Leigh Centurions V FEATHERSTONE ROVERS SUNDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER 2019 @ 6.30PM BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP • PLAY-OFFS WEEK 1 FROM# LEYTHERS the TOP...# OURTOWNOURCLUB
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Leigh Centurions v FEATHERSTONE ROVERS SUNDAY 15TH SEPTEMBER 2019 @ 6.30PM BETFRED CHAMPIONSHIP • PLAY-OFFS WEEK 1 FROM# LEYTHERS THE TOP...# OURTOWNOURCLUB Welcome to Leigh Sports Village September, with the winners going on many occasions. I think that of all the this evening for what we now know through to the grand final. games I saw Karl play his time at Halifax, will be the final home game of the ............................................................. particularly in the early years of Super 2019 season. It’s a pleasure to welcome Sky Sports League were perhaps the most Our visitors Featherstone Rovers went and a large television audience to memorable. The Halifax team that finished head to head with ourselves throughout watch another great advert for the third in Super League in 1998 was great the season and finished just two points Betfred Championship. to watch and Karl played a big part in their below us in the Betfred Championship. success from the front row. Games under the floodlights at LSV are ............................................................. After a 29-20 home win in February we always extra special and there’s sure to be lost the return 24-20 in July and this a great atmosphere this evening. Barrie Micky Higham leads out Leigh evening’s contest promises to be every bit McDermott was our guest in Premier Club Centurions for one final time as as tight and exciting, not least because the for the York game, running the rule over captain at LSV, having announced his stakes are so high. For the losers it means two of the sides featuring in the play-offs playing retirement with effect from the end of their season. The winners travel and it will be good to see him again so the end of the season earlier this to play the losers of yesterday’s Toulouse soon. week. Olympique-York City Knights game in A special welcome, too, to my old friend Micky’s been a fantastic player, had an another game televised live on Sky Sports. Karl Harrison whose son James has been amazing career and played over 550 That game will be next Saturday 21 making his name in the Rovers pack. senior games, the vast majority at the September with a 3pm kick-off. highest level. He bows out on his own ............................................................. James, like his dad, is something of a late terms, having started and finished his On Sunday 22 September Toronto developer, although still only in his early career with his home-town club. He Wolfpack play the winners of the 20s. After being released by Bradford Bulls wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. Toulouse-York game and the winners he could so easily have been lost to the He’s sure to get a great reception from the of that game go straight through to game but instead persevered and built up fans tonight. Like many Leigh fans who’ll the grand final on Saturday 5 October his reputation at Batley Bulldogs before be here tonight I remember his Leigh (KO 7-30pm). joining Rovers a year or so ago. debut at Barrow back in 1999. The losers of that game on 22 September I remember watching Karl play for Bramley ............................................................. are at home in week 3 to the winners of in his early days in the professional game Gradually the list of players still the 21 September game. That game will and he went on to forge a fantastic career playing that played in the 1990s is have a 6-30pm kick-off on Sunday 29 in the game and representing his country diminishing. Jamie Jones-Buchanan Micky Higham THE CENTURION • THE OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME OF LEIGH CENTURIONS RLFC 3 # LEYTHERS # OURTOWNOURCLUB # LEYTHERS # OURTOWNOURCLUB HONOURS WHO’S WHO Winter era FROM THE TOP... Continued (1895-96 to 1995-96) AT LEIGH CENTURIONS Championship Winners: 1905-06, 1981-82 Owner Statistician Oli Wilkes Mr Derek Beaumont Mr Cliff Sumner Division Two Champions: Operational Board Of Directors Social Media Manager 1977-78, 1985-86, 1988-89 Mr Michael Latham (Chairman) Mr Darren Lilly Challenge Cup Winners: Mr Jason Huyton Retail Outlet Manager 1921, 1971 Mr Steve Hill Ms Gillian Jolley Lancashire Cup Winners: Chief Executive IT Manager 1952, 1955, 1970, 1981 Mr Matthew Chantler Mr Andrew Parkinson (runners-up 1909, 1920, 1922, 1949, Honorary Life President Club Ambassador 1951, 1963, 1969) Mr Brian Bowman Mr Alex Murphy OBE BBC2 Floodlit Trophy Winners: Honorary Vice President Official Club Photographer 1969, 1972 (runners-up 1968, 1976) Mr Andy Burnham Mr Jerry Lyons South West Lancashire & Border Ball Operatives Manager Towns Cup Winners: 1901 Life Members Mr Graham Yates ITA TV Trophy runners-up 1955 Mr Tommy Coleman Summer era (1996 to date) Dr Morris Doublet-Stewart SuperLeigh (Hilton Park Society) Mr Michael Latham Manager Promotion to Super League: Mr John Massey Ms Christine Brown 2004,2016 Mr Steve Openshaw Assistant Manager League Leaders: Mr Fred Parkinson Mr Jonathan Simpkin Premiership 2001, Mr Alan Platt Co-Ordinator National League One 2004, Mr Allan Rowley Mr Paul Robinson Championship 2014,2015,2016 Mr Frank Taylor Grand Final Winners: Mr John Woods Leigh Community Trust National League One 2004, Programmes Director Championship 2014 Head Coach Ms Hannah Forbes (runners-up: Premiership 2000, 2002, Mr John Duffy Community Manager National League One 2003) Assistant Coaches Ms Heather Parker-Preece National league Cup Winners: Mr Paul Anderson Youth Mental Health Officers 2004, 2006, 2011, 2013 Mr Micky Higham Mr Mick Nanyn (runners-up 2003) (Strength & Conditioning) Mr Michael Ostick Trans-Pennine Cup Winners: Mr Jason Duffy Mens Health Officer Match Day Support Staff Mr Ste Maden 2001 (runners-up 2000) Mr Simon Svabic (team manager) Sky Try Primary Lead Coach Mr Jack Inman (S&C) Tom Simms Mr Dean Gaskell (wrestle coach) Inclusion Officer Physiotherapist Carlie Unsworth CLUB RECORDS Mr Joe McLoughlin Autism Lead Sports Coach Highest Score For: Medical Support Vikki Courtman 92-2 v Keighley, 1986 Dr Patrick Ryder - Club Doctor Veterans and Men’s Health Officer Highest Score Against: Mr Adam Carroll- Sports rehab Dave Drury 4-94 vWorkington Town, 1995 and Bennie Westwood have prove. I had surgery on my knees six on 99 and I supported every break that Mr Sam Wicketts - physio student Veterans Officer Highest Home Attendance: announced their retirements from weeks ago and they don’t feel any better. day and I was determined to get over and Ms Bev Gorringe- masseur Grant Lane 31,326 v St Helens, 1953 the end of this season and last week I’d be three weeks or so getting back to finally managed it. I think I went in from Kit Managers Dance Practitioner Highest Home Attendance at LSV: Mr Frank Taylor - kit manager Michelle Mahony our former club captain, Oliver fitness and I don’t want to take someone 30 yards but in a few years’ time that 30 10,556 v Batley Bulldogs, 2016 Wilkes, called time on his 21-year else’s shirt for the play-offs so it’s time to will have become a length-of-the-field Mr Sean Fairhurst - assistant kit manager Autism Sports Coach Apprentice GAME RECORDS career. go. My mind says yes, my body says no.” effort I’m sure. But then I’ve always been Tries: 6 by Jack Wood in 1947 very fast (laughs). and Neil Turley in 2001 You may have read Oliver’s superbly Oliver signed off: “I got to represent CONTACT DETAILS Goals: 15 by Mick Stacey in 1976 written and moving announcement he Scotland which was a very proud time for “There are only a handful of players left Points: 42 by Neil Turley in 2004 posted on social media announcing his me. My grandad came from who played in the 1990s: Paul Sykes, Leigh Centurions or tweet us @LeighCenturions SEASONAL RECORDS retirement. We posted it on our club Campbelltown and my mum was born Micky Higham, Gareth Ellis, Jamie Jones- Leigh Sports Village Stadium, Email: Tries: 55 by Neil Turley in 2001 website. Here’s how it started: “It’s been there. Representing Scotland was an Buchanan, Bennie Westwood and me. I Sale Way, Leigh WN7 4JY General Enquiries - Goals: 187 by Neil Turley in 2004 an emotional day, driving up to amazing feeling and the first time I pulled Telephone: 01942 487887 think that’s it. They’ve all had great enquiries@leighrl .co.uk Points: 468 by Neil Turley in 2004 Workington and telling my team-mates on the jersey I kept thinking how proud careers, been incredibly talented and Commercial Sales: 01942 487898 CAREER RECORDS Commercial Sales - I’m retiring from being a professional my grandad would have been had he dedicated. I feel humbled when people Facebook: matthew.chantler@leighrl .co.uk Appearances: 503 by Albert Worrall Rugby League player. I’m 39, been a lived to see it. The Scotland coaches, Tries: 189 by Mick Martyn mention me in the same breath as some facebook.com/leighcenturionsfanpage Lottery professional since 1998, more than half John Duffy and Chris Chester, made me of those lads. A few of them are retiring lottery@leighrl. co.uk Goals: 1043 by Jimmy Ledgard Twitter: Points: 2492 by John Woods my life, so tomorrow morning will feel captain for what was my 500th senior this year, just like me. And like me they’ll twitter.com/LeighCenturions strange, waking up and starting a new game so that was really good of them and wake up the morning after and get chapter. another great memory. emotional. But my little boy has started After more than 500 games and exactly “This year I got my 100th try, against playing down at Ulverston and I go down 100 career tries I felt I’d nothing more to West Wales down in Llanelli.