LEIGH Miners Rangers’ senior section gather for a night of rugby league review, preview and entertainment on Friday night.

The opportunity will be taken to look ahead to the challenges and opportunities of summer rugby for all four senior section sides, as well as looking back on the 2011 interim campaign.

A band will provide entertainment and events will kick off at 7.30pm. Supporters are welcome to attend.

It is a new era in more ways than one for Miners.

Head coach Winston Sarsfield resigned in mid-December and so it is the newly appointed coaching partnership of Paul Whitworth and Allan Coleman that will take Miners into their first summer campaign in March.

Both men are well known to the club, with Whitworth captaining the club as a junior and going on to represent the first team as a player.

He steered the second team to considerable success during his time in charge of the side.

Coleman has served as a player and coach over the last two decades prior to spending last season assisting Neil Jukes with the Leigh Centurions under 23s.

There is a tough act to follow.

As a player, Sarsfield broke all manner of records with Miners and as a coach he led the team to two Minor Premierships, two Grand Finals and a National Cup Final, as well as being assistant to Warren Ayres leading the team to the Grand Final triumph in 2005.

He steered Miners to the Community Club of the Year award for their performance in the Carnegie Challenge Cup in 2011.

With six years and six months at the helm, and a further 18 months as assistant to Ayres, he is the second-longest serving coach in Miners’ history behind Philip Rowe.

A club statement reads: “His overall contribution and commitment to the club has proven invaluable and the club would like to put on record their gratitude for his tireless work over the years and wish him all the best in his continuing recovery from the (road) accident he suffered in the summer.”