Feels like this is missing a topic.
I passed the training ground yesterday evening and they’ve definitely graded the entire grass area now. There is also a huge pile of topsoil ready to be used. I wonder when we’ll be find out who is going to be using it?
The first team squad are returning to use it big issues with the current training ground as the deal is not as good as thought. So basically with all the money we invested on undersoil heating which we thought was for our sole use turns out is being used by non wycombe teams which wycombe complained about but turns out we have been sold a lie.
First team squad to return to upgraded Marlow Road (early morning commute benefits), academy to stay at Harlington (transport access to London talent pool) would be logical I imagine?
@BookerBlue not sure we were ‘sold a lie’, QPR experienced contractual caveats I believe which gave pitch access to Imperial Collage at times that compromised squad training. Perhaps such clauses remain fundamental to the freehold?
You’d have thought someone would have noticed that in the contract though right?
ok yes sorry who ever signed the contract from Wycombe must not have realised certain conditions I believe that person has now left.
#InDanWeTrust
I know that he appeared on the scene as part of ‘The Ownership Group’ when the Harlington deal was in its infancy, so it’ll be interesting to get his take on the deal once the return to Marlow Road is officially announced.
Imperial College has over 20,000 students so their sports ground must have considerable use anyway..
They must have very astute staff able to get football clubs to use it on their terms and to pay for improvements. I believe Wycombe are the 3rd club to find the arrangements to be unsatisfactory
Surely the club had solicitors advising. Couhig would have tied up the College in knots!
I rather like the idea of the team training closer to the town. Just feels better somehow.
It seems that it was WWFC that was tied up in knots
Couhig would have been no match against some of the cleverest boffins in the UK. My cousin did his PhD at Imperial and he’s dead smart.
That is not correct. There’s a vast difference between academic law, as taught at Universities, and practical law, as practiced in real cases in real courts.
Plenty of work going on at Marlow Road today, looks to be progressing well.
How’s that working for him at Reading?
Could this work be done for the Landlords to tempt Reading to use it so they reduce their outgoings and sell off Bearwood?
There’s no way that Marlow Road can be a long term option for the WWFC first team. So it does seem odd that they seem to be spending a lot of money on the site. Unless it’s the Wycombe hub of the academy, something that is apparently in the pipeline.
Cost is hardly a dent in Lommy’s wealth!
What is getting done? Photos?
Relaying the entire pitch/grass/field surface it looks like. It’s somewhat impractical to stop and photo unfortunately due to the busy roads and lack of footpaths.
I’ll try and get a drive by photo next time I pass and not the driver.