Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:05 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

No chance, Widnes generally play poo on TV and we always under perform against Leigh. That will change some time though and lets hope it's when they hand out all the freebies. Starbug will be loving this news, im sure he'll be in the directors box talking to Mr O'connor about his kit idea.

I am certainly happy with the initiative being shown , hopefully it will be well taken up and a good night is had by all , it would have been better still with free coaches for attending mutants

Unfortunatley I dont actually ' do ' corporate and have never been in the LSV board room or directors box , I have spoke to a few club chairmen but business and personal issues have prevented me from pushing things along too much so far , one thing that all have said to me is that the idea is excellent , however as usual the issue most see as a problem is actually getting them all to understand that collectively they can achieve ten times more than they can individually

But nothing worth doing was ever easy , and there is no time limit on this project

Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:40 pm  

littlerich wrote:

Jeez, how come?

'cos he's an ugly so and so.

Only kidding, Smith not playing just gives you another excuse for your annual tonking on the Leyth Riviera.

Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:15 pm  

VikingXIII wrote:

We best get a big following up there then, but not too big we don't want any attendance records beaten.

agreed, we possibly took even less than that last season, looked very very poor on the tv

Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:49 pm  

Thinking about making the Wigan game my first appearance of the season. But if I don't have to work for this game, I may stick around for a few days and make this too.

Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:52 pm  

-VIKINGMAN- wrote:

12 weeks, he's having a plate fitted into his face.

When you said that why do I get this sort of image in my head?

Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:01 am  

I'm surprised about people keep saying about the poor numbers we took to Leigh last year. I went, but don't remember the crowd being that bad. The things that stand out was us playing poorly and us playing poorly but still felt like we should have won and that we'd threw the game away. the other thing that I remember was the 'trouble' with the heavy handed stewards who threw people out for not sitting down even though there were a lot of Leigh fans stood up in the stand to the left of where the Widnes fans were.

Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:18 am  

vikings 4 ever wrote:

I'm surprised about people keep saying about the poor numbers we took to Leigh last year. I went, but don't remember the crowd being that bad. The things that stand out was us playing poorly and us playing poorly but still felt like we should have won and that we'd threw the game away. the other thing that I remember was the 'trouble' with the heavy handed stewards who threw people out for not sitting down even though there were a lot of Leigh fans stood up in the stand to the left of where the Widnes fans were.

The away following was very disapointing from widnes last year. Wish they would stop showing our home games vs widnes on SKY actually as it really reduces the only decent away following we get. Plus our home game v barrow being on sky and now 'Fev and probably 'Fax home games are going to be on wednesday nights due to challenge cup fixtures means our four 'biggest' matches are all going to be thursday and wednesday night matches. No wonder we never get much away support

Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:25 pm  

vikings 4 ever wrote:

I'm surprised about people keep saying about the poor numbers we took to Leigh last year. I went, but don't remember the crowd being that bad. The things that stand out was us playing poorly and us playing poorly but still felt like we should have won and that we'd threw the game away. the other thing that I remember was the 'trouble' with the heavy handed stewards who threw people out for not sitting down even though there were a lot of Leigh fans stood up in the stand to the left of where the Widnes fans were.

Think the official Away number was 220 or so.

Either way, the whole crowd was disappointing (2300).

Leigh Initiative is certainly the way to go, and one that I have been crying out for ages. If we get 3000 paying fans, that will do me. The other 1000 or so are our future, so the rest is now up to the club !

Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:35 pm  

Snowy wrote:

Widnes will bring a 1000+ as will Leigh when we visit your gaff.

Not too sure about the crowd being that big but anything around the 4000 mark in this recession era will be bloody good going.

Good luck v Fev btw. Obviously our 36-6 thrashing of them has woken them up.

Good to see another traditional side doing well!

So half of your home crowd will turn up???

Leigh haven't brought 1k to our place since SL so not expecting much tbh!

Re: Leigh aim for a record crowd against Widnes : Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:40 pm  

J20 wrote:

So half of your home crowd will turn up???

Leigh haven't brought 1k to our place since SL so not expecting much tbh!

In fairness, it isn't unheard of and we haven't taken anything less than 500 to an away game so far I reckon, bar Toulouse and maybe 350 or so at Dewsbury on a Wednesday night in the NRC; took 800+ to Halifax when we tonked them.