I know Roy, I'm staying off it until the 'begging bucket' has stopped. It's effing ridiculous !

Any sporting club is only as strong as its fan base , be that individual ticket buying supporters , Season Ticket holders or club owners who put in significant amounts

When an owner is contributing more than the cost of his personal match ticket he is essentially subsidising everybody else's , if he chooses to not do that , it his his perogative

We are where we are , for us to improve where we are might well require a larger number of its fan base to contribute more than the cost of their match ticket ( be that an individual ticket or a ST ) than just the one person who has been doing it in recent seasons

It isn't compulsory , nobody is being forced , but let's stop moaning about it

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LISA has continued to support the club by contributing funds to add to the player budget year on year including the last 3/4 years

Obviously during that time of Derek's investment into the club what tends to happen is contributors reduce as fans don't see the necessity , by it's very nature it comes to the ' fore ' when times aren't as good , that time is now , all donations into LISA are used to supplement playing contracts

With regards the suggestion of LISA being represented on the BOD , that has been considered and voted on in the past , and in the past LISA representatives have attended board meetings , is it really a requirement ? No , not really

Who’s contracts have LISA contributed to over the last 3/4 years ?? And I don’t mean sponsorship, actual contract money

What funds do LISA have in the bank

How much of those funds have the club asked for, and for whom

Greg McNally has already signed for us....FACT !
Who's idea was this 'online bucket collection' that will get fans donating to a cause that doesn't exist

In recent years Ben Reynolds , Craig Hall and Nick Gregson

No idea , non of my business , attend a LISA meeting and ask ! There will be one in a couple of weeks time apparently

I assume Gregg McNally

ALL contributions to LISA assist with the signing of essentially ALL players signed by Leigh Centurions

Nobody is forcing anybody to donate , but in times of ' club ' hardship it helps , simple as

Looking forward to watching this years team run out at the LSV in a couple of weeks

Well I take your word for that as I don’t remember anything being saluted as such, my understanding was the LISA money was not required.

I’m pretty sure you have every idea, but appreciate it’s not your place - would love to see the agenda for that meeting because everything seems unstructured,

McNally bollards - been a Leigh player for a while now, seems general knowledge. If it’s to fund other players the club should just say so

LISA support the signing of players by contributing to the playing budget every year ince it's inception , in 2005 it was put to the membership that it could fund junior development instead , that idea was voted down , just because the club has had a benefactor willing to put considerable finance into the club on 2 occasions hasn't meant the money raised hasn't been given

LISA waits until it has a set amount in the acc and then transfers a set % of that to the club ( in recent situations when the clubs ( sporting club Leigh ltd ) actual future has been in question money has been delayed until assurances by the owner/s have received ) , so the balance of the acc never becomes too great

The agenda of a LZiSA meeting is set by the members , they are free to ask any question they like , if you are a member , attend and ask

By focusing on Gregg , maybe the club will be able to look at other players ( although it is very late in the day right now ) although publicising that right now isn't the cleverest idea around , IMO

So because the owner isn't willing to subsidise the cost of a match ticket by 200% this season you are moaning ? , are you going to personally pay him back your share ?

Not actively Steve. It's in the rather badly worded statement issued by the club, that they may have contributed to LISA contribution declining.

Who mentioned Derek? You are Obsessed with defending him.

You obviously knew that the SL team and the 2018 squads were rubbish beforehand , maybe you can find the posts you made at the time declaring such

Derek doesn't need defending from anybody , he owes nobody anything , he is well within his rights to have the club run as a business this year if he so wishes , meaning that yes the supporters will have to finance it , that's how businesses work