Crilly Park within 5 years, told you all this some time ago
Look back and I also predicted our league form this seasn too

Despite ongoing efforts to keep the outlet open, we have been fighting a losing battle, due to the limited footfall within the Leigh Sports Village, allowing for minimal sales and mounting costs required to keep the facility running.

Maybe the gap in between home league fixtures does not help
the shop
the team
the Leyth supporters

Sun 22nd March
20 days
Sun 13th April
10 days
Thu 23rd April
21 days
Thu 14th May
32 days
Sun 14th June
35 days
Sun 19th July
14 days
Sun 2nd August
13 days
Sat 15th August
4 days
Wed 19th August
17 days
Sun 6th September

There are a few fixtures close to 14 days as in one week home the next week away, I suppose that is too much to ask for next season.
I also think the above spread in days between games puts people off from going to the games.

What else could you have there bar a club shop? Don't get why lease is high seems very silly!

But maybe if all those who said 'enjoy a mouch' round there bought something you'd have been ok

It something so simplistic yet the games current "rulers" are incapable or unwilling of formatting a basic home /away formular (or as near as damn it).

I noticed Blackpool Panthers complained recently about the farce that is the fixture format in the local press, last home fixture was 24th May , next home fixture 28th June - however they also had no away fixtures in that time either making it a big mid season gap

Don't you just love it.

This is very sad news. On the occasions I have been in and bought stuff in the shop i thought it was excellent.
I do think they could have had more diverse stock and less Centurions stuff...especially with the college and sport centre around the corner.
You would think a "Sports Village" needs a sports outlet...not just 'Centurion' only shop.

Agreed very sad news but yet again it doesnt help when they are paying well over the odds for a store that people only go to en mass on match days which we all know are too and far between.......Maybe if we had home matches every other week it might have been more viable and made the money needed to stay open.

Went in nearly every home game as the staff were excellent, hope they find something else or are used else where in LSV......

Well done LSV thats another empty space your over pricing has created, only need to get rid of the bar, get relegated then we'll have the pies playing there just to recoup some money [what w!6an MBC probably wanted all along]

I am beginning to wonder if the good people from W"£$n Council want to create a white elephant which would then be blamed on the good people of Leigh, thus giving them an excuse never to do anything for our town ever again. It would seem they are well on there way to it. Not the expected takeup of the facilities and the ones that are are now leaving.

The LSV has been hit with two things. The first and most obvious is the current recession, companies are holding back from investing in new ventures until the economy settles down. No company is prepared to take up the retail space on the village in the short term. The second would appear to be the unrealistic expectations of the LSV company when it comes to generating income for the site. The stadium itself is trying to hire the space at pricing levels similar to Wembley stadium. This is Leigh for gods sake, an old mining town with below average income levels and above average un-employment levels. The money isn't in the town to justify the prices the LSV company want to achieve. They need to lower their expectations and dare I say lose one or two of the "fat cat" salaries they are paying to executives.

One has to wonder whether they factored a stadium sponsorship deal in to their budgeting as well

you really dont expect a plastic scouser to understand to understand the implications of someone losing their job do you they're all ignorant the lot of em