Popular Post sphericalfox Posted 29 November 2020 Popular Post Share Posted 29 November 2020 It can't be underestimated the improvement in prospects we'll see, but it's got to aid/support the 1st team, who at this point it might kick us off onto another level this season alone once we've bedded in. It not only has everything a world class training facility should have, but when you compare it to Liverpools efforts (laudable as they may well be) we've set a massive line in the sand to European clubs nevermind the Premier League. The return on investing at this scale is going to be immeasurable long-term. I really hope the PR/Comms team will present it in its best light, and get some decent coverage, cos this could be the opportunity to rattle some significant cages. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vardinio'sCat Posted 29 November 2020 Share Posted 29 November 2020 10 days, then it's one cryo chamber each, apart from Cags who gets 2. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoyleFox Posted 29 November 2020 Share Posted 29 November 2020 2 hours ago, davieG said: https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/vital-boost-leicester-citys-astonishing-4747601 Leicester City’s “astonishing” new training ground will provide a vital immediate boost to the squad as they get set to make the £100m facility their home. City want to move into their new state-of-the-art base at Seagrave on Wednesday, December 9, council papers showed this week. And if given the green light, City will have the facilities to ensure they get through the busy festive period in tip-top condition. However, they still need Charnwood Borough Council to give them the go-ahead. Planning permission was only given provided City funded improvements to the A46 junction near the 185-acre site, but the club wants to move in before those adjustments have been made, on the proviso that players, staff, and other employees approach the training ground from a different route. Rodgers said: “I think the benefits to it straight away will be that we’ll go into a world-class facility that will allow us to recover even better. “We go into Seagrave where there’ll be pools, hydropools, cryotherapy, there’s going to be everything there in order to recover. That will be brilliant for us in this period where the games will be coming thick and fast. “When we go into it, it will increase the standard and the level of everything. That was a big attraction to coming here. Going to a world-class training facility that allows you to develop and grow as a team.” Long-term, Rodgers has previously said that Seagrave will help attract signings for City in the transfer windows, while he also believes it will help the club bridge the gap to the richer sides because it will help him develop each player. Do you think we've considered asking for a temporary traffic management order to close the junction to right turns or would this upset Frank and his mates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 29 November 2020 Share Posted 29 November 2020 2 minutes ago, FoyleFox said: Do you think we've considered asking for a temporary traffic management order to close the junction to right turns or would this upset Frank and his mates? Frank's a bit too distracted by their neighbour's Christmas lights to notice anything the club do... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingsX Posted 29 November 2020 Share Posted 29 November 2020 8 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said: Frank's a bit too distracted by their neighbour's Christmas lights to notice anything the club do... I think you’ve got that the wrong way round Urb … His neighbors are calling that display “Frank’s Revenge". 20 times the candle power of the entire training complex. Santa’s sleigh pulled by 8 animated newts should be the giveaway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davieG Posted 29 November 2020 Author Share Posted 29 November 2020 14 minutes ago, FoyleFox said: Do you think we've considered asking for a temporary traffic management order to close the junction to right turns or would this upset Frank and his mates? There was an earlier report that they've set up instructions to be relayed to all users of the site to not use the junction for right turns with posters around the training ground reinforcing the message as well as fines for all LCFC staff and players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justfoxes Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 Have we a moving in date set yet or is there still loads of Red tape to go through? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozleicester Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom12345 Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 Looks so cool. Given the busy schedule, I hope they have got all the fine details pre-planned as they would not have much buffer to spend hours looking for equipment or where the toilet is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester_Loyal Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 2 hours ago, justfoxes said: Have we a moving in date set yet or is there still loads of Red tape to go through? December 9th we want to move in, but we haven't been given permission yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nod.E Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 14 hours ago, Fox in the North said: Oh it does look good. One of the most picturesque training grounds I’ve ever seen. So good. Forget you're a Leicester fan for a second and just imagine being offered the chance to play at club A or club B. Club A has Belvoir Drive as their training ground, Club B has this. It'll be a huge factor. What a place to call work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudulike Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 7 hours ago, ozleicester said: David Rennie was ill The day the earth stood still But he told us where we stand And Wes Morgan was there In silver underwear Claude Puel was the invisible man 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Fox Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 Has there ever been a such a huge mass of people so excited by an indoor football pitch as us? Which we can’t use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozleicester Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 7 minutes ago, Spudulike said: David Rennie was ill The day the earth stood still But he told us where we stand And Wes Morgan was there In silver underwear Claude Puel was the invisible man then something went wrong for Riyad and Simp-son they got caught in a shakespearean jam Then at a deadly pace It came with Youri's face and this how league was won 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UHDrive Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 No offence but the poetry is god awful in here... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardson Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 22 hours ago, thesilverfox said: Can’t be far away from handover now? Leicestershire from the sky are doing another drone run this week! Is it just me or would that make a good Christmas card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 6 hours ago, Nod.E said: So good. Forget you're a Leicester fan for a second and just imagine being offered the chance to play at club A or club B. Club A has Belvoir Drive as their training ground, Club B has this. It'll be a huge factor. What a place to call work. I think this is the main benefit of it, I'm not so sure the facilities improve these established players more so than the coaches themselves and thats why I've been so vocal aboit this new era coinciding with huge investment in the academy and making the operation feel like a long term systematic push at challenging the elite. This last 5-6 years we have been the number 1 side in the midlands and I hope we have taken advantage of this in our recruitment of the best youngsters but I'm not sure we have. There's a set up in place at the new training ground where everything is geared up for the younger age groups to be seperate from the 1st team but with visibility of them as some sort of incentive and driving tool to aspire to become part of them, all well and good but the club continue to persist with the same management of the academy and seems completely out of sync with this golden era of our club. I badly hope Rodgers manages to use his authority to make the changes needed but unlike Congerton, the academy is still Rudkin's and that would mean going above him and I can't see him or the board letting that happen as it would be seen as a dangerous precedent. Got to hope Rudkin or the board become serious about the benefits of one of the best academies in the country to match the first team. This recent pandemic and the huge knock effect to being able to continue to spend millions and millions on players, not to mention brexit are other reasons a conveyor belt of talent from the academy would be invaluable. Sadly that's still a pipedream. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ealingfox Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 6 hours ago, Nod.E said: So good. Forget you're a Leicester fan for a second and just imagine being offered the chance to play at club A or club B. Club A has Belvoir Drive as their training ground, Club B has this. It'll be a huge factor. What a place to call work. If Club A is offering higher wages players are still going there I'm afraid. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 1 minute ago, ealingfox said: If Club A is offering higher wages players are still going there I'm afraid. But if its a similar amount then it gives us an adge, an edge we probably already have anyway over a fair amount of clubs as we pay well and are the best of the rest who seem to improve the majority of young players who come here. This might give us an edge over more European teams that still get the nod due to stature. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UHDrive Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 11 minutes ago, Ric Flair said: I think this is the main benefit of it, I'm not so sure the facilities improve these established players more so than the coaches themselves and thats why I've been so vocal aboit this new era coinciding with huge investment in the academy and making the operation feel like a long term systematic push at challenging the elite. This last 5-6 years we have been the number 1 side in the midlands and I hope we have taken advantage of this in our recruitment of the best youngsters but I'm not sure we have. There's a set up in place at the new training ground where everything is geared up for the younger age groups to be seperate from the 1st team but with visibility of them as some sort of incentive and driving tool to aspire to become part of them, all well and good but the club continue to persist with the same management of the academy and seems completely out of sync with this golden era of our club. I badly hope Rodgers manages to use his authority to make the changes needed but unlike Congerton, the academy is still Rudkin's and that would mean going above him and I can't see him or the board letting that happen as it would be seen as a dangerous precedent. Got to hope Rudkin or the board become serious about the benefits of one of the best academies in the country to match the first team. This recent pandemic and the huge knock effect to being able to continue to spend millions and millions on players, not to mention brexit are other reasons a conveyor belt of talent from the academy would be invaluable. Sadly that's still a pipedream. I would hope that regardless of the pandemic that we should be investing in young players every year to the extent that we take the pick of the bunch when ready for first team duties and that the best of the rest are good enough to be retained and loaned out or sold for profit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudulike Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 Our academy really isn't that bad is it? We've recently sold one of its recruits for £50m and had three playing in a Europa League match last week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban.spaceman Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 1 hour ago, Ric Flair said: I think this is the main benefit of it, I'm not so sure the facilities improve these established players more so than the coaches themselves and thats why I've been so vocal aboit this new era coinciding with huge investment in the academy and making the operation feel like a long term systematic push at challenging the elite. This last 5-6 years we have been the number 1 side in the midlands and I hope we have taken advantage of this in our recruitment of the best youngsters but I'm not sure we have. There's a set up in place at the new training ground where everything is geared up for the younger age groups to be seperate from the 1st team but with visibility of them as some sort of incentive and driving tool to aspire to become part of them, all well and good but the club continue to persist with the same management of the academy and seems completely out of sync with this golden era of our club. I badly hope Rodgers manages to use his authority to make the changes needed but unlike Congerton, the academy is still Rudkin's and that would mean going above him and I can't see him or the board letting that happen as it would be seen as a dangerous precedent. Got to hope Rudkin or the board become serious about the benefits of one of the best academies in the country to match the first team. This recent pandemic and the huge knock effect to being able to continue to spend millions and millions on players, not to mention brexit are other reasons a conveyor belt of talent from the academy would be invaluable. Sadly that's still a pipedream. I think everything is developing at the right pace personally. When you consider in the last 10 years the academy has produced 2 Premier League winners (King & Schlupp), 3 Championship winners (King/Schlupp, Moore), Chilwell sold for £50m (which would have been more if it weren't for the pandemic), and 3 players who have now scored in the Europa League (Hamza, Harvey and Luke Thomas) - we've produced all that with the facilities available at Belvoir Drive, just imagine what the next 10 years could bring with the world class facilities and unprecedented investment? Not to mention with Trevor Peake retiring, there's a chance for some new blood to really put their all into developing a new generation. This is so exciting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoyleFox Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 11 hours ago, justfoxes said: Have we a moving in date set yet or is there still loads of Red tape to go through? We're waiting on Charnwood Borogh Council approving us to use it before the road improvement works are completed. If they approve that, December 9th - if not, it could be months! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ric Flair Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 1 hour ago, Spudulike said: Our academy really isn't that bad is it? We've recently sold one of its recruits for £50m and had three playing in a Europa League match last week. It's completely out of sync with how we have evolved as a club in the last decade. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighPeakFox Posted 30 November 2020 Share Posted 30 November 2020 31 minutes ago, FoyleFox said: We're waiting on Charnwood Borogh Council approving us to use it before the road improvement works are completed. If they approve that, December 9th - if not, it could be months! Is that where Syston is, Charnwood? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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