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Administration no longer counts.....see Crusaders/Wakey. SL chairmen voted to change the rules a few weeks before Cru went into admin remember.

...and to JC, you may have to believe just that

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dont you beliebe it Derek they will use anything to slap an upstart team down

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kcab sfrawdder Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg



I'd suggest discussing applying for SL in three years time is the least of our problems right now

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Well as I see it there are two options:

1) There is an angel waiting in the wings and there will be announcement from the club tomorrow saying basically "ha ha fooled you...this is actually good news...so and so is coming on board with a wad of cash, Millward is staying etc. etc."

2) There is no angel in the wings and we are cast adrift. If we see coach and players disappear I think things would go downhill pretty quickly. I would certainly fear for the future of the club and whether there was a will for fans to carry on. What a sad day that would be.

I really hope its option 1, but would be pretty annoyed that the club led us up the garden path like that. But I cannot bear to think about option 2. Timing is really odd though and I cannot figure it out.

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I was talking to someone on Saturday who told me and another Board user that there are Investors waiting in the wings.

Fingers crossed.

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kcab sfrawdder Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg



Quote: frankb "I was talking to someone on Saturday who told me and another Board user that there are Investors waiting in the wings.

Fingers crossed.'"


He meant you and Glow , you daft bugger icon_wink.gif

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Heard a lot of rumours the last couple of years but none of them have seemed to come off. No doubt that someone will want this club who you have to say is already the favourite for a franchise in 2015. We have a young good leigh team with a state of the art stadium with a growing fanbase with every game we win. We proved last week we can cope with playing Super League opponents. So come on potential investors fight to be part of this exciting club!

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I can't believe AT would just cast the club adrift ,he has put too much time and effort and money into this club to see it go down the pan icon_razz.gifRAY:

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What surprises me is that there are no rumours. No-one inside or near the club seems to know why AT has gone. No-one has talked to Basil. The usual twitterers are not tweeting.

It is ominously quiet.

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kcab sfrawdder Luck is a combination of preparation and opportunity Just to avoid confusion Starbug is the username of Steven Pike SOMEBODY SAID that it couldn’t be done But he with a chuckle replied That “maybe it couldn’t,” but he would be one Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done, and he did it!:9005.jpg



Quote: jason b "Heard a lot of rumours the last couple of years but none of them have seemed to come off. No doubt that someone will want this club who you have to say is already the favourite for a franchise in 2015. We have a young good leigh team with a state of the art stadium with a growing fanbase with every game we win. We proved last week we can cope with playing Super League opponents. So come on potential investors fight to be part of this exciting club!'"


What we have here is the eternal ' Chicken and Egg ' scenario

What comes first , the investement , or the support ?

If you look , it is usually the support first , there tends to be no shortage of investors in sports clubs with strong fan bases , only rarely does the investement come first

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the only silver lining I can see if the club went belly up would be that Scarborough Centurions would hopefully get a couple of sets of kit before the bailiffs got their hands on them! Black humour is the only comfort I have at the moment.

I have to say that the timing of the announcement does suggest that there is a Plan B in effect, but it is odd announcing the departure first. Still, nothing was said about removing financial support, we are just making an asumption that this will go along with it....

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Dave Parky on twitter says that the staff were only told at 4pm today and Allan Rowley failed to appear on his podcast tonight. Says he is finding it difficult to find anything out.

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like most people say the timing is weird.a semi final a few weeks away (possible final around 8 weeks away).unbeaten in the league,crowds growing (slowly),playing great rugby and a real good feeling factor building all the time.
im only hoping that arthur has done a deal with someone to come in and finish the great work he and basil have been doing.
lets get behind the team in numbers on sunday and make a racket,there might just be someone in that crowd coming to see what they are going to get themselfs into.......i hope

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I doubt Mr Thomas has taken the decision lightly but he has obviously said 'enough is enough', he has been looking at a "build it and they will come" scenario but despite his continual investment, a very good coach and consistently excellent performances on the field, they didn't come in sufficient numbers.

Unless his investment is replaced, the duals will go straight away, Chris Hill and a couple of others will go before the end of the season , the coach will go sharpish (if he is still here); the latter could have been the catalyst for Arthur's decision.

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I personally think that this as been on Arthur`s agenda for a while and there is a new backer coming in to take over....... when I was leaving Sheffs ground yesterday I saw the chairman and he looked very happy - would someone who was gona walk out and leave us in the poo look like this?........ lets all just wait and see what happens.

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