Statement: Training Ground planning permission submitted Monday, December 11th 2017 Bristol City Football Club can confirm it has submitted formal planning permission for new training facilities at its Failand base. Crucially the state-of-the-art site will bring together the club’s first team and Academy players and staff, further enhancing City’s player pathway programme. Included in the new-look facility is a 500-seat floodlit show pitch, capable of hosting the club’s Under-23 matches, along with two other new full-size pitches and two more training areas. The club has worked with the architects and project team to design a building that complements the surroundings, encompassing a gymnasium, changing rooms, medical and rehabilitation facilities and office space for the first team and Academy staff. please log in to view this image An aerial view of how Failand could look from the planning submission NEW 21ST CENTURY FACILITIES “This will bring our training facilities into the 21st century and will provide the football club’s Academy and first team with an elite performance environment,” City chief executive officer Mark Ashton told bcfc.co.uk. “We’ve been working on the training ground project for the past two years and, next to the redevelopment of Ashton Gate Stadium, it’s the next phase of the club’s development and will transform the training environment for players and staff throughout the club. “Our player development programme underpins our ethos at Bristol City Football Club, therefore providing a permanent home for our first team and Academy setup is another demonstration of the Lansdown family’s commitment to the club and its young players.” Ashton added: “We have worked in consultation with key stakeholders throughout the project, and will continue to work through the formal planning process and ensure supporters are kept fully up to date with its progress every step of the way.” please log in to view this image A 500-seater floodlit venue at Failand please log in to view this image Pitchside view https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/statement-training-ground-planning-permission-submitted/
Not to sound like a spoilt child, but does anyone think that's a bit.... underwhelming? Definitely a move in the right direction, and I know we'll never have facilities to rival the likes of Tottenham, but you look at what Swansea are building and it dwarfs over what's in that render. It's coming out of SL's pocket so I can't complain really but it's the feeling I get. It will cost a bomb but invest properly in the training facilities (just as we have with scouting) and you save money in the long run in net transfer fees, whether it's through a reduced requirement to buy or by selling academy products.
I understand what you are saying. Will this put City on par with Southampton or Swansea in regards to facilities? No. Heavy focus on XI? Of course. An aside. Does the focus on other sports via Bristol Sport take away from the FC? My opinion is yes it does. It is Mr Lansdowns money and he will spend it as he sees fit, but City's facilities will not be exceptional, what BCFC offer academy kids and those outside it is not exceptional. I know one of the academy coaches and his opinion is that it will do little to improve opportunity for those who are not within the academy system. From the information so far revealed it is hard to see how this facility will extend BCFC's reach. I used the word exceptional earlier. A silly parallel is often used between Bristol Sport and Barcelona. Barcelona coach tens of thousands of kids via football. BCFC its hundreds weekly. By looking at how BCFC use resources differently that hundreds can be turned into thousands to feed into the academy. That would be exceptional. It is not all about facilities.
SORRY Angelic, you have that statement totally WRONG, he is at least 5 times worse and to sack people from their opposition to his plans to make things easier for him to deal with is bordering on the edge of dictatorship... he set the mould when last year he got rid of Bristols BEST FEATURE, the German market! wonder if money changed hands to sweeten the pie!
From a Labour voter here Rees is ****ing rubbish. Bristols the European City of Sport and the changing rooms are shut at my local park with the grass not getting cut so people do not play there. Bring back Ferguson who got something done instead of Rees nothing.
Would be an awful location, beyond the motorways lies terible infrastructure, no real room for development to size larger than the current one we have and in the middle of a massive urban area
I think the general concensus is that he is the biggest mistake the Bristol voters have made, well lack of Bristol voters has made, biggest problem is anyone with a following has a head start as the turn out is so so very very LOW .... for example if RED Robin STOOD and all the football supporters of the Bristol teams and minor leagues voted he would win by a landslide ... VOTE RR.......
