RUGBY boss Mick Higgins has promised to meet a four-man deputation of dissident supporters.

The move comes after a group of 40 fans staged an organised boycott of Leigh's 48-16 defeat by Featherstone on Sunday afternoon - the 14th of the season.

And they promised more action was on the cards unless they won a face-to-face showdown with the club's chief exective Mick Higgins.

But the expected mass boycott was itself boycotted. The organisers expected at least 100 supporters and said the demonstration was not a true reflection of feelings on the terraces.

"People on the terraces are fed-up of the way the club's being run and they want something done about it," said one of the boycott organisers Brian Savile.

But Leigh boss Mr Higgins said the orchestrated opposition was a minority.

"Nevertheless I am prepared, along with some of the other directors, to meet a delegation of four of the fans. But the meeting must be conducted properly. If they get in touch we can arrange the meeting."

Mr Higgins said the meeting would have to be during the week because he had commitments to visiting officials during match days.

Explaining the fans' actions Mr Savile said: "Mick Higgins did his job and saved the club. But we stood with the club through thick and thin. It was the supporters who raised the £50,000.

"But how long can you be loyal? The loyalty is dying out there on the terraces."

Mr Savile said the boycott was aimed at hitting the people running the club where it hurt, in the balance sheet.

"We have to do this to make them sit up and realise that the hard core support is twindling. The atmosphere in the ground is like a morgue.

"Something has to be done and we are doing it now."

Mr Savile said the campaign wasn't directed personally at Mick Higgins but at the management of the club.

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