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Alan Hardy: 'New Notts County indoor training facilities are top quality'


Joe Jones

Alan Hardy has spoken of the new indoor training facilities at Notts County, describing them as Championship quality and hoping that they will play a part in attracting top talent to Meadow Lane.

The Magpies chairman has funded the construction of a 4G pitch, changing rooms, a gym and a medical department which sits in the Family Stand.

"I showed Kevin the facilities and he was absolutely blown away by what we have created," Hardy told the Nottingham Post. "He said it is Championship standard and that was great to hear.

"Not only does it have a high performance gym and medical area, it's got one of the best 4G pitches in the country.

"In terms of size and quality, it's exactly the same as Arsenal's. The pitch is getting laid on Monday and it's nice to be able to say this is what Arsenal have and we also have it too.

"I think when you have these kind of facilities it can only help to attract players who will not only be blown away by our history, but the facilities we can offer them.

"We have goals that are on runners and can be positioned anywhere in the hall. Our first-team coach Mark Crossley said that, from a goalkeeping perspective, it was right up there with the Premier League.

"We are going to have four new goalkeepers coming in over the next two weeks for trials and they are England schools and youth internationals.

"Mark firmly believes that this could be a real centre of excellence in terms of goalkeeping.

"We want to be the best we can possibly be in every department both on and off the field. If you want to progress on the pitch, then you to need everything in place off it."

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Chris

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It's great to hear and read that we have local training facilities which have a good grade about them, this will surely help us on the pitch but I am also hoping that we continue to network with Basford United.

This would help a local club and give us the best of both words.

Really hoping to see more news regarding this over the coming weeks, along with perhaps a few new additions to Kevin Nolan's squad. COYP!

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Magic magpie

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This is great news cause for me it means he is investing in the future and he is going to stick around and he aims for the championship as thsts the standards he aims for

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liampie

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people should want to play for notts because of the fans and the history, the facilities are just a luxury for me. i also take from the comment above by ah that we wont be replacing adam collin? seeing us invite young keepers who have international caps could be negative to the young keepers we have.

mixed on it to be honest.

Who r ya?? You Pies!!

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Positive steps by an ambitious owner for me , well done AH for helping provide the tools needed for forward momentum and natural progression , coyp 



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