Stay away from Westhoughton, thats my town and barring the odd crazy Wigan fan, its a Viking town.

Why dont you try get support from Walkden and leave Westhoughton to me?

Its a decent offer, I wouldnt want to have to fight you for the place

John Duffy has been to St James Primary School for the last couple of weeks, my daughter has loved every minute of it. She came home this week with a 'draw Robbie Paul' compition.

Keep up the good work, i hope that every kid in the school gets to takes home a season ticket leaflet.

Brilliant, from what people are saying Samwise Duffy is doing a great job off the pitch.

Help in getting junior sides down at the club they have lost a load of kids ,great clubhouse good facilities .
Isnt that what you was posting the community dept was supposed to be doing attracting younger people to the game ?

No , the community dept at Leigh [ along with probably every other pro sports community dept ] focus's on two things

1 providing kids with a healthy activity [ quite often tied into their school work via numeracy and literacy ] that schools quite often no longer supply

2 attracting kids to the actual pro club providing the activity

Much of this work is grant funded [ which is why it has to be done primarily through schools and usually includes the said work on actual school work ' ie numeracy and literacy ' ] , that would probably preclude it from actually setting up and running individual amatuer club teams

I work with John regularly with regularly at my School, he is awesome with the kids and the game in the Bolton is taking off slowly. Wigan don't seem to be going any further than Daisy Hill/Westhoughton with their community work so Leigh are trying to take advantage. The signs are very encouraging and hopefully these will pay dividends further down the line.

Wig&n Community department were at the school last year, looks like Leigh have taken their place this time.

Martin I have no problem what so ever with the community department I am merely asking a couple of pertinent questions.

I know Golborne are struggling and as they are a club in the Leigh District surely it is worth utilising the facilities down there and to see if all parties can identify why there are few kids playing in that area ,an area smack bang inbetween two major superleague clubs and of course Leigh Centurians.

I would have thought that would have been a worthwile project within its capacity and roles.

Do you mean Westhoughton High? If so, tid true.

Feka was in there last year - hilarious photo of him (man-mountain) with the Headteacher (midget!).

However Duffy has been there this year, which may not have gone down too well with the woman from there who works with him, who is a massive Wigan fan?!

St. James Junior School.

As I said not strictly within their remit

But , have they asked for help ?

Quote: Starbug "As I said not strictly within their remit But , have they asked for help ?'" take a read Steve www.leighcenturions.com/page.php?id=375 Now working with the community getting kids off the streets and involving them in social projects now that is clearly within their remit. And I believe they have asked for help but the support was patchy to say the least. I dont want to turn this into a my dads bigger than you thread Steve but there is a clear need for some partnership involvement down Intex way

Quote: Starbug "As I said not strictly within their remit But , have they asked for help ?'" take a read Steve www.leighcenturions.com/page.php?id=375 Now working with the community getting kids off the streets and involving them in social projects now that is clearly within their remit. And I believe they have asked for help but the support was patchy to say the least. I dont want to turn this into a my dads bigger than you thread Steve but there is a clear need for some partnership involvement down Intex way