Remember the days when this forum was full of posts longing for a board that communicated with punters and was willing to inject cash and take the club forward?

12 months ago there was a thread on here asking for people to put their hands in their pockets and see if they had any loose change to buy a telly for in the club shop. Fast forward to today and the club is making all the right noises with a nice layer of dust now gathering on the collection buckets, yet there is more negativity than at some of the club's darkest hours!

Good post mate.

Here, here.

I actually don't think there is a mass of negativity - I think certain debate is not accepted if its perceived as being critical of the club which people view as negative which is crazy as its a fans forum and that's what people do, discuss the good & bad at the club they follow !
Of course on all forums of all sports you will get those who are critical of everything and are never happy, but that is a huge minority and is so on this board.
What hasn't helped is some public spats which should have been played out in a office at the LSV and not across a message board, no one comes out of that well and yet even the way that 'kicked off' was over nothing - it was hardly a crime to ask a question and the question could have been ignored or answered.

I still enjoy coming on here and I would hope the club on realising this is a vital way of getting info out to the lapsed non / occasional fans will realise a lot of Leigh 'fanatics' read and use this board so in effect carry the message forward for them when stuff is passed on.

It would be a mistake if the new BOD / BOM was to miss that trick over some perceived mass constant negativity that in my opinion just isn't here as I'd wager a lot more Leigh fans read these boards than post on them so the message would hit a fair chunk of the clubs target audience, it would equally be a poor day if people stopped posting because then the current minority posting rubbish become the majority posting.
With that the club loses a welcome communication vehicle and the real fans lose some light entertainment keeping in touch with the club from home.

Good post Jenky.

Most posts on here are from folk who are interested in our club.

I disagree with my mates from time to time but we are still mates but there aren't enough of them for a Salfordlads message board.

The communication vehicle will still be there but not answered directly by a member of the BOM though the answer will be from them, and NO it won't be me I chose to retain my autonomy and declined the 'offer'.

Agreed.

Spot on Jenky.

+1

Well said Ganson , we have made many yards forward recently , and Charlie knows we will continue to do so .

Great post Jenky and I know a lot of fans read the forum who don't post so it would be a great loss to lose that direct line of communication with the club. The BOM have done a tremendous job and like everything in life you can't please all the people all of the time. An occassional spat does no harm and if channelled in the right direction can do more long term good than bad.

Speaking personally, I believe the Club should be utilising every possible means of communicating with its supporters - including this website, and I will be pushing for that.

This I totally agree with Mish, I had my username for a reason, in tribute to my Grandad but everyone knows who I am. I sign my posts Lynda, often enough.

RE Posters hiding behiind silly usernames, if they post something they shouldnt etc, they are traceable, ie I could go and get a new username and go and post something controversial and the mods on here would know it was me, as they can look up which other IP addresses I use as well.

Easy enough to cloak IP addresses. Does beg the question as to why you've resurrected this thread a week since it's last post?