With your vision you will be heading for Marsh Playing Fields. You do talk the utmost garbage on this board Starbug so you haven't disappointed me yet again.

How many people in Leigh support United or City - thousands. They don't seem bothered about a name. Luddites the lot of you. There's another good name for you lot - Leigh Luddites.

Nobody likes change but a merger between Leigh and Swinton and rebrand to a Manchester name and we would be invited in.

At least we'd be closer to Manchester then.

Talking about folks who spout utter garbage, you are up there with the best.

Another Luddite! Rebrand and survive or become an amateur feeder team. The choice is yours. Not garbage just being realistic. Any businessman or any of the top coaches or CEOs would definitely agree with me. You lot just don't like the stark truth and the only realistic option available for survival.

Everything would change. I support Leigh, not some Manchester hybrid. Would be lucky to get crowds in three figures.

Well after reading this post the logical answer must be , get ready for a move or ready for anything we agree will do us no harm ,this poster must be encouraged to express his innermost feelingsas he may feel unwanted or unloved which happens from time to time the reason being some say negative comments and i feel this guy is not what he may seem .

Leigh Dinosaurs it is then. Get the buckets and raffle tickets out. Leigh cant attract investors a Manchester team will attract investors and we would be in SL no doubt about that. Leigh are heading to Ch1 and oblivion unfortunately.

No WYSIWYG is the only person on this thread who has grasped the reality.

No, really. Seriously............................ LOL


I think Hull have just shaken off the Sharks tag, how much "Leigh Lions" would we take from everyone else?

We'd not gain any fans, we'd just alienate a large portion of our own support, and Swintons fans would just give up IMHO

Reality check time. Championship clubs next season will get less than one premiership players weekly wage. RL is a minority sport which only gets in the public eye when our 'leaders' make ridiculous decsions, or clubs go bust. The game of RL is governed by SL, proven by their money going up and Championship clubs monies going down.

It is no longer a case of saving a club here and a club there. We have to save our game. Personally I have no idea where to start, but as long as SKY have the game by the knackers, the game will suffer a slow, painful and embarrassing death. We will be left with 14 pro clubs and nothing below. You no longer earn your right to play in the top division, you simply buy yourself in (and make sure you do all the paperwork/accountancy right).

I despair at what we have seen over the last couple of years. While I am not there yet, the time is going to come when I say "Is it really worth it". Over the last few years lots RL fans have already got to that point and beyond.

I think i may have worded it wrong Matt, i meant we wouldn't get any better crowds, and, we in my opinion still wouldn't get into SL even with Manchester in the name, has i said in an earlier post i wouldn't go to watch them.

...and the RFL would have one less member

And that would bother SDL clubs because???

And to WYSIWYG I am a Leigh supporter and have an interest in Swinton's results but that doesn't mean I would ever support a team called Manchester in ANY sport!

It wouldn't bother them one bit. I almost think that the aim of the RFL is to rid themselves of as many clubs outside SL as they can.

Does anyone actually think that people from Manchester will drive out, past Salford's new ground, down the Lancs turning left into Leigh and not right into Warrington? Of course not. While I think if you are going to do expansion it should be IN the big Northern cities like Manchester and Liverpool if definitely won’t work with another club with no connection either culturally or geographically just changing its name. What Leigh need to do is become a bigger part of the Leigh community not less. Once the money is sorted Leigh Centurions and a group of other local businesses, clubs and charities should all work together to have some sort of Leigh day and have the players there in the town centre with all different attractions doing some sort of rugby thing. We need to make is so when people say Leigh people think about the rugby team.

Agree 100 percent sparrow , a couple of simple questions

Who owns the LSV ?

Who was it built for ?

One simple answer

The people of Leigh

An open invite to the people of Leigh , come to and use YOUR stadium at least once per year , even if that involves letting them in for free ( if we can find a way to do it )