Whether your from Lancs York's Cumbria London Wales Or Toronto in fact I hope you all have a happy and healthy new year

...and here's to you and yours, Steve. Bring next season on - with a helluvan opening game.

Bongser echoes (echoes, echoes...) all the above!

Hey, don't forget the Vancouver Leythers. We area small but passionate bunch


To Leythers everywhere, and to all rugby league fans far and wide, but especially in Leyth, Happy New Year (in 6.5 hours

)
This season is going to be a cracker !

Just over 4 hours left of new years day here in new Zealand. Happy new year to everyone, where ever you are. Not long to wait now Leythers for that first game.

Sorry to anyone missed in my original message. HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL FANS NEAR AND FAR looking forward to getting back into.the new season. Can't wait

I echo everything Ste says, but include our friends in Vancouver

,2017 wasn't a good year for me personally, losing 3 very good friends, and having a few health problems, however I'm hoping 2018 will be much better, the Carolis are awaiting the birth of our first Grandson, due any day now,and I'm feeling very positive.
I was glad the 2017 was over, but now after a team overhaul by Derek, KC, and Jukesy, I can wait, season ticket bought a few weeks ago bring it on.Finally a Happy New Year to ALL Clowns out there,can't wait for the Blackpool Bash,should be very good.Charlie knows.

Well Charlie, it's always nice to remember absent friends. And i'm sure you've raised a glass or two Now you can look forward to your new grandson. Congratulations by the way, and then the upcoming season which should be a cracker for us Leythers, and the teturn of the Blackpool bash. Come onon Leythers. Steve knows

Right on Steve.

All the best Steve.
I’m with you on 2017 not being my best year Charlie. But the Vancouver Leythers family rung in 2018 with a Leyther theme and a homage to our UK family. We all went down to the Polar Bear Swim. My one son wore his Grandads Leigh shirt (he passed in Early April) the one with the names surrounding the number area on the back. His name is on there (Alan Fayle). Miss you Dad.
I wore the matching shirt I have, my other son wore his Grandads Leyth tee shirt that was given to season ticket holders a year or so ago by Derek. My daughter wore one of my eldest sons Royal Marines tee shirts. He lives in the UK.
We all ran in and all made it out to the bell in the bay and then walked back into shore together. My Dad, my eldest son and Leigh Centurions were represented


A toast to all the loved ones lost in 2017


2018 is our year Leythers

HNY VL - though with the time difference you may have been back at work for three and a half weeks by now.
Bongser thought that he was going to play a blinder for you by recalling that the early C19 Royal Marines wore red and white hooped shirts on deck (he thinks that he read it in a Sharpe novel - Sharpe's Trafalgar? - some years ago) but Wiki doesn't agree. BOO!

It's the thought and failing memory that counts though, eh?

All the best

The Royal Marines in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s did wear a uniform of red coats with white cross belts from each shoulder and white breeches


All the best Bongser. It’s still Jan 1st here so

:THUMB: That damned Cornwell has a lot to answer for. Who was the sock sponsor, VL?

That damned Cornwell has a lot to answer for. Who was the sock sponsor, VL?

Most likely a Caribbean Rum company, though nobody was sober enough to remember the name of it at the time