Match Thread v York

When we beat Lincoln in a preseason friendly last season there were a significant number on here pointing out that it was mainly Lincoln reserves with the first team playing just the last twenty minutes.  My biggest concern is not how we are playing but how many injuries we are carrying which will prevent a significant number of our expected preferred first eleven missing out on a full pre-seasons training.

However, still three weeks to go and hopefully Vernam, Ainley, Tharme and Rose will all get some training in and good minutes in the friendly matches against Rotherham and Mansfield.  

Thought Vernham looked very assured in his late cameo at York. Let’s hope we get 30+ games out of him

Quoted from Ruuger

1. The legal issues ARE out of the clubs control.

2. Seeing as you are so knowledgeable re finding another site, perhaps you should volunteer to help them find and buy one!

It’s simple. Pick a stupid site and you get objections and legal hurdles to clear.

Lincoln chose a site on the A15 opposite and got their new training ground done quickly.

FGR chose a site adjacent to J13 of the M5 and it’s under construction now and nearly complete.

They both chose sites where there’s no on close by to object. And as a result planning was a tick exercise that was quickly completed.

Quoted from Yoda

On that performance we are down.
Zero pace at the back no attacking intent, no shots on target, new signings are worse than the ones we let go.
Let’s hope there are two teams worse than us or we are down.
It’s going to be a long season.

Just  had a quick check of the table after that abysmal display.

It seems we are still on the same number of points as the team at the top and strangely, the team at the bottom.

Weird, it's almost as if that match had no impact on the league positions at all.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

It’s simple. Pick a stupid site and you get objections and legal hurdles to clear.

Lincoln chose a site on the A15 opposite and got their new training ground done quickly.

FGR chose a site adjacent to J13 of the M5 and it’s under construction now and nearly complete.

They both chose sites where there’s no on close by to object. And as a result planning was a tick exercise that was quickly completed.

I have absolutely no idea what site they are/were looking at, do you?  I would be interested to know.  

To Lincoln's advantage, the county of Lincolnshire is flipping huge.  The city is surrounded by lots and lots of space to the North, South, West and East.  If they wished they could have gone in either direction (for a fair old distance) and found suitable space to put forward planning applications to Lincolnshire County Council.

NELC is tiny.  To the North and East is water.  To the South the county boundaries run just the south side of the A18 up to Beesby but the as you approach and certainly once you cross the A18 and get into the Wolds it's not viable for a training ground.

That leaves West.  There's lots and lots of green field sites either side of the A180 but most are predominantly inaccessible to the point they wouldn't tolerate however many cars rocking up on a daily basis, that's even if the land was available in the first place.

One area that is a) up for sale and b) accessible is Immingham Golf Club.  No surprise that's where the club were looking.  

To say the options are limited is generous.

Quoted from diehardmariner

To Lincoln's advantage, the county of Lincolnshire is flipping huge.  The city is surrounded by lots and lots of space to the North, South, West and East.  If they wished they could have gone in either direction (for a fair old distance) and found suitable space to put forward planning applications to Lincolnshire County Council.

NELC is tiny.  To the North and East is water.  To the South the county boundaries run just the south side of the A18 up to Beesby but the as you approach and certainly once you cross the A18 and get into the Wolds it's not viable for a training ground.

That leaves West.  There's lots and lots of green field sites either side of the A180 but most are predominantly inaccessible to the point they wouldn't tolerate however many cars rocking up on a daily basis, that's even if the land was available in the first place.

One area that is a) up for sale and b) accessible is Immingham Golf Club.  No surprise that's where the club were looking.  

To say the options are limited is generous.

It’s so simple.

We need a medium sized field off a main road. NEL has the A180 offering good links to the motorway network. Build it there off one of the junctions. Probably off Stallingborough or Brocklesby Interchange.

One potential site would be next to or opposite Ulceby truck stop. Another would be between Myenergi and the A180 on the A1173.

When the owners first mentioned it they kept using the term “town centre” which didn’t make much sense. I always took that to mean within the boundaries of the town. Having such a daft red line is so costly in terms of land price and the cost of overcoming objections and planning.

I don’t understand the logic.

Why are they so obsessed with the community part of the scheme. If they want to give something back they could just help build new changing facilities at existing facilities to allow for women’s and girls football and match officials. That is what is missing up and down the country.

Presumably because it’s easier to build political consensus, community support and external funding if you’ve got a scheme that benefits a larger number of people and is easily accessible to them.

The problem with being out on your own is exactly that.

Quoted from ska face

Presumably because it’s easier to build political consensus, community support and external funding if you’ve got a scheme that benefits a larger number of people and is easily accessible to them.

The problem with being out on your own is exactly that.

If that’s the case, why has it taken 3 years and they haven’t even announced a site and put planning permission in yet?

Because that’s when the real hurdles come along.

Quoted from MarinerMal

Weird, it's almost as if that match had no impact on the league positions at all.

The same impact as every pre-season match.  So let’s not bother with any !  
If we don’t even do any pre-season training we’ll still start with the same points as everyone else.  Imagine how much money the club would save.  

I think you’re on a winner mate 🤔🤔