Lots of people of upped their LISA membership fees to double today, including our new CEO .

Great idea but how is the money put into the club going to be used? I'm aware the current problems are due to external circumstances but if the money you all put in is going to be spent on players (a stated aim of LISA), how do you propose that the club is going to become sustainable? Simply buying players isn't going to do it. And what happens when this money runs out? Do you do another appeal for more members or wait for the knight on his white horse to come along again and again?

If I were a Leigh supporter I'd be questioning where my money has been going to in the last few years since the club appears to have been reliant on an external benefactors contributions which, now it is no longer there, has left the club up the creek without a paddle. It obviously hasn't been spent on making your club sustainable.

I had a brilliant response so far , to the appeal for 1000 members but what I ve also got is people upping their membership to double, which is brilliant, as I said, our new CEO is also doing this.

We all need to pull together here and get what we all want, a team to support next year.

FWIW I dont want a seat on the board neither for all my hard work, my pleasure will be to know that Ive done the best I could to save my club.

Rochdale, who are currently third in Championship 1 for those that think the model doesn't work. They're also not far from posting a small profit. Obviously as a supporter owned club, that profit will be reinvested into the club rather than lining the pockets of a sugar daddy.

Oh and they don't own their stadium either so have very few money making avenues from that.

Maurice your climbing aboard that big horse again .

nor is huddersfield, warrington, and dewsbury, but they are still in there too.

regardless of where we play and what competition it is. the point is, we had our club taken away from us because the then owners decided they were bored and shut it down.

we wouldnt let it die, we run the club, we control the club and no one person can cause us to fail.

You haven't grasped the situation we find ourselves in , we have had a benefactor making up the shortfall from what the club can ' earn ' via playing RL and ' raise ' via donation , this benefactor has found himself very rapidly in a position of no longer being able to make up this shortfall , therefore to secure the short term future of the club , we need an influx of cash , what we are suggesting is a large scale increase in the monies provided both by the LISA membership ( fans ) , and the corporate Club ( sponsors ) for a period of time until more long term plans can be arranged

which is great, but who owns the club? by the time you've done all this hard work someone could have come in and bought the club, thanked you for your cash and then decided that they want nothing to do with you (as in LISA and the corporate club).

so why not be doing both?

You have a shareholder husband who has access to all financials by right, transparency comes with a shareholding - you still do not understand that being a Director/Sitting on the board is very different to having a shareholding. Oh and if that was a dig at me, I attend too many board meetings as it is - very over rated imho.

I didnt mean you that was crazy lol

Martyn , a trust might well be the way forward for Leigh in the future , either as a part of the club management structure , or as a shareholding funding organization , but right now , all it would do is confuse the issue , and most probably reduce the potential for raising money quickly