https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44859387
The numbers are very low I would have thought? 127million invested in grassroots in England over 2017/18. That's nothing.
I see mention of the 3G pitch requirements; The one that was installed locally here, with help from EU funding, cost a minimum of £560,000 and took a while. In my county in Wales, I enquired about pitch usage for training in pre-season. As mentioned in the BBC report, all the local pitches have been sold off (on trust though). My local club took over one of the grass pitches, but weren't really very helpful in my enquiries a while back.
I can't think of any council pitches around here, bar the next town over where I think, the council runs a huge field with 8 or 9 pitches on. That ground is very thin, it's hard to explain but it doesn't feel like there's much 'ground' underneath the grass. But it does the job!
Anyway if I read the numbers right, only 20ish million is going to ground investment? That would net 34 3g pitches in a year assuming they all cost 560k. That's nothing?
A bit of a concern that the infrastructure for grassroots would be this poor? I'm not convinced selling Wembley would help that much in the long-term? Surely this needs some form of money-generation rather than a one off payment?
How's your local grounds doing? Last season a lot of games were called off due to the amount of rain we had going on, I hope we have a better season for 2018!
The numbers are very low I would have thought? 127million invested in grassroots in England over 2017/18. That's nothing.
I see mention of the 3G pitch requirements; The one that was installed locally here, with help from EU funding, cost a minimum of £560,000 and took a while. In my county in Wales, I enquired about pitch usage for training in pre-season. As mentioned in the BBC report, all the local pitches have been sold off (on trust though). My local club took over one of the grass pitches, but weren't really very helpful in my enquiries a while back.
I can't think of any council pitches around here, bar the next town over where I think, the council runs a huge field with 8 or 9 pitches on. That ground is very thin, it's hard to explain but it doesn't feel like there's much 'ground' underneath the grass. But it does the job!
Anyway if I read the numbers right, only 20ish million is going to ground investment? That would net 34 3g pitches in a year assuming they all cost 560k. That's nothing?
A bit of a concern that the infrastructure for grassroots would be this poor? I'm not convinced selling Wembley would help that much in the long-term? Surely this needs some form of money-generation rather than a one off payment?
How's your local grounds doing? Last season a lot of games were called off due to the amount of rain we had going on, I hope we have a better season for 2018!