Idiotic enough to become involved, throw a substantial amount of cash at it and take the club to Super League. Whatever next? Throw another substantial amount and take it to Wembley or Old Trafford?

I agree, it is idiocricy at its finest. He will never get that money back. He should never have got involved and we could have 'floated' back to our level. Brinkering between lower championship and league one.

Of course only the likes of Myself, Col, Cokey, Demon, Alan, Charlie,Maurice, Steve and Lynda would be there again to witness it.

Which is your personal preference Mish?

NB: The biggest idiot CEO in Super League is Gary Hetherington by an absolute country mile. All IMO opinion of course.

Well I am well pleased with what Derek has done for the club I have supported for over 60 years.

Inherited wealth "just happens". Self-made cash is different. Leigh lad made good was only made good by gumption and hard graft over a fair few years. Yes, he has a fair amount of disposable income but he chose to throw a good bit of it the club's way and for that all Leigh supporters should be grateful.

Should he then choose to have a few harmless (with the possible exception of the boxing match) larks with a similar and like-minded matey, then why the fuss? Top flight RL is serious on field. That doesn't debar a little fun thereoff.

Good luck to them ( as long as the boxing doesn't begin early on Rinder).

I couldn't have put it better B and B , no doubt some worthy cause will see a benifit from it

I'm not sure what you're trying to say there but if you're talking about people getting involved in a dying club then I was there as a volunteer every week sitting in the same room as Alan and other volunteers, trying to help keep the club going.

Bad language, I have never heard SKY TV apologise so much for bad language at Widnes V Saints mmatch on TV at any live match in the history of live televised sport. Unbelievable.

Take your Grandson watching Leigh. He will hear worse in his playground. A sad but true sign of the times.

In fact Harold , for those of us who actually went yesterday , we would be aware that I don't recall hearing the flute song once

Those were the days!! The birth of Centurions Radio, LCTV.......

How are you Michelle?

I see, probably helps to explain Mish's resentment to Derek a little more.

I'm great thanks Alan - and we did the radio with no funding, we bought all our own kit and it used to cost us the price of a dongle to broadcast those games. Oh and it was FREE.

Jesus H Christ. No doubting they where. Every club will have similar incidents.

I have supported this club for donkeys years, I can qoute you similar stories going back to tge history of time. Many stories proceeding yours Keith please let me be clear about that.

Do you want me to post a story from 1953 that does not shed the club in a very positive light at all?

Or would it serve us better for me to allow the club to move forward rather than to continually drag up it's past ?

Alan seems quite magnanimous about the past, Mr C. Mish doesn't post often so Bongser will not judge (especially as he quite fancies her avatar). Whatever went on between you and Derek needs to be left alone. Kak has happened in Bongser's life. He chooses not to dwell on it.

Not so much the proverbial "glass half full" man, as a real ale man not a bitter man.

HRJ in his wisdom has the right idea. On a certain subject on which his views are well documented passim, he chooses to say merely that to avoid further confrontation. He also, thereby, guarantees that his other posts will be read without prejudice.

Group hug now.

Good on you Mr C.

Like you say it seems a lot of people do brown nose DB and seem to be intimidated by him.
Respect is there for what he's put into the club but we don't need it shoving down our throats. The glory should go to the lads on the pitch - not an owner! Can you imagine Simon Moran acting like DB does - no coz he's far too professional.
Wonder if I could find a pub in another town with a picture of the owner on the side of it

Not sure I like being part of a dying breed Keith. It smacks of dinosaurs, and dodos. I thoroughly enjoyed what I did at the club - as I told Paul Terzis one day, when he caught me staring at the pitch - "I'm watching the grass grow!" I packed in out of frustration - there just weren't enough of us to share around the work, and we were just treading water, with no imminent chance of progress

As for the current owner, we haven't always seen eye-to-eye, (life would be pretty boring and unproductive if we did) and I don't always like the way he goes about things, (just my opinion, which isn't always right!) but we sure as heck wouldn't be in SL right now, but for him. We would still be treading water, or sunk without trace! For what he has done, he has my respect and gratitude.