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Modgull wrote:No Forever, didn't mean you - I meant some of the comments in the press about these being difficult times with the weather and trying to find suitable training grounds - it seemed that we were lamenting the poor quality of our facilities!

Fair enough Mod,i did say "if" you meant the o/p,was not clear.

No Forever, didn't mean you - I meant some of the comments in the press about these being difficult times with the weather and trying to find suitable training grounds - it seemed that we were lamenting the poor quality of our facilities!

If you mean the o/p when you say negative coments Modgull then no not at all negative,merely trying to find out if any one knows the clubs intentions,and asking the question whether the club can afford the vital work that needs to be done to bring the ground up to scratch as a proffessional training ground.

And as far as the training ground being another sign of progress for our club,yes it is,if you are getting the best use out of it,however it seems recently the first team have been training more and more elsewhere.

Earlier in the season we were being told that Seale Hayne was a sign of further club progression so I've not been able to understand some of the more negative comments more recently.

Anyone fancy Google mapsing this and posting a link?

Matt.

They've used the all weather pitch at Audley Park a couple of times this week that i've seen...

I often drive past the training ground, and although I haven't been past for a couple of weeks, they were training there 2 weeks ago. I even took the time and stopped to have a look a while back and the facilities looked pretty good. I would be very surprised after all the development that they have turned their back on it.

Am I imagining it, but didn't PB have them training at Plainmoor once before, and said something about it being because it helped them focus better in home games!!

After years of scratching around trying to find a space for the first team to train,using the likes of the field next to Centrax in Newton Abbot,and then the constantly watterlogged racecourse,the club annouced it was taking over the site at seale hayne,to me this was a landmark improvment in our club.

However it does appear the first team are not using this facility to train on at the moment,whether that is temporary i do not know,and have been using plainmoor itself and gone back to the beaches ,i do not know the actual figure the club has invested in the training ground,however i do know that the changing rooms there have been refurbished,and the store room linking the two changing rooms has been converted into an office,there has been area's of ground cleared ,aswell as pathways layed,also portakabins have been brought in one fitted out as a pysiothreapy room,all in all this would not have been with out considerable cost.

As many of us know the ground does have a fair slope to it,the club however did know know this before they took on the ground and i believe there was or maybe still plans to carry out work to level it,were prehaps such a plan to ambitious?

I wonder what plans the club have going forward for the training ground,or whehter it has become a cash hungary white elephant?