Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:13 am  

[quote="GUBRATS"]Not threatened , just a bit miffed , underhand tactics by our former coach in tapping up a decent % of our players as we were trying to get promoted , this despite him perpetuating a persona of being Leyth though and through

Also at how several of the players went about engineering their moves /quote]

Not that I was particularly bothered about it, as it allowed Brad Dwyer to come through, but I don't remember seeing too many Leigh fans complaining when similar tactics were used to bring in Micky Higham...?

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:37 am  

[quote="Alffi_7"]

Not denying it , and we aren't the only ones to do it , it's happened many times , but just the scale of it and what seemed like a deliberate attempt to derail our club by Mr Rowley who has been employed by us since 2003

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Fri Jan 20, 2017 5:59 pm  

Great interview by the gum-chewing Perez on BBC Sport website...confident, positive and spot-on answer to the question of whether the Air Transat sponsorship announcement should embarrass some of the British clubs. It probably should, but he was far too gracious to say so, and put a new perspective on things. He realises that actually its the Hulls, Wigan's, Leeds etc. that need to keep up to avoid Toronto eventually hitting a glass ceiling in terms of market size.


A million miles ahead of the RFL, and most clubs as well for that matter.

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:04 pm  

mapleyther wrote:

Great interview by the gum-chewing Perez on BBC Sport website...confident, positive and spot-on answer to the question of whether the Air Transat sponsorship announcement should embarrass some of the British clubs. It probably should, but he was far too gracious to say so, and put a new perspective on things. He realises that actually its the Hulls, Wigan's, Leeds etc. that need to keep up to avoid Toronto eventually hitting a glass ceiling in terms of market size.


A million miles ahead of the RFL, and most clubs as well for that matter.

The Toronto deal is nicely timed with Warringtons deal with Emirates set to end after 2017, surely they won't want to be out done by some poxy Canadian airline....!

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:26 pm  

Well done Toronto on securing a massive sponsorship deal, as others have already said showing the RFL how it done...so no doubt we'll be casting them adrift in about a years time, we don't like progress in this sport.

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Fri Jan 20, 2017 7:45 pm  

I will reserve judgement on the mass ejaculation of their sponsorship deal until we actually hear the facts about the deal. I remember a mass hysteria about the Eddie stuff art deal and look how that turned out

Regards

King James

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Fri Jan 20, 2017 9:39 pm  

If it's just covering the travel costs of the club its still a very good sponsorship for a new club in a sport most of the country has never heard of.
If it's covering the costs of the other club's as well then that would be fantastic

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 2:46 am  

j.c wrote: If it's just covering the travel costs of the club its still a very good sponsorship for a new club in a sport most of the country has never heard of. If it's covering the costs of the other club's as well then that would be fantastic Covering all flights for all clubs, also discount travel packages for visiting fans. https://www.torontowolfpack.com/2017/01 ... away-kits/

j.c wrote: If it's just covering the travel costs of the club its still a very good sponsorship for a new club in a sport most of the country has never heard of. If it's covering the costs of the other club's as well then that would be fantastic Covering all flights for all clubs, also discount travel packages for visiting fans. https://www.torontowolfpack.com/2017/01 ... away-kits/

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 6:45 am  

Exciting times. Looking around at comments on Facebook/Twitter you can't help but see typical negative jibes at anything Toronto vast majority of which originate from round Yorkshire way (jealous supporters of stagnant 2nd & 3rd tier clubs)? such as 'RFL should be looking after its own'....etc.

Really wish them success, the sport surely needs more exposure!

Re: Toronto Announcements - 19th Jan : Sat Jan 21, 2017 1:15 pm  

MattyB wrote:

Exciting times. Looking around at comments on Facebook/Twitter you can't help but see typical negative jibes at anything Toronto vast majority of which originate from round Yorkshire way (jealous supporters of stagnant 2nd & 3rd tier clubs)? such as 'RFL should be looking after its own'....etc.

Really wish them success, the sport surely needs more exposure!

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