Ok then , New Ground time

Quoted from HerveJosse

I think Jason would be pretty upset at your comment that he is not a socialist. So would The Guardian.

I reckon Marx and Engels would probably agree with me though, so the Guardian can suck my balls.

Quoted from ska face

I reckon Marx and Engels would probably agree with me though, so the Guardian can suck my balls.

Bet you wouldn't say that to a Piranha!  Ouch  

Quoted from HerveJosse

I think Jason would be pretty upset at your comment that he is not a socialist. So would The Guardian.

And Lisa Nandy would probably p!$$ herself laughing given how much money Stockwood donated to her unsuccessful Labour leadership campaign.

A training ground deep inside built up Grimsby is bizarre. It will hurt our efforts to attract players.

I guarantee every single player we make an offer to will go on Google maps and find out how long it takes to commute from their house to the training ground. The prospect of a further 15-20 minute journey each way because the training ground is at Barratt’s will hurt our recruitment compared to a site just off the A180 near Great Coates, Healing, Stallingborough etc…

Look where Lincoln built their training ground. Opposite RAF Scampton 4 or 5 miles north of the city on the A15. It’s very impressive and a much bigger site than Barratts offers. And that’s without any community stuff taking up any of the footprint.

And because of the Tories anti-solar farm policy it’s fairly cheap to pick up poorer quality farmland that solar farms were being built on before the Tories virtually banned them.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

And Lisa Nandy would probably p!$$ herself laughing given how much money Stockwood donated to her unsuccessful Labour leadership campaign.

Yeah, renowned socialist Lisa Nandy (!). You don’t have talk some shíte on here.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

A training ground deep inside built up Grimsby is bizarre. It will hurt our efforts to attract players.

I guarantee every single player we make an offer to will go on Google maps and find out how long it takes to commute from their house to the training ground. The prospect of a further 15-20 minute journey each way because the training ground is at Barratt’s will hurt our recruitment compared to a site just off the A180 near Great Coates, Healing, Stallingborough etc…

Look where Lincoln built their training ground. Opposite RAF Scampton 4 or 5 miles north of the city on the A15. It’s very impressive and a much bigger site than Barratts offers. And that’s without any community stuff taking up any of the footprint.

And because of the Tories anti-solar farm policy it’s fairly cheap to pick up poorer quality farmland that solar farms were being built on before the Tories virtually banned them.

You don’t actually know where GTFC intends to build a training ground, unless I’ve missed something?

Re Lincoln that end of the A15 near Lincoln isn’t exactly great if you want to attract players from big cities, maybe Nottingham but it’s not exactly accessible. You say it’s impressive, have you been inside the facilities?

Quoted from jamesgtfc

How do you think the likes of Harry Clifton, Ollie Battersby and every other local player in our various teams (youth, womens etc) would feel about the prospect of having to do 90% of the work for their home town club on the outskirts of Bawtry?

I see the benefits of training out of town but there are downsides too and I am firmly on the keeping the training ground local side of this discussion.

I was thinking this end of the M180 to be honest.

Lincoln's training set-up at Scampton is far from the standard we should aspire too.

Few pitches and then a few small dwellings that house the basic gym set-up you'll find in hotels up and down the country and well below the standard you would find in any bog standard chain gym.  

Cheapside isn't great, far from it. But we can do an awful lot better than the Scampton set-up.  The one thing it does have is a good location.  Easily accessible from all directions without having to contend with the bulk of traffic in the city centre.

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Easily accessible from Rasen, Scunthorpe, Lincoln, even Donny and Sheffield etc but it's over an hour from Nottingham, depending on traffic at Newark and Hykeham can easily be 2 hours any given day and gives them the same issue regarding midlands/southern based players I imagine.  Sticking it down near Newark would have been far better for that.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Lincoln's training set-up at Scampton is far from the standard we should aspire too.

Few pitches and then a few small dwellings that house the basic gym set-up you'll find in hotels up and down the country and well below the standard you would find in any bog standard chain gym.  

Cheapside isn't great, far from it. But we can do an awful lot better than the Scampton set-up.  The one thing it does have is a good location.  Easily accessible from all directions without having to contend with the bulk of traffic in the city centre.

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There's some deeply uninspiring inspirational messages: "we are imps" and "victim or fighter?" - someone should have had a think about those.