| Just watched the training ground video 10:30 - Nov 14 with 3604 views | Keno |
Say what you like about Ashton and the owners group but they arent p1ssing about are they??
Thats some very impressive investment and the work on PR is obviously still to come
COYBs!!! [Post edited 14 Nov 10:31]
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| Just watched the training ground video on 16:40 - Nov 14 with 776 views | Bluespeed225 |
It’s like they’re building a Death Star over there! What a selling point to potential recruits, either top players, or parents sending their kids here. It’s the facility we used to look at other clubs having and. thinking ‘that’s why they’re good’. Turn up there in the morning, you feel ready to go, to train, learn, absorb ‘The Culture’. I like the ‘Winning football matches’ stuff. Is there a secret ‘Dark Arts’ bunker? [Post edited 14 Nov 16:41]
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| Just watched the training ground video on 16:42 - Nov 14 with 770 views | Keno |
| Just watched the training ground video on 16:28 - Nov 14 by farkenhell |
Bless you. Honey and lemon usually sorts me out. |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 17:02 - Nov 14 with 727 views | dirtyboy |
| Just watched the training ground video on 16:26 - Nov 14 by NthQldITFC |
For me it's a tautological pleonasm. |
Merely superflous, technically pleonasm, not tautology. |  | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 17:07 - Nov 14 with 711 views | Bluedandy |
The pension fund Americans are hugely ambitious, they want Town to be an established Premier League club with facilities to match.
Their commitment to create an East Anglian football powerhouse is on a scale that's much bigger than most people realise.
Given the chaotic implosion taking place up the road, it's a golden opportunity to make that vision a reality. | | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 20:23 - Nov 14 with 628 views | farkenhell |
| Just watched the training ground video on 17:02 - Nov 14 by dirtyboy |
Merely superflous, technically pleonasm, not tautology. |
Stop that dirty talk, you dirtyboy. | | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 20:56 - Nov 14 with 606 views | Guthrum |
| Just watched the training ground video on 11:02 - Nov 14 by SuffolkPunchFC |
"* I found a couple of things Ashton said interesting in that regard. Seemed to imply that they intended to get much of the work done before we got to the Prem and that last season's excursion in a sense got in the way of the plan."
This shouldn't really come as a surprise to anyone. I've written elsewhere that if you collect all the various public snippets / comments made, the plan is very long term. Established in the PL by ~2032, and we're still well ahead of schedule. This is why I have patience. You can imagine how disruptive having to accelerate some plans would have been. [Post edited 14 Nov 11:07]
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Indeed. I was highlighting it rather than being surprised.
I expect the urgent diversion of significant resources to get Portman Rd up to Prem requirements (TV camera positions, etc.) over the summer of 2024 put a big dent in their other timelines. On the other hand, the cash injection (inc. parachute money) will have greatly helped funding going forwards |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 21:55 - Nov 14 with 541 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| Just watched the training ground video on 20:56 - Nov 14 by Guthrum |
Indeed. I was highlighting it rather than being surprised.
I expect the urgent diversion of significant resources to get Portman Rd up to Prem requirements (TV camera positions, etc.) over the summer of 2024 put a big dent in their other timelines. On the other hand, the cash injection (inc. parachute money) will have greatly helped funding going forwards |
Agreed. I’m sure that in hindsight, they will view the early foray into the PL as a positive, even given immediate relegation. It has allowed a significant increase in player investment, which otherwise wouldn’t have been available, even with owners with deep pockets. They’re clearly willing to invest significant sums for the long term goals, and are doing so, but much of it has to be confined to areas that don’t impact PSR eg infrastructure. | | | |
| Just watched the training ground video on 23:29 - Nov 14 with 461 views | Everydayblue |
I enjoyed watching that... Stark reminder that our journey is still in it's infancy.. "The end of the beginning", was the Churchillian phrase used by Ashton.
Exciting that there is so much more to come for this club..
Can't wait for the next homegrown superstar to come through.
Something we haven't really had in decades.
The new facilities will be a big selling point to any decent youngsters in our catchment area, and beyond. | | | |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 00:55 - Nov 15 with 407 views | charlie1 |
| Just watched the training ground video on 11:27 - Nov 14 by BseaBlue |
If you look at the achievements since the new owners took over it makes for some impressive work over a relatively short space of time.
- Turned around the form that saw us languishing in League one.
- Employed our most successful manager since Burley
- Established a 'Championship Ready' squad in League one
- Promoted out of the Champ at the first time of asking
- Complete renovation of the ground which had become dated
- Purchasing of land around the ground for further development & long term plans
- Brand new state of the art pitch at Portman Road
- Catergory one Academy delivered
- Record transfer fees paid and received
- Huge staffing infrastructure in place, where numbers had lacked before
- Complete re-build of the training ground
- Investment and development of the clubs community programmes
- Further investors brought into the club
I'm certain I have probably missed things but hugely impressive in such a short space of time and I consider ourselves incredibly fortunate when you look at other smash and grab owners. Whatever happens now, they have left a real legacy and I look forward to seeing what else they are going to deliver for us. [Post edited 14 Nov 11:28]
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All of that is true and totally valid, but counts for nothing if a player mis-places a pass ten minutes into a match.
In which case Ashton, McKenna and the entire squad are useless and shoukd never set foot in this club again.
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| Just watched the training ground video on 08:46 - Nov 15 with 290 views | ArnieM |
| Just watched the training ground video on 10:58 - Nov 14 by homer_123 |
All 10 of them!!! |
Do those 10 pitches include those on the Bent Ln site? |  |
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| Just watched the training ground video on 09:00 - Nov 15 with 278 views | glasso |
| Just watched the training ground video on 16:01 - Nov 14 by mellowblue |
The business plan is certainly well crafted and the long term nature of it certainly gives us security knowing they are not short-termist about what they want to achieve. Gamechangers must be surmising that the value of established Prem teams are going to go the way of F1 teams, bearing in mind the world reach that both have these days. Mercedes Benz racing team was recently valued at 4.6 billion, not sure if USD or GBP. Those are the levels they see Premier League teams going to, NFL would be another benchmark. |
I think it's difficult to reach those valuations when jeopardy is involved though, hence the clamour for a Super League.
F1 teams and NFL teams are there for the long run. In the big league until they run out of money and fold. There's no chance of buying the Miami Dolphins for £5bn and then finding yourself in the NFL Vanarama League 2 within a decade... | | | |
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