Seems like your town has as many people as Widnes,people who 'would' go to the game but 'can't' because the team is in division one,too expensive,too cold,oppositon is crap,waiting for the league season to start proper,no red carpet at the turnstyle etc etc.

or a match against Widnes or Fax maybe should be worth more



And somebody else who suggested that " if W1g4n ever play one game at the LSV " he will never set foot inside it again



I did try to point out that it was out of the clubs control but he was adamant that the board should refuse permission for this to happen or resign

If being up there means with 4 other people??

does the winking eye count for nothing today????????

and I wouldn't have given a flying toss even then, why should I?

A few of us had the same conversation - I know that, if I wasn't a season ticket holder, I'd certainly think twice about paying £14 to watch a game like today's. Topic was raised about possibly categorising different games (commonplace in football) but a cynic would suggest that would merely mean raising the price for the Category A games rather than the original suggestion of lowering it for the less attractive fixtures.

Good riddance if the fool is so petty....... Its not as though they are going to re-arrange 1 of our fixtures to accommodate the crust munchers.Some folk just need the most feeble of excuses to keep away.

Hopefully he will look on here and see your replies

He is a regular on these boards

I have to say that is the one thing I just dont understand

If you dont want to go to watch your team fine , dont

But do not make up excuses that put the blame on the club

Just say " I am bored with the sport , lost interest , have found better things to do , having a break , cannot afford it or whatever else

But if you convince yourself that it is the clubs fault you will become bitter and forever negative and will influence others not to come or to stop coming and most likely will never feel comfortable returning yourself

And that is wrong

No one can say they a bored with what Neil Kelly is doing at Leigh at the moment. When was the last time we had a team full of young Leythers playing without fear. The sad thing is, is the town just isnt interested!

I think there [iis[/i the interest, we just need a few positive results against the big guns to finally convince the doubters that we have indeed turned the corner after a couple of years of dross.

Unfortunately some of our so-called fans have an inability to see the wood from the trees.............Selective Myopia, let them go watch SL in the pub.

1500 including the Stewards

They will be. I have to say the atmosphere was nil in there today. One man said behind me said that there was no atmosphere and I felt like saying why dont you do something about it then, but I was sat there silent. The PA had no build up to the teams coming on the field and our mascot is as entertaining as a funeral. Bring back Parky Pig and his hovercraft.
Playing like we did today and winning against the top teams will bring so many in but the club need to start putting together an initiative to attract families. I hate being sat near fans with drums and trumpets but we need that sort of thing. I stood near the tunnel and looked at the players faces as they came off the field and to me they looked let down by us all. They played very well but looked deflated. I think I will change my ST to the north stand.

If someone brings a drum then they can have my season ticket



Never likely to be 'bouncing' for a game like today, would hope that would change for the 'Haven game as it's usually a good atmosphere against that lot. Be interesting to see whether they join us in the North Stand or the LSV open the South for them.

Keep them in the south stand.

I'd actually have a bit of a curve ball here and open the northerly section of the East Stand for them, would be better for banter purposes but minus the radiation risk. Would hope for common sense stewarding though as, like ourselves, 'Haven would certainly have an element who would wish to stand whilst watching the game and, if I was a visiting fan at the LSV, I'd be a little peeved that home fans have a terrace while away speccies are forced to sit down and shut up.

and discuss how they are going to make the competitions they are playing in attractive to fans

A ' leap of faith ' is required by the clubs directors , if they dont have that in them then professional RL outside SL will wither and die

The idiotic response of a fool..............May I be so kind to point out that the LSV attendances are in actual fact everything to our future !!

Does anyone know if the free u11's ST's are included in the figure posted on sporting life? If so I would say it's rather worrying.

As it happens a regular member of our group made the decision that todays game did not warrant £14 especially in todays non P&R environment and stayed away, he did meet up with us all later on and the scoreline did actually support his judgement.

As Matt stated 1,300 is purely and simply not sustainable. A huge concern I am sure.

come on, its almost impossible to produce a bouncing atmosphere with less than 1500 of us in a 12600 stadium, with no away fans, in a one sided romp. I personally was not looking forward to today's game, as i hate predictable games, and today was one of those games, but the lads did their best to entertain us, and i for one was entertained, thought we played really well, and in the past we would of took our foot of the peddle, but not todsay they kept going and smashed the skolars, as all good teams should do when you have a team on the ropes, what ever the club did or did not do they would of been struggling to drag many more fans in today, so well done lads, and i hope they don't feel let down by us, because as a fan of 30 years i am sure i can think of shed loads of times i've been let down by my team.

I think people aren,t being realistic about todays turn out.

With respect to Skolars they aren,t the most crowd pulling of opponents for what most Leythers would expect to be a rather one sided game.

Its still a couple of hundred better than last time we played em. I think I,m right here, but maybe not, Corporate attendees aren,t included.

A few seasons ago the biggest club in the world (HKR who else) were attracting similar crowds for League games.

Provided the team play attractive rugby I for one think crowds will start to increase game on game. Even more so if we put a string of wins together.

Pray tell us oh knowledgable one how anyone on here can alter what has been, and what YOU have done to boost todays attendance - not that it matters one little bit as what has been has now gone, if people weren't as bothered about prematch boozing rituals and more concerned about really helping thier club then hey we may be a SL team in 3 years, now what was that about being a fool, but like the saying goes it takes one to know one

Their club put 70+ points on the scoreboard and people are still whining.

Who's whining?

Did I say I could alter what has been? No. Are we allowed to discuss a reasonable / sensible / simple question on todays attendance? Well no not according to you. Get down off your self inflated pedestal for one minite and you may realise that to some, todays attendance was more important than the scoreline. It was for me, personally I would take losing every single match this season in return for a average crowd of 4,000. I would find the long term future far more encouraging. We were always going to struggle today and I accept that but if you think 1,300 attendances are of no importance then I'm not going to spell it out to you especially if a certain person was to walk away.

FYI - I do quite a bit for Leigh RLFC, some of us do not feel the need to broadcast it from the rooftops every single day

The idiotic response of a fool.... you said it pal not I you get a lot in div 1.

as for your second rant, heard it all before still means sod all without proof get an extra pint down your neck and wind it in.

Totally agree, also don't think folk are that ar$ed about the group stages of this comp......

Agreed and I don't think we'd have had so many on at HP.