Rush Green
Hi my first post so go easy!
I often defend the owners and I know Rome wasn’t built in a day however I feel compared to prem rivals we really should be putting a lot more into own training ground.
Year to date we have invested just shy of 5 mil feel free to look it up in comparison this is very very poor to other clubs
When your looking after multi million pound investments surely we must have the best there is
Would it come into a players thinking when looking to sign for the club as it’s going to be his workplace everyday and also why couldn’t it of been named after a hammers legend.
I often defend the owners and I know Rome wasn’t built in a day however I feel compared to prem rivals we really should be putting a lot more into own training ground.
Year to date we have invested just shy of 5 mil feel free to look it up in comparison this is very very poor to other clubs
When your looking after multi million pound investments surely we must have the best there is
Would it come into a players thinking when looking to sign for the club as it’s going to be his workplace everyday and also why couldn’t it of been named after a hammers legend.
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Welcome macca ;ok
The Matthew upson school of bravery lol
;wahoo
Apologies to any residents of those areas, I am of course referring to West Ham's training grounds. ;biggrin
Perhaps this is why ours seems quite small in comparison
Ita no small (or quick) investment though to build/expand an area to the sizes of the training area to match the biggerr teams so dont expect to see too many changes
http://www.claretandhugh.info/rush-green-uncovered/
Also, have you any info on how much other clubs have invested for the same period, that leads you to your conclusion that our investment is 'very very poor' compared to them?
I ask because obviously, from the links provided by PLF, the initial ££m investment to upgrade the pitches and turn it into the 1st team training base was done in the summer of 2016.
Also, if you are wanting to do a meaningful comparison with other clubs (to see if our investment in training facilities is poor - sorry, very very poor - compared to theirs) you should really find out what investment is done at the other training facilities too, since we have a split site and many (?most) of the other clubs have all their training stuff at a single site.
Finally, if you do want to compare in a meaningful way I don't think a snapshot over a short space of time will lead to a sound conclusion.
You get what you pay for and reap what you sow
If you want to compare how much the two clubs spent on their facilities, you will need to get the full picture. Refurb + initial building costs + land purchase costs. If the £7m includes all of those as a one-off project cost, then you have to compare like with like.
Obvs a refurb is going to cost less than a newbuild. Because ... one is a refurb/expansion/relay of pitches of an existing faclity and one is a newbuild. Apples and pears.
Which L1 club is that... and what do their facilities consist of? How does it compare overall with WHU (apart from perhaps being built on a nicer road).
I'm interested in having an informed discussion about it, but as yet there is precious little relevant information on which to base such a discussion. (See my previous post about what I would like to know before a meaningful assessment of the relative spends of each club can be made).
Until then, I guess people will just have to carry on cherry-picking.
May not make a difference, may not make a jot or difference, who knows.
Just don’t believe it, that’s fine by me
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