Has anyone heard any news about where Wire intend to move to once they vacate the Padgate Training Ground? https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... s-padgate/

Has anyone heard any news about where Wire intend to move to once they vacate the Padgate Training Ground? https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... s-padgate/

They wanted to use ‘Levelling Up’ funding to create a new facility at Vicky Park. For use by the community and the club - but that obviously got turned down. https://www.warrington.gov.uk/news/warr ... elling-bid They will use the artificial pitch at Vicky Park I’m sure, but will probably mean training, gym, offices, treatment will all be on different sites, which isn’t ideal.

They wanted to use ‘Levelling Up’ funding to create a new facility at Vicky Park. For use by the community and the club - but that obviously got turned down. https://www.warrington.gov.uk/news/warr ... elling-bid They will use the artificial pitch at Vicky Park I’m sure, but will probably mean training, gym, offices, treatment will all be on different sites, which isn’t ideal.

So ,the state of the art training facilities have taken a backward step. Perhaps Longshaw Street field will be the facilities of choice & not far from the club. The lads could run there & back.

Quote ="ninearches"So ,the state of the art training facilities have taken a backward step. Perhaps Longshaw Street field will be the facilities of choice & not far from the club. The lads could run there & back.'" Some St Helens fans are currently located on Dallam Playing Fields, so we will have to wait until they move elsewhere. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... ng-fields/

Quote ="ninearches"So ,the state of the art training facilities have taken a backward step. Perhaps Longshaw Street field will be the facilities of choice & not far from the club. The lads could run there & back.'" Some St Helens fans are currently located on Dallam Playing Fields, so we will have to wait until they move elsewhere. https://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/ne ... ng-fields/

Why ask the government to spend that much on communities in the North, when those poor first class train commuters desperately* need a separate rail line to get them from Birmingham to London 25 minutes quicker? Shame on you, Wire.

*Well, the two days a week they [imay[/i spend in the office, since work-from-home became flavour of the century.

Quote ="Alffi_7"They wanted to use ‘Levelling Up’ funding to create a new facility at Vicky Park. For use by the community and the club - but that obviously got turned down. https://www.warrington.gov.uk/news/warr ... elling-bid They will use the artificial pitch at Vicky Park I’m sure, but will probably mean training, gym, offices, treatment will all be on different sites, which isn’t ideal.'" What has the new(ish) building between the athletics pitch and the reserves/academy grass pitch got in it? That seems big enough for a gym and physio setup? Could that be extended relatively cheaply, or does it belong to the council?

Quote ="Alffi_7"They wanted to use ‘Levelling Up’ funding to create a new facility at Vicky Park. For use by the community and the club - but that obviously got turned down. https://www.warrington.gov.uk/news/warr ... elling-bid They will use the artificial pitch at Vicky Park I’m sure, but will probably mean training, gym, offices, treatment will all be on different sites, which isn’t ideal.'" What has the new(ish) building between the athletics pitch and the reserves/academy grass pitch got in it? That seems big enough for a gym and physio setup? Could that be extended relatively cheaply, or does it belong to the council?

Yes it’s a council facility (criminally underused as the council want to charge a fortune for anyone to use it - Latchford Giants for example don’t use it or the pitch (though they do use the new 4G for training, as do a few other community clubs in winter).

There is no ‘Ground Floor’ of the stand due to flood risk - I think it’s used for storage. Not sure what’s on the first floor is used for, changing rooms are there, but not sure what else. Then function room on the 2nd Floor.

It cost £4.4m I think, that must be 8 years ago, I can’t see why they couldn’t extend it to the full length of the touch line, that would probably give room for offices, treatment rooms, gym and a meeting rooms. Not sure what else they would need? They already have a grass pitch and 4g pitch there, maybe an indoor training barn?

But if what’s their cost £4.4m then you can easily double that - who’d pay for it? Council with Warrington leasing it? Depends on the business case I guess if govt funding isn’t available.

It’s not even 25 minutes.

I read somewhere the estimated time between London and Manchester on HS2 is 8 mins quicker than the current express.

I`m not a supporter of HS2 myself, but this article states that the journey time saving is much more than 8 minutes :- https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/h ... ey-1559969

I`m not a supporter of HS2 myself, but this article states that the journey time saving is much more than 8 minutes :- https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/h ... ey-1559969

It's to be hoped the rail unions don't get involved or HS2 will not be going anywhere fast.

Quote ="Boss Hog"I`m not a supporter of HS2 myself, but this article states that the journey time saving is much more than 8 minutes :- https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/h ... ey-1559969'" Yes it's 35, whereas I said 25. Although I clearly have accounted for light rain or leaves on the line

Quote ="Boss Hog"I`m not a supporter of HS2 myself, but this article states that the journey time saving is much more than 8 minutes :- https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/h ... ey-1559969'" Yes it's 35, whereas I said 25. Although I clearly have accounted for light rain or leaves on the line

HS2 isn't really about journey times, that's almost a side-benefit. It's primarily about adding huge amounts more capacity, getting lots of fast inter-city trains off the existing network and consequently freeing up the station and track space they currently take up for a lot more medium distance and local trains and freight.