Owl 44 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Just been listening to Gary Neville talking twaddle on Sky. Claiming that there is a power shift in football to the south and only southern clubs will be able to attract the top players as they all want to live down south. He is saying it has just got worse with Brighton going up and possibly Reading or Fulham. The answer apparently is that northern teams could based their training facilities in the south and just travel up north for the matches. Jamie Carragher laughed at this and said he would love to see Wednesday or Leeds come up via play offs along with Newcastle to address the balance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cpt_Hatstand Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Not heard this but Gary Neville has always been very complimentary about us as a big club. He's probably right about players wanting to be based in the South. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james o connor Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 He's right most players especially the foriegn stars don't want to live in grotty Manchester , inveead Liverpool or isolated Newcastle . As much as I love Sheffield , I can see why it would have even less of an appeal to someone not born into it . Their loss ! Why anybody would want to live in London is beyond me ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aeroswfc Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 What a stupid suggestion. Train in the south and play games in the north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debram Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Well said Carragher, Neville is talking rubbish, we need to create a homely atmosphere, make the players and manager feel at home and wanted to get the best out of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darklord Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 heard before a rumour that the Mackems were looking at having their training base near London and flying players up to Scumberland for games. Dunno how true it is mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie1973 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 (edited) Didnt Jeff Stelling have an infamous rant about this before?? About foreign players preferring smaller London/southern clubs to the likes of Newcastle/Sunderland? Edited to say - just checked and it his rant was after Middlesborough was voted worst place to live in UK. So totally irrelevant to this thread Edited April 18, 2017 by eddie1973 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elyowl1 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 I can understand the appeal of London to some extent but if a players first priority is the nightlife then your probably best not signing them in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markowl Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 12 minutes ago, aeroswfc said: What a stupid suggestion. Train in the south and play games in the north. Why is it stupid? If it attracts the better players, it seems like a good idea to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toooldforthis Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 I think it makes complete sense. Fans don't care where players train and live...fans do care that players are happy and settled. I think DC and CC would consider this...and if we want to attract Premiership player in the coming years, we should think clearly about this. Gary Neville has an inside ear to the players and this clearly isn't a new thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scilly owl Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Speaking as someone who was born and lives about as far south (west) as you can get I can tell you now that I absolutely love it "up north".... in fact if I hadn't just turned 60 and live on a small island with two daughters and four grandchildren I would seriously consider moving. My wife feels exactly the same way. We love the scenery, the architecture, the pubs and hotels and more than anything... the friendliness of the people. If was in the lucky position to be able to choose where I played my footy then it would be Yorkshire all day long. ( or possibly Italy or Fiji) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james o connor Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 1 minute ago, scilly owl said: Speaking as someone who was born and lives about as far south (west) as you can get I can tell you now that I absolutely love it "up north".... in fact if I hadn't just turned 60 and live on a small island with two daughters and four grandchildren I would seriously consider moving. My wife feels exactly the same way. We love the scenery, the architecture, the pubs and hotels and more than anything... the friendliness of the people. If was in the lucky position to be able to choose where I played my footy then it would be Yorkshire all day long. ( or possibly Italy or Fiji) We can trade if you like ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Snooty Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Didn't Mr Springett do this . Train with QPR and play for us? Different times then of course. Presumably the manager and all the coaching staff would have to take the training sessions 'down south' if they were wanting to do specific work with the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scilly owl Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Just now, james o connor said: We can trade if you like ??? Just now, james o connor said: We can trade if you like ??? You'd have to take the wife and kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike312 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 This is where the government comes in. Trying to move some of the establishment away from London as it seems to be the centre of the universe to some. Investment in the North needs to increase to allow cities like Manchester, Sheffield and Liverpool catch up. I've been to London once to see the sights and that's my lot, doesn't interest me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OxonOwl Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Are the players signed to play football or go clubbing or what? If they don't like the location they can fùck off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Animis Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 9 minutes ago, Lord Snooty said: Didn't Mr Springett do this . Train with QPR and play for us? Different times then of course. Presumably the manager and all the coaching staff would have to take the training sessions 'down south' if they were wanting to do specific work with the team. Good idea - perhaps we could have FF training with Fulham for the next two weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Past Member Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 9 minutes ago, Animis said: Good idea - perhaps we could have FF training with Fulham for the next two weeks Prefer the man in your avatar to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_D Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 31 minutes ago, scilly owl said: Speaking as someone who was born and lives about as far south (west) as you can get I can tell you now that I absolutely love it "up north".... in fact if I hadn't just turned 60 and live on a small island with two daughters and four grandchildren I would seriously consider moving. My wife feels exactly the same way. We love the scenery, the architecture, the pubs and hotels and more than anything... the friendliness of the people. If was in the lucky position to be able to choose where I played my footy then it would be Yorkshire all day long. ( or possibly Italy or Fiji) So what's this small island called then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lomas613 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 (edited) Gary Neville talks out his crack is he forgetting Man Utd he played for Liverpool Everton city West Brom he's always smoking summat before a game Edited April 18, 2017 by Lomas613 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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