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It’s fittingly Suffolk but it looks like the unholy offspring of a barn conversion & and out-of-town trading estate offices for a firm of local solicitors.. All so boxy, brown & grey, and those sections of pale brick - shudder - where’s the aspiration, where’s the joie de vivre? All that money and the architects are dull as dish water. It’s the architectural equivalent of a Barbour gillet you’ve found in TK Max.
There also seems to be a move towards removing the Suffolk Punch from the confines of the shield. First on merch and now on the side of this. One to keep an eye on, first it’s the shield and next it’s ‘Town’.
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Plans submitted for new training ground… on 07:44 - Nov 14 with 3197 views
Plans submitted for new training ground… on 07:32 - Nov 14 by Yppswyche
It’s fittingly Suffolk but it looks like the unholy offspring of a barn conversion & and out-of-town trading estate offices for a firm of local solicitors.. All so boxy, brown & grey, and those sections of pale brick - shudder - where’s the aspiration, where’s the joie de vivre? All that money and the architects are dull as dish water. It’s the architectural equivalent of a Barbour gillet you’ve found in TK Max.
There also seems to be a move towards removing the Suffolk Punch from the confines of the shield. First on merch and now on the side of this. One to keep an eye on, first it’s the shield and next it’s ‘Town’.
Well, you're a little ray of sunshine.
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Plans submitted for new training ground… on 07:47 - Nov 14 with 3183 views
Nice touch that all those balls are set up outside the building, conveniently ready for Liam Delap Olé Olé to smash into the top corner of the practice pitch nets 200 yards away!
Plans submitted for new training ground… on 07:32 - Nov 14 by Yppswyche
It’s fittingly Suffolk but it looks like the unholy offspring of a barn conversion & and out-of-town trading estate offices for a firm of local solicitors.. All so boxy, brown & grey, and those sections of pale brick - shudder - where’s the aspiration, where’s the joie de vivre? All that money and the architects are dull as dish water. It’s the architectural equivalent of a Barbour gillet you’ve found in TK Max.
There also seems to be a move towards removing the Suffolk Punch from the confines of the shield. First on merch and now on the side of this. One to keep an eye on, first it’s the shield and next it’s ‘Town’.
Looking at other clubs’ facilities, the main buildings quite commonly take a similar form. In other words functional. It is what it is and looks fine to my untutored eye.
It’s to be remembered just how far behind we are on so many aspects including training facilities so the £30m invested in this will produce something from not very much. No, it won’t compare with Man City, Liverpool and the privilege cabal and nor should it. At about £100m it’s short of a peer club like Leicester too, but we are trying to recover from decades of neglect and the new facilities and refurb of the old can only help us.
It’s all good. Under Evans I had visions of Playford Road becoming a housing estate and the few remaining players running round the park.
As an aside, I watched and listened to Brenner’s interview with Mark Ashton this morning. It’s worth it if you have the time. Aside from Brenner being a very good interviewer, you get a good sense of what the club is trying to do and how it’s going about it as much from facial expression, tone etc as you do from the words.
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Plans submitted for new training ground… on 09:14 - Nov 14 with 2981 views
Plans submitted for new training ground… on 07:32 - Nov 14 by Yppswyche
It’s fittingly Suffolk but it looks like the unholy offspring of a barn conversion & and out-of-town trading estate offices for a firm of local solicitors.. All so boxy, brown & grey, and those sections of pale brick - shudder - where’s the aspiration, where’s the joie de vivre? All that money and the architects are dull as dish water. It’s the architectural equivalent of a Barbour gillet you’ve found in TK Max.
There also seems to be a move towards removing the Suffolk Punch from the confines of the shield. First on merch and now on the side of this. One to keep an eye on, first it’s the shield and next it’s ‘Town’.
Each to their own but I don't agree with that at all. I think it looks really smart, sympathetic to the surroundings and no doubt highly functional.
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Plans submitted for new training ground… on 10:04 - Nov 14 with 2777 views
Plans submitted for new training ground… on 09:14 - Nov 14 by Muncher
It's not online yet, probably will be in the next few days. It will no doubt do the job but it's not the most inspiring looking building.
When you compare it to to other premier league clubs it will likely be in the bottom 6 or so facilities.
Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain...
Plans submitted for new training ground… on 14:01 - Nov 14 by NthQldITFC
Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain...
brilliant!!
Some of our younger subscribers may not appreciate the pure beauty of that so here goes
Plans submitted for new training ground… on 14:01 - Nov 14 by NthQldITFC
Well may I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House perhaps? The Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically across the plain...
Something along the lines of the Southampton one perhaps
Southampton’s cost £40m 7 or 8 years ago and reminds me of a Jamestown stockade. It’s also higher than our proposed one and I suspect the LA put a height limit on it in consideration of the houses around it (just a guess). Chelsea’s cost £20m 20 years ago. No idea what itd cost to build now.
The owners have ploughed a lot of money into the football club in all sorts of areas, not least the 100+ projects on PR to enable us to stage PL matches. It’s clearly going to continue to do so but hopefully with a controlled, realistic budget and sensible plans for this club. Put something like that in place and it could always be upgraded if the club is uber successful or the original facility that is to be upgraded replaced. Step at a time.
As far as I’m concerned, if the club in a year or twos time is able to use a top 20 training facility that is fit for the PL, Cat A and women’s football requirements with stat of the art pitches, I can live without it looking like The Lighthouse of Alexandria or the Doge’s palace in Florence.
I think it looks absolutely fine. Search the internet and you’ll see a lot worse.
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Plans submitted for new training ground… on 15:35 - Nov 14 with 2098 views
I do like the Chelsea one, but the Southampton one looks cheap - they couldn't even be bothered to plaster some of the walls! I wonder whose fault Russell Martin thinks that is?
Plans submitted for new training ground… on 14:54 - Nov 14 by Churchman
Southampton’s cost £40m 7 or 8 years ago and reminds me of a Jamestown stockade. It’s also higher than our proposed one and I suspect the LA put a height limit on it in consideration of the houses around it (just a guess). Chelsea’s cost £20m 20 years ago. No idea what itd cost to build now.
The owners have ploughed a lot of money into the football club in all sorts of areas, not least the 100+ projects on PR to enable us to stage PL matches. It’s clearly going to continue to do so but hopefully with a controlled, realistic budget and sensible plans for this club. Put something like that in place and it could always be upgraded if the club is uber successful or the original facility that is to be upgraded replaced. Step at a time.
As far as I’m concerned, if the club in a year or twos time is able to use a top 20 training facility that is fit for the PL, Cat A and women’s football requirements with stat of the art pitches, I can live without it looking like The Lighthouse of Alexandria or the Doge’s palace in Florence.
I think it looks absolutely fine. Search the internet and you’ll see a lot worse.
[Post edited 14 Nov 2024 14:57]
I would imagine if we stay in the prem for a few seasons then we’ll eventually look to move the academy and womens team to a new facility elsewhere allowing the existing building to be developed into whatever is needed in the future. If not we’ll still have an excellent training facility regardless
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Plans submitted for new training ground… on 17:37 - Nov 14 with 1832 views
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