Re: Leigh... : Tue Dec 15, 2020 4:53 pm  

wrencat1873 wrote:

Anyone else think that Fev were hard done by here ?

Their on field performance has been as good as any other club in the Championship and they havent gone through the boom n bust that so many other clubs have.
Plus improvements to their ground etc.

I realise that they will have been marked down, due to their proximity to ourselves and Cas and realise also that they will never pull in huge crowds.
However, surely, they deserved their chance in the top flight, even if it was only for next season ?

I do to be honest, surely the proximity argument is void with the fact Leigh are a similar distance to Saints, Wigan and Warrington as Fev are to Wakefield and Cas.

Re: Leigh... : Tue Dec 15, 2020 4:55 pm  

Anyway,

I think what actually matters here is that we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Yes, 2019 went bad after a great start, due mainly to injuries but I accept that certain performances were unacceptable, injuries or not.

2020? As a say, apart from those teams who could actually win something, it was a total dead rubber. I accept that in that 10 game losing run, was as in 2019, there were some unacceptable team performance regardless of injuries.

Yet the previous seasons, 2016. 2017 and 2018 had seen a truly resurgent club, easily IMO the best three-season run we have ever manged in SL, in fact pretty much the only one. In that time the quality of players at the club, especially the younger ones, had improved beyond anyone's expectation, two England reps for a start and plenty of players other teams envied.

So what I don't accept is that after 18 months that is all gone. Truth is, sometimes in life you have to go backwards to go forward. For the reasons outlined we did go backwards though mostly due to plain bad luck, now hopefully we now have a chance to go forward again and why not? Very few of our players are past it, many have hardly begun, so with the odd addition, I see no reason why we can't carry on where we left off before being blighted with injuries and COVID.

As they say, it's not getting it wrong that's the problem, that happens to us all, it's how you react. So let's give the lads the chance to react before dismissing them as has been who are only fit to battle it out for the wooden spoon with Leigh. Surely as a group of fans, we have a bit more dignity and self-belief than that?.

Re: Leigh... : Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:11 pm  

financialtimes wrote:

This factually accurate lifelong club supporter probably thinks Michael Carter is still the chairman as well

Isn't he posing as Danny Dyer on Eastenders these days?

Re: Leigh... : Wed Dec 16, 2020 9:24 am  

Let's hope some of their supporters can show a little humility this time around.

Re: Leigh... : Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:14 am  

LyndsayGill wrote:

Let's hope some of their supporters can show a little humility this time around.

If you are alluding to Leigh, I will show my utmost respect.

Re: Leigh... : Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:23 am  

Cokey wrote:

:?:

If you are alluding to Leigh, I will show my utmost respect.

Good, it got silly last time.

Survival will be you're only aiming. If you do then you can start dreaming. But beware, we've been dreaming for 25 years

Re: Leigh... : Wed Dec 16, 2020 11:54 am  

We don’t want to be signing players for the sake of signing players because other teams are. Look at Nottingham Forest.

Re: Leigh... : Wed Dec 16, 2020 1:41 pm  

Salford have just signed a Wigan youngster, that’s both of us done for then.

Re: Leigh... : Wed Dec 16, 2020 8:01 pm  

Cokey wrote:

:?:

If you are alluding to Leigh, I will show my utmost respect.

Good because last time I went to watch wakey play Leigh at belle view I got home to find some Leigh fan's behind me had been spitting down my back.

Re: Leigh... : Wed Dec 16, 2020 10:48 pm  

financialtimes wrote:

This factually accurate lifelong club supporter probably thinks Michael Carter is still the chairman as well

And who actually mentioned chris bretherton certainly not me now whats our coach called who goes with a list of players to fit into our budget...is he not called chris

As for mc been the chairman we all know this is john minards but who really has all the biggest say whos the one go by chris side when things where tough or who admits he got some things wrong when it comes to signing players..

I do love people on here who love to think there it like yourself wonder where youd be without a keyboard