Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:43 am  

salfordlad wrote:

We have already signed on contract the bulk of our squad for next season.

Those contracts are for part time players.

The RFL know that. They know that about Fev and Fax being in the same situation.

The RFL will keep Bradford in because they have no alternative and the reason being is because this ridiculously stupid idea was guaranteed to protect those now in Nonrelegation League.

In a nutshell.

I'd love Leigh, Fax, Fev and Sheffield to show some solidarity by releasing a joint statement saying something along the lines of 'Get stuffed. We have no desire to be cannon-fodder in this sham you call a licensing process.' However, that won't happen so we'll have to play along.

[Dick Jones]

Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 8:55 am  

Sheffield have done,and Fev knew nothing about it

Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 9:15 am  

salfordlad wrote:

:DEPRESSED: Wonder why Fax had such a poor crowd tonight ?


replies to Richard Lewis.

Shared gate?

[Dick Jones]

Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 9:18 am  

In that case do you reckon, they'll be less than 2000 on next week at yours, especially when were bringing at least 4 coaches and lot are coming in cars?

[Dick Jones]

Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 9:19 am  

Leigh Centurions can confirm that the playoff fixture with Featherstone Rovers will take place on Thursday 13th September, with a 7:30pm kick off at the Big Fellas Stadium.

Admission prices will be as follows:

Adults £15 Concessions £9 Children £3

After Leigh Centurions’ attempts to seek funding assistance for transport from Featherstone have not materialised, the club has pushed on and secured contributions from our own loyal sponsors. We beLEIGHve that this approach will give many more of our passionate fans the opportunity to get behind our team at the Big Fellas Stadium next Thursday night.

Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 9:21 am  

last years game did have a good announced attendance in our playoff at fev TBH

Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 11:25 am  

With it being a shared gate i would have it would have been in Fevs best interest to get involved. Oh well.

Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:17 pm  

Dick Jones wrote:

In that case do you reckon, they'll be less than 2000 on next week at yours, especially when were bringing at least 4 coaches and lot are coming in cars?

DJ - Am a synic, to the point where I believe that most if not all shared gates are miss-represented, unfortunately it appears to be the way of the world where clubs are only out for themselves, which is a crying shame. Please bear in mind I can still remember a time when all games where shared gates, unfortunately the larger clubs didn't like this so what happened was that for league games the home team now keeps the proceeds, so that the big clubs can get bigger to the detrimant of the smaller clubs, and for me this has got worse over the years.

For example Wigan play Saints this weekend and if Wigan win they will probably be playing again in the 1st round of the SL playoffs (1v4), now I know all the excusses will be out about the game doesn't matter (like this week to a point), it's on a Friday (like this week), Season ticket holders don't like paying (but they did for their season ticket and are generall the most loyal fans), etc. but I suspect if this scenario does happen the play-off game will have a smaller crowd than the league game, as seems to be the way with most shared gates.

Also for example attendance last night at The Shay 1203 and for the regular season fixture 2378.

As for the attendance at the Fev/Leigh play-off game next week I'll let you make your own mind up and if you want my opinon in private please feel free to contact me directly.

Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:44 pm  

One thing ive never got about that is.. how do you get round the health and saftey lark as surely it's a certainty those fellas know exactly how many people are in the ground incase of fire and so forth.

I always thought the best way to fudge gate monies was for clubs to announce concessions instead of full paying adults...

Re: Will Leigh enter mini-franchise farce? : Fri Sep 07, 2012 3:04 pm  

It is on turnstyle cash entry, 92% concession at Fev last year