THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

No, I’m not talking about the fans! but the fact that, as a professional club, we don’t seem to be able to find a grass pitch to train on in the area from December to March.

I’m genuinely starting to think that it’s a reason for this slump. Is training on the Fairfield’s all-weather surface hurting us? Are players training all week trusting the surface and their weight of pass being perfect, but then arriving on a grass pitch (home or away) and just not adapting to “real” football? It sounds ridiculous but so much of playing good football is muscle memory and doing things instinctively that it’s feasible to think that players just aren’t adapting in matchday scenarios, i.e. when that simple five yard pass only travels four, or a pass that you can ping to feet at Fairfield’s, takes a longer to get there and takes a bobble, or losing that desire/instinct to make that perfectly timed sliding tackle because you just aren’t doing it Monday to Friday on the plastic?

I can’t recall the last time I saw a training pic on club socials that wasn’t on the Astro, and it certainly ties in with the time period our form has fallen off a cliff. I’m not saying it’s the sole reason, but in the struggle to find answers to why we’ve been so poor, everything has to be considered.

It used to be an occasional thing, this training on plastic for us; Woughton a bog and they’d go in the dome there. Now it’s a seemingly permanent winter thing. It’s embarrassing for the club, and I wonder, if it’s something Lyndsey is holding his tongue over?

And let’s not mention the heightened risk of impact injuries from training on it, or the risk of breaking a rib

Reading the SB notes i think simon crampton will tell you you’re wrong, how we still train at a school is beyond me, it can’t happen much longer especially with the influx of cash

I am not sure how training on astro impacts their ability to put in effort on match day. That's surely a more mental issue. But the fact that we don't have a proper training facility is an absolute joke. We must be one of - if not the only - clubs without one?

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Cant imagine its great for impact on the joints and tiredness throughout the week

Any idea where to find them. Link to November’s on here just goes to a page on the OS with no content.

Part of what I was getting at is that you can’t make too much effort on plastic for fear of injuries. Is that being carried in to the games on Saturday?

Cheers. Nothing from SC in November’s and only an overview of the training ground/academy cat 2/3 situation, and nothing specific about training on the all weather in September’s though.

Yeah, could well be.

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I don’t think those who attend are the type to ask them sort of questions