How about something to do with Leigh rugby that wont offend .

I cant believe some people are so hung up on a bloody song, get a grip and chill out and if you dont like it there is no need to get all personal to those who sing it, its just a bloody song!!!

Have the club been warned by the RFL in the past about this song or was that a rumour.

Just a rumour

I can't be bothered. No, in fact I don't want to. I have never sang it but think that of all the songs that are sung around the country, I find the flute song to be one of the quirkiest and most interesting there is.

Well there you go then enough said

Well it simply doesn't offend me so why would I want to try and change it when no-one would listen anyway?

WF your points make absolutely no sense. This song has not been sung on the terraces of our club for 30 years at all. Where have you got that from? Secondly if you are trying to say that this crap has a cultural attachment to the club you are a fool.

I first heard it in the mid to late 80's so it is a good 20 years old.

I thought it was composed (well the Leigh version) in the late 90s in the Boars Head by a lad that no longer gets to games much if at all ????

It has not been around before 1990 and I would hazzard a guess at about 1995.

When did Salford trash to pubs because it had been sung at Leigh for about a year before that.

Why not substitute the word IRA with the word Taliban, an equally repulsive organisation yet, more in 'tune' with current events and it gives support to our brave Service Personel currently attempting to rid the world, of this evil organisation!

However you sugar coat it, its a cr@p cringe worthy embarressing song, and as already said nowt to do with supporting Leigh.
Maybe the club should help by not playing the tune. The tune is harmless and fitting to celebrating but it puts in their yeds to start singing about IRA and hating (F@ck) W1gan instead of about Leigh.

Well although I think the Taliban are a repulsive bunch of loonies if you substitute that for The IRA you will notice that it does not scan properly.

Try it at home when there is no-one about otherwise your nearest and dearest might think there is something wrong.

There is one and only one offensive word in the song which is causing this lengthy thread and I wonder if objectors would be ok with using stuff instead of the F word.

My view' as I have said before' is that there are a lot more important things to get worked up about than a swear word heard at a sporting event for goodness sake you hear the word in a pub on busses and trains.

It would concern me a lot more if our supporters took to physically assaulting other teams supporters just because they did not support the same team as them.