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Your advice for the board? you not on it anymore Neil?

I agree with some of your points but a bit strong IMO and I supose it's easy to have your view point when earning a six figure salery, some are not so fortunate.

Wigans population is over 310k so despite being the biggest club in the country and current double winners they are operating well under 5% on your logic. Leeds is a City with nearly 1m people in It but it just doesn't work that way mate.

Instead of critising people who don't share your point of view, try to understand what they are saying. I don't believe dramatically increasing attendances is impossible and a competitive Leigh side in SL will pull big gates for the big games if marketed right but it's a long game and will require year on year marketing imporvements and far greater levels of resource and advertising than the club has currently got or has ever had before.

Let's keep doing what we've been doing an slowly building and most of all appreciate the people that do go, fund the club and try and make sure they keep coming back and growing steadily like they have been doing this last 18 months.

Andy

Excellent post Andy!

We should carry on the work we have just started but ramp it up with the extra money we get each season - a budget for properly marketing our club to its populace should be set aside each season as a must.
The target MUST be families and youngsters and the aim of the club short term should be to ensure every youngster aged 6 to 11 years old who goes to school within 8 miles of the LSV will have seen Leigh Centurions represented at school or in the area (be it players or others from the club) and as a bare minimum know the club exists and they are currently champions and doing exceptionally well.
Along with the brilliant work started (but by no means even remotely completed)in the community of Leigh and with the partner local and junior sports clubs lets continue to build on that.

As harsh as it sounds I don't believe RL is the sport people choose to watch on spec as its profile is virtually non existent and in effect the door was slammed shut by many people by poor governance and leadership effectively making the results of many games of no value or consequence.
Just going back to being a competition may start to get a few back but the majority lost are long gone as they have found other things to spend there leisure money on, equally the fans who follow Saints & the Pies et al will only come back to glory so spend no time enticing them as results only work to that fickle bunch so if we do well they will return in anyhow (especially
if the club they currently follow have poor results).

Our club has lots of work to do if we want to get a good average next season and in all fairness last year that work was started, but its just that - a start and lets not forget all our competitors (be it RL clubs, Football clubs or pubs & bars) want them just as much as we do and have already made a start on getting people in, we are going in the right direction but the next 5 years will see a lot of work needed off the field if all our hopes are to become reality.

My view is we have easily been the best Championship team and next season our squad will be full time and even stronger.

We must take this chance next season with both hands if we want to get in the top league' with the extra funding that will bring.

Re the Leigh and District public it is up to them to respond. I am hopefull that they will.

We will soon find out.

Great post Jenky.

Excellent post

Like you say it is the youngsters who must be targeted. That's how most of us started watching Leigh via the free tickets in school. What you also have to realise is that not all children want to attend the games with their parents. They want to attend with their mates but if the games are on Sunday afternoons and they have nobody to give them a lift then they can't get to the game if they aren't in walking distance. Saturday afternoons or teatime KO's should be reconsidered so kids can get to the game on public transport because Sunday's are a complete waste of time.

Stupid question, how do you work that out given that the license for 2015-2017 (inclusive) would have been announced in May 2014 based on the previous 3 years performance and the financial situation at each club (plus bits). BTW what a big mistake that would have been to give to Fev looking in hindsight now and the mess we are have been in the last six months? I could be cynical and suggest that they changed the league format to keep Fev out of SL, but would have to put that big chip back on my shoulder before I did.

PS in terms of attendance at the GF last weekend, how many do you think were Leigh fans out of the 9000-ish gate. And this is not a question about our fan base is bigger than yours, etc. it is a genuine question. The reason I ask is that if you assume that a 3rd of the gate was Leigh fans (3000) at a final when you had swept all before you how do you think you can average 3000 next year when you will not win as well as you have this, you only need to look at Fev gates this year (down on last because we started to lose some games).

IMO Fax/Leigh/Fev gates will be up next year because of Bradford, but I doubt will be much different in the initial 12s to the gates this year, teams making the middle 8 will be up in the 3/4 games they have at home, which makes finishing in the top 4 really important along with the money for finishing in the top 4.

Enjoy the off season, will be a long few months before the start of next season.

Nailed it.

If you're claiming that you cant afford £14 a week for the entertainment Leigh are offering at the moment, you either don't want to be there in the first place OR if you do want to be there, it's time to enroll in college and get a better job.

Cmon Jim , your last statement really surprises me , its not that simple to just enrol at College , and then qualify for a better job , some families cannot support their Children to do this , my 2 eldest went to College , Danni went to UNI , Charlie Jnr went to College , my youngest Kell is now at College and has 2 jobs , my point being not everyone can do this , to some families £14 a week is a lot of money .

You obviously don't live in the real world either.