the art rugby league stadium'

Because it's ours it's just 'one of the newest'

Disgraceful really.

I bet, by 2011, ours is still the newest though!

to be fair in the speeches both the rfls Nigel Wood (?) and the coop man both praised the place highly