Moving The Training Ground

The owners and Hurst constantly talk about struggling to sign players due to our location and the fact players don't want to live in Grimsby.
They very rarely say that we don't sign players due to our budget.

Stockwood mentioned that he wants to create a community football club, but what effect would it really have, having the players train somewhere like the outskirts of Doncaster or similar?

Positives are clearly that it would make us a more suitable option to potential players, due to lower travelling times and the ability to still live in/outside big cities.
Negatives are what? - The potential that it takes abit of 'community spirit' from the club? - Barrow seem to be doing it and they are currently having good success.

Personally for me, I couldn't care if the players trained in London throughout the week, as long as we are attracting a better calibre of player, whilst still not paying over the odds, and we start to pick up better results and climb back up towards the Championship, were we arguably belong.

Thoughts?

It's hard to be a community club when the community can't utilise the club's facilities.

It's an absolutely ridiculous idea; there is nothing stopping the training facilities being more accessible within the boundaries of North East Lincolnshire.

Another thread about it 😳

We've just done a 15 page thread on this:

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1674835686/s-new/

And it’s a waste of time anyway, as the owners have made it perfectly clear they have no intention of building a training ground out of town .

Quoted from SteffiMariner

It's hard to be a community club when the community can't utilise the club's facilities.

It's an absolutely ridiculous idea; there is nothing stopping the training facilities being more accessible within the boundaries of North East Lincolnshire.

In what way do you think the community should be able to utilise the club's training ground? Being within the boundaries of North East Lincolnshire is the issue since that starts around Immingham and ends around Waltham, it's a very small area that is mostly empty fields away from the coast.  

I think the chairman has been clear and it makes sense to me.

Unlike a tiny amount of cynics I am fully behind the B Corps ambition and I would suggest that having a training ground outside of the community would not sit well with all that stuff.

I seem to think we spent many pages debating this before the season started. I cannot see the point of debating this again when we have not had any news from the club about the new training ground.

Quoted from Kris2

In what way do you think the community should be able to utilise the club's training ground? Being within the boundaries of North East Lincolnshire is the issue since that starts around Immingham and ends around Waltham, it's a very small area that is mostly empty fields away from the coast.  

I think it's a misinterpretation of what was said. I think it was to do with ladies and kids teams being able to use the facilities, but people seem to join community and training ground being in the community as Joe public can rock up and use it, which is not going to happen.

What appears to have been a tricky transfer window may well cause a slight rethink on some previous standpoints....if the owners are as forward thinking and switched on as we may credit them for then surely a review of all aspects of the "gtfc package" needs to be included.