Re: so...who we signin then? : Sat Oct 10, 2015 4:49 pm  

chissitt wrote:

Go on then tell us, how do you get people to watch the sad teams for the first 23 legs.

I would imagine its as tough as selling a ST to fans who have seen their team win 3 of their 23 regular season games this year.

Re: so...who we signin then? : Sat Oct 10, 2015 5:00 pm  

chissitt wrote:

Go on then tell us, how do you get people to watch the sad teams for the first 23 legs.

I know you're on the wind up, but you still make a valid point, because the problem may be very similar to that they made for the Challenge Cup, once they devalued it and started tinkering with it. The result is that the game that matters, the Final, is all that remains well attended, but because the rest of the comp bar the occasional semi aren't seen to matter any more, there are crap crowds. There is a danger of the same in any comp, Championship included

Re: so...who we signin then? : Sat Oct 10, 2015 6:58 pm  

chissitt wrote:

Go on then tell us, how do you get people to watch the sad teams for the first 23 legs.

Well people go watch Wakefield every week, so it can't be that hard

Re: so...who we signin then? : Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:10 pm  

chissitt wrote:

Go on then tell us, how do you get people to watch the sad teams for the first 23 legs.

Or as your previous coach implied how do you get the fans to watch a SAD Team for 23 matches till the play offs

Re: so...who we signin then? : Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:26 pm  

Shitchiss, likes visiting our Leigh forum as well, think it needs to 'get out more' and have some kind of life.

Re: so...who we signin then? : Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:33 pm  

roofaldo2 wrote:

Well people go watch Wakefield every week, so it can't be that hard

But we don't get any fans according to you lot and you are living off past glories?

Re: so...who we signin then? : Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:05 am  

terrykelly wrote:

Shitchiss, likes visiting our Leigh forum as well, think it needs to 'get out more' and have some kind of life.

Only when I'm bored and I want a laugh reading most of the silly stupid posts' from gobsh!tes like yourself and the outlandish comments where your gonna do this that and tuther, and despite having four games at home in the playoffs and still managing to finish bottom, if you'd any sense, you'd crawl away back to where you came from till next season and hope that your salary cap breaking side do a bit better than what the likes of yourself were trying to convince anybody daft enough to listen last season .
You could though always use the off season to learn to be a bit dignified in defeat like most of them are on here, somehow I doubt it.

Re: so...who we signin then? : Sun Oct 11, 2015 9:14 am  

FickleFingerOfFate wrote:

But we don't get any fans according to you lot and you are living off past glories?

That's the thing about past glories, especially recent ones since moving pictures were invented....they're still credible.

[Bulliac]

Re: so...who we signin then? : Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:27 am  

8ULL5HITT4 wrote:

I'm concerned that whoever we sign of SL standard will become de skilled and sufficiently unenthused that by the time the Qualifiers come round again they will be a shadow of their former self. Maybe we need to sign players that have something to prove and hope that the coaching environment can help them reach their potential. I would be very surprised if the recently acquired players at Leigh are able to maintain Super League standard after a few months in the Championship, if our experience is anything to go by.

That's a very pertinent point.

The biggest difference between us and Leigh over the previous season, is that Leigh clearly put strong emphasis on being top of the [early] league, whereas we clearly knew what we needed to do to get the extra home game in the eights and we did exactly that, and no more. FWIW, I believe the way Leigh attacked the first 23 games is the one we maybe ought to try and emulate. It would add focus and give meaning to the early season which wasn't there last time round - in short it would [hopefully] encourage the players to play games at SL speed and intensity, which again hopefully, we'd see the benefit of in the eights and beyond.

So let's go all out for 100%. Whether, or not, that will be any better for the fans is a moot point, though I guess winning games by a wide margin is better than some of the slapdash stuff we got in too many of the first 23 games last year.

Obviously, Leigh will have learned lessons from last season too, maybe how to approach the games against SL teams in the eights, so I'm sure they'll be improved too, but the competition between the two for the full season may the key to a slightly better chance for both of us.

Re: so...who we signin then? : Sun Oct 11, 2015 10:29 am  

Chissitt will you do me a favour please. I'm barred from your board so i can't ask this question. Somebody on your board has said he has heard we have borrowed a large chunk of next seasons money from the RFL for this season. Could you please ask the person "in the know" where he has got this info from or he has just made it up cos it sounds good. If it's the latter could you please tell him from me he's a nob head

Thank you my friend