found this thread intresting on the fax site a few days ago did Starbug know something???:

littlerich wrote:

To be honest I'm not sure who puts the money in or the amounts involved. I'm sure Abbott is a big contributor. I agree with all your frustrations but I was just saying I'm not sure the best thing to do is to drive away those that do put money in, otherwise we'll end up in Championship II.

Leigh seem to have spread their risk and Andy Mazey commented last week that Leigh would never again put the club in the hands of just one man. The Leigh example of what can be achieved in a short time gives me hope that all is not lost. Those running the club certainly need to increase the activity off the field or find someone else who can. First priority though must be to ensure financial safety.


Starbug wrote:

An interesting statement to make by Andy, what you tend to see is a cycle of a group of local businessmen gain control of a club ,then eventually one by one they leave either because they cannot manage the level of investement asked of them, or quite simply they get fed up of being outvoted on how the club should be run

So you then see one director gain control quite simply because he can afford it, then something will happen resulting in another group of businessmen coming in again , this has happened 3 times at Leigh in the last 20 years

If a seriously rich investor came through the door at Leigh, I would be very surprised if he was refused the opportunity to gain sole control

It isnt about the structure of the administration at any club, its about what they do, putting cash in is great, depending on what the money is spent on decides where you go from there on, just paying good wages to good players will work short term, but isnt sustainable, running a sports business is a lot more complicated than that

The beginning of the end of the BOM in its "In it together" glory was revealed here. Actually it was apparent quite a lot earlier but this was when it was apparent. Played a shrewd game has DB it would seem.

Are we all still in this together?

Whatever happens, Andy Mazey's efforts to get a consortium together were immense and he's provided a professional face to the club and been a brilliant spokesperson. The fact that the remainder at the club hasn't been able to say so, and has instead resorted to petty changes to the program and negative publicity in twitter bodes ill for our future PR.

We might be doing a featherstone soon.

Hello again WF!

So what does Positivity Pete think of the fact that we won the league by 15 points, increased crowds massively, retained all our best players, are going full time next season and are just 80 minutes away from becoming the Champions?

Just curious... seeing as you haven't posted since the last time you thought things were going wrong