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Good idea if you ask me.
It'll cut the out of town players commute down by at least half an hour each way.
The cost of the land will be cheaper than buying in Town
Immingham has always been home of many Town supporters and we're a North East Lincs club so it's still serving our community.
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I'm really not sure why a training ground also needs to be a community hub anyway, surely the important thing here is finding adequate land and improving the facilities, we don't need a community centre and leisure centre complex or whatever on top of it. A football club training ground doesn't really spark a feeling of community to me anyway, not everybody in the community cares about sports or this football club, what else are they expecting to use it for?
I've also never felt the need to drive over to Cheapside and lurk around watching the players train either so maybe I'm missing the appeal of needing the training ground to be accessible to anybody other than the players and staff.
I've long advocated for a training facility to have all the things that, in a perfect world, you get with a new stadium on a large site. Community pitches, meeting rooms, business hub - all the things we say we can never have at BP because of the lack of room, and the astronomical cost of a new stadium. If we can secure a large enough site then we can develop it over time to include things that can be used 7 days a week. I don't know if that is the plan for this particular site, or whether the new training ground will be just for the players, but if you can't get what you ideally want (a super duper all encompassing new stadium) then you have to look at other and cheaper options. |
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I'm really not sure why a training ground also needs to be a community hub anyway, surely the important thing here is finding adequate land and improving the facilities, we don't need a community centre and leisure centre complex or whatever on top of it. A football club training ground doesn't really spark a feeling of community to me anyway, not everybody in the community cares about sports or this football club, what else are they expecting to use it for?
I've also never felt the need to drive over to Cheapside and lurk around watching the players train either so maybe I'm missing the appeal of needing the training ground to be accessible to anybody other than the players and staff.
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I'm really not sure why a training ground also needs to be a community hub anyway, surely the important thing here is finding adequate land and improving the facilities, we don't need a community centre and leisure centre complex or whatever on top of it. A football club training ground doesn't really spark a feeling of community to me anyway, not everybody in the community cares about sports or this football club, what else are they expecting to use it for?
I've also never felt the need to drive over to Cheapside and lurk around watching the players train either so maybe I'm missing the appeal of needing the training ground to be accessible to anybody other than the players and staff.
Quite right, I've passed Cheapside on numerous occasions and there are no hordes of onlookers. If Town can build a better facility which helps/improves the team, whilst offsetting costs on other non-footballing projects (if that is the plan) then why not? If the facility can be used by others why not? Immingham is a community and Mariner Fans live/work there. What's the fuss about? |
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Grew up in Immingham. The town has been crying out for training facilities, particularly all-weather ones, since the leisure centre was bulldozed. My nephews' junior teams often travel through to Gy to access the facilities at Bradley so it would be fantastic if they give community access, which i'm sure they would want to. For those that don't know the area, it would be situated next to the 13th century St Andrews church and the Pilgrim monument park, a cute little area by local standards. They'll just have to make sure they bring any potential new players in to town at Stallingborough end and not Docks end! 😄 Two very different impressions of the place
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Seems a good location , hopefully we can raise the substantial monies for it . If it could benefit Immingham and surrounding areas will it open up more potential grants , funding etc ?
Could be a real benefit to their town and potentially attract a few more fans from that way on ?
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Grew up in Immingham. The town has been crying out for training facilities, particularly all-weather ones, since the leisure centre was bulldozed. My nephews' junior teams often travel through to Gy to access the facilities at Bradley so it would be fantastic if they give community access, which i'm sure they would want to. For those that don't know the area, it would be situated next to the 13th century St Andrews church and the Pilgrim monument park, a cute little area by local standards. They'll just have to make sure they bring any potential new players in to town at Stallingborough end and not Docks end! 😄 Two very different impressions of the place
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Is The Bluestone still there ? Have not been that way on for about 20 years
It is. Still lively by all accounts. Not spent much time in there myself as The Station in Habrough was my regular, and I haven't had a pint in the Bluey for the best part of 10 years but Gally was in there on one of the few times I did (of course) |
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In terms of distance, Google Maps says it takes about 40 minutes from the services at the top of 180 to get to Immingham Golf Club. Cheapside is 55 minutes, without congestion. That's saving players 30 minutes a day, 2+ hours a week (based on 4 days training).
Well... that's fair enough, I suppose. A few months ago someone here said they'd heard a rumour about Novartis. I assumed they were referring to the industrial site, but it has occurred to me that the club might just have been looking at the sports ground on the other side of Moody Lane. Presumably there wouldn't have been an issue with planning permission, as a training facility is an almost identical use. Very close to the A180, too. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5828781,-0.1165456,311m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu |
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Unless they have enquired, i am a bit surprised the club haven't considered the Novartis sports ground, good location
west side of town for commuting players, perfect size field with a nice clubhouse/ changing rooms and with the closure
of the plant i would have thought the purchase cost would have been reasonable.
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