LEIGH CENTURIONS V BARROW RAIDERS SUNDAY, 15Th JUNE 2014 at LEIGH SPORTS VILLAGE • KICK OFF 3PM
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KINGSTONE PRESS CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND 15 LEIGH CENTURIONS v BARROW RAIDERS SUNDAY, 15th JUNE 2014 AT LEIGH SPORTS VILLAGE • KICK OFF 3PM Match Sponsor Match Ball Sponsor ISSUE 9 PRICE £2.50 HONOURS Championship Winners: 1905-06 FROM THE TOP Division One Champions: 1981-82 Cover Star: Division Two Champions: Matt Sarfield 1977-78, 1985-86, 1988-89 Welcome to our visitors Featherstone Rovers grabs his Challenge Cup Winners: home game second try at 1920-21, 1970-71 I would like to welcome the players, officials and Workington Lancashire Cup Winners: supporters of Barrow Raiders to the Leigh Sports Village As a result of the Tetley’s Challenge Cup semi-final between 1952-53, 1955-56, 1970-71, 1981-82 this afternoon. Castleford Tigers and Widnes Vikings being staged at LSV on BBC2 Floodlit Trophy: Their team is battling hard to get into the top half of the Sunday 10 August, our Kingstone Press Championship game WHO’S WHO 1969-70, 1972-73 Championship and everyone at Leigh Centurions hopes they can against Featherstone Rovers will now take place on the preceding Friday, 8 August with an 8pm kick-off. At Leigh Centurions Promotion To Top Division achieve it – the town is a hotbed of Rugby League and deserves achieved(Not as Champions): as high a level as possible. Touchdown Club Hon Life President Kit men 1963-64, 1975-76, 1991-92 Leeds quarter-final The Touchdown Mr Tommy Sale MBE Mr Frank Taylor Other Promotion season: My voice has just about recovered from the mauling it Club goes from Hon Vice President Mr Sean Fairhurst 1997 (Division 3 to Division 2) Mr Tommy Mather got on Friday night as Paul and his team took the strength to Mr Andy Burnham MP Northern Ford Minor Premiership strength. After last Under 20’s Coach biggest club in English rugby to the wire before a couple Hon Life Members Winners: 2001 of unlucky breaks came our way. Wednesday’s sell- Mr Brian Bowman Mr Paul Anderson Trans-Pennine Cup Winners: 2001 A measure of the progress the club has made both on and off the out featuring Mr Tommy Coleman Under 20’s Assistant former Leigh and Mr Frank Taylor Mr Steve Mayo Arriva Trains Cup Winners: 2004 field is that we went into the game well prepared and knowing Halifax favourite Mr John Massey Conditioner LHF National League 1 Champions: we could win, such that a late defeat was heartbreaking. The 2004 coaching and playing staff are true professionals and will never Simon Baldwin we Board of Management Mr Dan Ogden have another top LHF National League 1 Grand Final accept credit in defeat but with the benefit of years on my side I Mr Michael Norris - Chairman Physiotherapists guest this Mr Derek Beaumont Ms Emma Fletcher Winners: 2004 can congratulate them on lifting the name of Leigh Centurions to Mr Andy Mazey a place in the sporting psyche which it has not held for years. Well afternoon. Tony Ms Hannah Lloyd Northern Rail Cup Winners: Barrow was Mr Alan Platt Mr John Stopford (Under 20's) 2006, 2011, 2013 done guys – and next time we will win… Mr Steve Openshaw stand-off in Mr Neil Wilcock Club Doctor Onwards and upwards Leigh’s Challenge Dr Maurice Doublet-Stewart Ms Jackie Mottershead One of the side effects of the great match last Friday Cup Final win Tony Barrow is special guest in the Touchdown Club today, here he is reunited with the Mr Trevor Barton MBE Club Ambassador CLUB RECORDS was that the national press started to take notice of over Leeds in Mr Alex Murphy OBE Challenge Cup he won with Leigh in 1971 Head of Rugby Biggest Victory: what is happening here at LSV. 1971 and recently Mr Derek Beaumont General Manager 92-2 vs Keighley (1986) gave a fascinating Mr Rob Parker Biggest Defeat: In the new age of “promotion by performance”, a Championship interview for Leigh Centurions TV as part of the Legends of Leigh First Team Coach team coming along and taking a Super League “big name” all the Mr Paul Rowley Lottery Manager 4-94 vs Workington Town (1995) series. Welcome back to Leigh, Tony! way reminds everyone that the status quo of the last few years is Assistant Coaches Ms Christine Brown Highest Home Attendance: Sam Barlow 31,326 vs St Helens (1953) no longer guaranteed. Whilst we would all love to see a simple 2 Mr Neil Jukes Lottery Co-ordinator up, 2 down system it is a fact that there is not enough money Mr Simon Finnigan Mr Johnathan Simpkin Lowest Post War Home Attendance: Writing this in the immediate aftermath of the midweek win over 451 vs Hull (1975) being generated by Rugby League in this country to fund 2 Halifax our thoughts are with Sam Barlow who was rushed by Conditioner Finance Manager Most Tries in a game: divisions of full time squads and until that is addressed I think the Mr Nathan Pennington Ms Jane Smith ambulance to Hope Hospital with a serious head injury. Hopefully Jack Wood 6 v York (1947), 2x12, 3x8 structure is a great mechanism for giving the ambitious by the time this programme is printed we will have some positive Training Assistant IT & Ticket Sales Neil Turley 6 v Workington Town (2001) Championship teams something to aim for and, hopefully, closing news and we all wish Sam a speedy recovery back to full health. Mr Thomas Wood Mr Andrew Parkinson Most Goals in a game: the financial gap between the divisions over time. Best wishes Masseur Commercial Sales Mick Stacey 15 vs Doncaster (1976) Ultimately if we can create more media interest in the game we Mr Rob Stewart Mrs Amanda Lee Most Points in a game: will increase overall revenues and I am a firm believer that Leigh Mike Neil Turley 42 vs Chorley (2004) Statistician Club Accountants Centurions can play our part in growing The Greatest Game. Mike Norris, Chairman Mr Cliff Sumner Styles & Co Most Tries in a season: Neil Turley 55 (2001) Joint Programme Editors Most Goals in a season: Mr Allan Rowley and Mr Mike Latham Neil Turley 187 (2004) Most Points in a season: Neil Turley 468 (2004) CLUB CONTACTS Most Tries in a career: Mick Martyn 189 (1954-67) Telephone: Facebook: Most Goals in a career: 01942 487887 www.facebook.com/leighcenturionsfanpage Jimmy Ledgard 1043 (1948-58) Most Points in a career: John Woods 2492 (1976-85, 1990-92) Email: Twitter: Most Appearances: General Enquiries – twitter.com/LeighCenturions Albert Worrall – 503 (1920-38) [email protected] or tweet us @LeighCenturions 2 THE CENTURION www.leighcenturions.com www.leighlife.com THE CENTURION 3 COACH’S PAUL ROWLEY TALKS TO DAVE CORNER PARKINSON ave Parkinson The Leeds camp were more and more were a seven, our boys were an eight. To Dchatted to Paul nervous as the game went on and our lose Higson and then Tom Armstrong for Rowley in the wake of boys looked more and more comfortable. large parts of the game, I think that cost games against Leeds in They didn’t look out of place. It was a us in the end. the Tetley’s Challenge Cup and also Halifax good old fashioned game. It was an arm- DP: Both have been on form over back in Kingstone Press wrestle. That is what rugby is about. Either the course of the season haven’t Championship action. team would have been worthy victors and they Paul? unfortunately it was Leeds. Outstanding. Absolutely outstanding, but DP: Paul firstly, at Headingley it was DP: Two well worked early tries for a very proud performance from the then the rest of the boys have. Some Leigh too, against a defence that boys, but you really believed it could players played in some uncomfortable hasn’t been giving much away? have been a win didn’t you? positions but they got through it and did the job valiantly. In the end though, having It could have been and should have been They don’t give much away and we were a World Class backline has got to pay in the end. We didn’t go there wanting to aware of that. Leeds are renowned for dividends in a game somewhere if you are come away with the accolade of a good scrambling well, but to be scrambling well performance – you did well, nice try, you must also concede breaks somewhere. playing against people out of position. Championship clubs should be proud. We were aware of that and we were DP: Brian McDermott, in his press We came to win and it’s as simple as that. aware we could make breaks and make conference praised Leigh and said We probably should have won near the them scramble. If we were doing that then that was a Super League standard end. I felt sure we’d be doing something right. performance. They scrambled well on a few occasions so DP: It was very close all the way It’s a really funny feeling. They are not we got a tick in that box. through and you really did stick it to patronising comments, they are genuine Leeds. We ran out of steam at the end, due to ones but we hurt really badly because we wanted to win. It’s nice to accept praise We looked comfortable defending and we injuries to be honest. We had two and credit for a performance but it’s about looked dangerous attacking. Leeds know enforced substitutions, two centres both that they’ve been in a game and I’ll bet out of the game.