Does anyone know where we are training this season.?

[PedroTheFisherman66]

Cycled past the lady bay training ground today and theres not a sign of any training happening there soon,the grass is ankle high if not more..! We must be training on new pastures any idea anyone.?

[SwalePie]

Not certain but I heard it was at one of the University sites.

[PedroTheFisherman66]

Not certain but I heard it was at one of the University sites.

Cycled past grove farm today aswell but there was no training going on down there.?

[Oldstripy]

Not certain but I heard it was at one of the University sites.

Could be the Clifton site

[MAD_MAGPIE]

Our own training facility must be quite high on the infrastructure to do list for the club in the coming years.

It does not need to be anything lavish either. Some full size grass pitches, a 4G all weather floodlit pitch that could be used by other teams and the community along with a small building with changing rooms, a can**** and some education rooms.

Mansfield have this with the Radford and Hymas academy and it’s basically what I’ve described.

The problem for the brothers will no doubt be finding somewhere in Nottingham close enough to the ground where such a facility could be built.

[meoldlaner]

I know that the Red dogs have been looking for a new site for their training facility.
Wilford Lane apparently isn't big enough.
A little bird told me they tried to get the field and surrounding fields near Holme Pierrepont where West Bridgford Colts play.
Hopefully they won't succeed as there are are a lot of kids that use that facility as well as the local cricket team.
Land is scarce.

[1955pie]

Our own training facility must be quite high on the infrastructure to do list for the club in the coming years.

It does not need to be anything lavish either. Some full size grass pitches, a 4G all weather floodlit pitch that could be used by other teams and the community along with a small building with changing rooms, a can**** and some education rooms.

Mansfield have this with the Radford and Hymas academy and it’s basically what I’ve described.

The problem for the brothers will no doubt be finding somewhere in Nottingham close enough to the ground where such a facility could be built.

Have we fallen out with Florist.
I thought we were happy with our set up over the last 2 or 3 seasons.
Are they asking too much?
Are we short of cash?
I hope the transfer money will be going towards new players.

[nw6pie]

Have we fallen out with Florist.
I thought we were happy with our set up over the last 2 or 3 seasons.
Are they asking too much?
Are we short of cash?
I hope the transfer money will be going towards new players.

Someone raised this subject last week, suggesting it was a cost-cutting exercise, but we’ve not heard anything official from the club about it. Wasn’t part of the training ground deal that Forest could play their U-23 games at Meadow Lane?

And of course, it’s pretty shameful that we’ve always had to scramble around for training facilities throughout our history - but especially since football became coached rather than just jogging around the pitch to keep fit.

[matt_magpie]

Have we fallen out with Florist.
I thought we were happy with our set up over the last 2 or 3 seasons.
Are they asking too much?
Are we short of cash?
I hope the transfer money will be going towards new players.

I can’t imagine we’ve fallen out with them. The bros were asked about it in the fans forum but seemed like a long term objective. I imagine you’re well into the millions to get anything state of the art so trying to rent seems a better idea if it’s a decent standard and spend the money like they have done so far in trying to generate some income.

[OP67]

Someone raised this subject last week, suggesting it was a cost-cutting exercise, but we’ve not heard anything official from the club about it. Wasn’t part of the training ground deal that Forest could play their U-23 games at Meadow Lane?

It was so I'd imagine whatever rent we paid was quite small.

I'd be surprised Forest would want to end the deal now we have a Premier League style pitch which would be helpful for them. Having said that it also means we can train on our own pitch more in the future if the red dogs aren't using it anymore.