Well make sure there's a bouncy castle for you next time



1 bar , + a hotel bar , + Leigh East bar 300 yards away , + Robin Hood pub opposite car park

Unfortunatley you being from Hull wouldn't know the short cut from the car park

Then again I'd be in the same position at the KC

Quote ="Thoth"Absolutely RL has rarely got big crowds only England vs Australia in England or Australia and Australia vs. NZ in Australia.wo matches regularly generate crowds over 20k. The crowds so far have been at least as good as expected the LSV being the best all things considered. RL fans follow clubs rather than follow RL as a sport, which is rather strange only once every 2 or 3 years they get the chance to see the best players in the NRL you would have thought that is a big incentive to go to the matches.'" Exactly mate, there's a cracking article on this here, written by a certain VT regular: www.internationalrugbyleague.net/fansblog.htm

Quote ="Thoth"Absolutely RL has rarely got big crowds only England vs Australia in England or Australia and Australia vs. NZ in Australia.wo matches regularly generate crowds over 20k. The crowds so far have been at least as good as expected the LSV being the best all things considered. RL fans follow clubs rather than follow RL as a sport, which is rather strange only once every 2 or 3 years they get the chance to see the best players in the NRL you would have thought that is a big incentive to go to the matches.'" Exactly mate, there's a cracking article on this here, written by a certain VT regular: www.internationalrugbyleague.net/fansblog.htm

No it isn't, its 11000.

It is mate, it had to be over 12,000 to apply for SL.

Quote ="ian c"It is mate, it had to be over 12,000 to apply for SL.'" www.leighsportsvillage.co.uk/sta ... adium_id=4 im confused?

Quote ="ian c"It is mate, it had to be over 12,000 to apply for SL.'" www.leighsportsvillage.co.uk/sta ... adium_id=4 im confused?

So am i now mate,

i do think that is the capacity for the current licence it has, but the ground will actually hold over 12,000, i have started a thread on our forum to try and clear it up.

I did work on the sports village and was told it was only going to hold 10000?
If the stadium website confirms 11000 then id take it as truth?

Don't honestly know now mate, but i am pretty sure i have seen it wrote down somewhere as 12,500, the official website may not have been updated though.

that being the case, there weren't 10,377 people there yesterday

There looked a lot of empty seats to me

Why? There’s still 623 empty seats? Even if there were 10377 there, in my opinion 10377 was probably the amount of tickets sold/complementary given out it doesn't mean everyone turned up?

Im not from Bradford



Some sign posting wouldnt have gone amiss and i take it the short cut was walking along the field that goes under the by-pass.

I turned up 90 mins before kick off hoping (but not expecting) to get on the official FREE car park but missed out on a spot by a few minutes. Headed back onto the dual carriageway and parked up on Leigh Miners car park which is less than a quarter of a mile to the stadium. Was very surprised to park up free of charge (in fact I would have gladly shelled out a few quid, Leigh Miners are a good club). Got away after the game pretty easy enough, past Leigh Asda, Westleigh, Hindley Green to avoid any queues.

Me and my two young lads thoroughly enjoyed the day out yesterday.
Seriously, people would moan at anything on here

We ended up on the one that is going to be used for Morrisons...got there just after 12 and was out and back on east lancs in 10 mins so that was good.

We enjoyed going to a new ground but just thought more could have been done and not knowing the area well....(not that bit anyway)...just thought more could have been done for the speccys and the kids especially.....Not a moan,just constructive critisism

Quote ="fc baldy"We ended up on the one that is going to be used for Morrisons...got there just after 12 and was out and back on east lancs in 10 mins so that was good. We enjoyed going to a new ground but just thought more could have been done and not knowing the area well....(not that bit anyway)...just thought more could have been done for the speccys and the kids especially.....Not a moan,just constructive critisism '" Do you mean like posting the following on the Hull board a week before the game The roadworks have been completed, for those who went to the Knights game. Parking on site - roadworks have gone Parking on Pennington Flash opposite LSV Parking in town - 10 min walk Parking on Parsonage retail - 5 mins walk Parking at LMR - 5 mins walk Good beer route in town centre - start at Thomas Burke 9am, via White Lion, Boars Head, Yates's, Muskateer, Goose, Leigh Arms, Waterside, Hilton Arms, Centurion, Brittania, Leigh East to Ground. Most of these do food. Alternate Railway at roundabout after the ground, Leigh Miners across rd, over bridge to Leigh East, Legends bar outside west stand, Park inn next to West stand also does decent food deals. Try Leigh RUFC at the bottom of Hand Lane, Cricket Club on Beech Walk and Robin Hood at the lights on the By-Pass before the ground turn left onto StHelens Rd, Shepherds on St Helens rd not too far as well. Harvester Pub on Parsonage Retail Park past the ground, next roundabout 200yds, with KFC opposite, Hope you come in numbers and have a safe journey. www.leighsportsvillage.co.uk , nearest train stations Newton le willows or Atherton

Quote ="fc baldy"We ended up on the one that is going to be used for Morrisons...got there just after 12 and was out and back on east lancs in 10 mins so that was good. We enjoyed going to a new ground but just thought more could have been done and not knowing the area well....(not that bit anyway)...just thought more could have been done for the speccys and the kids especially.....Not a moan,just constructive critisism '" Do you mean like posting the following on the Hull board a week before the game The roadworks have been completed, for those who went to the Knights game. Parking on site - roadworks have gone Parking on Pennington Flash opposite LSV Parking in town - 10 min walk Parking on Parsonage retail - 5 mins walk Parking at LMR - 5 mins walk Good beer route in town centre - start at Thomas Burke 9am, via White Lion, Boars Head, Yates's, Muskateer, Goose, Leigh Arms, Waterside, Hilton Arms, Centurion, Brittania, Leigh East to Ground. Most of these do food. Alternate Railway at roundabout after the ground, Leigh Miners across rd, over bridge to Leigh East, Legends bar outside west stand, Park inn next to West stand also does decent food deals. Try Leigh RUFC at the bottom of Hand Lane, Cricket Club on Beech Walk and Robin Hood at the lights on the By-Pass before the ground turn left onto StHelens Rd, Shepherds on St Helens rd not too far as well. Harvester Pub on Parsonage Retail Park past the ground, next roundabout 200yds, with KFC opposite, Hope you come in numbers and have a safe journey. www.leighsportsvillage.co.uk , nearest train stations Newton le willows or Atherton

Originally a 10,000 all seated stadium , altered to take 12,000 with the standing terrace north stand being 4,000 capacity

When the LSV was originally planned you needed 8,000 capacity to enter SL , I remember Nigel Wood asking me what the capacity would be at the Whitehaven v Cas match at the Rec in 2005 , I told him 10,000 , shortly afterwards the RFL announced that 12,000 would be the required capacity to enter from 2008

Suddenly several clubs were announcing they had the required capacity despite no discernible changes to stadia that previously had only just passed the 8,000 level



So the LSV is defiantly 12,000 + just

Can you put that info on the thread i started on our board Steve please.

Capacity is slightly less than 12700.

I don't know what the fuss is about ?

It increased due to the north terracing not being seated.

Its a cracking little ground. Why does it need to be bigger when 10300 turn up?

Easy to get parked near the ground for me. Just parked in a street near the retail park. We were a minute late for kick off as well, so it wasn't about getting there early.

Can't really comment on how hard it was to find the ground because we used SatNav to get there!

Was anyone else in the retail park near the Sainsbury's when the chav decided to have a kick off? One of the funniest things I've seen! In stereotypical fashion, gobbed off at a woman in a car, then when a by passer came to help, said something to him, narrowly avoided getting floored, then backed off whilst shouting more threats ("come on then, I'll have ya!" isn't quite as threatening when you're back pedalling!)

He must ve been a HKR fan who got lost.

Never a truer word said!

Sounds like it only needed someone to kneel down behind him and trip him up and it would've been perfect

I came for the weekend, attended both games and stayed in the Park Inn at the Leigh Sports Village and must say I thought everything about the LSV was great. Easy access, good traffic flow, fine parking, nice ground etc.

Yes saw that, it was Ryan Bailey.

Thought the crowd was ok for a fixture against Wales, one big plus point was the amount of families in the seated stand behind the sticks.We had no hassle getting to the LSV either, all in all a decent afternoon out.