Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:33 pm  

number 6 wrote:

Since when was leigh in Yorkshire? Lol.

I view and post on their Facebook and Twitter pages and not seen many negative views, especially from Yorkshire teams, if anything their more than supportive and welcoming the wolfpack

I'm from Yorkshire and I'm looking forward to a trip over there, hopefully when they acieve a couple of promotions, rather than my team going the other way
Perpignan is a great small French city but, Toronto is a large vibrant city, loads to do, plenty to see and to go there to watch a game of RL would be phenominal.

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:19 pm  

Remember that hull fc v Toronto is on premier sports tomorrow afternoon!

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 3:32 pm  

number 6 wrote:

Since when was leigh in Yorkshire? Lol.

I view and post on their Facebook and Twitter pages and not seen many negative views, especially from Yorkshire teams, if anything their more than supportive and welcoming the wolfpack

Agree it's all Leythers on this board. Mainly Facebook I've seen.
Let's hope they have a great season and make their way up through the leagues, maybe they will replace Catalans as everyone's 2nd favourite team outside their own!

Let's hope we can then start hating them in ten years when they are top four SL and challenging for trophies in front of 20-30,000 home fans! Can't wait for the day!

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 3:41 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Agree it's all Leythers on this board. Mainly Facebook I've seen.
Let's hope they have a great season and make their way up through the leagues, maybe they will replace Catalans as everyone's 2nd favourite team outside their own!

Let's hope we can then start hating them in ten years when they are top four SL and challenging for trophies in front of 20-30,000 home fans! Can't wait for the day!

You are familiar with the phrase "be careful what you wish for" ?
At least they may not be as arrogant as certain other clubs when they get there

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 4:24 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

You are familiar with the phrase "be careful what you wish for" ?
At least they may not be as arrogant as certain other clubs when they get there

Of course I wish for it, we all want our sport to grow surely? Maybe then it opens doors for more clubs coming in, otherwise we stay static and eventually die off.

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 6:22 pm  

the exposure the game will get tomorrow over in canada/toronto is priceless imo! glad fc are apart of it

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 6:29 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Agree it's all Leythers on this board. Mainly Facebook I've seen.
Let's hope they have a great season and make their way up through the leagues, maybe they will replace Catalans as everyone's 2nd favourite team outside their own!

Let's hope we can then start hating them in ten years when they are top four SL and challenging for trophies in front of 20-30,000 home fans! Can't wait for the day!

Given they ( their new coach ) have spent several months basically destabilising our team you'd understand the Leigh fans being unhappy with them , if they had approached and ultimately signed a similar number from any other club I've no doubt their fans would have reacted in a similar fashion

Other than that issue most Leigh fans are fine with Toronto

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 7:16 pm  

GUBRATS wrote:

Given they ( their new coach ) have spent several months basically destabilising our team you'd understand the Leigh fans being unhappy with them , if they had approached and ultimately signed a similar number from any other club I've no doubt their fans would have reacted in a similar fashion

Other than that issue most Leigh fans are fine with Toronto

A couple of ways of looking at it are: 1) Take it as a compliment that Toronto see the barometer on which to progress over the next year or two. 2) Your squad was going to be de-stablised anyway as you recruited heavily ready for SL. I mean, really how many of those that have gone to Toronto would hold their own in SL? Maybe it was a blessing in disguise?

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 7:27 pm  

MattyB wrote:

A couple of ways of looking at it are: 1) Take it as a compliment that Toronto see the barometer on which to progress over the next year or two. 2) Your squad was going to be de-stablised anyway as you recruited heavily ready for SL. I mean, really how many of those that have gone to Toronto would hold their own in SL? Maybe it was a blessing in disguise?

Very much my opinion , I doubt Paul Rowley being good enough to coach SL anyway and yes most of those players would probably not have been retained , and ultimately we did get promoted

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 8:09 pm  

MattyB wrote:

A couple of ways of looking at it are: 1) Take it as a compliment that Toronto see the barometer on which to progress over the next year or two. 2) Your squad was going to be de-stablised anyway as you recruited heavily ready for SL. I mean, really how many of those that have gone to Toronto would hold their own in SL? Maybe it was a blessing in disguise?

Both those reasons are why I've never really got annoyed with what happened with Rowley and Co.
I think Dixon was getting better and would maybe have got a contract but the only player I'm really still disappointed has left the club is Worthington