That would completely defeat the object, the aim is to get the players to commit to club by living locally, not to have their families in one place and a crash pad locally.
He lives somewhere near Birmingham apparently, though it seems that he's living in the Hallmark Hotel half the time.
Tommy, I hate to be pedantic here, but a big part of the reason course fees rose was to keep the riff raff out, ya know like the ones who urinate all over childrens play areas, who generally see it as a way of 3/4 more years of being a twat, rather than educational means for a career they plan to pursue. I think out of everyone I know who went to uni, about 10% at the most actually bothered working in the area they'd trained in, probably another 20/30% found decent jobs elsewhere, and the rest still carry on as they were, just with dead end jobs like potwash/shelf stackers if they have jobs at all. ****ing uni students, think the world should be placed in their hands because they got drunk for 3 years and a certificate (degree) to prove it.
I think you should get to live wherever u want to. If you show up to the training ground on time in the morning then I dont see what business it is of any club dictating to you where you live.
I don't know whether you can enforce that, I know that is the object, but it stated so players are not having to travel long distances to get to and from training every day. If they decide to stay in Hull area through the duration of their contracts and keep their family elsewhere surely that is their choice.
Probably is the place. I posted on here a while ago that some bloke at a wedding I was at told me his grandparents live a couple of doors down from him. Apparently his house is enormous, and he has a golf course in his back garden. He said it was just outside Solihull. Edit: I haven't actually read most the thread, so I don't know if you're on about Brucey, just assumed you are from what you wrote.
I agree with the sentiment of living near Hull but if someone wants to live in Sheffield of Leeds - I don't see the problem. An hour's commute is pretty normal if you work in London or other big cities. It's not like the A63 is gridlocked every day is it......
There really are some proper bollocks on here; it's simply a case of drawing a line somewhere and setting your stall out to that end. Not just the rigours of a long round trip on an athletes daily performance is relevant, but also the traffic blackspots that would increase the risk of poor punctuality. Common-sense will prevail and if a player can't live with that then ****'em; many of us will be required to live within a restricted geographical area, depending on the job - have a look at the job adverts, it's hardly a bloody secret condition for footballers only!
M63, M18, M62, A1 are just the main ones that can come into play and between October and March they can be a ****ing nightmare, to be fair - the risk of gridlock is constant and Sally Traffic has them off by heart (do you drive them?).
