Training Facilities ? Physio

[blue nige]

Plenty of green green grass nearer holker st. Whats the fuss? Jezz we aint premier league. lets get the players down to HS training.. Lets get some affinity with the town and community... Rugby do it! Tired of the old nutmeg bout training. barropw is surrounded by grass. just do it .. get the land. Sounds so pathetic now.P.ssed off by it. Boring.

Agree 100%, if he doesn’t like it then pack your bags and [SwearFilter] off cooper. What I want is a manager who realises he’s not premiership, he’s league 2 , and gets on with it. Nige and other clowns on here are absolutely embarrassing.

Think you've embarrassed yourself there mate ,I think people on here know who the clowns are !

[Pemblue1]

I agree with the first half of the interview, it’s hard and awkward at times but MC’s interview is much more positive in the second half when he’s discussing the recent signings from Leeds.

[bluessupporter]

Perhaps we should train on the Oldham pitch!

[SKIPPER]

With all the emphasis on the grass we seem to have forgotten the other half of the thread title. Have we had applications for physio ? Have interviews beem conducted? Are we close to appointing someone ? With the current injury situation this is surely as equally important as the training facilities.

[bamber678]

With all the emphasis on the grass we seem to have forgotten the other half of the thread title. Have we had applications for physio ? Have interviews beem conducted? Are we close to appointing someone ? With the current injury situation this is surely as equally important as the training facilities.

Thought the physios were ex Liverpool and ex man united? Could be wrong though but sure it was sorted a few weeks ago

[MisterPleasant]

Back on P7 of this topic the Chairman's programme notes say a Head Physio had been appointed from another EFL club "and he joins us shortly". Fevre and Mark Leather were providing help and an overview.

[Main Stand SeasonTct]

Mark Cooper just on Radio Cumbria saying that starting today they have one day a week on grass at Mottram Hall and one day a week on a 4G surface. He said that that's what we have got and the club know the facilities need sorting out and that is what they are striving to do.

[Hadrian]

I heard that, too. You can, too (from 2:35).

The manager also said that today would be the first time on the Mottram Hall grass - "the first time on a quality surface this season". Rather insensitive towards the help from Holker Old Boys?

Earlier in the week, the club Tweeted this. Certainly not like the currently carpet-like Holker Street but I wonder how Mr Cooper will react when his team is expected to play matches on worn, sticky pitches later in the season.

[blue nige]

https://twitter.com/BarrowAFC/status/14 ... 18244?s=19

[Matty]

Good interview.

[mickycarrol]

One day a week……it’s better than last week but still far from acceptable for an EFL team. Needs sorting once and for all where MC has em on grass 5 days a week.

[Mancbluebird]

1 day on grass a week my days poor but suppose better than nothing

[Suffolk Blue]

1 day on grass a week my days poor but suppose better than nothing

As a matter of interest does anyone know the optimum number of hours each week that a club such as ours would normally expect to train/ practice on grass?

I realise that if you have a grass pitch you’ll always use it and obviously since you compete on a grass surface it makes sense to do so. I’m also aware that at higher levels surfaces tend to be a mixture of grass and artificial.

I’m more interested in what the science actually says. On the face of it to hire facilities that don’t have access to real grass seems pretty crass and probably is. But my question really is how stupid that decision was. Mark Coopers response is understandable as a manager but I’m sure that come December or January we’ll be forced to spend time training on artificial surfaces.

[saltcellar]

Sounds like Barrow are not alone over training facilities.

In April this year, David Holdsworth admits a long-term solution to Carlisle United’s training facility issues is unlikely in the short term.

The Blues have been forced to train at various facilities in Cumbria in a season which also saw boss Chris Beech publicly appeal for help.

Carlisle’s own training pitch was out of action for a spell in the winter while other facilities were closed because of Covid-19.

It affected United’s preparations at a time they were trying to keep their promotion push on track, often leaving them with no alternative but to use the indoor Neil Sports Centre rather than a full-sized, open-air pitch.

Director of football Holdsworth said any major revamp of United’s own facilities would require either a major financial injection or a joint approach with the city council.

He said: “I would love someone to come and say ‘We’ll sponsor a training ground’, which would take probably two years to build, with a 4G pitch and a facility where we could do all the things we do.

“We haven’t had anybody do that so far. I would love to be able to build that, and to make it a community centre.

“I would love to say to the community, ‘Come and train here under floodlights’. I would love the manager to have the support to be able to train in those circumstances.

“We don’t have it quite yet.

“We heard Chris every week talking about it, and that’s fine – as a manager you try and do your best but it is tough, was tough.

“There’s a lot of things that’s happened from a legacy of…not complacency, but it’s down to finance, we all know that, things cost money.”

Carlisle have been grateful for the use of facilities at Richard Rose Central Academy in the city, as well as Penrith and Kendal rugby clubs.

It appears the Blues will be reliant on such help for the foreseeable.

Holdsworth added: “You have to do your best. We’re not the only club to do that.

“I was at Mansfield Town prior to John Radford and we didn’t have those training facilities – we didn’t [even] have a second pair of nets when we had no money.

“At that time, the chairman was a great guy called Andy Perry, with Steve Middleton and Andy Saunders. They were doing everything they could to support me but there wasn’t anything in that area as well.

“I had to go wayward into Nottingham or Sheffield to train sometimes.

“When a guy comes along who’s a benefactor, willing to give you a training ground facility, that’s brilliant. Mansfield have had that [since then].

“It’s something I would love to be able to give our players and club, to deliver a facility that’s beneficial to our club and the community.

“I would love our council, and whoever that may be, to come along and say, ‘We’ll work with you to do that’.

“I would love people to say Carlisle’s got to move into the future with a facility.

“There are good people in Carlisle. I don’t have time to make those calls and sit in those meetings but in the future I’d love to be able to sit down with council planning or whoever they may be, and welcome them, and say, ‘Let’s work together, find a community centre that we can have’, that will break down these barriers, perhaps, [because] there are barriers there.

“I’m not going backwards, I want the club to go forward. If we can work with our council and maybe get grants, I would love to be able to do that.”

[MisterPleasant]

And they want a 4G pitch as the solution!