Evening Guys

Just a quick one to wish Wigan all the very best for the up and coming season.

Also while chatting about all things RL with a friend of mine today who is a Wigan ST holder he seemed to be under the impression you are bringing a team of kids for the friendly again this year.

I felt it prudent to inform the Wigan Fans or at least those who read this MB that we have agreements in place and furthermore in writing with Wigan and you have a made a promise to bring over a strong first team squad for what we hope will be a good hit out for your all conquering team of 2013 as you build up to the WCC in Aus.

Would be great to see as many of you over at the Sports Village as possible and I'm confident our boys will deliver a competitive game for you to commence what we hope to be our most exciting season in years.

Yours in Sport,

Andy Mazey
Director
Sporting Club Leigh Ltd (Leigh Centurions)

I enjoyed it last season despite the result and look forward to the game in a fortnight. Do you know whether we will be able to pay on the turnstiles this time? Many of us spent a long time queueing up at the ticket office last year and missed quite a bit of the game.

Won't be able to pay on the gate however tickets are on sale now and can be bought before the day of the game and we have worked hard on a strategy with the stadium management company to improve and better facilitate match day ticket sales so queues should not be a problem this year.

Should be a good day, look forward to seeing you all.

Regards

Andy

Charlie will be looking forward to this game. That's if they let him out.

Charlie knows.

Where is the lad ?

Let's hope the side we bring does have quite a few kids in it. If we bring a first 17 it's not going to be much of a spectacle.

Charlie WILL be attending the Game ,I will be bringing a few of the Wigan branch of the Carolis as my guests ,they are Wigan Latics fans as well as Warriors fans and I was at the Wigan v Burnley game ,best 90 minutes sleep ive had for years .

Im spending more and more time in Wigan these days , I call it my Missionary Work ,some residents in Hawkley Hall have even learned to use knives and forks now .Come along to the LSV on the 19th Jan ,remember the Alamo ,Charlie knows .

I would prefer to watch the new players mixed with the youngsters its much more entertaining. with the first team it would be over in 15 minutes, hopefully in 3 or 4 season Leigh will be closer to top superleague standards but it will take a lot of effort and cost a fair amount.

SRW1996 has the investment only happened because of promotion and relegation? what happens if you don't get the promotion? But good luck with it.

There is no promotion this season, only relegation

Decent side Leigh so it should be a good game.

Looking forward to it.

I know but its going to take 2/3 years to get up to scratch just looked at Widnes. I was asking the question is the investment happening because they know promotion is defiantly returning.

In answer to your question we stepped in May/ June with the club facing possible administration and not able to pay the wages and mountains of historic debt long before any news on P&R was ever a reality, indeed it hasn't officially been confirmed that it's returning yet or in what structure/ format it will be as far as I'm aware?

It's not a poop or bust scenario which many current SL teams adapt and is a long term sustainable model to be built on year on year and we have put together a strong management team and cleared the historic debt and have restructured the whole business. I will not go into detail but I can assure you that we have a very prudently constructed budget which takes into account known revenues and costs (including salaries) and realistic estimates of variable revenues and costs.

Our philosophy has been to increase income and revenue streams and basically if we haven't got it we won't spend it.

In addition (and not part of revenues) we have significant equity commitments which are to be held in reserve against any unexpected occurrences from myself and other board members.

As a board we are mostly new to pro RL but we are treating it as we would any other business which we are involved in and implementing basic KPI reporting, weekly performance reviews, 8 week daily cashflow forecasting etc - people say RL is not like any other business but that is down to the emotional side.

We are not looking at failure as an option but the club will not be at risk should we not get into SL or should P&R not materialise.

I'm fortunate enough to have seen a Top Flight Leigh team beating the likes of Wigan with some of the finest international players (leigh lads) playing in a Leigh shirt in front of packed grounds and while we know it's a long road and a lot of finance and effort it's a road we are now on and travelling at a steady pace down.

We appreciate the help Wigan have given to us and would love to welcome you all on 19/01.

Best Wishes

Andy

I am really glad to hear that, I wish every club hierarchy could hand on heart honestly say they are willing to put that much effort in. Wish you all the success and i wish i could attend.