not good for us who have young kids playing sunday morning...might be a few i know who wont be able to make it unfortunately.
unless our coach decides to give them that sunday off as he is a fan then we wont be able to go.

Shouldn’t they have finished their season by then? Or are we talking U8 summer league?

It's a shocking time to play the game,

the under 8's and 9's and emerging 8's all will have games, and as piglet said unless the coach is a giants fan a lot of kids will miss this game.

I know that there is 35+ kids (and families) playing at Moldgreen Jnr’s who will have to make a choice Giants or the team they play for.

The Giants since getting the licence to remain in SL for 3 years guaranteed seem to have forgotten about the community game!

I think you will find this time was chosen benefit the community as they didn't want to lose out to those staying in and watching the TV game.

You can't please all of the people all of the time.

so not to lose the handfull of people who would rather stay home and watch 2 teams they dont support the giants kick off early and lose out on attracting the future of the club,

Ken Davey himself said 4 year ago(when talking about the 7's scheme) that at the age of 7/8 kids are making decisiona as to who they will support for the rest of there life so lets make this decision easy for them and there family's

Any hard evidence (pre and post licence) or is it small minded muck raking?

Quote: Marsdengiant "Any hard evidence (pre and post licence) or is it small minded muck raking?'"

Compare the number of schools this term and the same period last year, the reduction in (experienced) personnel on the community team, all activity now takes place at the ZONE (at a cost) and not at local clubs as it has been done in the past.

I don’t need to muck rake, the Giants have not had a great community program for a number of years and since Lisa left it stalled quite a bit, but having said this Mick Sykes was very active and did what he could with the recourses at his disposal.

With a little thought and a lot of hard work we could have a program as good as Quin’s , Saints or Leeds who at the moment are showing the rest of the game how it’s done.

Give us the actual numbers or are you making it up?

Don't give us this 'not been good for years' stuff. You said since getting the licence they have forgotten the comunity game. So prove it.

Otherwise it looks like the muck raking of a malcontent.

Why would a fellow Giants fan want to muck rake?


Thats just the kind of remark we could do without on here Marsden, its picky and its tedious.


Right 11.30am kick off it is then

I have no idea why someone would want to muck rake. That is why I ask the poster for evidence / proof.

If they are making things up to criticise the club I hope we should be allowed to question it(?) If it is picky to ask a poster to back up criticisms with facts then that is a shame.

I have asked for proof from the poster and so far he / she has provided none.

Barring giving you the school figure which im presuming is lower then it seems answers have been provided there

Doesnt come across as a criticism to me, more just pointing out a few things

my son is under 9s and they doing summer league now too. better weather wise but shame if we miss the game

exactly...my son actually plays for moldgreen under 9s lol

my lad play's for shawcross U8,kick off time for his games are 10.30 sunday mornings
as for the giants in the community,in the 3 years he has been playing the game. at the end of season presentation a member of the giants squad were supposed to turn up at the event,but in 3 years none has turned up
yet we have had bradford,leeds,wakefield and dewsbury players turn up every year.so one would have to agree with DMH or GOD u choose

Whether the complaints can be statistically evidenced or not there is enough anecdotal evidence to suggest they could be doing better.

I am sure i read last year that salendine nook school got to some RL final and there was no significant contact from the club.

Whether that is down to the school or the club i know not, BUT it apeears there are some communication problems that could be improved.