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What's the latest on the redevelopment of the Training Ground?

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  • clive
    clive Posts: 19,455
    addick1965 said:

    Swisdom said:

    LargeAddick said:

    golfaddick said:

    Now, I'm normally one of the first people to criticise the club about signings etc, but having watched the update video I do have to admit to being surprised at the amount of work that is being done & the money that is being spent on the project. Obviously we would like more to be spent on improving the team, but fairs fair, at least something is being done to upgrade the pitches & putting in new drainage & water irrigation. Looks very impressive & I doubt any other League 1, or Championship teams for that matter, have the number & quality of training pitches.

    I know times have moved on (a lot) but think back to the 70's & 80's and how & where players trained - most were just on a strip of land behind the stadium or car park......on even on the actual pitch & the reason why they were mud baths from December onwards (the scenes from The Damned United shows both)

    In this instance I think we should at least congratulate the club on doing something right.

    they have dug a hole, about two years late, yeah well done.

    Yep. That's all they've done. Dug a hole. There's a bit more to it than that
    This hole is it round or is it square?
    #i-b-b-o-r-g is looking into it
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,039
    golfaddick said:

    Now, I'm normally one of the first people to criticise the club about signings etc, but having watched the update video I do have to admit to being surprised at the amount of work that is being done & the money that is being spent on the project. Obviously we would like more to be spent on improving the team, but fairs fair, at least something is being done to upgrade the pitches & putting in new drainage & water irrigation. Looks very impressive & I doubt any other League 1, or Championship teams for that matter, have the number & quality of training pitches.

    I know times have moved on (a lot) but think back to the 70's & 80's and how & where players trained - most were just on a strip of land behind the stadium or car park......on even on the actual pitch & the reason why they were mud baths from December onwards (the scenes from The Damned United shows both)

    In this instance I think we should at least congratulate the club on doing something right.

    F*** 'em!
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    I've now posted my early August article about the training ground scheme from VOTV136 online. You can read it at www.votvonline.com
  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,423
    Travellers pulled on to Footscray rugby club today.
    What's the betting that in the week or so it takes to move them on, they do more work in new eltham than we've achieved at sparrows lane in the last 2 years.
  • Rudders22
    Rudders22 Posts: 3,864
    I went through there last night and wondered why there were a load of cars with caravans going past one on Footscray Road.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    I was in Lakeside a couple of Saturdays ago, popped into Frankie & Benny's for a bit of brekki and the bailiffs were kicking the pikies out of a car park next door.

    I ate my brekkie, pulled out the car park to go to IKEA and when I pulled into the IKEA car park all the pikies had pulled in there and were setting up their gas bottles and generators.

    You couldn't make it up.
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,420
    edited October 2017
    Good news about the trench, all is on schedule and phase IIIV is progressing well and has just passed my gaff and was last seen heading for the Kent coast. image
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,812
    I’m down at the training ground tomorrow with the kids for a 2 hour training session the club are putting on for the young addicks
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    They cerainly know about trenches in Belgium of course. Safe hands... praise the Lord!
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    Trump will have finished the Mexico border wall before Roland finishes the training ground. Even the new LHR runway will be built.
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  • cantersaddick
    cantersaddick Posts: 16,922
    cafcfan said:

    Trump will have finished the Mexico border wall before Roland finishes the training ground. Even the new LHR runway will be built.

    What about HS2?
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    cantersaddick said:

    cafcfan said:

    Trump will have finished the Mexico border wall before Roland finishes the training ground. Even the new LHR runway will be built.

    What about HS2?
    Yup, that and HS3!
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Elthamaddick said:

    I’m down at the training ground tomorrow with the kids for a 2 hour training session the club are putting on for the young addicks

    Elthamaddick said:

    I’m down at the training ground tomorrow with the kids for a 2 hour training session the club are putting on for the young addicks

    Me too
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    This is one of the images of the proposed new look of the training ground, paid for by the Lookman money and sorted out by Tony Keohane.

    Is it looking like this now, we've had long enough?

    image
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,223
    seth plum said:

    This is one of the images of the proposed new look of the training ground, paid for by the Lookman money and sorted out by Tony Keohane.

    Is it looking like this now, we've had long enough?

    image

    Yes, pretty much what is looks like now.

    Other than the trees have lost their leaves and the cars are more expensive.

    And the building isn't quite ready. Or even started if you are being picky but otherwise it is spot on.
  • sammy391
    sammy391 Posts: 3,782
    seth plum said:

    This is one of the images of the proposed new look of the training ground, paid for by the Lookman money and sorted out by Tony Keohane.

    Is it looking like this now, we've had long enough?

    image

    You forgot the travellers caravans in the background
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,118
    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    Expected finish date: 30th February 2049
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
    When we are sold.
    Not under this numpty
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  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    edited October 2017
    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
    No idea. Only know about the bits We see and are advising on ie the building services and utilities
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Swisdom said:

    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
    No idea. Only know about the bits We see and are advising on ie the building services and utilities
    Do you honestly think it will happen at all?
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
    No idea. Only know about the bits We see and are advising on ie the building services and utilities
    Do you honestly think it will happen at all?
    Hope - yes
    Think - unsure.

    If there’s a takeover it might all change but if RD stays on ....who knows

    The utilities work ongoing has been expensive though so why bother if you wouldn’t see it through? Obviously the bulk of the cost is construction of the complex but it’s not insignificant expenditure so far.

  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Swisdom said:

    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
    seth plum said:

    Swisdom said:

    Substation is in place....other works relating to power in the next few days.

    Once the infrastructure bits are done then the pretty stuff can start

    And the timescale is...?
    No idea. Only know about the bits We see and are advising on ie the building services and utilities
    Do you honestly think it will happen at all?
    Hope - yes
    Think - unsure.

    If there’s a takeover it might all change but if RD stays on ....who knows

    The utilities work ongoing has been expensive though so why bother if you wouldn’t see it through? Obviously the bulk of the cost is construction of the complex but it’s not insignificant expenditure so far.

    Thanks Swisdom. Can you clarify where we are on the critical path so we have an idea of progress?
    Henry Irving said:

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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
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    seth plum Posts: 53,448
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  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    edited October 2017
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  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,826
    So, (craning my neck at 90 degrees) handover was should have been, December 2016 - have i got that right? I assume this is an official cafc document.
    We always knew it was way behind schedule, seeing the figures in black and white though really makes it plain how incompetent our 'Dynamic duo' are.

    Always thought the building was the best thing this regime would do. Now I would much rather he sold up ( the stadium MUST be included) and we have to take our chances with a new owner.

    At the present rate of progress, when its finally finished myself (and a few others) might well be looking down from 'the great stadium in the sky' !
  • Hartleypete
    Hartleypete Posts: 4,699
    apparently they have learned from their mistakes and hence have moved in the travellers next door to finish the job for cash.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734
    Interesting that they proposed to start on site with the major works in October (2015), which suggests there's no reason they couldn't start now in terms of phasing the work around first-team activity.

    While it's fair to say there has been an outlay on facilitating works, the expenditure on the rugby club ground doesn't bear on the first team and academy aspects of the project. Why isn't work starting immediately?

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