I'm intrigued by your post! Just what constitutes a winning coach in your opinion? PR was assisstant to IM when we won the NRC in 2011,the following season he belatedly stepped into the Coaching role after a farcical overseas appointment process! He was then voted Championship Coach of the year! This season, when once again, we have been in finacial turmoil he has coached the NRC winners after deafeating top sides, Fev,Batley and Champions Sheffield in the final! Now, I dont agree with a lot of PRs decisions but, I would probably dispute any other coaches decisions also!! Perhaps you could tell us just which 'winning' coach you would like at Leigh!

I think the spectacle has been poor at all levels of RL this year, SL on sky has been dire. Rule changes and interpretations have reduced space and slowed the ruck down with fewer teams willing to throw the ball about in close games relying on the 5 drives and a kick chase to win the'arm wrestle'
Add that to a recession that has hit the manual worker the hardest and if you aren't enjoying it you vote with your feet
Take the weekend game the ref let the teams get into each others faces when he could have policed the 10m and created space in poor conditions
Our poll the other year said entertain and give 100%, I don't think the 100% is in question but I feel we have rarely entertained, and the way we used penky in the play offs beggars belief

Without a doubt. Fax fans have been moaning all season that our play is dour and at times I have agreed but Im never stopping watching because of it. I think maybe the drop has come because of expanding this league, no disrespect to the teams that were promoted, but Im not really sure the fans are that much in to the games vs say Worky or York with people picking and choosing their games which has probably lead to a drop as well.

Ok besides the NRC what has PR achieved, all I get is the same give him time, what a great coach he is, look at what he as done with little money ect ect,, when are these excuses going to end.
I would welcome any coach who learns by their mistakes and can take Leigh forward to another level, PR is an average/mediocre coach who has found his level in this league, and that is always what he will be a championship coach, you carry on in this Rowley dreamland and see where it takes us.
Nobody will convince me that PR is going to take us to where we want to be.
I want the best for my team, and I firmly believe PR isn't the person to do.

Ok then but who do you suggest ? Who is available that you would like to be head coach at Leigh ? If we had finished near the bottom and hadn't won the NRC I could understand where you are coming from .Next season we will have a bigger squad so players will have to play well for their position so lets see how next season pans out 1st before asking for his head.

I cant name a coach, but a coach who listens, learns from their mistakes.
I will give the first person a brownie point who can come up with a new excuse which I haven't heard before.
You cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear.

You can only coach the players you have .When we where using a couple of the Wigan duals we played better RL last month since we played Halifax at home using Thornley from Wigan as well has Spencer we have,nt used the dual system apart from Spenny who's played all season our performances have suffered due to key players playing with injuries ie Gardner , Kes Hoppy ect we also lost the services of Parker Paul has had to bring in young players like Bate Duffy Ect ect in the forwards blimey take key players out of any squad at any level of RL and the team will struggle if Hoppy and Gardner had played Sunday Leigh would have won that I'm sure off.. Paul Rowley is a very good coach he can only coach the players he has due to the financial restraints at the club Get behind the Centurions Steve and stop putting a fellow Leyther down or else I will hav a word with a few of my buddies in hillbilly land and get them to put ya in a Whicker man on Nov 5 th LOL

And you can't change someone's mind when they've already made theirs up - so why would any of us bother to try?

The opening sentence of your previous post says it all "Ok besides the NRC what has PR achieved....". You don't like PR and if he offered you the Challenge Cup on a plate you'd still say you didn't rate him.

What have the Romans done for us ....... Great snippet from the film

Ian you know I am a Leyther through and through, we have watched many a game together home and away, I wouldn't personally criticise anybody who as anything to do with Leigh, but this is an exception.
By the way why don't you come to Cumbria and enjoy the delights of what its got to offer, I might even teach you how to speak Cumbrian. eh marra eh, you know it makes sense lol

You,ve been eating too much jam it's clogging up yer grey matter Steve lol

What you call excuses I call reasons. That is because I believe PR is the man for the job and you do not.
Each to their own opinions.
But your last post suggests to me that you have something personal against Paul Rowley.

Paul Rowley is our coach next year.

It will be an important year as well so its in all of our interests to get behind him and make it a very successful one for Leigh RLFC.

I fully appreciate its a message board and everyone is entitled to an opinion but I think PR and the team should be judged in 12 months time.

As a Board we are backing Paul to the hilt and believe in our man and will give him the resources required to build on this seasons efforts.

Over his two years in-charge he has had many hurdles to get over and built a team in unstable times for the club and now gets a full off season with all his key players resigned some major signings he identified already secured with others to come and with additions made to strengthen his back room team thanks to fact the BOD are supporting him.

Highly rated young British coaches are what we all want, we've got one so lets get behind him.

Well said Andy.

I think you are wrong and PR should be judged now.

How does that trophy polish up that he has won this year, 1 of only 2 that are realistically available to teams at this level?

We have won of the two available
If we finish in a worse position next year with the set up we now have. Then surely that's when people can judge him .
We've had a unsettled year where he's had to deal with players who haven t been paid at times. Also they weren't getting their bonuses as well at one point and he has the backing and respect of his board and players, so we fans should get behind the team . All this dishing of players and coaches is daft!

Get over Sunday (as disappointing as it was and it really was , we was all gutted fAns players coaching staff and board members too )and back the/your team !

I m looking forward to next year already

Correct.

There's no pleasing some folk, eh?

I expect there will still be murmurings of discontent among Fax fans if you win the GF!!

Good luck with that one, by the way.

Paul has had the greatest apprenticeship this club has ever afforded to one of it's coaches. Certainly during my life time. I think I am right in saying He has been part of the coaching set up here at Leigh since the end of 2006, close on 8 years .

It's now time for the club to begin to reap the rewards of that long term investment in him and as I say, 2014 is a big year for everyone involved.

I have nothing against PR personally he is a decent person, but my point is that I want the best for Leigh, and for Leigh to survive financially which means more people through the gates, but only people will start coming back when we have a winning team, action speaks louder than words, you can bump him up as much as you like words mean nothing, words wont bring supporters back.
I have seen nothing to convince me that PR is the right person for the job, but I am in the minority and my opinion is just landing on deaf ears.
Lets see what 2014 brings, I do hope I am wrong, but I don't think I will be.

Steve

Not deaf ears,we all agree Im sure that improvemnts are needed.I believe that paul and the new board are heading in the right direction,lets see what next season brings and then judge them on what we achieve.Untill then lets get behind the team/club and beLEIGHve

We have now reached the end of what was a season we as a new Board of Directors and Chairman came to power in with only three months or so to the end of the season and we spent much of that time dealing with historic debt, legal issues and ownership problems and generally getting a feel for how things work and assessing the club in its current format from top to bottom.

Having done the hard yards and got on top of finances and the historic problems that came with it we implemented some short term measures on and off the pitch to what we feel achieved a positive response and got over pretty much every hurdle that taking over any business let alone a sports club brings.

None of the BOM were happy with the way the season ended rest assured and the defeat Sunday cost the club at very last a shared gate at Fev and potentially valuable revenue.

Whilst going about day to day duties since coming in the BOM have put in place structures and changes have been made in the background geared around kicking off marketing and sales campaigns in the off Season from word go and throughout the build up to 2014 and we have put together a long term strategic plan and like any other business will set targets and goals which all staff will have to buy into.

Like any other business moving forward all personnel will be subject to performance monitoring and will be set targets and goals will be held accountable if they are not achieved.

The bottom line is we can lay a platform for success but the key ingredient to any future success for this club bums on seats, we can't sustain a Top four championship team let alone a SL team on crowds of 1400 and while its a chicken and egg situation we need crowds to get behind us from day one next season that includes friendlies as we aim to secure some lucrative pre season games.

A press statement is imminent this week by the Chairman on behalf of the Club and Board and season tickets and other commercial initiatives are set to fly so please get behind the club and lets all unite as one.

"We Are In This Together"

Andy Mazey

I think you and the BOM and all the staff and volunteer's are doing a fantastic job in marketing Leigh as a product, and I applaud every single one of you, I really do hope we start to get more people through the gate next season.
Leigh are a business like any other business has a product to sell, lets hope people will like what you are selling, because people/customers are very choosy when there is other products out there which are the same as what Leigh are trying to sell, and theirs is a better product.
I hope next season Leigh can fulfil the passion you are showing.
I will be attending as many games as I possibly can next season, and really do hope PR has the potential you see in him.

Steve

Well I have confidence in the BOM and in PR, I think Paul is being given the tools to deliver what we as fans crave, success, roll on next season.

Especially with a full time assistant , we will be a force to recon with next year