No need to apologise, last sat was my 1 st Leigh match in over 12 months, and I wont be there tommorrow

The reason? , I've stopped enjoying it, simple as , hopefully I will start to enjoy it again

That's the problem.

Once a fan stops enjoying it, they find something more enjoyable to fill their Sunday's and it becomes increasingly more difficult to entice a fan back the longer they are absent. (About 100 times as a more tangible measure after a year out I reckon)

Last week I told everyone about a fan I bumped into at the Whitehaven match who also had been absent a while but like Starbug he said he won't be back either this week.

Now make of that what you will but I got slated on here big time for giving a reason as to why He said that.

I do hope we play some entertaining Rugby League on the park today

The game today didn't help we sort of packed in playing when the game was won, we need to entertain for the full 80

The game today didn't help we sort of packed in playing when the game was won, we need to entertain for the full 80

We lost a lot of Momentum when Riddy went off , but you cant blame PR for that I would have done the same .

The lads played the game exactly to PRs wishes. He said in his pre match interview that he would hope that we could have the game sealed by 50 mins so that we didn't have to struggle for the full 80 and have something in the tank left for thursday. I take my hat off to the team today for achieving this and for doing exactly what the coach required of them. Ant Nicholson for me to start from now on. We look more on the pace with him there. Steve Madan has had his worst game today for a long time and hope he has got it out of the way and does'nt repeat today on thursday. We have got a fantastic pack coming on and if we didn't have to loose Sam it would be a winning team next season. Don't know what upset Michael Ostick on our line but I have never seen that side of him ever on a field. I would be looking at the young Presley for next year I thought he had a top game for York and we definitely need a lively scrumhalf like him if Pendlebury is still too young. All in all I enjoyed todays game I thought the York team never gave up and all credit to them. When they were warming up I said that they just looked like kids compared to us but they didn't play like them. Satisfied with today but I'm worried about Greg. We could do without loosing him for thursday.

I have two primary roles at the club one is overseeing the community aspects of the structure, the other is being communications leader of a great communications team which we are hoping to develop into the finest in the game.

As part of the communications team I will use any means I feel necessary to communicate and interact with our fan base, I've had nothing but positive feedback both from fellow BOD members and all the fans I have so far met and received messages from so please forgive me if I chose to overlook your very kind advice.

From reading and partaking in this MB I've been able to feed many of the ideas and points that are raised (good and bad) into the works we are doing to improve all aspects of the club and though its early days the majority seem pleased with progress so far.

Cheers

Andy'"

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See me after skool hahaha :O)

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You mean the majority on this MB, which is 30 agreeable people at the most, all who love the Wiggin twinning agreement, not the 1300 who turn out at the games OR the few thousand who have stopped attending games. By continuing to post on this MB you are setting yourself up for the biggest of falls if things go wrong. As a professional chairperson you should stick to the conventional communication channels NOT this MB which his meant for fans of both Leigh and the opposition, Wiggin fans included.

This MB should be used not just for positive feedback BUT also for negative feedback whether you like it or not because it is the MB of the people NOT of the management.'"

WYSIWYG - Put a sock in it "mate".

Most fans don't even know what the people who run their clubs look like, don't know their names and never get the chance to speak to them ever,

The fact that he communicates with us on here is a privilage and i'm sure he would'nt do it if he didn't want to hear what the fans have to say and hear their ideas and issues.

I think it takes some guts to do it and reassures me that he has the clubs best interest at heart.

Sums up the Canadian Leythers opinion. This has gone beyond constructive criticism.
I have found the posts by the people now involved in the club nothing but informative and professional. So many threads on here in the past have suffered from a lack of information or correctly informed comment, and have spun out of control because of that, sometimes leading to damaging rumours evolving.

First off, I'm not Andy - my name on the post is a clue there.

Secondly, why should I not post on here, please? Have I been banned? I post MY opinions and FACTS, which hopefully COMMUNICATE messages to supporters, (and non-supporters, of course.)

I will repeat, the idea is to COMMUNICATE, using whatever channel available,to try and get supporters and sponsors down to the club. Personally, I don't think that's a bad aim. For instance, when I've done the programme, I give a taster of what's in it, on this message board, and our opponents' message board - the idea being, to ADVERTISE the programme to potential buyers.

Should I not be doing that? Should we in fact be producing a programme? It's contents are open to ridicule.
Should we be communicating with the press? To do so, leaves us open to ridicule.
Should we have Fans' Forums? They leave the presenters open to ridicule.
Should we have LCTV? It runs the risk of the players/commentary team being open to ridicule.
Should we broadcast games? That leaves us open to ridicule.
Should we be boosting the club on Twitter and Facebook? That surely leaves us open to ridicule?

I accept, and have posted on here, (exposing myself to ridicule) that you are perfectly entitled to express your opinion. Strangely enough, I believe that I also am entitled to my opinion, and should be allowed to post facts on here, to help folks get an understanding of what goes on at the club.

Oh, and by the way, I don't know whether your final sentence was aimed at 'Andy' or me, but if it was me, I would be insulted by it and would humbly suggest that it infringes the rules of this forum. However 'ridiculed' I feel, I would not lower myself to issuing petty insults - that really would expose me to ridicule, not to mention being banned!