Personally I'm not frickin bothered , it wont affect me , but obviously it will some others

So two fans like the friday night gamble out of all the responses,sorry the cherry and white fella as well ,great you have 3 fans

Don't forget you can reserve your seat when you buy your season ticket

Come on its been a few days now since this was announced, get out of the pram, pick your toys up, get back in your pram and ask Mummy and Daddy to wheel you down the LSV on Friday nights, jobs a good em. See ya there.

Cracking post from Matt!!
Lets all just get behind it an give it a go. I think some people may be shocked with the results.

And anyway, what happened in our time of struggle, to all the fans saying "oh I'll be there to support my club no matter what. Come rain, sleet or snow. I would give my last penny or breath to make sure i still have a club to watch..... yadda yadda yadda...etc." ?????????

There's always gonna be a few people can't make any game. Even on Sundays. There's always a christening or summat. That's life. You learn your fixture list, and if ur able to go, fine. If summat clashes, either try and maybe work somethin out or don't. Its not the end of the world....

Friday though Jacko, Fridays. The worlds gonna end, we're playing on a friday.

Lads night at LSV!!!! Could mean earlier nights and less hangover

ha ha

Haha I wouldnt count on it pal.

No early bird this season so the correct comparison (ie without the politician style spin) would be with the full price last season. I don't know what it was but I reckon it would show an increase of 10-15% as opposed to your alarmist 55%.

I'd say it's also probably worthwhile comparing with 2010 prices as there were a little more realistic if memory serves me right versus last year's price cut.

They were given 48 hours to make the decision, glow. (hence, at the time of the Forum, they did believe that Sunday was our day) One of our objectives - a big one - is to build a database of all our regular fans, for communication info.to/from.

Don't forget, the 'corporate' people we refer to, are fans too.

Possibly - but it's a heck of a long time in advance, to have all your weekends planned. Makes me realise just what a waste of time attempting to communicate with supporters could be, if they are really 100% organised, that far in advance.

Maybe not all the other 2,000 go on this board though j-i-c? If you took the objectors on here, you could argue that only 20 or so supporters actually object to Friday nights?

After a fantastic last year on the field for Leigh, This to me is a terrible decision, Your fan base has increased for the last 3 years and Many of the Loyal fans who follow home and away are now not going to bother,They wont drag their mates along etc, The away support will also drop which will bring your average gate down,You ticked a Major box with the NRC cup win last year and would have though you would have pushed for the crowd average box to be ticked this year, then next season concentrate on everything else, (widnes style).

Leigh have been in financial trouble twice in a short space of time,Saved from relegation only 2 seasons ago to last seasons performances is remarkable, lets remember the fans make the club, without them and the LISA memberships etc would you still be here as a club. Why would a rugby club ask players when they would like to play ?. My employer doesn't ask me when i would like to work. They get paid to do a job, simple as that, they get told when to play and if its no good then perhaps another club would be better suited.
Corparate hospitality is great and so is sponsorhship, but remember companies and sponsors struggle in this economic climate as you know too well, The fans are the cogs in the mechanism and everything else is just the wheels, without the cogs, nothing works

Nail on the head my friend.


Pity the alco pop brigade who think fridays nights will be the night to party and watch leigh at the same time seem some what deluded,but as long as the kiddies can drink there alco pops on a friday night who are we too complain.


Mind you they are properly the ones who make you cringe when you see them chanting the usual nonsense at games

Or alternatively it means I know I and other families can attend the game without a risk of "the weather's nice, let's go to the beach" etc which undoubtedly affects some of our crowds on a Sunday.

The club had 48 hours to make a decision in unusual circumstances - e.g can't use the pitch for 6 weeks, (do 'Fax consult the fans about when they want games played, to compensate for that, when the Shay is being seeded?) and sharing with another Championship club for a season. (were 'Fax's fixtures given priority, when Huddersfield were sharing, last season?)

We would dearly like to be in a position of being able to communicate direct with all our fans, and we are actually working on that.

As for asking the players, well they've suffered a lot currently, and the least we can do is talk to them, which doesn't actually cost us anything!

Fax know too well about sponsors and corparate packages etc not going according to plan, Link Telecom who were a big sponsor of fax went under whilst sponsoring us and it had a big effect. However it all turns out i wish your club nothing but the best, I wont be able to travel to any friday night games this year and will miss this fixture above all the others, the friendly atmosphere and chanting was fantastic last year in every encounter. Perhaps i might have to hope its on TV and buy a decent surround sound package and whack the volume up.

Halifax have had 4/5 yrs of consistant growth on the field and yet you still struggle to get above 2000 home spectators,why is that?.

I'd expect our game to get shifted to the Thursday. Hoping so anyroad as I can't make the Friday either, but so be it.


You know how people who no longer attend Leigh games harp on about 1971, 1981/82 etc and how that means we might as well be playing pub rugby these days? Well 'Fax were in third spot as recently as 1998 so I think they face our problem ten-fold!

Whilst the Fax man makes some good points I think he is wrong about the away support.

Lets be honest Fev Fax and last season Widnes brought a decent following but for whatever reason the rest do not. That is an undeniable fact.

Now regarding this coming season the matches against Fax and Fev would have probably been televised anyways.

Some cannot make Fridays well we still have some games on Sundays.

You cannot please everyone when it comes down to deciding on which day to play.

Swinton applied to the LSV company to play at the stadium. They did not apply to or ask Leigh RLFC for permission because they have no say in the matter.

Fax vs leigh is on thursday night.
The return fixture is on friday night at the moment,no doubt it could be changed to thursday.

Fax and fev wer probably the only 2 away games i was going to next season because i've other things to do with my money at the moment.As they are both on tv i will probably be giving them a miss as well.

I bet you a pint of Frank's money that you're at every game as normal John

This is what i'm trying to say Matt,clubs need to change the way they do business.

Alan, to say you were only communicating answers to questions asked i find your post confrontational this is'nt a Fax is better than Leigh post.

Leigh only had 48 hours notice that the pitch would be resufaced ?. hard to beleive or some serious communication problems somewhere between Council/LSV/Leigh

Yes Fax's fixtures took priority over the Shay, The shay is being resurfaced this year so we are playing 4 away games on the trot, not changing the dates. Fax have a ten year lease with the council for the stadium therfore HRLFC take priority over anybody borrowing the pitch, we share with FC Halifax town and although most supporters of each club dislike the other it works very well indeed.

Talking to the Employees is fine, Cowtailing to what they want is different, As for communicating with your fans, Did you not do that at the Fans forum and tell them sundays to only go and change it fridays ?. i believe that to be the case and i would be pretty peed off too as a supporter. I would have thought that season ticket sales would be a main priority to get the money in the pot so the club can reach its business plan as to not breach salary cap ( 30% of turnover IIRC ) and not get a points deduction again. Looking at the 25 pages of responses it appears to me that this has/will have a adverse effect on ST sales.

Take your Leigh head off and look at it from a outsiders pespective and you might see what i mean.

Thats a good question, If you can answer it please send it to every club below SL level. Increasing caverage crowds by 50 -100 fans is hardly making strides is it ?.

Every Method every club has tried below SL has little or no effect at all, ( unless you double your last gate of the season by giving Free tickets out and counting them on the attendances )