Showing my age now. Whitley Abbey owned all of the now called Baginton fields and their football pitches ran right down alongside the river Sowe adjacent to the A45. The school gave up land(Baginton fields) for the school "Alice Stevens school" to be built. JLR land was once Rolls Royce, and bordered Whitley Abbey perimeter to the left. Whitley Abbey also owned the woods that ran right through to London road, enfolding Abbey road.
Showing my age now. Whitley Abbey owned all of the now called Baginton fields and their football pitches ran right down alongside the river Sowe adjacent to the A45. The school gave up land(Baginton fields) for the school "Alice Stevens school" to be built. JLR land was once Rolls Royce, and bordered Whitley Abbey perimeter to the left. Whitley Abbey also owned the woods that ran right through to London road, enfolding Abbey road.
We can if the facilities are going to be in place. We can't if they are going to be removed.
The club would not commit, they have put themselves in this position not vice versa
At present as far as I am aware we have a rolling deal in place so I would expect anything such as redevelopment at Higgs to have been communicated to the club at the earliest opportunity.
If it was a case of it being put to the club that if you don't commit to a longer deal we can't provide the facilities then that is one thing. If this has all been done in secret and the first the club knew was when it was in the paper yesterday than, IMO, that is very poor on the part of everyone involved.
Its been in the papers, first story 4 months ago, what has the club done to protect its position since? Nothing!
Of course it may be the case that a pool and the facilities we require can co-exist in which case there is not an issue. Would be nice if Higgs or the new people coming in could make a statement to put any fears to rest.
No they can't the proposal is to replace the indoor pitch with a pool. If that happens either CCFC will have to find an alternative facility or recategorise its academy.
We need to get Sandra Garlick back to head up on consultation group on the new proposed academy, they are experts on phantom projects.
May I suggest to her that the new pitches should be canary yellow so the kids don't get confused and it will help when they eventually put on their Norwich shirts ?
That's how I recall the layout of the grounds when I was at Whitley Abbey. Showing my age too, SBK!
Another useless bit of information for you skyblueindorset..... We had a International Standard running track too
Showing my age now. Whitley Abbey owned all of the now called Baginton fields and their football pitches ran right down alongside the river Sowe adjacent to the A45. The school gave up land(Baginton fields) for the school "Alice Stevens school" to be built. JLR land was once Rolls Royce, and bordered Whitley Abbey perimeter to the left. Whitley Abbey also owned the woods that ran right through to London road, enfolding Abbey road.
That's how I recall the layout of the grounds when I was at Whitley Abbey. Showing my age too, SBK!
Well the are certainly going to build them and then build them again unless they are lying about Broad Street being temporary. No one is saying its to get one over on CCFC - you've just made that up yourself.
Look at what we know, Wasps have yet to reveal the location of their permanent training ground. They are rumoured, from multiple sources, to have purchased ground adjacent to Higgs. There have also been rumours that they will be making use of the Higgs which may mean the loss of the facility to us.
That to me is a cause for concern and something I would hope the local media looks in to. Nobody has said it is definitely happening or that its purely to get one over on us.
Should we just wait and then hope everything is OK? We did that with the Ricoh and look what happened.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35835967
Here you go Dave. Sport England, City of Coventry Swimming Club and the Amateur Swimming Association must all be part of this smoke and mirrors cover up for wasps to secretly be taking our place at the Higgs to.
2k a day as subsidy to keep the current one open I hope they have a better plan for the new one then as I can't see it being anymore popular out of the town.
The academy is the sole responsibility of CCFC and the custodians of CCFC, No one else's.
Another useless bit of information for you skyblueindorset..... We had a International Standard running track too
I wasn't an international standard runner!When were you there?
2k a day as subsidy to keep the current one open I hope they have a better plan for the new one then as I can't see it being anymore popular out of the town.
1964-1968. Miss Snelgrove the Drama teacher, phwoarrrr.(Holly willoughbooby lookalike,) Jack Lemon headmaster, Bullbeck, Grove housemaster(Twat) I was in Hood house. I once wagged school in the woods with some others(Local bobby caught us) never wagged again lol.
At the moment there is nothing that says whether or not CCFC were not asked to renew
Something that really does irritate me though is this repeated notion that somehow CCFC are entitled, are a special case, should expect other parties to put CCFC's needs first and act only in CCFC's interest.
I agree, the club should have got a contract saying the Higgs can not make any changed to the site which endangers cat 2 status whilst the academy are their. Obviously after all that has gone now and with the short term nature of the current deal makes it become increasingly difficult to do such a deal.If it is so important to the club to have a Cat 2 academy then I find it strange if the club has not safeguarded such an asset from the effects of third party actions. Especially given all that has gone on in the last decade. It should not be about what Higgs do or changes to the site.
It isn't up to the AHCT to run or make decisions for the Academy or even make AHCT plans around them. The Trustees have to act in the best interests of the Trust nothing else.
The reason the club aren't guaranteeing the future of the cat 2 status is I expect because they can't. The Higgs centre will be redeveloped into a venue which no longer meets cat 2 requirement and they have no other concrete plan to maintain cat 2 status, they could give us some vague non committal rubbish about how they are exploring other options or other nonsense like that but I don't think anyone would buy it.These events have been well signposted for some time, months, so the risk was there for all that time. Or is it as usual on so many things leave it to the last minute and then blame everyone else. CCFC make the decisions for the Academy and carry all the responsibility for its well being. It would be good if other bodies helped to support it but there is no duty to do so
They may of course have a plan, be able to tell us the risk has been mitigated.
So back to the original question whats the CCFC plan forward for the Academy, the Academy that is so vital to our future viability?
or did the club say no we don't want to renew
Its a fair point but then what irritates me is when these other parties then pretend to care about the football club and pretend they have considered the interest of the football club in a bid to win support from the easily influenced ccfc fans.Something that really does irritate me though is this repeated notion that somehow CCFC are entitled, are a special case, should expect other parties to put CCFC's needs first and act only in CCFC's interest. There is more to this world than CCFC and it is precisely this kind of attitude that has got our club and many other clubs in huge financial holes. Any other industry many clubs, including ours sadly, would have gone to the wall the fact they haven't is in no small part because of the help received from third parties even and including at CCFC
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Looks like you got there just after I left at the end of '63. I was in Stoneleigh.
Depends if you were in Stoneleigh north SBK - Mrs Rosbottom
Do you remember the PE teachers? One we named Itchy b***ocks (Preston Roberts.) He was always scratching his nuts.
Council have already said the new one will not be commercially viable and they will be subsidising it!
There you go again blaming external agencies for the clubs failures. Utterly pathetic.
Perhaps you should wake up & smell the coffee. Where is CCFC's plan, indeed is there one?
They have made no progress on any of their plans, no stadium, no new academy site, (so far) no efficient ticketing system, they are like a sailboat becalmed while everybody else steams ahead.
Totally unsuitable owners, admit it.
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