: Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:04 pm  

MC wrote:

Another bad decision made by Leigh - I think that for a player you get working in the community on a full time contract (dual contract playing and community) you get an extra (it's in the rules) £10,000 on your salary cap. So if Halifax have six players, they'll be allowed an extra £60,000 on top of the £400,000.

I was at a meeting the other week with 'big names' in football and they said that the main principle that they work from (this was Premiership Football Clubs) is to get players and club officials into the community. They have to have contact with the Club - whether it be coaching, education etc.

Every young child in our borough should have contact with our club at least once a year - contact by going to the LSv for lessons, players going to their school, officials going to their school, etc

Employing D Abram was the bad decision , when we got promoted he refused to allow any player to do community work

This resulted in us having to emply other people to do it , they do a very good job , are you saying we now sack them to start employing players to do this work

Also the community dept IS a charitable trust already and is very much grant aided

If you are offering to help other than to post on here I'm sure you input will be welcome

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:31 pm  

I said that I would be more than happy to help - my offer was turned down

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:32 pm  

MC wrote:

I said that I would be more than happy to help - my offer was turned down

You cannot do more than offer

: Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:35 pm  

sex on legs wrote:

Dana Wilson as well. 5 non brits is a bit excessive in this league.

And isn't Worrincy a southerner? I thought the quota covered all non M62 players?

And for those who would prefer player's to be in the schools, we had Ian Lucas visit us at primary school and dish out free tickets. Think how many kids were put off Leigh RL for life after that!