Jimfanciesthedude 25,518 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 The way it's described in Wiki sounds pretty sufficient for a top youth development academy to me to be honest. Separate facilities for the youths and such like, on top of there being more than enough pitch space.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Parkits more the requirement for living space and schooling space that im meaning, they could try and alter auchenhowie but id rather we just went and built a brand spanking youth academy, dorms, everything from scratch, make it right from the word gowe dont have a chance of convincing the best youths from all over the country to develop at rangers if they need to travel for hours just to get here, especially when they have spent all day at school Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inigo 33,277 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 its more the requirement for living space and schooling space that im meaning, they could try and alter auchenhowie but id rather we just went and built a brand spanking youth academy, dorms, everything from scratch, make it right from the word gowe dont have a chance of convincing the best youths from all over the country to develop at rangers if they need to travel for hours just to get here, especially when they have spent all day at schoolSeems quite alot of money to build a whole new thing when it's fine apart from some dorms. Didn't we used to put them up in rented rooms in Milngavie? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inigo 33,277 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 It has a separate wing for the youths. Iirc there were 3 or 4 different changing rooms for different age groups. There was also a weatherproof pitch , outwith the indoor arena , a first team training pitch as well as 6 or so pitches further away for the younger age groups. Unless it's changed since I worked on it.It's already prepared for youths . All we need now is them getting the right training.Yeah. Seems pretty good to me. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJ 743 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Auchenhowie was never built to be a state of the art youth facility, it was a top class training facility that our youths used along with the first teamIncorrect. It was built as a training centre AND to produce exceptional youth players. The vision was that it would fund itself in the long term. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMax399 3,989 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 In the medium-term we should really be aiming for around 20 - 25% of the first team squad being produced from the youth set up. Some of the OP's rightly say that to produce quality youth talent capable of stepping up, you need quality coaching.. ...This will cost money initially, and take some time I suspect, but personally I see this as another way of making the club/team sustainable going forward. We can't go back to buying teams in their entirety. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bears r us 31,283 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 If he does what he says about the youth then great, but I will wait for him to do something before doing cartwheels. Looking at him today made me think he was just saying just what he could get away with to sell season tickets. I hope I am wrong, but at the moment I cannot trust him, sorry if that upsets anyone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcb 1,167 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Tremendous facility but why we didn't build a indoor area complete with a full sized pitch has always been a mystery. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
murzo 7,449 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Tremendous facility but why we didn't build a indoor area complete with a full sized pitch has always been a mystery.It does have an indoor pitch Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaulGoodman 0 Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 Could you expand on that mate, why can't a top class training facility be converted into a state of the art youth academy with investment?- Murray Park was the youth academy? What is Auchenhowie? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallus 11 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Murray Park should be closed and sold for housing.Albion and gasometer land should be converted to a 1st team training base and youth academy close to home. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pcbear 10,932 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 its more the requirement for living space and schooling space that im meaning, they could try and alter auchenhowie but id rather we just went and built a brand spanking youth academy, dorms, everything from scratch, make it right from the word go we dont have a chance of convincing the best youths from all over the country to develop at rangers if they need to travel for hours just to get here, especially when they have spent all day at school So on the off chance we produce an exceptional sellable youth or two we spent 20m plus on a brand new facility, that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and the money to build that would magic itself from where? Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaffbear 4,173 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 We need to build a top scouting system and youth development system first and foremost and stop pissing money away on duds. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dude 20,027 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Murray Park should be closed and sold for housing.Albion and gasometer land should be converted to a 1st team training base and youth academy close to home.Can't happen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Kool Blue 139 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Youth development is the only way you can make money in Scottish football Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
borderbear 150 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Good to hear. Would fucking love it if one day we had a top player factory like other clubs in Europe- Ajax, Barca, Arsenal, Partizan etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluenose244 2,631 Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 iirc from the odd time i was there and from when it was built, it was designed purely as a first class training facility for the first team, dick advocaat got murray to build it because he seen just how bad our pre auchenhowie facilites were at times of the yearthe youths get great benefit from it as the facilities should be top notch if they are well maintained, but its shy of being an actual youth academyit maybe could be changed and altered to focus more on the academy side of things, but given the first team use it as well they might as well just build an actual academy,if we were serious of finding and developing the best of the best of the best, id love to see us build a smaller type auchenhowie then use the other space for classrooms and dormitories, have the youths eat, sleep and breath football, away from the habits of glasgow social lifeThe bottom paragraph here is spot on agree 100% with this. Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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