I see the word on twitter is spreading too, just seen that Chris Hill put a tweet out with the link to Leigh Easts statement, good if some pro players get involved to help the cause.

I was a proud member at Leigh East.

I took both of my ex-partners children for around 7 years, and I have to say that we were always made to feel welcome and at home, both at Grasmere St and at LSV. I always felt that Easts always had the best interests of their members at heart, and it was somewhere where you could expect your children to be looked after brilliantly.

It's a travesty what is happening and our elected representatives have a moral duty to ensure that Leigh East are treated fairly. To not do so would be a massive blow to the futures of the children of Leigh.

Why don't they simply hand over the running of the debt free facility to the sports clubs involved?
Do you need a CEO on god knows how much etc

My sentiments exactly. The various departments within Wigan council could, with ease run the entire site. Finance look after the tenants, leisure trust look after the grassed areas and landscaping etc. etc. yet they choose to pay a " middle man" around £250,000 per year in salaries. Having been solely responsible for the demise of Leigh Genesis LSV co. have a lot to answer for and I wouldn't be the least surprised if they are the people responsible for driving the take over of the Leigh East pavillion.

Leigh East were a huge help in assisting LGFC and still provide a great training base for the junior teams. Unfortunately our fight was unsuccessful (LSV lost a £500,000 grant from the Football Foundation because of their refusal to work alongside us at senior level) but I sincerely hope Easts got the right result.

Spot on.
It would be a question I would be pushing for inclusion on agendas as high up the political ladder as possible.

FAO Keith

I've had a reply to one of my emails - should I forward to the blueyonder address in the OP or to you? I presume, there will be more, and I think it's important that you're kept in the loop. I would just copy and paste onto here, but we'd end up with pages and pages of irrelevant stuff that may well do the cause no good whatsoever. Someone needs to peruse them and post any significant, within the law, and relevant bits IMO

Maggie

The staffing cost at the Leigh Centurions side of things from the LSV must be huge, they all travel over from Yorkshire.

Let me know you're email address please Keith - private message if you want

BTW Having read the thread on TRL, one point raised was " Wigan Leasure and Cultural Trust not Wigan Council"

see the thread yourself for more said on same matter

Don't think that's the case Maggie LSV co being a stand alone business with Wigan bc major shareholders.

I'm not sure what's what, and that's partly the problem with all this - I'm just contacting anyone & everyone until we get a resolution - amicable hopefully and one that see Leigh East continuing