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Post by harlowranger on Jan 11, 2012 18:35:20 GMT
Site for new QPR training ground revealed By Paul Warburton THE Warren Farm Sports Complex is set to become QPR’s new training ground – and one of the reasons Mark Hughes became the club’s new manager this week. Rs ambitions to develop the 59-acre site in Windmill Lane that borders Southall and Osterley, and provide a state of the art complex for both the Premier League Club and the community, is within weeks of being finalised with owners London Borough Of Ealing council. Hughes was unveiled as the man to replace the sacked Neil Warnock on Tuesday, and ironically returned to the place he trained as a Chelsea player when he took his first session as Rs boss the following day. But the Imperial Sports Ground at Harlington is past its sell-by date according to Hughes, and plans for not only a new stadium to replace Loftus Road, but a training ground worthy of a Premier League club was a clincher in securing Sparky’s return to west London 16 months after he quit Fulham. “Harlington is also 10 years older since I was last there,” said Hughes, “and I realised the Rangers’ ambitions were mine as well with the various exciting plans they have in place.” QPR have slated two other possible sites for its new training base, but the rundown Warren Farm complex is the favoured choice by a distance. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter Read More www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-sport/london-qpr/2012/01/11/site-for-new-qpr-training-ground-revealed-64767-30104785/#ixzz1jAyefJ3z |
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Post by Hogan on Jan 11, 2012 18:53:47 GMT
Good site, well, nothing a good bulldozer couldn't fix, and well located just off the A4.
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Post by cowleyhoop on Jan 11, 2012 19:17:56 GMT
Ahh warren farm brings back memories of sloping pitches freezing cold showers and coming back after a game to find the changing rooms had been broken into
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Post by RoryTheRanger on Jan 11, 2012 19:23:25 GMT
Is in a shocking state now but as was said above, nothing a bulldozer couldn't fix.
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Post by cowleyhoop on Jan 12, 2012 0:35:31 GMT
I can think of a few of our "joey squad" that wouldn't look out of place there now  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2012 5:21:03 GMT
Can we build a new ground there as well
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Post by ozhoop on Jan 12, 2012 6:13:56 GMT
Know it well.Yep a bulldozer is deffinately required.
And the little bridge with width restrictions going over the canal.Causes the mother of all bottlenecks and tailbacks down 3 roads.Or have they sorted it out in the last 5 years??
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Post by kempton ranger on Jan 12, 2012 7:25:54 GMT
Another thing is , it is along the road from Sky HQ?
There cameras are five minutes away.
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Post by walshyger on Jan 12, 2012 14:53:00 GMT
We used to have school games at Warren Farm back in the early 70`s,Friday morning devoted to Sports  ,brings back good memories.thought that place would go on forever,do schools do sports now? |
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Post by eusebio13 on Jan 12, 2012 19:48:11 GMT
www.westlondonsport.com/qpr/qprs-plan-for-attracting-top-players/12/01/2012 by David McIntyre QPR plan to use mock-ups of the club’s proposed new training facility to try to entice new signings.CEO Beard has led the search for a new training ground. Rangers are desperate to leave their current Harlington training ground, which is well below Premier League standard and is a possible barrier to attracting top players. The site of Warren Farm Sports Centre near Osterley Park is their preferred location for a new state-of-the-art complex, which is likely to be ready later this year. And R’s chief executive Philip Beard revealed: “At Harlington it’s challenging to impress players that you’re looking to bring into the club, so very shortly I intend to have pictures and graphics of what the [new] training ground will look like. “The reality is that we aren’t a Premier League club in terms of the training facility we’ve got. My job is to make sure that in the future the training ground reflects us as a quality club.”
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 13, 2012 0:21:41 GMT
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Post by 0hwestlondon on Jan 13, 2012 0:37:44 GMT
lets hope its built as soon as possible, and a good piece there from Jol, what he say's is right really, european final, prem for years now, and there about to expand craven cottage, dont like to praise Fulham but that all sounds ambitious to me, i wouldnt mind a euro final.
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Post by Macmoish on Jan 13, 2012 10:03:52 GMT
Or... Paul Warburton/Fulham Chronicle Second site for QPR training ground revealed By Paul Warburton Jan 13 2012 Add a comment Recommend inShare QPR’S second option for a new training ground is the swish Park Club in Acton where members pay £1,000-a-year to tread its hallowed lawns. The club have already indicated they would prefer to decamp from their run-down Harlington complex saddled with temporary buildings to the Warren Farm complex near Osterley – but the Park Club is the back-up plan. Gazette/Chronicle sport has learned that shelling out anything up to £10million to owners The Hogarth Group for the 27-acre site involves a complex deal. Whereas they can start from scratch at Warren Farm while adding a community facility, the existing buildings at the Park Club would stay but require a conversion to the needs of a Premier League team and new boss Mark Hughes (pic). There is also the considerable matter of compensating up to a 1,000 Park Club members who would be told the facility is now in the hands of the football club whose floodlights are visible in the distance. www.fulhamchronicle.co.uk/london-sport/london-qpr/2012/01/13/second-site-for-qpr-training-ground-revealed-82029-30113755/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter#ixzz1jKb972pS |
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Post by cpr on Jan 13, 2012 10:46:00 GMT
"QPR are looking into building a new stadium on the vacant 10 acre Dairy Crest site, in White City." Dairy Crest site back in the frame, been empty long enough!!! |
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