it was annouced as 1536 but I've never seen the North Stand so empty(except the french game of course) I counted roughly and found approx 300 in there, there didn't look no where near 1536 on. Although couldnt see how many was in the West stand as I was in it.

I was amazed too! As a big critic of Friday night I was actually impressed we could attract such a number in the horrible weather.

But was it true............?

in my opinion given the recent run of results that was quite a good gate considering we have just took 2 heavy losses poor weather and the fact that dewsbury brought about 3 fans !!!

I'm with Lynda. The north stand has been a hell of a lot busier than that and there has only been 1700 on. Maybe more people went in the west to rest their legs after a week at work.

The West stand did not appear to have any less than normal in.

However with a crowd of 1500 I think it's time to consign Friday night rugby to the dustbin. My mucker Arthur did not attend last night despite my best persuasive efforts. He reckons Friday nights is a young mans game.

He likes to get settled in front of the box on Friday nights. He's not as young as he used to be

The Royal boxes all seemed busy.

There was no one in the banqueting room, they used boxes instead as there wasnt enough booked to open the room, the was about 80 dining altogether, bu It worked out at £9 for cuury supper, but it was stewed beef in gravy and chicken in gravy, really not one bit spicy at all, they served it at 6.55 as game started at 7.30 and it wasnt very hot, quite a few complained , I didnt, but thought it not the best food Id had, however Ive had worse.

Hate playing Friday nights. Was a rush job to get there Friday instead of a relaxing Sunday afternoon.

I dont like Sunday afternoons either...

I don't like Monday's
Tell me why?

I wanna shoot the whole day down!

consider this, fax/fev and ourselves were all at home this past weekend, all playing shall we say teams with not the biggest following, leigh got just over 1500, fax and fev got just over 2000, what was the differnce, well about 500 paying people, why the difference, well i realise both fax and fev are in a final and they are buzzing at present, this would impact in a positive way in terms of crowds. We are not in a final and have been pasted twice in ther last few weeks, but the main reason is imo friday night rl is and should remain the domain of sl clubs, not championship clubs, its well documented i hate friday night rl, but the crowds this season unfortunately are showing i think that alot of people agree with me. Like i say its far to simplistic to say right play on a sun and the crowds will flood in, i'm not stupid enough to think that, but i do think it would help. For the benfit of our club please scrap friday rl.

I heard it said that the club wanted to trial a mixture of Friday nights and Sundays. However I find it strange that 2 of the fixtures that they shunted to Friday night were the Halifax and Featherstone matches. Surely these are the two fixtures most likely to attract a paying away following on a Sunday when you would think most people have more free time in order to make the journey from Yorkshire to Leigh ?

When you consider how the evening fixtures drastically impact on our away support going the other way then it does seem a bizzare decision.

It is also now abundantly clear that Friday night games in front of 1500 fans is simply not working. Lets be honest, when did Leigh last attract such a dismal attendance in front of professional opposition?

Anyway I would say I am firmly old school and in the Sunday 3.30pm kick off camp but I find myself increasingly wondering if now is seriously the time to run with regular Saturday early evenings from next season. Especially during the long Summer months.



I do wonder but then how long do the club also continue to wonder.

Total failure hopefully lesson have been learned and lets move back to sundays....oh and lets have a competitive season ticket

Seems our leaders reckoned people would turn up anyway so no need to discount season tickets because the royal boxes would be choccer and people will flock because its a friday night,yeah right

All what happened was people did not renew season tickets,got out of the habit of going[like me and 7 of our group so how do you entice them people back????

If its a sunday match day,season ticket bought,no problem if its scattered around all the weekend ,forget it

Oh and one last thing lets ditch the thursday tv matches as we get diddly squit for it

Re Thursday night games I read the other day that ALL Championship Clubs get £20000 each for the Premiership TV deal.

I went to watch Swinton at Fax last Sunday and the Fax fans I spoke too are all hoping our game against them will be switched to a Sunday.

Maybe we should consider footie kick off times for that day and decide ? BTW I have no idea when the footie season starts.

Its starts the weekend of the Fax game

Don't think so Frank. Premier got it for free i think

Thats what Trevor said at the LISA meeting they got it for free

I read it on the Keighley board so someone is wrong.


It is on the thread about the Leigh game being switched.