
sweaty craiq
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SL clubs look to reinstate Nigel Wood.
sweaty craiq replied to The 4 of Us's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
So let me get this right. 11 club owners voted on a new Chairman, owners heavily invested in our sport and its future but some people on here think they know better. -
SL clubs look to reinstate Nigel Wood.
sweaty craiq replied to The 4 of Us's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Just watched the owners update at Leigh - some key points about income streams, opportunities, media and fan base. He didn’t put a figure on female memberships other than it is high and getting higher but he did say less than 10% of memberships are to over 65’s. That 24 corporate boxes are already sold for 2026 at about £20k each, he talked about delivering value to commercial partnerships, growing the brand, controlling and growing merchandise and finally about expanding the capacity. Good times ahead, especially as we seem not to be currently reliant on owner charity -
SL clubs look to reinstate Nigel Wood.
sweaty craiq replied to The 4 of Us's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
You know him or looking in a mirror? -
SL clubs look to reinstate Nigel Wood.
sweaty craiq replied to The 4 of Us's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Because a load of clueless tight gits with big opinions probably filled it in - we shouldn’t be having surveys it’s a sign of weakness. Most fans invested in the sport don’t go anywhere near the echo chambers of the self proclaimed illuminati -
SL clubs look to reinstate Nigel Wood.
sweaty craiq replied to The 4 of Us's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Yet he is prepared to give his time and money to help those clubs, despite being a Leigh lad, a former Leigh East player and former Leigh board member -
SL clubs look to reinstate Nigel Wood.
sweaty craiq replied to The 4 of Us's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Too many fans think we have time to fix the NOW, we don’t - we are here due to the pockets of a few. Most of the fans who profess to know how reach utopia are not willing to remortgage their house confident their way will ensure payback. I have no time for those with big gobs, unwilling to financially back it up but willing to pees off those who are. put up or shut up is the order of the day, if your club needs £500k pa then it only takes 50 of you at each club to remortgage and run the game for 5 years then get your money back -
And that’s why they shouldn’t be in it
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2026 Transfer Tracker
sweaty craiq replied to PREPOSTEROUS's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
Not really many successful players would want to finish a long career PLAYING back where it all began eg Hall. He’s signed an extension at Leigh last week though -
SL clubs look to reinstate Nigel Wood.
sweaty craiq replied to The 4 of Us's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
I see a totally different mix at Leigh games to that of 10 years ago. Yes the hardcore is getting older as folk live longer but the number of families, women and late Teens of both sexes is what has driven our crowds. HKR seems on a similar path as does Wakey. -
Not watched the TV version but live the KR player interfered with the Leigh player in backplay and then again after the PTB, I thought the binning would be for the professional foul in back play - no idea what it was for btw but will watch later. KR are taking 'professionalism' too far - slowing the game down, head grips, pushing/hands on at ptb, constant offside etc to gain any advantage. Leigh needed a fluid game yesterday, and we got it.
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Salford financial issues(again…)
sweaty craiq replied to LeytherRob's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
NW does as hes told now -
Worse Attendances than vs Catalans
sweaty craiq replied to Tommygilf's topic in The General Rugby League Forum
How many clubs do “specials” for Cats games? Give away a few thousand and the gate gets bumped If you look at the Wigan game the away end is pretty well populated, all freebies -
KR rumoured to have sold out away stand - great consistent fan support of away travel needs applauding - and Leigh, like Wigan game, have opened up all the East for home fans with a couple of hundred still available. This surprises me as Oasis are on in Manchester and I know many who are going there btw. Should be a great atmosphere again and hopefully a fast game and ptb infringements penalised heavily. My pet hate is clubs being allowed to slow games down by constant ptb infringements that go unpunished. I have heard a rumour that the officials have been asked to keep an eye on KR's wide defence who have been offside all season, last time we played them I thought the pre season rumour that May was heading to Leigh had happened.