New training ground on the way

[Yellow Hammer]

The women’s youth team currently train on some very bad pitches, and get changed in squash courts so a new ground for them may very well be being looked in to

 

[Deleted member 222]

It could be a new purpose built academy training ground which can house all age groups plus women’s team. The first then have full use of the current training ground.

 

[Archieyellow]

What ? U said the new MD has been going round clubs. So who is the new MD ?

Ok the MD the one who’s been here??? 12 months?

 

[Deleted member 462]

Ok the MD the one who’s been here??? 12 months?

Just the MD would have probably done mate. I don’t see what adding his length of service to the story does other than confuse people. And no not 12 months he was appointed by darryl.

 

[yellowbow]

If there is any truth in this then maybe NM should be a little bit more careful about what he says and to whom he says it to. It would be a little naive of him to not consider that rumours could spread that lead to speculation and confusion.

 

[LondonRoader]

I hope the next training facility is world class.

 

[MarkG]

As some people think the takeover is or was a property play, I don't think that us owning our own training ground on its own would help.

OK there might be a bit of scope for letting out pitches when not in use, but it would would take decades to make it back. I see Chelsea's training ground on the train to London, and it's basically several pitches out in the fields in the middle of nowhere with a big indoor pitch and gym / HQ, rather than surrounded by hotels and restaurants or housing.

 

[Deleted member 222]

I'll add that if we are to improve the academy then there are certain things the club would need e.g. a 4g pitch and an indoor dome. Horspath certainly has the space but again it's down to the council to how successful they want their professional football club to be.

Buying our own stadium would be expensive enough, to buy land then build a state of the art training ground would is another thing altogether. You could be looking at 100-150 million for both and thats just for a league 1 football club.

 

[LondonRoader]

As some people think the takeover is or was a property play, I don't think that us owning our own training ground on its own would help.

OK there might be a bit of scope for letting out pitches when not in use, but it would would take decades to make it back. I see Chelsea's training ground on the train to London, and it's basically several pitches out in the fields in the middle of nowhere with a big indoor pitch and gym / HQ, rather than surrounded by hotels and restaurants or housing.

Buying land to build a training ground, would that be big enough to build a retail park on later?

 

[Deleted member 222]

Buying land to build a training ground, would that be big enough to build a retail park on later?

To be fair it would when you considering it would consist of probably 3 full size pitches, 5 aside pitches, buildings.
I personally think it is a non starter considering the investment that has been made with the current training ground. Maybe our "new" MD is saying what the dream would be when it is very far from being a reality.

 

[daveoufc]

Wasnt the land opposite the kassam earmarked for our training ground. I seem to recall we had first refusal on it early 2000.

 

[Deleted member 222]

Wasnt the land opposite the kassam earmarked for our training ground. I seem to recall we had first refusal on it early 2000.

Pretty sure that is now down to put houses on if the council by pass the green belt rules.

 

[LondonRoader]

Pretty sure that is now down to put houses on if the council by pass the green belt rules.

There was talk of the houses and training ground on the opposite side to the Kassam, but that doesn’t fit in with our MD’s discussion

 

[holdsteady]

People go on about retail parks and land being used for them, but as more and more people buy online is the demand there for them? Maybe hotels etc but I can’t see the need for another shopping mall in Oxford/Oxon being that drastic, if that’s a long term plan to do the club over then try might end up doing themselves over.

 

[Deleted member 462]

People go on about retail parks and land being used for them, but as more and more people buy online is the demand there for them? Maybe hotels etc but I can’t see the need for another shopping mall in Oxford/Oxon being that drastic, if that’s a long term plan to do the club over then try might end up doing themselves over.

Also if that is the long term plan, then buying the land, spending £m’s developing a training ground on it, before bashing it down and building a retail park, is a f*****g long winded expensive way of going about it when u could just go for a retail park to start with

 

[ZeroTheHero]

I think that depends on what sort of retail park you're going to build. If it's the standard Aldi, B&Q, cheap sofas type retail park then they are ten a penny. IF (and I have no inside track on this at all) our directors were going to do something like this, surely they would be concentrating more on the 'Bicester Village/Destination Shopping/Outlet' type thing? The problem with that is that Bicester Village already exists!

 

[Foley]

Also if that is the long term plan, then buying the land, spending £m’s developing a training ground on it, before bashing it down and building a retail park, is a f*****g long winded expensive way of going about it when u could just go for a retail park to start with

Extraordinary Conspiracy theory to suggest that they provide a training facility and then turn it into a retail park? Bizarre

 

[Deleted member 462]

Extraordinary Conspiracy theory to suggest that they provide a training facility and then turn it into a retail park? Bizarre

Quite. And also then leaves us with the issue of needing training ground no 3, unless the new md has factored than in and is looking for two new training grounds.

 

[Deleted member 222]

Don’t people realise the only reason we have the shop in the city centre is because the owners want to keep renting it, turn it into a cheese shop then sell the business for a massive profit?

 

[Deleted member 462]

Don’t people realise the only reason we have the shop in the city centre is because the owners want to keep renting it, turn it into a cheese shop then sell the business for a massive profit?

How dairy do such a thing !

 

[beyondthefourth]

How dairy do such a thing !

You better brielieve it, you can make a lot of cheddar that way, it's a gouda strategy.

 

[Discoland]

With the club training at the Oxford University running track today it's obviously a sign we cant afford to open the training ground today.

Fosu isn't signing, the entire first team starting 11 is being sold, Tiger is selling us back to Kassam for a quid and Sol Campbell is replacing Robbo as our manager.

Trust me, I'm ITK.

 

[WuTang]

With the club training at the Oxford University running track today it's obviously a sign we cant afford to open the training ground today.

Fosu isn't signing, the entire first team starting 11 is being sold, Tiger is selling us back to Kassam for a quid and Sol Campbell is replacing Robbo as our manager.

Trust me, I'm ITK.

You need to reveal the full name, address and bank account details of your ITK source, then I know I can trust you...

 

[Discoland]

You need to reveal the full name, address and bank account details of your ITK source, then I know I can trust you...

Cant do that, I don't think Tiger would want us seeing how skint he really is...oops.

 

[Archieyellow]

This is a very strange post.
It sounds like the club have spent a large amount on the training facilities. I can only assume that there was a detailed contract for the use of the facilities. So I would be surprised if we could get out of the contract without huge cost.
If the Council are managing to charge for costs the club didnt anticipate, then there would again be questions of the lawyers and commercial people agreeing the deal. This happened with Kassam and appears to be happening too often IF true.

Well 125 year lease agreed in principle, near the ground ( new ground) they are saying about moving the pods they have put up?

 

[Foley]

Well 125 year lease agreed in principle, near the ground ( new ground) they are saying about moving the pods they have put up?

Where us the new ground then?

 

[Archieyellow]

They hope to have land on one of the 5 sites?

 

[bazzer9461]

They hope to have land on one of the 5 sites?

In 48hrs?

 

[cassox]

Bicester

 

[Archieyellow]

In 48hrs?

Lol no