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| Quote: itsatry! "But its not just Leigh though is it ,its all clubs bar Widnes,and as for giving us a reprieve they couldn't do anything else but after what happened .'"
The big question is, Why? All this thread has been mostly about is having another pop at RFL, and for what? We don't know reasons. This can be said about rest of clubs.
As for the repreive, they could have relegated us as the rules dictated at beginning of the season. Gateshead enabled RFL to do the sensible thing by allowing us to stay up. But a meeting at the RFL determined which league we played. If RFL are so against us as the Paranoia opinions on todays threads say, why didn't they take us out of the picture at that point ? Because its crazy to do so. Just like the club not being able to invest money in the community. Which tells me there is more to it. |
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I dont think they are against us in particular ,probably the area we are in .I really can't see where they are coming from i'm very despondent at the way they run this game .
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some people who believe everything coming out of Red Hall s for the good of everyone in the game had better start to wake up and do it fast, I agree with Mr C but the trouble with that is that come the next round of 'good ideas' from Red Hall then all that be wasted, as it was once seen as a good idea that clubs had their own youth teams and structure.
The shared Academy never got off the ground
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| Quote: mr. chairman "we have in our town the best scholarship in the whole of rugby league in leigh east , leigh miners and golborne . invest in these clubs , sign agreements with them make them part of the structure , if you read between the lines this is what the rfl want you to do . think about it .'"
As you probably know what was Leigh Centurions Amateur Forum, is in the process of becoming Leigh Community Rugby League Development Group, we (Hannah  |
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| Quote: Dick Jones "Why are you sticking up for that shower of lying, incompetant to55ers, We was told this by our chairman and coach at the LISA meeting and knowing Arthur well, he does not lie and as been invovled with two other SL teams, so he knows what he talking about.
He also didn't just say it was LEIGH he said all of us except WIDNES.
I felt people should know what a set of bent barstewards all of the RFL are.
Basically with this and the other little criteria changes they sneaked in recently, they are in effect saying we want Widnes and then foreign clubs from now on,Leigh, Barrow, Fax, Batley and Fev, in fact of of you can forget about it as if you do make 2500 avage crowds we'll change it to 4000, if you turn over 1 million we'll change it to 2 million, and if you do ,manage these, we'll still turn you down, as you've no youth developement ![]()
Good post Lynda. 
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Is there anything 'official' out there, about scholarships and the Championship clubs. At the moment, everything appears to be based on what Arthur said at the LISA meeting. I'm not for a moment disputing what he said, but what else has the RFL said, on the subject? Keith seems to be putting an interesting, & logical spin on it and none of the other Championship clubs seem to have picked up on this - other than from our site.
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| Quote: Dick Jones "Why are you sticking up for that shower of lying, incompetant to55ers, We was told this by our chairman and coach at the LISA meeting and knowing Arthur well, he does not lie and as been invovled with two other SL teams, so he knows what he talking about.
He also didn't just say it was LEIGH he said all of us except WIDNES.
I felt people should know what a set of bent barstewards all of the RFL are.
Basically with this and the other little criteria changes they sneaked in recently, they are in effect saying we want Widnes and then foreign clubs from now on,Leigh, Barrow, Fax, Batley and Fev, in fact of of you can forget about it as if you do make 2500 avage crowds we'll change it to 4000, if you turn over 1 million we'll change it to 2 million, and if you do ,manage these, we'll still turn you down, as you've no youth developement ![]()
No-one want's to stick up for the RFL... but at the moment the story that we have is Ian Millward and Arthur Rowley stated at a meeting that you attended last night that the RFL have forbidden all teams outside of SL with the exception of Widnes from running a scholarship side...
What happened when someone asked them WHY???
Because someone presumably asked them why... unless we are led to believe the RFL contacted your club said it was no to the scholarship and then just rang off and the two people above decided they had all the information they needed.
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| Quote: Dick Jones "Why are you sticking up for that shower of lying, incompetant to55ers, We was told this by our chairman and coach at the LISA meeting and knowing Arthur well, he does not lie and as been invovled with two other SL teams, so he knows what he talking about.
He also didn't just say it was LEIGH he said all of us except WIDNES.
I felt people should know what a set of bent barstewards all of the RFL are.
Basically with this and the other little criteria changes they sneaked in recently, they are in effect saying we want Widnes and then foreign clubs from now on,Leigh, Barrow, Fax, Batley and Fev, in fact of of you can forget about it as if you do make 2500 avage crowds we'll change it to 4000, if you turn over 1 million we'll change it to 2 million, and if you do ,manage these, we'll still turn you down, as you've no youth developement ![]()
Lynda, where am I defending the RFL? The threads on here become way over the top before knowing the reasons, or the facts from both sides.
It cannot always be the RFLs fault - which it seems to be on here all the time. Thats all I am doing here, pointing this out. We all know its near impossible for Leigh to get into SL - and there are many reasons like RFL would prefer a team outside the heartlands for example, but we as a town do not support the club in enough numbers, and we are not successful on the pitch etc etc. We have loads of work to do, but we certainly don't make it a difficult choice for them at the moment.
On here if RFL created world peace and ended world hunger they would still be slagged off for one reason or another.
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| Quote: Leeeigh Leeeigh "Lynda, where am I defending the RFL? The threads on here become way over the top before knowing the reasons, or the facts from both sides.
It cannot always be the RFLs fault - which it seems to be on here all the time. Thats all I am doing here, pointing this out. We all know its near impossible for Leigh to get into SL - and there are many reasons like RFL would prefer a team outside the heartlands for example, but we as a town do not support the club in enough numbers, and we are not successful on the pitch etc etc. We have loads of work to do, but we certainly don't make it a difficult choice for them at the moment.
On here if RFL created world peace and ended world hunger they would still be slagged off for one reason or another.'"
The main reason for all this gripe towards the RFL is the fact they keep moving those damned goal posts just to suit them now you can't argue with that surely . |
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| Quote: Leeeigh Leeeigh "
On here if RFL created world peace and ended world hunger they would still be slagged off for one reason or another.'"
The RFL would do a good job of ending world peace and creating world hunger if you gave them the chance.
Sorry - I wouldn't trust the RFL as far as I could throw them..and with big Nige that wouldnt be far at all.. |
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| Quote: Chris B "No-one want's to stick up for the RFL... but at the moment the story that we have is Ian Millward and Arthur Rowley stated at a meeting that you attended last night that the RFL have forbidden all teams outside of SL with the exception of Widnes from running a scholarship side...
What happened when someone asked them WHY???
Because someone presumably asked them why... unless we are led to believe the RFL contacted your club said it was no to the scholarship and then just rang off and the two people above decided they had all the information they needed.'"
Maybe there has been no RL council meeting since the club was informed of this so no one has asked them WHY???? infact there is no maybe about it we were informed when we told the rfl about our plans, so you presume wrongly at this stage no one has asked them why because the opportunity has not yet arisen.
And who is Arthur Rowley? as Arthur Thomas our chairman attended the meeting not ALLAN ROWLEY. |
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| Quote: FredParky "Maybe there has been no RL council meeting since the club was informed of this so no one has asked them WHY???? infact there is no maybe about it we were informed when we told the rfl about our plans, so you presume wrongly at this stage no one has asked them why because the opportunity has not yet arisen.
And who is Arthur Rowley? as Arthur Thomas our chairman attended the meeting not ALLAN ROWLEY.'"
Couldn't give a monkeys who it was Fred... apologies for not knowing the intricacies of your boardroom.
The point still stands... When Arthur Thomas was speaking to this select few last night... was he not asked why Leigh were not being allowed to run a scholarship?
If he simply did not know why then why didn't he ask the question when he was being informed? Surely it would have been the first thing to come out of his mouth.
[i"I'm sorry you can't run a scholarship scheme anymore?"
"Why?"[/i
I doubt the RFL would have made such a decision without having thought out some reasons that they could give for having made this decision. |
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