Same reason most teams have multiple pitches.
Why is Championship the time to build?
This whole thread is based on the square root of fuck all.
It'll have the main squad plus the youth and dev sides playing under a unified setup. There's 2 at SG and I think they'll both be in use by the 1st team squad.
That’s what I don’t understand. We don’t have that many teams
I have to say Ive thought this all along and fully agree what a great idea it would be. I just dont understand why this is not being implemented.
First team needs multiple pitches - there will be an exhibition pitch for actual matches, a couple of pitches for day to day training that mirror BR and then there will be a couple that are different sizes to match the set ups elsewhere. Throw in some GK specific training pitches and set piece practice areas and you need 4/5 pitches - possibly more just for the senior team. It’s not like BR where you only play for 90 minutes once a fortnight. It’s trained on day in day out in all weather. You need multiple pitches so you can rotate and protect the infrastructure.
We've no idea if the cash is there, presumably it is but under what conditions?
How do you or anyone else know the finances of our owner? He’s already justified it and half the properties on BHS have been purchased and the rest are ongoing. Prices of materials have risen but at the end of the day if it is dragged out it may never happen at all? Everyone else is powerless to do anything about it and it is up to SS whether or not it goes ahead and when. But he will recover most or all that he spends on infrastructure. That’s my opinion on it regardless of when it is built…. If.
It’s one of very few intelligent discussions on here. Your input, for what it’s worth, doesn’t fit into that category.
Was that an indoor sports building? I always assumed when I saw this it would be commercial space, maybe a new club shop and a few other bits
Which is shown on the initial picture releasd, but since then the pitches layout has changed a fair bit.
I don’t think the ground will look like that either when it’s finished.
No it's an old mock-up, just completing the ground as per the other side and ignoring the hotel.
You would presume so, will have to if they stick to that, however those mock-ups are quite old now, arent accurate anyway, subject to change and who knows what that final area will be.
Half remembered it.
There's quite a few things mentioned there and that building or buildings would be massive.
I'd imagine it has. I'd assume they looked at traffic and site access. You'd imagine traffic from Dinmore into the entrance is lower than Hardhorn road.
Based on what? Plenty of clubs have built plenty of things and if they don’t prioritize business over vanity and control costs these infrastructure items add nothing to the purchase price. Look at Bolton. Sadler’s gamble will be if we get decent fees for players we develop but contracts don’t amount to much and players fees may be determined by tribunal. Best we are in the championship before we start spending on this.
They seem to be trying to keep the building development and access on the west (Blackpool side) of the site and keep most of of the rest of the site as 'green' development or natural geen belt between the training ground and the housing estates and Baines school on the eastern side. Makes sense and is probably cheaper, with less tarmac
Then you get into the championship where a good chunk of cash needs to be spent on players and wages, over inflated for the most part by those at the top in receipt of parachute payments attempting to go back up.
I was told it’s to do with the least tarmac.
I am sorry that you think that, but at the time I posted, the discussion was based on assumptions about Sadler's wealth etc .Lots of folk, including you, arguing on the basis of guesswork of this and that does not, in my opinion, represent intelligent discussion. More like a la recherche du temps perdu.
It's interesting in the wording of the greenbelt report posted on the last page, it's classed as an expansion of Blackpool into the greenbelt. I mean it is accessed from Blackpool so does make sense in a way, even though it's outside the boundary and wouldn't be in Blackpool and the responsible council wouldn't be them either...
Did I not read that access couldn't be via a housing area? Something to do with volume and coaches/lorries.
Not sure.
Why did you feel the need to read it all? Then post a comment as you did. Just ignore it if you haven’t got anything constructive to say.
Well it made sense to Proust.
Are you hinting that SS has got a new investor called Proust? Presumably a business associate.
Not a fan of spending money I haven't earned. I don't think we'll have to spend a fortune to be stable in the championship. Our premier league team didn't cost a fortune did it and they could easily hold their own in the championship. I'd spend the money when we're in the championship because we've money coming in and our players when transferred will command a higher fee. I'd be in no rush to get into the premier league. If it happens it happens and there are plenty of players who would be happy to use us as a shop window so we'd be fine. League one is a financial abyss and our priority is to focus all our energy on getting out of it.
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