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Seagrave

By HUNTA84, in Leicester City Forum

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HUNTA84

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Never created a topic before, hopefully I dont get shot down, but i'm wondering why we decided to build this world class facility as its been no use so far. Surely the idea was to try build on what we had acheived in recent years, yet we still can't keep our best players, we can't attract better players. If it's to try entice better players to come to the academy, we're talking a number of years to build on that. Seems a waste of money at the minute, even more so if we're relegated. 

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Gamble92

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The clubs been really lucky that we have had so many youth players break into the first team in recent years given the zero net spend. 

 

I think someone's assumed best training ground in the area = less spending needed eventually. Doesn't exactly work like that. 

StanSP

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10 minutes ago, HUNTA84 said:

Never created a topic before, hopefully I dont get shot down, but i'm wondering why we decided to build this world class facility as its been no use so far. Surely the idea was to try build on what we had acheived in recent years, yet we still can't keep our best players, we can't attract better players. If it's to try entice better players to come to the academy, we're talking a number of years to build on that. Seems a waste of money at the minute, even more so if we're relegated. 

Well, duh. Obviously it wasn't built with the intention to get relegated! 

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HUNTA84

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2 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Well, duh. Obviously it wasn't built with the intention to get relegated! 

Surely it was built to keep our better players and attract better players? That hasnt happened Duh

StanSP

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Just now, HUNTA84 said:

Surely it was built to keep our better players and attract better players? That hasnt happened Duh

You said we wondered why we built it. 

 

Of course it was built with the best intentions. But you make it sound like it wasn't lol

 

We keep our better players by performing better and not being 19th in the league. A world class training facility isn't the be all and end all for a player decided on whether to stay with us or not... 

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urban.spaceman

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Our current predicament is down to a handful of things, namely COVID starting off a perfect storm of nightmares and very poor decisions.

 

In the long term I still believe it will be a very good investment for us.

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STUHILL

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33 minutes ago, HUNTA84 said:

Never created a topic before, hopefully I dont get shot down, but i'm wondering why we decided to build this world class facility as its been no use so far. Surely the idea was to try build on what we had acheived in recent years, yet we still can't keep our best players, we can't attract better players. If it's to try entice better players to come to the academy, we're talking a number of years to build on that. Seems a waste of money at the minute, even more so if we're relegated. 

I try to see it as, would we prefer Harry Maguire or Seagrave? 

 

It will take time to see the full benefits of having such a world class facility. 

 

I am glad we have it, but I am also not expecting miracles from it either. 

 

We need to change other things too, but most importantly have a Manager and youth set up that can make full use of it. 

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majaco

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1 hour ago, HUNTA84 said:

Never created a topic before, hopefully I dont get shot down, but i'm wondering why we decided to build this world class facility as its been no use so far. Surely the idea was to try build on what we had acheived in recent years, yet we still can't keep our best players, we can't attract better players. If it's to try entice better players to come to the academy, we're talking a number of years to build on that. Seems a waste of money at the minute, even more so if we're relegated. 

I can see why you've never created a topic before.   

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Mr Weller 2

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It is a long term investment. By definition you can’t expect the first team to suddenly transform because the training ground has improved. Over a decade or more that, together with a larger stadium builds the foundation for a bigger club.

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Finnegan

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I'm so fed up about hearing about Seagrave.

 

It's just a training ground ffs. It was a smart investment, we needed to modernise, that's it.

 

It's not the reason we're having a shit year and it'll never be the reason we have a good year. It's just bricks and mortar and some pitches, its nice to have and it represents progress but the amount of times on here people want to credit it with extremes in either success or failure is just bizarre. There were people that thought we were going to be Real Madrid overnight because we built a new facility ffs.

 

Stop buying in to rubbish media and social media hype, not everything is a story. 

 

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21st Century Fox

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It's not like we could plow that money into the squad anyway, it's infrastructure costs.

 

Our current predicament is more to do with how long let Brendan keep his feet under the desk at Seagrave, rather than anything to do with the building itself.

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The real question is....

 

 

Why is it called Seagrave...if its not near the sea?

 

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What graves is it based on?! 

Blanchflower78

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The place is incredible having seen it not long after it was built. I can't understand why anyone would question having an infrastructure of that quality for the next 100 years. Believe it or not these decisions are made outside of whether we should instead spunk £50m on a couple of players instead.

 

 

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Larry_LCFC

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They'd have better building it on the West Mids side of Leicester incase we ever needed to offload it. Atleast there are more premier league teams over that way. Who could we sell it to where it is? Forest? 🤣

filbertway

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We built the facilities and left PE teachers in charge of it. Very odd choices tbh. The hiring of McGuiness looked promising but then he ran away as quickly as possible. We've seemingly not replaced him or shown any real action/desire to try and make the academy one of the best in Europe, England or even the midlands.

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Corky

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All the nonsense about us losing something by leaving Belvoir Drive. 

 

Investing in the infrastructure is important, you don't stay at an inferior place because memories.

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