I think as much as moving games to Friday, it's been the inconsistency with what day we play that is the problem. With Thursday, Friday and Sunday all featuring it's difficult for a lot of people to be available for all the games, and difficult for the occasional fan to even know when we're playing.

We've also not done community work, kids are the future!

Ryan would make an excellent representative for a community dept .

We are getting a new community department. The last one failed miserably to do what it was supposed to do and was driven more on trying to win awards rather than engage with the community in the interests of Leigh centurions.

We never did any 'real' community work, we went to the same schools with the same offers that took money out of the club because they ended up with folk who would have been paying full price anyway.

We need to excite the kids to want to come, that means a big name player they can associate with and a kid free with adult deal that is on all season, with the JC's as the glue holding things together

So our new plan to employ 18 year olds do it and link with wigan will work, why would Wigan help us compete for fans they could have! Don't make me laugh, conflict of interest !

You've just suggested using young Ryan????

We need to have players employed by the community dept we get an allowance off the salary cap for this .
Ryann Brierley would do an excellent job IMHO parky pig too working in the community .
They didn't even apply for community club of the year , they didn't know anything of it till it was awarded. In fact it was the community dept contribution to our SL bid that won them the award.

Ryan is 20 btw

He's not an academy player

Who cares about awards! We want a community dept to help increase crowds not to go after awards. That's where the last one went wrong.

Starbug please stop using Dick's log in or if you want to continue at least try to dumb down your posts so it's not so obvious

Congratulations , it takes a special sort of Moron to throw out 4 insults in 1 sentance, firstly I dont need to hide behind anybody else's user name, if I want to comment on here, I will

Secondly, you think Lynda would let me use here name

Thirdly, you suggest she isnt allowed an opinion of her own , maybe you are the sort of person that expects their spouse to stick to washing up and cooking, caveman then

Lastly you suggest she needs to ' dumb ' it down ? , how very nice of you, perhaps youll have the balls to go to the Centurion on Tuesday to apologise for the insinuation , given tgat she spent 3 nights last week running around , arranging stuff to support Leigh Centurions

D***head

WTF you laughing at pillock?

Just finished my ironing , what have I missed!
PMSL at at the idea of Steve logging onto my account, it's no wonder he no longer posts on here.
I'm not having a go at the Club just answering why IMHO Fev have increased their fan base.

You still haven't grasped it have you.
They didn't apply to win any awards.
It was the work they did on our last SL bid that won them it.

Anyway we won't win it for this year will we!

I was laughing because I thought it was funny. I see that you still have your warm and welcoming persona despite having a spell in hibernation.

Fev have also been playing great rugby for three seasons. That defineatly brings in the fans.
This season we have been closer then last year , so were closing the gap on the field , let's try and do the same off it.

IMO The previous community department when all things are considered were excellent, worked hard and had lots of great ideas, of course they could have done more but with the limited budget they probably had to spend too much time and effort not chasing the awards as some have said but chasing the potential funding.

One of its biggest problems (and the current one is the same*) was lack of publicity of what they actually did, having a mini-bus with logo’s on etc shows a community presence. around the towns, when they visit schools, or festivals, etc. We use to have a plain white mini-bus for community use, I’ve drove it

(under the guidance of Mr Chairman, only cos they couldn't get it off East's car Park,

) , do we no longer have it?

Blackburn have about 4 of these, not only for their weekly community work but they also take their disabled supporters to away games in them, could we do this? Or even the JC’s, Even if they had to pay the travel cost.

*The publicity is so lacking I’m not even sure we currently have one?

Exactly Glow. What's the point of a community dept that no one ever really knew that it existed ?

I also believe bringing young people into an apprenticeship scheme, installing a working culture and giving them a purpose within a structured in house training programme is a step in the right direction. One the club should be applauded for and one that will eventually deliver it's objective.

It is also a community programme the club can now control as I was informed the last one was working independent of the club.

This was from September last year onwards when the staff was made redundant by the club.
Young lads can not apply for the grants though etc etc Hannah and co could and have got secured and in place.

Since then, they have worked independant of the club, one of their projects that they funded with grants was the boards that are on the walls under the North Stand.

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Does it exist now?
Who are they?
What have they done?
What are they doing?

=#0000FFMy understanding and I stand to be corrected, is the previous Community Department (although officially an independent trust) was/is only operating totally independently from the current management of the club, the previous management worked in partnership with them.

I don’t really understand why the current management has taken the decision to move away from this. I’m neither knocking that decision nor having a go at the new kids on the block, I just don’t know why. If it’s been explained before then sorry but I’ve missed it.

I must admit I was forming an opinion based loosely on hear say.

I have since learned a lot more of the work the girls in the community dept or trust did behind the scenes and the grants/funding they secured that will now not be available to us.

So I'm now not entirely sure why the club have taken this move myself either considering (as it would appear) it will now be tied in with a Super League club's own community programme.

I shall ask at the next fans forum.

Good idea

Everyone will have seen a small part of what their funding was spent on under the concourse of the North Stand.