Go on then, I have got 2 out of 3 how do I join the Lottery?

Yeah i would also like to join the lottery. My dads already a member do i just ask the rep when they come round?

Get a standing order set up ring the lottery office at LSV

I suppose by contacting the club .I know they have collectors who come round as in my area too .

Roll up, roll up, pour every spare penny you've got into Leigh rugby!!

Is there a way we can all just transfer our wages straight into the club without ever touching it? Imagine who we could buy.

You can mock Jimmy but if people want a club then they have to pay for it. If you dont want to contribute don't it is that simple but don't mock those who do, after all it's the price of a pint not a months wages.

I do contribute, I contribute plenty, what I'm mocking is the tradition of as soon as everything is going good, as soon as theres a bit of a feel good factor about the club, lets try and squeeze a bit more blood out of the loyal supporters, I think after buying home and away shirts, attending meals, poker nights, joining the lottery, the touchdown club, being a member of LISA, Centurion TV, buying tickets home and away, travelling to Whitehaven, Worky, Doncaster, Featherstone etc, it might only be the 'price of a pint' to join LCTV but throughout the year we've already bought a brewery.

Surely theres going to be a time when enough is enough.

This is where you are wrong. I have watched Leigh for over 50 years. We are now in an era where every club is a business. You can't rely on half time draws and lotteries. You have to sell the club as a business. For instance, if Tescos or Asda are selling GMO vegetables which have been contaminated, then you ain't going to buy them. Similarly, if Leigh decide to contaminate the club by merging with Wiggin, then a true Leyther who sees Wiggin as the enemy, well they ain't going to turn up to matches.

It isn't up to the fans to finance the club. It is up to the BOD/BOM to invest money into the club. It is up to the BOD/BOM to finance an independent Leigh RLFC that attracts the best players in Rugby League and therefore attracts top crowds back to Leigh RLFC. Look what Arthur Thomas did. He invested money and he was on the verge of getting a top team back at Leigh RLFC, unfortunately the recession hit him and Leigh hard, otherwise I am quite sure that he would have guided us back into the big time.

I applaud the BOD/BOM for stabilising Leigh and getting them on a level footing, but without real invested money, not the fans' money, the most we can expect is a top four Championship side.

You can all slag me off but that is the truth of the matter.

It's only the truth as you see it. Yes Arthur 'donated' a lot of money into the club and God love him for that, but he also left the club in a big financial mess which left us hours away from going bust (I say donated because that's what he did; there was no investment, he simply signed cheque after cheque without taking care of the business side of things).

How can you say you have watched Leigh for over 50 years when, by your own admission, you don't even go any more. In my mind, that makes you an ex-fan. A fan is someone who supports the team rather than the business and you don't do that.

For every penny spent going to away games not one goes to our club (except perhaps if one travels with LISA) so it's there where that logic is fundamentally flawed.

As for people wanting others to actually pay for their entertainment again it's morally wrong, if people are too mean then say so instead of another excuse to whinge and moan but then again some are making a career out of it on here, and I see the record needle is still stuck.

I must find that ignore button, too many cranks on here these days.

I have stopped watching Leigh for a reason (Wiggin merger) as have another 4000 fan for other reasons. It is up to the current BOM/BOD to tempt those lost fans back NOT by asking for more money off fans BUT tempt them back by committing to more investment into a Championship winning team. Leigh RLFC is a business - lost fans are possible customers. Tempt them back - don't ask them to subsidise you.

I concur


Partly

Thanks Steve, I love being the most hated person on this board :O)

Catankerous, opinionated, stubborn perhaps, hated? Never

I will have to try harder haha :O) But I always have LEIGH RLFC in my heart even though most would not think that.

WYSIWYG , you have spelt Wigan wrong

there are not 2 Gs , in the name there are 4 Wiggggin

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As in Charlie loves Wiggggin!!!!!! :O)

CHARLIE only loves one club , Leigh Centurions , mi owd Dad told me "You only ever Support and Love one team in your Life , so choose well ", Charlie chose the Centurions way back in 1960 ,and has never regretted his choice , im a born and bred Leyther , and proud of it .

I don't know Charlie. You give a very good impression of a Wigginer.

Anyway, I'm going to leave you all. I'm bored.

I'm like that person who always gets to the ATM just before you, or someone who leaves his sweaty socks all over the house, or the bloke who flicks through all the channels when you are trying to watch something.

I may have annoyed you all but you will all miss THE WHIZZ - enjoy your posts about the 2p cheaper pint in The Goose and the "Who played Rigsby in Rising Damp?" posts and "Aren't Wiggin lovely!!!" and "I love you Andy!!!"

Good luck to Leigh and PR in the TTTE Cup Final.

I for one will not miss the Whizz. I don't hate you But I do dislike how you derail so may threads with the same blinkered, out dated stance.
Fred gives Leigh so much more than most, his precious time. For him to encourage us all to step up a little more is quite within his right. Some of us already do enough some could do more, me included. A few fans have just invested thousands (BOM), if more of us step up now, it is the best chance that Leigh will rise and we will not have to do it again in the future.

I certainly won't miss him ,don,t hate him as I don,t know him .

We have risen from the ashes so many times why don't we change our name to Leigh Phoenix?

Thank God for that

It will stay that way forever

I don't care what we are called, Centurions, Phoenix, Comics, Bears, .......
This is the best chance we've had in many a year thanks to the fans who have stepped up as the BOM, and the loyal volunteers who give so much of their precious time and effort. Link that with the up coming structure change in the RFL league setup and NOW is the time. And I do mean NOW, not 2014 or 2015. A small show of faith (or a little more faith for those of us that already contribute some and can afford a little more) is most likely to give us what we all want in the near future. It may not but I'm willing to take that chance.

Thanks for that Paul, yes we (me and our Dave) do give a lot of time but it's because we actually care for the club, it wouldn't matter to me if Ghengis Kahn was the Chairman (though saying that have you seen that John Roddy when he hasn't shaved!!!!) or Pol Pot was the coach or if we were twinned with Hades Rovers. Leigh RFC is my club and will always be my club, yes I stayed away once for one game but I was so glued to the radio trying to get an update it drove me bloody mad, I'm just glad to put something back into a club that has given me so much pleasure - hold on should that be pain - over the years, that for me pride when stopping away doesn't count one bean, I want my club to be there for the future generations and falling out with a Rugby Club because of pride says just one thing, your selfish, as your pride could destroy or certainly help to destroy something that most of us love, especially when people hide behind a stupid reason to hide their pride (or try to hide it).
Plus if we didn't enjoy doing it we wouldn't do it but would certainly never consider staying away because of an old fashioned out of date reason of being linked with Wigan - and yes I don't like it also but it is purely a business decision full stop.