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They've also used the 3g pitches over at Marley so that's another option.

 

The sports centre there is in an area with a current flood warning as well. Not sure if it has flooded or not

 

Not sure about 3G, but grass pitches were under water this afternoon.

 

I came through that way an hour ago and it looked fine. I’ve never seen the plastic pitch at Marley flooded. I played on a few of the grass ones when you were up to your knees in mud but I’ve never seen that one flood

 

Got a 4g pitch at the school to train on havent they? Isnt it right down at the far end?

 

They are just before you come to the railway bridge, when it flooded last time it lifted the previous playing surface and was replaced by the new 4g ? surface it looks like it rained again during the night.

 

Snow shoes provided

 

You still haven’t got the message he isn’t going to thow good money after bad however much you say it

 

Serious question. Apart from not owning them, what is wrong with our training facilities? I've only driven past but look fine to me.

 

Drive past this morning

 

You and I both know that ain't going to happen, the Valley Parade pitch is IMO a bigger priority than Rawdon Meadows and even above both of those is a playing squad that can get us promoted.
Our present owner could afford to do both but will he.

 

I accept all that but as I have said before as a business we can’t afford it and under this chairman no money will be invested in infrastructure. If as @Fordy117 suggests he sells up unless we are taking over by wealthy owners who are prepared to put money in with no return we will be run on similar lines to what Rhodes and Lawn did with any spare money going to the team. That is the reality

 

I know of a spot, mainly only used on a weekend.......

 

Wouldn’t we all I personally would love someone with real money that he or she was prepared to put into the club with very little chance of return. In fact I have waited over 60 years for it with only one chairman putting other people’s moneyin and then nearly putting us out of business.

 

If only we'd have had one of those in the last few years. Or even a player sale or sell on.

 

The problem is Rupp is the owner by default as we
all know. He has kept faith even though he's not a football
man but if we became more successful maybe he could be?

As a business man he should be able to see the potential
We have, but as a business it needs infrastructure investment
to make it viable as a business worth buying.

I think we need a plan to buy the ground and if Rhodes can't
or won't deal with Gibb,then Rupp should do it.Substantial
assets in a business with our potential,make it worth buying.

Maybe questions to Rupp in regards where he wants to go
with this is important,to be able to plan a successful future
for our club.

 

Symptomatic of the backward thinking that goes on at our club and the fact an associate director agreed astounds me.

The pitches were good enough 20 years ago so they're good enough now. I'm guessing technology has moved on since Jewels time, the bar is higher.

 

I am sure he like the rest of us would be delighted with our own training ground but there is everything needed at Rawdon meadows I bet there are not many at this level better. The more worrying thing is not finding the 300k to keep up with the pitch