I see Derek has been on FB again, this time having a go at one of the Past Players members. Posted at 11:40, so I'm guessing it was fuelled by a few glasses of wine.

The man does himself no favours with these outbursts

Maybe, but it doesn't give him the right to drag the clubs name down every time someone disagrees with him

I don't think that it is Derek dragging the club down. Personally think that his response to these allegations are quite subdued. He has every right to answer his critics I an form of media he likes.

The statement, if you could call it that, he put on FB last night made him sound like a sulking kid. It was pathetic. My opinion only

Not on Facebook, got no friends. What did he say please.

Stick to Emmerdale Farm you have to be this side of the Pennines to be privy to the Leigh Centurions Soap Opera.

Derek's post was not offensive and contained pertinent points.

His dig at Batley the other day was pathetic

What pertinent points frank? He threw his toys out of the pram again. He's embarrassing

If its what I have read he is merely offering the opportunity to Jason Donohue and others to come out and identify specifically what they think is so bad about him instead of making veiled comments on social media.

So it's ok for every one who has an issue with Derek to put out stories on facebook etc for the world to see and he shouldn't defend himself? Everyone would then be saying "It must be true as the club haven't denied it".
Why don't the anti-Derek brigade just get a life and let us Leythers enjoy the great times we are having with Derek in control.

He's doing more harm than good and making our club a laughing stock.

Chutney would rather us be in admin than ran by certain individuals.

It needs addressing.

He doesn't help himself at all with stuff like this, shouldn't be done on a public forum really.

However, it doesn't help the situation when somebody is repeatedly slagging him off all over facebook on various rugby pages and people start 'tagging' Derek in this stuff to make sure that he sees it and has to read it.

He rightly took a step back from twitter when he reacted badly to repeated provocation, maybe it is time for him to do the same on facebook.

The other bloke was provoking him repeatedly with accusations, Derek replies and gets jumped on. Is it fair? No, but Derek is in the public eye and needs to either learn to ignore it, respond more professionally or just walk away from facebook. Which would be a shame as his interactions with fans are generally great and in good humour but, like it or not, he is the public face of Leigh Centurions and needs to act professional.

Spot on.