Quote: mr. chairman "so the council have waited all these years to finally bring the marshes up to date and then they have to give someone permission to build a road to get the work done . the marsh playing fields and changing rooms are a dump , correct me but the year is 2009 isn't it. shame on wigan council, i agree the road should be built as long as the upgrade of sporting facilities is written in the contract and i dont mean throwing a few hundred at it . it needs 500,000 spending on it'"
Like I said previously, the pitch at the other end of the marshes to where the road is to be built has a little ditch in it that just totally waterlogs as soon as it rains. We asked the council could they sort this out because it caused us a great many problems last year as well. They said there would be no chance because it would cost £50,000 at least to sort it.
The changing rooms are a joke also. Im surprised they have running water but each room isn't big enough for a full football team to change in never mind a rugby team.
The council do have form over this though. The changing rooms where burned down at the William Fosters ground last year (around August ~I believe) and its taken them to Feb to remove all the deris that was still there. Did they reduce the cost to clubs? Only the clubs could tell us. Saying that, it was probably the best thing for those changing rooms because they where in a worse condition than those on the marshes.
All the clubs using council pitches pay a lot of money forthe use of the whole facilities and it is only right to expect a decent standard back from the council.
