I have to say, I agree with every aspect, well done.

Terry as I have asked you many times, where would the money have come from to go full time.
Which players would we have lost.
Would any of the players available at that late stage have been any better?

Sound advise, my father in law used to say "it doesn't matter what the result is, you still have to go ro work on a Monday"
It's only uneducated jocks who say "it's more important than life or death"
No disrespect intended.

Hi Fax fans.

No sniping & bitching from me so rest easy.

First up, in a small way I am slightly disappointed by this Fax performance myself, I will tell you why.
I have said it here before & just in case of any doubt I will say it again, this league needs the top 4 or 5 to really push each other hard, harder than ever before to stand even a cat in hells chance of scalping a few SL Clubs *between us* in the 8's.

The best scenario for a Leigh fan would be that certainly Fax & Bulls are top 3 at the end & both manage to upset the apple cart by taking a good victory against a SL opponent, while being not quite as strong as Leigh. It would take a strong Fax & Bulls side to help Leigh & you might/might not believe a strong Leigh could also do Fax a favour.

Let's say in theory that Leigh peak for the 8's & qualify for SL without a £1m game (maybe a pipe dream, maybe even not achievable) but Bulls & Fax also have a good 8's. Now, with a bit of turmoil or spiralling loss of form from a Wakey or a K.R *insert any bottom SL Club here* & a defeat or 2 from Bulls or Fax & suddenly either of your Clubs could be in the £1m game with Leigh already promoted. Of course this could also work in reverse, Fax/Bulls promoted & Leigh/another Championship side in the £1m game.

Sounding far fetched so far ?

So, while yes you lost a game & so did Leigh, it is all about building up to the 8's, furthermore I agree wholeheartedly with a poster on the Leigh forum who quite rightly says that it is more important to try & nil teams than win by a big margin but have a leaky defence.
These SL Clubs will punish weak defences & at Leigh this has been an issue, score lot's of tries but defence not quite 100%.

You don't find out much about your team by thrashing a middling or poor Championship team.

So good luck to Fax & Bulls & a few others, push hard & raise the standards of Championship RL to benefit every aspiring Clubs chances of SL in the future.

By the way, HalifaxJohn has become my favourite visiting poster on the Leigh pages, Jagger is quite fun at times but should have spent more time at SKOOL in English lessons.

Hoping & looking forward to a cracker at 'The Shed' Stadium in March.

Steve.

Far as I'm concerned Steve I hope there isn't many thrashings as they do no one any good.

The Championship is bar far the strongest it has been for years.

Some games I will be going to I will have the other team as favourites, some I will be going to Fax will be but there will be a lot where I will be going not knowing who will come out on top, that's the way it should be, a real competition up for grabs edge of your seat stuff.

Workington away will be another tough game, Fax should be good enough but my head says anything could happen and it would not be a total shock if we lost.

I agree faxcar, it's a really strong, good quality Championship & much more exciting for it.
FWIW, while we all as fans would love to see our cherished clubs up in Super Dooper League, the entertainment on offer in this comp is not to be dismissed.

At Leigh we have quite a few Wire fans coming to watch when they have no game & the way they talk about games & how much they enjoy coming to them just goes to show that there is very much life & good RL beyond Super League.

Good Luck for the season.

Tezza, I think if the BOD thought we could go and sustain full time then we would have done but they obviously believe at this current time we need to build the infrastructure to allow that to happen. Getting in to SL is obviously the end game but not at the cost of the club.

Spot on

If I remember correctly Richard had the choice this year either to go full time or to have a Reserve side he had no hesitation in choosing a Reserve side his intention I think is to go full time next year .

You remember correctly, from what I also remember, they wanted to set foundations in place for the longer term plan.. And not all the squad could necessarily go full time just like that anyway...

But more importantly, did they consult Terry on this? Call an EGM

Do you mean an AGM.?

Have a read www.loverugbyleague.com/news_208 ... lifax.html

Have a read www.loverugbyleague.com/news_208 ... lifax.html

Quote ="Faxlore"Have a read www.loverugbyleague.com/news_208 ... lifax.html'" Great article, thanks for sharing.

Quote ="Faxlore"Have a read www.loverugbyleague.com/news_208 ... lifax.html'" Great article, thanks for sharing.

No.

AGM - Annual General Meeting.

EGM - Extraordinary General Meeting.

So I reckon if Tezza is involved it will be extraordinary.

Extraterrestrial General Meeting?

Quote ="Faxlore"Have a read www.loverugbyleague.com/news_208 ... lifax.html'" Yes good find, this and similar statements have been made from shortly after RM coming to the club and although it's him speaking it's very much a club statement it's not him and them who have different agenda's. As I said before it will come down to how much a part time team can be improved to stay with the other sides and if the game gives it enough time.

Quote ="Faxlore"Have a read www.loverugbyleague.com/news_208 ... lifax.html'" Yes good find, this and similar statements have been made from shortly after RM coming to the club and although it's him speaking it's very much a club statement it's not him and them who have different agenda's. As I said before it will come down to how much a part time team can be improved to stay with the other sides and if the game gives it enough time.

Quote ="Faxlore"Have a read www.loverugbyleague.com/news_208 ... lifax.html'" Thank you so much for putting this article on the Forum,maybe the Fax fans who had a go at me will realise what I said makes sense. Everything Richard says I agree with , in fact it could be me who has written the Statement, the 3 year plan which RM has in place is beginning to bear fruit, we just now need to put ourselves on an even keel with Bradford, Leigh, Sheff,and London to see the difference it makes on the field, I won't say I told you so , but Terry knew.

Quote ="Faxlore"Have a read www.loverugbyleague.com/news_208 ... lifax.html'" Thank you so much for putting this article on the Forum,maybe the Fax fans who had a go at me will realise what I said makes sense. Everything Richard says I agree with , in fact it could be me who has written the Statement, the 3 year plan which RM has in place is beginning to bear fruit, we just now need to put ourselves on an even keel with Bradford, Leigh, Sheff,and London to see the difference it makes on the field, I won't say I told you so , but Terry knew.

A strange one is JTBF; think he has a rain man-esque approach in that he seems to make sense in his posts but not in real life.

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Yes Morpheus



So apart from not as many folks been members of clubs or committees as I imagine, it's a quiet news day in Faxland.

Terry old bean, you've more front than Charlie's favourite sea side resort and more faces than the hall of mirrors.
You have constantly said we should have gone full time this year and in some of your posts you have been less than complementary about Richard, even going as far in one to subscribe to Charlie's theory that Richard has been "found out"
Consistency is all we ask.

I think the mods should do an IP check on Jags, I think they may get a surprise who he most likely matches with...........

Let me guess.... Charlie?

Well, knock me down with a feather. Same style, same idiocy.

I hope not, I sincerly hope not.

An interesting w/e of Rugby enough said about our performance was looking fwd to a new venue the 102nd where i have watched semi professional/or professional RL but this has to be up there with the worst of them.
Saturday off to the dark side Doncaster Knights v Yorkshire Carnegie not a bad game for yawnion 8 tries Sinfield didnt play.
Sunday Yorks Cup Final at freezing Hunslet, Fryston comfortably beating North Hull 50-10 sadly game marred by a fight in the Stand & afterwards in Players Bar.I have never witnessed such appalling behavior

Onwards to Workington !!