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Post by toddy1953 on Dec 20, 2019 21:12:31 GMT
I thought Davies knee injury was in a game & has developed tendinitis, THD was recovering from a career threatening injury & was a gamble by DC, class player if he gets fit, Little was injury prone at Bolton & JCH always looks like he is carrying an injury, so I agree probably nothing to do do with the training pitch. There could be an issue of how we play (and train) that could result in more injuries though. However, getting the whole club to train at the same place adds so much imo, continuity, confidence, decent physio, great way to integrate youngsters etc. If we win tomorrow we could go 2nd, not sure we'd be doing any better with this group of players if we had the best training pitches in L1. Until we have a list of all the L1 teams training facilities it's impossible to know where ours stands. I doubt Wycombe's is top notch? Well we are not as good as Fleetwood but better than Sheffield Wed, apparently 😁
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Post by markczgas on Dec 20, 2019 21:17:06 GMT
it would all be so different if we owned our own training ground
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Post by markczgas on Dec 20, 2019 21:19:37 GMT
btw. Cribbs training ground was bought a while ago by a private school - Redmaids if I remember rightly so all football users including the Gas will have to move in about a year apparently.
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Post by daniel300380 on Dec 20, 2019 21:40:01 GMT
Then you would have seen we only have access to one actual pitch at the bottom. Do you not think we might hire one permanently, but have the option to hire more when required?? The lawns has won awards for the pitches and isn't that bad. GC said we have a bigger area to use than Sheffield Wednesday. So we can't only use one pitch. Some days, we might only need one pitch though. You say about the physio being in the changing rooms. Down this way Plymouth change at the stadium and walk across the park to the pitch they train on. Think some fans thing all over clubs train at top facilities! Obviously some have new training facilities, but a lot don't.
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Post by Icegas on Dec 20, 2019 21:42:11 GMT
You need to visit. Managers office = portakabin. Physio is set up in a changing room. We only have use of one of the pitches. Yet we have had 2 promotions there since 2015, and are on course for maybe a 3rd to the 2nd tier of English soccer? Im sorry, Training facilities are not as important as getting new stands for our fans that pay to support us.Thats where the money is for our development,and will be lost if not built. Tomorrow we will get 8k -10k, yet if we had a Ashton Gate kinda new build it would be 14k- 16k.. Getting the right players and a Manager is more important than where we place our training cones daily.. Cribbs might not be the best but its still not like training at the downs league Iraq is it,..?
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Post by gasheadontour on Dec 20, 2019 21:49:21 GMT
Last Saturday I noticed that Ipswich had a portacabin for a ticket office for home fans and they had tents behind a stand that looked like they might be for hospitality. There was artificial grass behind the main stand where lots of kids were playing football matches instead of watching the Ipswich v Rovers match.
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Post by Topper Gas on Dec 20, 2019 21:52:05 GMT
You need to visit. Managers office = portakabin. Physio is set up in a changing room. We only have use of one of the pitches. Yet we have had 2 promotions there since 2015, and are on course for maybe a 3rd to the 2nd tier of English soccer? Im sorry, Training facilities are not as important as getting new stands for our fans that pay to support us.Thats where the money is for our development,and will be lost if not built. Tomorrow we will get 8k -10k, yet if we had a Ashton Gate kinda new build it would be 14k- 16k.. Getting the right players and a Manager is more important than where we place our training cones daily.. Cribbs might not be the best but its still not like training at the downs league Iraq is it,..? But Luton and Lincoln have recently spent millions on training facilities so they must feel it's worth the investment? Wycombe's looks a similar set up to something we could build at The Colony for next to nothing, a changing rooms and 3 pitches: www.google.com/maps/place/Wycombe+Wanderers+Training+Ground/@51.6040615,-0.8078916,226m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xb538c2ac9eede896!8m2!3d51.6044113!4d-0.8079989
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Post by pirate on Dec 20, 2019 21:56:07 GMT
You need to visit. Managers office = portakabin. Physio is set up in a changing room. We only have use of one of the pitches. Yet we have had 2 promotions there since 2015, and are on course for maybe a 3rd to the 2nd tier of English soccer? Im sorry, Training facilities are not as important as getting new stands for our fans that pay to support us.Thats where the money is for our development,and will be lost if not built. Tomorrow we will get 8k -10k, yet if we had a Ashton Gate kinda new build it would be 14k- 16k.. Getting the right players and a Manager is more important than where we place our training cones daily.. Cribbs might not be the best but its still not like training at the downs league Iraq is it,..? Not quite The Downs, but Cribbs/The Lawns is a Western League facility.
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Post by pirate on Dec 20, 2019 21:57:58 GMT
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Post by axegas on Dec 20, 2019 22:03:38 GMT
You need to visit. Managers office = portakabin. Physio is set up in a changing room. We only have use of one of the pitches. Yet we have had 2 promotions there since 2015, and are on course for maybe a 3rd to the 2nd tier of English soccer? Im sorry, Training facilities are not as important as getting new stands for our fans that pay to support us.Thats where the money is for our development,and will be lost if not built. Tomorrow we will get 8k -10k, yet if we had a Ashton Gate kinda new build it would be 14k- 16k.. Getting the right players and a Manager is more important than where we place our training cones daily.. Cribbs might not be the best but its still not like training at the downs league Iraq is it,..? In the Conference and to some extent League two we could attract players because of our stature and the fact we had one of the larger budgets in the division. In League one this is no longer the case and having poor training facilities is perhaps one of the reasons why we've hit a ceiling, it makes it much harder to attract and retain players. Then there is the lease, if I'm not mistaken we are due to be kicked out of Cribbs in a year or so's time? We can't function properly as a 2nd/3rd tier football club without an operational training base, we'd have nowhere to prepare for games, no physio facilities and media room. If we had an old and outdated but built for purpose training facility that we owned then perhaps it would be excused to neglect investment into this side of the club but the fact is we don't. So while I'd agree that getting a new stadium is hugely important for the future of the club, we find ourselves in a situation of which a stadium is at minimum 4/5 years away and in the meanwhile we will cease to have a training ground if we don't do something about the colony. That's why the owners saying that the development of the colony is conditional to the stadium project in my view is just wrong because as of right now a new stadium is little more than a pipe dream, whereas acquiring new training facilities is an urgent need.
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Post by Westy on Dec 21, 2019 0:32:45 GMT
The split between the youth team could be they attend their scholarship studies or something along those lines on different days, so sometimes it's used to for their own training, and on other occasions more pitches are hired out at the lawns (?) when both/all teams have a chance to get together. This doesn't factor in the development squad though. Again; I don't really have a scooby! This is what I'm getting from it so far.
I'm wondering how this could be alleviated a in the sense of the scholarships study days... Maybe a training facility close to UWE to hop over after classes.
That would explain the youth team playing on artificial grass then as well, unless UWE have any turf pitches?
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Post by Gasshole on Dec 21, 2019 0:53:40 GMT
We used to train on a cinder pitch. I like our teams ethos. No excuses, they overcome adversity and front up every week to get the job done. That’s why we’re in the mix.
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Post by Jomo on Dec 21, 2019 0:57:20 GMT
Frankly our training ground and stadium situations are an embarrassment and I'm sure would surprise many people who came to look around if they were being interviewed.
The Colony debacle is the biggest shambles the Al Qadis have overseen since their arrival and I include the stadium situation in that too. Land bought, going to be all singing all dancing...oh wait it'll cost how much? OK let's just build a basic facility? That'll cost money too? Let's just sit on it for a while and hope nobody asks us about it.
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Post by BishopstonBRFC on Dec 21, 2019 3:41:15 GMT
So the board are holding out until Red Maids redevelop the place and will be able to claim we've got a new training ground. Then flog the Colony land.
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Post by Westy on Dec 21, 2019 11:22:52 GMT
So the board are holding out until Red Maids redevelop the place and will be able to claim we've got a new training ground. Then flog the Colony land. Unfortunately I've held the same suspicion for a while. An investment bank sat on land waiting to cash in? Who'd of thunk it?
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