I would say the atmosphere in the first half of last season and the whole of this season has been as good as anything in the last ten years,we just need a lot of new faces to experiance it and enjoy it.

Do us a favour Faxtastic,ask your BOD to email our BOD with all there ideas on how to increasing crowd numbers, so that we dont make the same mistakes.

The North Stand feels like home now i think Matt.

This seasons team is far better than the 2005 one.......

We've got a coach who would make us competitive.

Totally agree with that John.

I'm just grateful Starbug wasn't a Leigh director in the early 70's or 80's as our past may not have proved quite as illustrious as our honours board may show





There are many factors to take into account for our average attendance in SL. Frank has alluded to some. Not even having a regular match day was poor planning IMO and there are others but TBH they have all been discussed to death.



However just to mention 2 points that Starbug raised on attendances.



Lest we forget not only were we long relegated but we also played those last 3/4 games scratching around for a side and without even a head coach to pick it anyway. That I would say would not convince many more people to part with their hard earned at that stage of the season.



And the second point is that Starbug (and others) still refer to substantial SL away support boosting the numbers in 2005. However if you separate out Wigan, Warrington and Saints (twice), I believe the majority of the other matches were played out before extremely disapointing away followings IMO.



Huddersfield brought a mere hand full for the opening game. I doubt Bradford have ever played a SL match this side of London with an away contingent that low. Hull support actually was not that much more. Wakefield fans all stayed at home to watch on TV, as did Salford. London we know brought c zero. Leeds was non impressive either on both occasions.



The Halifax following in the cup that season was probably in the top 5 or 6 and they were a NL1 club at the time.



If we ever get another opprtunity at Super League, then yes there will be much work to do. However the LSV stadium alone should be conductive to far better attendance's than 2005. Both for home and away supporters alike.

Just a couple of things. Widnes also brought a large following - I remember a certain regular poster on here bragging about it on the VT with a photo of them. Also Wire brought over 4000 - easily outnumbering us on our own turf and any other away fans that season.

We can make excuse after excuse, and all the ifs and buts you want really. In fact I will add one - the 1st ever game in SL should have been a sell out (TV or not) but it wasn't, but of course it was the coldest day in history (for me anyway) that evening.



tickets, council, Abram didn't wave, we didn't have a coach near end, different days etc etc. But fact still remains we can't seem to get enough through the gates regularly, and historically it shows we can't. Promises that this time we will is just pre SL2005 predictions all over again.

I'm not saying we won't get there. But just saying we need to put the work in to get the town behind us especially now, instead of saying once in SL we will be awreet again.

And the stats show we were still the 9th best supported club in Super League that year, home fans or otherwise





On a serious note, IMO we can be a sustainable Super League club in the future. We will never be a big club but with the right people in place who have the vision and the ambition to reach out to the town - I really do believe the club has the potential to deliver that goal.



We need to start looking at how the town's people like to spend their free leisure time and us (together with the stadium partners) looking to deliver a package that can incorporate as much as possible of that around a 80 minite game of RL.



Obviously having the right people on board who possess the drive to make that happen will be crucial.

So how exactly do we increase our home support ? , right now

Ban daft hats.

overnight? not going to happen.



Bring in the schools, youngsters, sons, daughters etc and slowly we will get there plus the future supporters of Leigh Centurions