It can be arranged

Speaking of flags Matt are they all coming out for the Wire and goons games, and if so can we have them in the north stand?

Why that would be quite hilarious. Fame at last.




Of course you had a higher attendance than a few, what must be asked though is do you bring more to the table than those other teams. The franchise application would suggest not.
25-30 joke seasons? Your fans would love as many 'joke' seasons as us, never been relegated and has stood us in good stead for the future. You're talking daft.
I full expect us to win by 30 on sunday, if we didn't i'd chalk it up as a good performance by Leigh.



Again Buggy, no I don't mean you at all.
You have fair views, I don't necessarily agree with them but you put them across fairly and have a point in most cases

What do you know of our franchise application? If its from the Dick Lewis interview on Granada reports then you know nothing. I think he stated we had no youth development compared to Celtic....absolutely laughable.

Remember this...and Widnes suffered too....the contents of our franchise applications were completely ignored.

The Murphy one is half-completed at the moment, hoping we'll have it in time for the Humbles game but not sure. Rest will be out for the Wire game and will probably be at the front of the North Stand (can't be bothered with the hassle of getting 'clearance' to put them in the East).

I hope you don't mind me nicking your genious flag design on here mate? I was going to put it on the back of the new jersey until I saw the centurion logo on the back. you've made a great design hats off to you mate

I didn't say I knew anything.
If you were the best application then you would have got the gig.
You didn't. I thought the RFLs comments on the matter on their website seemed fair enough.

If over the next few years you got 3000 down to the LSV, and competed well as you've a fairly British side, great facilities you'd stand a much better chance. Lets be honest Wakefield and Salford will be gone and the Crusaders are hanging on a thread

The RFL wanted to expand rugby league so that's why Celtic in your words "got the gig" not because they had a better franchise than us or widnes!

I'd love to claim the credit, but it was a group effort by many on here contributing ideas, and the final design being completed by [size=50a Wigan fan.[/size Hoping it'll look even better in the flesh (or is that cotton?)

A franchise is what you can offer the competition.
Many at the time would have agreed Celtic had the potential to offer much, they still might but yes, in hindsight now it does look a mistake.
We will see but in your opinion what would Leigh have offered different? What would they have brought to the table that Salford, Warrington, Saints or Wigan in this small area don't already?

we dont offer anything different.what we would offer is another club for the young players around this area an opportunity to play RL at the highest level and believe it or not a competitive leigh team would increase gate receipt for the clubs round here considerably

We wouldn't of breached the licience due an inadequate stadium unlike celtic our stadium is SL worthy & better than quite a few there right now.

...and the meeting of various other criteria, or at least thats what they had evryone believing

Young players get all the SL opportunity they need. There isn't enough to go round as it is imo, not of SL quality anyway.
There's room for one more north west club imo, you and Widnes in a scrap Harry Hill style.

i believe there's a surplus of british players who are not getting a chance because of the pressure on the bigger clubs inparticular to get instant success.wakey are a good example they had 4/5 players in there team who had played for us a season or to before.how many players did wigan let go who came through the ranks and then went on to better things.they are there they are not getting the opportunity

I think they will now though.
Although the new quota rules are being abused by some clubs there has been an influx of British talent now getting an opportunity and you'll see quite a bit at Wakey in a couple of years.
Give the current system a couple more years and I honestly feel you'll see this, teams now have less foreigners than ever ESPECIALLY Quins who I think have the lowest in the league?
They remind me of yourselves, not great sucess on the field but a high percentage of british players that gets overlooked.

Come 2012 I think you, salford, Widnes and Barrow are vying for one spot in the north west, at this time i dont think there's the players for any more

i hope your right about clubs giving an opportunity to british players cos if it does'nt happen the scrapping P&R has been a complete waste of time.on the issue of success very few teams are successfull in SL unless your warrington then you can afford to buy a trophy

Complete tosh.
We bought martin gleeson.
Sold him, then used the money plus a bit to buy a couple more players.

You'll have to excuse me for failing to see what's funny

sorry it sounded like you spit your dummy out

.i said you bought a trophy not the players.as we are on about players how many of your cc squad came through the warrington youth system compared to saints or leeds?

Not a dummy spit at all, we've paid transfer fees for about 4 players in ten years, the rest, same as everyone else goes under the cap. We've never broken it either.

4 although Mathers was also at Warrington as a young young kid before being brought through the ranks at Leeds.
I'd be the first to admit in days gone by we haven't been the best at bringing through talent, that's changing now however and our starting 13 is mostly British.
People like Briers, Clarke, Bridge and westwood have been at Warrington since kids for years too even if they initially they were developed elsewhere. The same way you couldn't class john wilkin or ade gardner as saints products.

Ok matey, i think they are better in the north stand anyway to be honest Matt, see you sunday.

You Tool.........

Not really.
Not one of those players was a smidgeon on the standard they are now before they arrived at Wire. hell, 3 play in different positions entirely now!