Don't wish to rain on your parade Dave but I think that next year will be desperately hard. We have hard a good season but next season certainly holds no guarantees and we may well have to settle for mid season obscurity. How does this reflect on the ability to bring new fans in? Answer-badly. In conjunction with the anticipated performance you also have to factor in a couple of other ingredients:

1. Money. It's scarce and people who don't already have the Leigh bug may find it difficult to spend hard earned money on what may be a mediocre second division club, especially when:

2. There are plenty of SL teams within a 5-7 mile journey who will have top quality players on show for not much more gate money. Anyone new to the game or who has youngsters that they want to take may well go for the more glittering option.

So yes the fight must start now but let's not believe that we should be fighting to achieve greatness all at once. Let's build slowly from the bottom with a sound club playing good rugby built around youth with some older experience. Let's make people enjoy the club, not just the games and let's think about what the club can do for the fans not just the other way round.

Having said that I haven't had a season ticket for a couple of years but am enthused enough to probably come back next season.

Leigh Master Chief

Don't worry Peter, a lot of us feel the same about HKR!

(Good to see you're still checking on us by the way!)

Are we a professional rugby team or a pub one?

If we cannot find a group of business men to take over we are in a bad way.

And the club needs to look why they cannot get investors,is it because of how the sport is run now with the 3 year franchise nonsense?

Were do the other clubs with smaller crowds than us find there investors?

Why do they invest in them and not us?

Until we find them answers[and no I don't know them or want to run a rugby club] then I think we are just running around in circles.

Personaly speaking i'd be happy to see the corporate club or the group of business men who have been brought together by trevor barton running the club without them putting any money in.

We are a club in a small town , surrounded by some of the major football clubs in the world , not to mention 5 of the biggest RL clubs in England

We are playing in a stadium with no income streams other than through fans , in a competition we cannot play our way out of

The town we are in , has hardly any large national companies any more and no large scale employers

Why would anybody want to tip money into us