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| Quote: leythdave "so what's the point in having one then?'"
It can be used as the scoreboard, and the club/lsv can sell advertising space on it.
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..... and I'll be standing in the Hilton Park stand, yes that's right I've named the North Stand myself: |
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| My Dad kicked off big style when he saw the Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council logo all over the big screen outside the ground.
He is secretary for local kids amateur football club and they had a lot of input in supporting the LSV. He says the council's input was minimal in getting everything done regarding the sports village as a whole and if it had been left to them the project would never have happened.
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| Quote: The Kevster! "My Dad kicked off big style when he saw the Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council logo all over the big screen outside the ground.
He is secretary for local kids amateur football club and they had a lot of input in supporting the LSV. He says the council's input was minimal in getting everything done regarding the sports village as a whole and if it had been left to them the project would never have happened.'"
The thing is though, as a senior LSV official once said to me, it's their building.
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..... and I'll be standing in the Hilton Park stand, yes that's right I've named the North Stand myself: |
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| You see that's the attitude we're up against mate.
It's still us and them it's supposed to be our home ground. We should start a fund to buy it off the council and get as many businesses involved as possible.
It wasn't all council money that paid for it and the council money that did is mostly ours I'd like to remind them
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42910_1337432023.jpg [i:5a56um9q]Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.[/i:5a56um9q]
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| What really annoys me about this - and I shall be bending the ear of Andy Burnham the next time I see him - is that the idea of the LSV was sold to the people of Leigh as a venue for them to use/watch sport. The people of Leigh thought they were getting a community sporting venue, somewhere for our children and our team(s) to play - this is what we bought into - not some over priced facility that is in genuine danger of becoming a ghost village!!
Something needs to be done about this before it's too late!
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| I agree with all the comments about the problems caused by our not owning the ground. What exactly is LSV in the sense of who owns it? Presumably the council and others have shares. How much would it cost us to buy the ground and gain much needed control of our own destiny?
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| well it cost in the region of £23M to build so I would think thats a non starter
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| Yes but who paid for it Fred?
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| Greenbank partnership with various grants and sales of properties and land by Wigan Council, Wigan and Leigh College, & Leigh Harriers
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| Thanks -obviously we paid nowt and have no share in it!
But not clear to me who owns Greenbank partnership i.e who would profit from the sale of the ground? Mostly Wigan Council?
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42910_1337432023.jpg [i:5a56um9q]Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.[/i:5a56um9q]
[b:5a56um9q]George Orwell [/b:5a56um9q]
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| These details are quoted from this months ' Borough Life' magazine.
"The cost of the public sector facilities is around £40 million - around half the total cost of the scheme - which includes the cost of building Leigh East clubhouse, Leigh Harriers athletic track and stadium, the swimming pool & sports hall and the stadium itself plus infrastructure costs.
The council has directly funded approximately £16 million of this - with the help of Sport England (0.7m) and the North West Development Agency (£5m).
It also released a significant element of land at both Grasmere St (former home of Leigh East) and at Leigh Sports Village for private sector development through Greenbank Partnerships. Leigh Harriers also contributed £4 million through the sale of their Holden Rd site."
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42910_1337432023.jpg [i:5a56um9q]Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.[/i:5a56um9q]
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| I think what actually tells the bigger story, is that Leigh Sports Village Co. is actually department 10 of Wigan Metropolitan Development Company Ltd.
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| some department somewhere or other has to be responsible as the LSV company seem unable to run itself example GMPolice properties are dealt with by Salford Council and wages dealt with by Trafford (or they were when I was in it)
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