Right chaps and chapesses onto the real hit up.
LSV is probably easier to get to than your home ground for many, but you will know the bus routes and we are still the largest town in the uk without trains.
For the real RL fans you will find the town welcoming with proper boozers, tommy Burke will have the proper breakfast and ale from about 9am ish next door bar none is run by Phil Johnson then continue your trek towards LSV the George has plenty fans in before you hit the two big rugby pubs centurion and Brittania. On site you have leigh East and the legends bar with the wren pub doing proper food with a beer garden, if you are poor the you can get a take out from morrisons, parking free on site if early or in town plus Leigh miners not far away

Surely Oldham is bigger than Leigh.

But you can a train to Oldham, although technically you can get a train to Atherton and have a proper pub crawl down to the ground..

No you can't.

Maurice meant "the largest town in the UK without trains OR TRAMS!"

Didn't know owdum didn't have one either

The Oldham loop was taken over by trams some time back: the last train was Oldham 2009 and both Mumps and Werneth stations are not in use /changed.

The trams leave Rochdale very frequently but take 40 mins to get to Vic so the trains are used by many travellers.

Technically there are trains to Oldham: to Mills Hill (as this is where the original (183icon_cool.gif station for Oldham was and still serves Chadderton) and to Moston (which also serves south Chadderton). However neither are in Oldham : Mills Hill is next to the boundary with Chadderton.
And, as a drunken number of the fans realised on Good Friday, Greenfield is in Oldham. Hic.

Maurice, what is the LSV policy on flares? In particular big red ones.

Can only be worn with a shirt with comedy over sized collar and a kipper tie

That's slightly unfair on Leigh.

Their fashion habits are cutting edge 1986 at least.

This ones big number 1 pop pickers.

Living Doll, sponsored by Cliff Richards FOC child minding service

Leathers fashion still has to be better than "trackie bottoms" tucked into black socks with the compulsory burberry cap

Fashion criticism from the Butcher

a guy with a handlebar moustache and a top hat ,I always wear a Bowler Hat and a red nose , but most you Salfordians being Shameless extras will be welcome whatever you wear.Charlie knows.

I admit I'm no fashion guru, and not a tracksuit in sight either.

Saying that, Leigh is the only place I've ever seen a shirt for sale with three sleeves. A fashion label from 'D & G' (Not Dolce & Gabbana, the other one, Defect & Genetique)

Sales of wok's are high over your way I heard.

Makes ironing your shirts easier

The majority of us LEYTHERS are not into leathers either!

That's not fair, I only developed the hump slipping down the steps at the LSV. There was so much drivel on the terraces that I lost my footing.

Very Good Mr Butcher

I love a bit of Banter

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Sorry for late reply, am abroad and will miss game. Flares are now back in fashion with northern soul being hip again, be careful crossing roads though as they can be lethal with platforms

Not 1 pair of trackies but 2, I am led to believe it makes "Grafting" easier down Pendleton Precinct or good for a spot of looting....

On a serious note, is there ample parking around the lsv, for the expected crowd?

About 800 Free spaces on site at LSV, plus Parsonage retail park just further up the road 10 mins also free, Leigh Miners and Leigh Rugby Union both only a 10 min walk to the stadium but I think they both charge a few quid.

Parking is a joke if you park on site where the gravel is. I went to an England Knights game v France, not even 2000 on and took me hour and half to get off site. Makes me laugh how people slag Salford off for the parking yet there is numerous grounds its, just as if not more difficult to get away.

Can't see why people wouldn't get a bus or coach down, perfect day for beer, pies and the favored joke, 'gimme six Brother'