Training Facilities (Groundhog Day revisited)

Ive heard the training pitches are of a concern and could be better.

 

That'll soon change.

Our facilities our fine. But our reputation within the game is in the gutter. We're known as a club whereby reputations and careers dwindle rather than thrive. And we tend to underpay for players with potential, and overpay for has beens. Basket case.

Lets be honest, if he has other offers at this level, we won't be at the front of the queue in his thinking.

 

Oh Dear, now you've done it.
Fordy will be on here soon.

 

Ah, that'll be what's getting in the way of us playing free flowing, attacking football.

 

Stephen Warnock

"The big thing, for me, when I went into the club, was that it is not run properly.


“The training ground is shared with a school, you’re sharing facilities with the school, you can’t go in the gym when they need it. The training ground is a school pitch, if they want it, then they use it.


“These are little things that managers have to juggle with all the time, the players don’t know where they’re going to be training from one day to the next, or whether they’re going to be able to use the facilities that they need to use.


“Often, you’re eating school dinners as well. This is meant to be a professional outfit, but it’s not good enough for that level, or for a club of that size.”


David Hopkin


Pictures now adorn the players' canteen, the stairs leading up to the changing area and the corridors.


“It’s to make it more of a training centre,” he said.


“When we came in, you had these grey breeze block walls and I don’t think it was very inviting.


“We want the training centre to become a place where the next person here will come in to a good environment.


“When I first came in, there was a lot of stuff lying about. It didn’t make it feel like a training ground – but it’s starting to get there now.


When Simon Grayson turned down his two year contract wasn’t one of the reasons given that the training facilities weren’t good enough?


We go on about how a club like Bradford City shouldn’t be dwindling in league 2 but in reality when you speak to people who have been in the game for years like the examples above then its quite clear its not up to scratch.

 

And people think this is acceptable?

It’s a bloody school. It’s a disgrace that we train there.

@wetherbywhaler where you at? Hiding?

We question the players effort but we will sign players that look around and go yeah I will join, easy money. The club makes no effort to improve so I will just chill and cash in!

The club is god damn lazy! That lazy behaviour comes from Rupp right the way down to the dancers.

 

I know why the arrogant Grayson is so disliked on here but here is a guy based in Skipton fresh from a big payout from Sunderland who would not touch the City job.
Speaks volumes about the investment need for our infrastructure to compete.

 

They are adequate for what we need. Always room for improvement which in turn helps your playing squad but as it stands there is nothing we lack that would make any difference to this quality of player.

 

Not sure what Graysons beef was. He got Huddersfield promoted using facilities shared with Huddersfield University. I guess his later spells at money bags Preston, Leeds & Sunderland made him forget his roots.

Warlock had come from a premier league life, what did he expect ?

Concentrate on getting out of league two and then perhaps we can sort out better training facilities. One things fir sure, the training ground has less impact on out ability to progress than the people using it.

If I owned the club, I would be looking at domewhere like Manningham Mills on Scotchman Road which has potential to be a great training ground, but I guess that is protected as a community asset.

 

Oh dear poor souls, having to slum it down at Woodhouse Grove for 3 hours a day , then having their dinner and off to the golf course and only earning £2000 per week. My heart bleeds for them.

 

I’ve given you 3 examples from professionals in the game that have stated they weren’t good enough. But yea… what a load of old tosh. You know better.

 

Forget the facilities.. the school meals… the rundown unowned stadium. We get loads of fans so we’re massive. Get us in the championship. What a strange fansbase we are.

 

Have you got the millions required to build training facilities after you have found a site and acquired said space enough to also buy the stadium and modernise it or even build a new one, whilst at the same time splash out on players to push us up the leagues . Probably talking £60+ million minimum. would you be stupid enough to do it , without any gaurantee of sucess.

 

I told thee eeeeeee Fordy said it all along........... we are amateur hour central.................

 

Exactly. Lets get into a league where it is feasible to do that before jumping in, in the meantime concentrate the resource we have on building a squad capable of getting up the leagues. After that we can consider it, but for now all we have are TWO example of prima donna's moaning about it, because Hopkin didn't actually say they were unsuitable, just that they needed making more welcoming.

 

Nope but I accept that we have zero assets and get good attendances because of city size compared to the rest of the league and the cost of season tickets.
I accept we don’t deserve or have any god given right to be any higher in the divisions than we already are. Without indecent infrastructure then maybe mid table league 1 is our ceiling.

 

I love this. Stephen Warnock a Prima Donna? So he’s wrong then? What he said is acceptable?