Maybe so, do they mark themselves, do they review themselves are action plans done themselves, do staff use teleporters to get themselves from one place to another when they do not live in the area, do they drop all other commitments they may have, how many kids or their parents have shown an interest, how many parents want their kids out late on any school night. you pick up on one point when there are many.

25% is actually not too bad really, I also think that even if the club just dumped 3000 free tickets in the middle of the town hall square ,they will still not come.

10 schools isn't bad going as a starting point, I reckon. Even if you only get 20 kids per school (not unachievable, surely?) then it's another few hundred when they bring their parents etc.

I dont think its all doom and gloom, its a good start to something new and this can only get bigger and bring in the kids as new fans for the future.......which is what everyone on here wants....

My kids are at Leigh CE Infants and Juniors. Juniors have 360 kids alone and we have had no correspondence from the school about this whatsoever.



Fortunately we're all season ticket holders anyway, but, my thoughts are



1) It's SATS week

2) Teachers, assistants etc. who aren't rugby fans already couldn't be d passing the info onto the kids as they'd have to give up a few hours a night (unpaid) to support the town team.

all children doing SATs should be taken by their teachers as a WELL DONE! ..... will they be put in the south or the west stand?

The way I read the promo was that kids would have to come as a school group. Can't blame any teacher who doens't want to be stuck with the kids any longer than necessary - I think the primary schools should have been given family tickets to distribute. A ticket to a primary school kid on their own isn't much use when they can't go on their own!

East stand

i think they have tried distributing tickets before, they either dont get handed out or parents dont take them! i agree with you that the teachers sont want to be stuck with the children. Maybe we could offer volunteers obvs with CRB check and all that gubbins....this is something we could look at doing? working with wigan and leigh college. lots of students doing this would have something unusual to put on their CV.



when i was there, we organised a childrens event, was during the day though

I think some leythers are being over-critical of this promotion. 25% take ups pretty good on a weekday evening in the middle of SATS if you ask me.



One way of cutting out CRB checking is to give out tickets to the kids and the ticket states 'take a parent to the game for a pound' this way the kids are supervised.

In my sons school there is only 1 male teacher, and as far as I know he does football for years 5+6.

My sons are 7 + 9 and would love to do "out of hours" sports but the school is unable to provide staff to participate in after school sporty activites or many other activities - I guess as the teachers will not be paid for trips/activities out of hours then they can be justified at not organising them.



They have just started a 30 minute football training for younger pupils at lunchtime and they are being tought by years 5+6 to help with their coaching skills



We have had visits from both Leigh + W*g*n rugby clubs for a few taster sessions for certain age groups and my sons loved them.

I wonder if the decline of male primary teachers is affecting the numbers - I cannot see any of the female teachers at my sons school being interested in watching rugby.



My 7 year old starts his SATS next week so that wouldnt be a problem for him

Get the rugby club to work with wigan and leigh college, im sure they would love to help! one of their actual modules are plan and carry out an event!



1 tour of the ground for the students , have the club to arrange coaches or even the schools . funding for a coach wil come through school funds or goverment bodies



The college will benefit from having their name mentioned, have allan rowley sign certificates for the students! it looks good going to uni. Increase in crowd, Then were all winners