[Albion] The Development Centre

[Munkfish]

Having been inside on business and to quite a few other training grounds, I can tell you that it’s at least the equal of Arsenal, Chelsea and Southampton and absolutely wipes the floor with Palace, West Ham and the rest of the clubs in the south. The exception is Tottenham, who built theirs later. That is probably the best club training ground in the country, behind only St George’s Park.

The point is not only that it has enabled us to have a category 1 academy but that it is also an elite-level workplace for the first team, which can make a difference when attracting players. Obviously money and coaching play a part but facilities matter too.

Have you been to Leicesters and Liverpools? I believe they were both built after ours. By all accounts Leicester went big on there’s and well I assume Liverpools is world class.

 

[WATFORD zero]

If you nip up for a waft of fresh air in the Tiger Moth you'll see it before you're over the railway line

Or walk the dog along the river bank and you can see shooting practice under the floodlights, its like a driving range at night

You can see the shooting from the river bank ? Is Ulloa the shooting coach

 

[Bozza]

From the bumpy pitches and 1970’s changing bungalow at Sussex Uni …..

…. to producing £50m Ben White.

You seem to be getting the American Express Elite Football Performance Centre muddled up with an eccentric Argentine football manager who has a curious relationship with upturned buckets.

 

[LamieRobertson]

From brighton, along seafront, turn right at mini roundabout at Lancing, go straight up that road, right at Mash Barn Lane and Bob's your Auntie's live in lover

Doh…Lancing and not Shoreham…if only I had spotted this over the last few years

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Have you been to Leicesters and Liverpools? I believe they were both built after ours. By all accounts Leicester went big on there’s and well I assume Liverpools is world class.

I haven’t been to those, which is why I talked mostly about the south. But I’ve heard that Leicester have pushed the boat out somewhat, and the virtual tour of the new Liverpool facility does look pretty amazing. No doubt Newcastle will be trying to top everyone else. Their present place is very average.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

What line of business are you in, if you don’t mind me asking?

Scribbler

 

[origigull]

Went there once when junior played there……….absolutely blown away. It’s incredible (and that was before the latest developments).

I managed to have a tour around Lancing training centre about 2019 and like you said absolutely blown away.. I wanted to have a kick around on the indoor pitch but was told better not but I did walk on it and touch the posts. Things you do when you hero worship.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Scribbler

that made me chuckle and that’s something I haven’t done for a few days.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

Isn’t it in Lancing?

To be fair, if I was in Lancing, I'd try and blag that I was from Shoreham-by-Sea, too...

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Shouldn’t be too hard if you’ve got a spare hour. From memory, they were mostly from the Oscar and Sami eras with moans about us sticking to FFP regs of the time and the investment not going where it mattered, with speculation that we had to sell Bridcutt to cover the shortfall for the training facilities. All very short sighted.

There was also a rediculous theory implied that TB had invested in the Albion and built the Amex just as a back door to getting a hotel built at Falmer.

I know he was only messing about (well, sort of messting about) but the well-known poster (who stopped posting a couple of years ago) who was always droning on about Dick 'Tight' and our lack of investment used to get absolutely on my tits.

 

[BNthree]

Not sure they do tours but if you go to an u23 game you get a good sense of the scale and size of the facilities as you have to walk from the car park past a lot of the pitches/ buildings/indoor pitches/the new womens extension etc to get to the mini U23 stand/pitch.

And since covid happened the place has gotten even bigger with about 3 extra pitches along the eastern side of the grounds. So it’s even more impressive than you’d remember it!

 

[dazzer6666]

And since covid happened the place has gotten even bigger with about 3 extra pitches along the eastern side of the grounds. So it’s even more impressive than you’d remember it!

Google Earth Link edit…didn’t work

 

[heathgate]

Isn’t it in Lancing?

Answer=yes

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[Weststander]

And since covid happened the place has gotten even bigger with about 3 extra pitches along the eastern side of the grounds. So it’s even more impressive than you’d remember it!

At the same time wasting money on elite facilities for the women.

 

[B-right-on]

It's the way TB is. He's not Mel Morris. He looks how he can make BHAFC a long term, sustainable, top 10 PL club and so builds from the bottom up, an infrastructure and way of doing things differently for a smaller club like us.

He invests in a top ground and then a top training facility with a brilliant DS set up rather than spunking millions on quick fix players to keep us in the PL.

How many millions have Fulham, Muff, Massive, even Swansea and Derby - just to name a few - chucked (gambled) at trying to stay or get back in the PL . No. TB does it differently with a clear objective and route to it in mind.

And he's ours.