Transforming Rockcliffe

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Red_is_best

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Perhaps we need something else to speculate on, so what did CW mean when he said this today?

He mentioned three specific areas:

“...there are things we have to improve, whether that is the infrastructure around here, whether it’s a mentality around the place and one of recruitment.”

Seems all recent managers have said something similar but I believe CW is very serious about doing something about them. I have no idea what he means exactly, but find it an exciting prospect. Any ideas?
 
Red_is_best said:
Perhaps we need something else to speculate on, so what did CW mean when he said this today?

He mentioned three specific areas:

“...there are things we have to improve, whether that is the infrastructure around here, whether it’s a mentality around the place and one of recruitment.”

Seems all recent managers have said something similar but I believe CW is very serious about doing something about them. I have no idea what he means exactly, but find it an exciting prospect. Any ideas?
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He did not say transform though, did he? He made it clear that he was not advocating bricks and mortar changes etc. Tweaks I think.
It could be things like how academy and first team integrate. Or how/where players eat or meet etc..He said it waant a new dtinks machine for the press. Not that there is an old drinks machine for the press.
 
Yes I was intrigued by this as well maybe it’s like the performance centre that clubs like Bayern have introduced.

The day after the end of the 2007-8 campaign, major rebuilding work commenced at the Säbener Straße. The former professionals' quarters, a base for the playing staff since 1990, was entirely gutted, reconstructed and knocked through into the adjacent former fan shop, creating a totally new and state-of-the-art performance centre, all within the space of just six weeks. As former chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge commented: "We're all thrilled. It's a perfect oasis for the players, allowing them to focus 100 percent on football."

The 2,000 square metre performance centre is primarily designed to help the players develop their skills, both on and off the field. The plans were partly inspired by the Player Lounges favoured by leading NFL and NBA clubs. The state-of-the-art weights and fitness area is located to one side, adjacent to the massage unit and the coaches' office, where the head coach and his team conduct planning and analysis sessions.

The first floor also features an e-learning room, intended for language and computer classes. A staircase leads out onto the roof, where the glass cupola recognisable from the old fan shop now houses another innovative facility. The auditorium, effectively a private cinema with a 2.8m screen and 39 leather seats, is used for team talks and video analysis, with screened-off booths for up to five simultaneous translators.

The main dressing rooms, the coaches' dressing room and the showers, with three ice water plunge baths, are located on the ground floor. Each of the lockers in the rebuilt dressing room incorporates a small digital message board, displaying each individual's specific daily schedule.

The performance centre offers everything the stars require to work, rest and play. That idea appears to be an inspiration to others: the likes of Barcelona, AC Milan and other top clubs are planning similar facilities after viewing Bayern's ground-breaking development.
 
fmttmadmin said:
He did not say transform though, did he? He made it clear that he was not advocating bricks and mortar changes etc. Tweaks I think.
It could be things like how academy and first team integrate. Or how/where players eat or meet etc..He said it waant a new dtinks machine for the press. Not that there is an old drinks machine for the press.
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I did wonder if the phrasing was a bit contradictory, Rob. As you say, he did mention small things like that but, according to Craig Johns:
Wilder said: “We made plans. That included plans for this place [Rockliffe] to transform this place a little bit for things that I’ve encouraged or asked that we do.

Maybe a lot of little changes equals a transformation?
 
I am only guessing but I get a hint - Could it be that Rockcliffe is a upmarket leisure facility and that rubs over to the players - great place to be but possibly not the best place to have as a workplace for Championship footballers i.e it should have more hardworking sports equipment sweat band toil and less spa and jucuzzi. More SAS bootcamp and less Champneys. Wilder hinted that the players were very well looked after possibly, too looked after?
 
Redwurzel said:
I am only guessing but I get a hint - Could it be that Rockcliffe is a upmarket leisure facility and that rubs over to the players - great place to be but possibly not the best place to have as a workplace for Championship footballers i.e it should have more hardworking sports equipment sweat band toil and less spa and jucuzzi. More SAS bootcamp and less Champneys. Wilder hinted that the players were very well looked after possibly, too looked after?
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Yes, he sounded a bit ticked off with the pampering, suggesting players needed to more, well, players, didnt he? You might be on to something there!
 
For starters hire staff that have a smile on their face as I went their recently and all the servers/waiters seemed miserable like they wished they weren't there
 
Boro4life said:
For starters hire staff that have a smile on their face as I went their recently and all the servers/waiters seemed miserable like they wished they weren't there
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I didn’t realise Wilder had a say about the running of the hotel. He wouldn’t get that at Burnley.
 
World class training facilities at Rockliffe.
If the 'infrastructure ' is that he's a halfwit.
 
The gates to the complex have an annoying squeak ever since Gazza hit them driving the bus - so need oiling?
 
From what I have seen the training facilities at Rockliffe are excellent, very similar to what I have seen at St George's Park and compare favourably with gose of many top flight clubs.
The coaching and development team at the time it was designed spent a lot of time visiting top euro clubs for inspiration.

It only becomes a holiday camp for players if the management team allow it. The hotel itself is hardly party central anyway. Wilder has been here long enough, with his own backroom team, to have sorted his own training regime.

On recruitment, well we know we struggle, and I can't really imagine that anyone will have a sufficiently magic wand to fix that one tbh. The NE of England does not rank highly on your typical footballers Place In The Sun.

After a week of speculation with many gormless fans donating cash to bookies, I consider some of Wilders comments to be a distraction, placed to try and demonstrate that he has a med-long term commitment to the club.

Let's hope he can get the team turned around against Swans.
 
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