I'm with glow and Alan.

Answering the question, community Development in our sport of Rugby League can never be too much. I think it makes our players better people and is welcomed by the majority of players and helps with their personal profiles.

Alex Ferguson may have stopped them doing community work but he didn't stop them making bundles of money making commercials that I personally worked on. There must have been one or two commercials per week being made somewhere in Manchester that involved his players. I have even done them at Carrington so they are available just before or after training.
I am sure that our club will monitor what the players attitudes are towards this type of work and if it is affecting the team then something will have to be done. I have every faith that this bunch of players and club staff can work together and make both things work.

I'll have a bash - if every player did 2 hours a week and 4 players attended each community event then we could cover 8 events per week - sounds simple and not time consuming

They key is planning and sharing - if you asked them to do 20 hours a week then the club could attend 80 functions or 16 per day - that's too much even if there was that many to attend

The last time we were ' full time ' the coach stopped all the players from doing community work, then again he was a muppet

He was a visionary, liked by all and had only the future well being of the club at heart

Not just Charlie .
I was. Accused of calling him in the bar after our first game and I wasn't even in the country it was someone else !!!

I'm starting to warm to Mr Abram now.

At Abram's first home match in charge I was in the Hilton Park Lounge corporate having a meal. I asked Abram if he would be going over to the Mick Martyn Bar and giving a few words to the fans in the form of a MOM presentation, similar to which his predecessors in Milward and Terzis had done previously.

He replied ' I wont be doing any MOM presentations and... I give my views to the radio.'

Hardly a surprise a he would not embrace the idea of a community club either.

That's why he's been out of the game for 10 years. Least said about the fella the better.

To say current management vs him is like chalk and cheese would be the understatement of the year!!

It is True , Dazzler DID try to ban me , he even told 2 security men to eject me from the Ground after a Match , but I had done nothing wrong , I had witnesses to say so , needless to say , I wasn't ejected or Banned from the Club , as id done nowt wrong , just disagreed with Dazzler , I later told him "When he was Long Gone , I would still be a Leigh Fan , and hes GONE , and im still a Leigh fan .Charlie knew . .