If you are suggesting that the person, whose name I have highlighted, ever took money out of our club, you are well out of order, and qualify as a spectacular 'bar stool know-it-all'! I was working with Chris Healey during his time as CEO at Leigh and can personally vouch that he put a small (large) fortune of his own money into our club, to prevent it from going under. His contribution was considerably larger than that made by virtually all of our directors in the past 20/30 years and his devotion to the cause cost him dearly, in more ways than one.

Chris is now living in New Zealand I believe, but I will not tolerate anyone slagging off his role in Leigh Centurions. But for him (yes, "a soccer person"!) there would have been no Centurions from a good few years ago.

Real nice man was Chris and hope hes doing ok. he would have never done anything untoward and as Ive said none of the current SCL people have, as for before that I dont know or care.
Seems to me no matter how hard the club try, there will always be someone acusing them of something and if people think that when LISA and the Touchdown club get their shares this will stop will they need to wake up and smell the coffee, as it wont.
AS Maurice says those that say they wont come because of money taken out illedgelly by ex directors, you'll never convince these people to think any differently.
I personally aren't interested in how much we pay player one or how much the gas bill is, all I care about is seeing that the club is not going to go under and that we have a club to support.
We all need to work together to see that this happens and I feel the current set up is the best we have had for a long time and the transparancy is there, with the fans forums,and LISA meeings, questions get answered honestly by the clubs representatives there, what more can we ask for, and when the shares are issued to the |TOUCHDOWN CLUB and LISA then it will make our club stronger and more fan friendly.

To be fair Alan I don't think he was accusing anyone of anything, he was just phrasing what others think or say.

This thread just shows what an emotive issue this can be and people (this thread is littered with them) need to sit back read and digest properly what people have written and if in doubt ask them to explain it in better terms (also perhaps a little thought before posting too??) or it will turn into another name calling back biting thread.

Or in the terms of a City down the East Lancs CALM DOWN CALM DOWN LAAA

Perhaps not, but in fully quoting the item that he did, it could have been (and was by me!) construed that way. I'm not trying to muck rake - just stating facts and defending someone who we all owe a lot to.

To be fair to Maurice I understood he was talking about the "bar stool folk" Alan as he has mentioned them more than once in his posts

I have no recollection of him Alan,when was he here?

I would hazard a guess in the early 2000's as he was also the chairman of RMI when we were in the Conference. I know the family still keep an eye on things even though they're in New Zealand these days.

Cheers matt ,we wern't a bad club then were we?

Not sure if 'bad club' would be the phrase John, but certainly bad habits that we are only now truly learning from ie relying on a backer's personal funds until the pot runs dry.

Matt's correct. Before Mr. Nolan and after Mr Higgins, I think. He's the reason I started working at the club, and was also the reason I stayed - out of personal loyalty to a true gent and passionate sports fan.

So did Milward come over whilst higgins was in charge?

yes ian millward did come over after being offered the job by him! i should know Mick is my ex father in law

Cheers.
Its always good to put things back together again after such a long time

Make Maurice a Director at Leigh , no make him Chairman , give him the freedom of the Borough , and lets make him Mayor of Leigh , blow it , ARISE SIR MAURICE .