The Club's Training Facilities

Do we not think things might have improved and developed in the 20+ years since they played for us?

Lee Sharpe referred to our facilities as Dog and Duck in his book

https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/2016/09/10/the-big-interview-with-lee-sharpe/

 

Just looking into it, we started training at Woodhouse Grove in 2012, so Evans is too thick to realise he was training at a different place when he returned for his second spell.

 

This just seems like someone who knows that if he talks about us it will get attention. He clearly doesn't like the club, don't forget his comment where he said "a bit of me died when I left Portsmouth for Bradford". That interview was full of excuses and passing on the blame slagging off the players and then the disrespectful comments about Trueman and Sellars.

 

We used to just train just at Apperley Bridge and the pavilion was unusable so the players had to get changed at Valley Parade dressing rooms and then drive down to train. I believe Dave Baldwin sorted out the deal with the school and had the grass training pitch improved which City have exclusive use of. They now also have use of the school facilities, Gym and Pool etc.
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Ah I remember him now....waste of space. Obvious now he didn't want to be here

 

Those that had a poor returns for the club should be quiet. Moaning about their facilities is not professional. As my dad always used to say it’s a poor workman/footballer who blames his tools for his own performance and unprofessional. Fans had to pay good money to watch his inept performances now we have to listen to his rubbish. Bugger off and learn to be gracious.

 

Exactly my point

 

There happy to sign the contracts then use it as an excuse

 

That’s got the conspiracy theorists stumped Rod.

 

Where did we train before that???

 

We used to train at the Uni as well, not sure for how long though.

 

Rawdon Meadows, the fields next to the school.

 

I'm sure in the days of Trevor Hockey et al it was somewhere down on Canal rd.

 

I did some work for a guy a while ago who used to play for them as a junior, said they used to train in the car park. He mentioned getting a bollocking for upending Don Hutchins.

 

My issue is the clear fact between November and March nearly every year we have disruption re training. It’s flooded and unplayable. It’s exactly like our pitch under funded and under valued as we simply have nothing and what we do have which is very little we put in the budget. But we forget success is a sum of all its parts and the trainning disruption and pitch quality plays a part. These players a so weak minded this is a ready made excuse!!!

I don’t know the stats but I’d argue our worst periods in a season are those wet and cold months and the disruption it causes.

 

To be fair guys a few players and ex managers have critized the infrastructure... some thing needs to be done...

 

As a kid, I remember seeing them playing small sided games in the car park on South Parade. I've also seen pictures from the early 70's of them running by canal at Shipley Fields.

Didn't we train at Scholemore at some point during Dolan's reign as manager because of the connections he had there ?

 

I think they did although i couldn't confirm it. The guy also told me Stafford had him working in one of his factories when he was injured lol.