So when the joint Wigan and Leigh community partnership roll up to local schools, there is no comflict of interest??

" Right pupils you have heard all about the great game of Rugby League and now it's time you sampled the atmosphere of a live match. We want you to be the new generation of supporters for the greatest game - OK those wanting Wigan v Saints Super League tickets form an orderley line here, those wanting Leigh v Workington tickets just go over there please and we will be with you shortly"

Yes I can see no conflict of interest either

You gotta laugh haven't you

Bit rich coming from you when you was spouting off on the Swinton forum about our chairman having no ambition.

Not wishing to open a can of worms as the explanation Rowley gave Lynda tended to calm some nerves for a few people.
However must admit I'll show my ignorance and admit I wasn't aware we had a partnership with Wigan Warriors last season and thought we just took duals that fitted into the coaches plans from any club so was a touch surprised that we do have such a agreement in place.

Could someone tell me what the actual agreement is then (in terms of what do we get from Wigan Warriors, how many players from Wigan Warriors will play for Leigh Centurions at one time and what do Wigan Warriors get out of the agreement, do we agree to give their players a certain amount of game time for instance) ?

Just one final point, do we have partnerships with Leigh East and Leigh Miners (and all the other local clubs) on similar models to the Wigan one we have ?

Well lets put it this way.

I have no influence with our coaching staff or Board of Directors.

I have followed our club since 1956.

I thought licenscing was the wrong way to go for the pro game and I also think this latest Twinning idea is plain crazy and is a blatent excuse for giving the current Cartel' which now exists for the clubs currently and ridiculously exempt from relegation' an opportunity to save money at the expense of clubs who can never aspire' or currently never think they can aspire to be in the top league of our game.

Why would anyone be a coach of our club' or on our Board of Directors if they thought all our club could do is provide a training camp for Non Relegation club reserves but not at the Non Relegation clubs expense ?

In my time watching pro RL there isn't one UK side I haven't see Leigh beat although we never beat one club who no longer exists.

Leigh RLFC being a feeder club for the Pies'who incidentally' still owe our club for a set of shirts' is not possible and if you are a Leyther why don't you know that ?

Perhaps on your next visit you would explain how Leigh Schools being covered by Leigh staff isn't parochialism.

Well Fred and I don't always agree' however his point is that youth who take up the game' should be encouraged whatever parish their trainers come from.

I think people forget how much "pie people" have contributed to our team over the years!
In recent memory would fans rather Keiron Purtill, Andy Fairclough, John Duffy, Chris Hill etc had not played for us?
I know it is a two way street and Betts, Gidart etc went the other way but we are too geographically close for it to be otherwise.
As long as we are a stand alone club I will welcome pie-eaters to the fold!
I did marry a Wiganner though so maybe I'm getting soft...

Its the fans forum on the 7th November, all with concerns(if they can wait till then) must attend and voice these concerns.
If people can't wait till then I suggest they ring the club or call in and see what the club tells them, rather then let other clubs fans, and managers wind them up.

Lynda I am grateful to you for asking, (like Alan and Fred do on occasions), but like others I wasn’t aware we even had a Partnership last season with any club, was you or anyone on here?

Doesn’t this make Harrison right, in that we do currently have a partnership with Wigan? Whether he’s right in the context of the new SL/Championships partnerships or our partnership is a different animal, I don’t know.

But unless the club come out and clarify it then they can’t moan if people get hold of the wrong end of a ty stick, and decide to keep away.

Paul did say, however" we were equal partners"

So it means that we are equal partners but there is no partnership. Couldn't be clearer.

Toady you are so right i to married a Wiganer , you forgot to add my owd mate Dave Ingram to this lot , they have all served the Leigh Club well id love to see youngsters like Lewis Tierney , and George Williams play at Leigh in a couple of years time , but again Leigh MUST be a Stand Alone club .

I don't believe that our independence is being jeopardised by any part of the current arrangement with Wigan. If I believed for a moment that it was then I'd be raising a resistance army and planning to march on Pieland to bring death and destruction.

The way I see it, neither club are under any onerous obligations.

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There is a partnership. What there isn't is of the RFL's god awful formal twinning partnerships in place.