Work On The New Training Ground Has Started Today 11th July 2022

[Cockle43]

NO, most people already have fibreoptic cables in their road (Virgin), or have access to it.

Virgin already do Ultrafast fibre broadband 516 mbps, and there are others.

Virgin is not, largely, Fibre To The Premises (FTTP) but Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC).
FTTP is fibre right into your house FTTC is fibre to a nearby street cabinet. Where Virgin's FTTC service is able to achieve faster speeds it is because they use coaxial cable for the 'last mile' to the premises from the street cabinet as opposed to Openreach's twisted pair copper. This allows Virgin to offer the higher speeds that the Other Licensed Operators (OLO's) can't because they use Openreach's network and Virgin retain their network for their exclusive use with no OLO access.
Virgin did announce last year that they intend to roll out FTTP to their network nationally with a completion target of 2028.

City Fibre's (CF) FTTP is fully synchronous working and they have Vodafone and, lately, Talk Talk signed up and offering their 900 Mb services, nominally 1Gb, that is both download and upload at 910Mb.
Virgin are just trialling, (Choose, 18 Nov 2022), a 1Gb service in Liverpool using their existing technology, this gives 1.13Gb download but a pretty pedestrian upload of 52Mb at £45 per month as opposed to the Vodafone 910Gb both down and up at £30 per month.

Chances are that if you have Virgin down your street and CF have recently cabled it then sometime within the next 5 years, and very probably a lot sooner if they want to compete and survive a 50% undercut on prices, Virgin will be digging it up to lay their fibre to replace their coax cables.
Bit of a drawback for Virgin is that they have always kept themselves very divorced from Openreach's infrastructure whereas City Fibre have made use of any capacity on Openreach poles and in their spare duct space. That enables CF to provide quickly and nimbly using existing Openreach street ducts to Openreach poles and get to properties using fibre drop-wires so negating the need to dig across gardens or driveways from the pavement...

Interesting times, especially as development is going on towards a 4Gb domestic service that can only be carried by fibre or a much broader capacity band in the wireless spectrum. The wireless spectrum is now getting very crowded, hence a lot of the Freeview retuning going on to open up capacity in that part of the spectrum...

Apologies for going off topic but I always like to compare apples with apples.

 

[RHB]

Virgin is not, largely, Fibre To The Premises (FTTP) but Fibre To The Cabinet (FTTC).
FTTP is fibre right into your house FTTC is fibre to a nearby street cabinet. Where Virgin's FTTC service is able to achieve faster speeds it is because they use coaxial cable for the 'last mile' to the premises from the street cabinet as opposed to Openreach's twisted pair copper. This allows Virgin to offer the higher speeds that the Other Licensed Operators (OLO's) can't because they use Openreach's network and Virgin retain their network for their exclusive use with no OLO access.
Virgin did announce last year that they intend to roll out FTTP to their network nationally with a completion target of 2028.

City Fibre's (CF) FTTP is fully synchronous working and they have Vodafone and, lately, Talk Talk signed up and offering their 900 Mb services, nominally 1Gb, that is both download and upload at 910Mb.
Virgin are just trialling, (Choose, 18 Nov 2022), a 1Gb service in Liverpool using their existing technology, this gives 1.13Gb download but a pretty pedestrian upload of 52Mb at £45 per month as opposed to the Vodafone 910Gb both down and up at £30 per month.

Chances are that if you have Virgin down your street and CF have recently cabled it then sometime within the next 5 years, and very probably a lot sooner if they want to compete and survive a 50% undercut on prices, Virgin will be digging it up to lay their fibre to replace their coax cables.
Bit of a drawback for Virgin is that they have always kept themselves very divorced from Openreach's infrastructure whereas City Fibre have made use of any capacity on Openreach poles and in their spare duct space. That enables CF to provide quickly and nimbly using existing Openreach street ducts to Openreach poles and get to properties using fibre drop-wires so negating the need to dig across gardens or driveways from the pavement...

Interesting times, especially as development is going on towards a 4Gb domestic service that can only be carried by fibre or a much broader capacity band in the wireless spectrum. The wireless spectrum is now getting very crowded, hence a lot of the Freeview retuning going on to open up capacity in that part of the spectrum...

Apologies for going off topic but I always like to compare apples with apples.

There will be stabbings and drownings of any further off topic cable chat posts. Just a friendly heads up.

 

[brigg blue]

There will be stabbings and drownings of any further off topic cable chat posts. Just a friendly heads up.

I know what you mean, I don't have the bandwidth to deal with these packets of off topic broadcasts

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Getting back to the football related section it looks as if temporary access will be via Smithers Chase rather than by the permanent entrance via the as yet to be built roundabout. But this application answers a number of questions raised by some fans about the short term arrangements at the new training ground. All in all excellent news.

 

[The Big Dady]

Hope this is not the new Main Stand

 

[North Banker]

New pictures up on the website: https://fossetts.co.uk/news/the-grass-begins-to-grow-at-fossetts-training-facility

While the growth of grass may usually triggers the start of Spring, our Winter wishes are coming true as the grass on the 20-acre new training pitches begins to grow.

Thank you to those of you who have so far joined us on our site tour of the new facility, these are continuing on Saturday mornings between now and Christmas and while now fully booked, we very much look forward to welcoming those who are coming and apologise we aren't able to accommodate more visits this year. We hope to continue our tours as and when appropriate and safe to do so, as we build our new future and bring you on board with the development at Fossetts.

The latest selection of aerial photos have been shared below:

(They're large files so you'll have to click through to see the rest)

 

[The Big Dady]

Here are the latest Hi-Res pics (Click image to make bigger)

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Fabulous photos. I think these photos are about a week or so old as I went down today and the top pitches by the water tank are now green and growing slowly. The lower pitches are coming on. The road and car park now have the curb stones in situ but not yet cemented in. It's getting there but my guess without any expertise in this area is March playability. Today's tour was cancelled so I was unable to ask the question "when will it be playable". The attenuation pond looks full but the gulls were having a paddle so it's about an inch deep. All the work apart from the road and car park and the netting on the wayward shooting poles seems to be done. The site is now virtually all fenced in with security fencing to keep the youth out. It is great.

 

[danbowen]

Looks so beautiful! Let’s hope we still have a club to use them!

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Looks so beautiful! Let’s hope we still have a club to use them!

Amen to that brother

 

[teabee1]

Not sure the fence / netting behind the goals is high enough or wide enough..

 

[The Big Dady]

Not sure the fence / netting behind the goals is high enough or wide enough..

Or we could put the pitches in a couple of Domes we have laying around?

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Had to go to B&Q for some stuff so dropped by to have a look at the progress. Still beavering away at the entrance road and car park. It all looks nearly finished. A lot of the machinery seems to have disappeared. All in all I think it'll be finished by Christmas. Just need to wait for the grass, mother nature and the mower to do their magic and we'll be off.

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

ok so where are they going to site these domes if not at the new training ground .I thought that why they was brought so many years ago ./???

Tommy the domes are to be sited on the stadium side of the development.

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[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Not sure the fence / netting behind the goals is high enough or wide enough..

Just which players do you have in mind. I think Alan Little would be forever in Mr Smither's garden asking for his ball back.

 

[londonblue]

Fabulous photos. I think these photos are about a week or so old as I went down today and the top pitches by the water tank are now green and growing slowly. The lower pitches are coming on. The road and car park now have the curb stones in situ but not yet cemented in. It's getting there but my guess without any expertise in this area is March playability. Today's tour was cancelled so I was unable to ask the question "when will it be playable". The attenuation pond looks full but the gulls were having a paddle so it's about an inch deep. All the work apart from the road and car park and the netting on the wayward shooting poles seems to be done. The site is now virtually all fenced in with security fencing to keep the youth out. It is great.

Is anyone else insulted by how wide the netting is?

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

I did write to Rylee at commercial about the cancellation. Nothing sinister. Jamie got called away. As I know he lives in Redcar (having spoken to him - he's a Middlesbrough fan) and seems to be the go to works foreman at White Horse very understandable.
What I would say is Rylee got back to me very quickly and he was very professional. We do have a lot of great staff beavering around working their butts off for the club. Ron you know what I'm saying. Let's get the show on the road.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Had to go to B&Q for some stuff so dropped by to have a look at the progress. Still beavering away at the entrance road and car park. It all looks nearly finished. A lot of the machinery seems to have disappeared. All in all I think it'll be finished by Christmas. Just need to wait for the grass, mother nature and the mower to do their magic and we'll be off.

That’ll explain why they’ve just got a new security contractor in

OFFICIAL SECURITY PARTNER

Southend United are pleased to welcome Armour Security on board as its Official Security Partner.

www.southendunited.co.uk

 

[Holy Joe]

Any one tell me where we need to park and meet for the training ground tours? I thought I saw something posted on here but can't find it now - and not had any communication from club.

Thanks

 

[C'mon you Shrimpers]

Matt this is what the club sent me,

Thank you for booking on to see the progress being made at our new training ground, which is continuing at pace and on schedule.

The new facilities will, over time, prove a major ingredient to the club’s future & success and are the first step in the club’s relocation plans.
The tour will commence at 10.00am, so please arrive by no later than 9.50am. The attached google maps screenshot shows the location of the training ground, which runs parallel to Fossetts Way, situated just north of the road. Access to the training ground can be gained by Sutton Road. If travelling Eastbound from the A1159, take the first exit at the roundabout before Boots and Laces training ground and head northbound past Southend Fire Station as well as Southend Crematorium. Heading straight over the next roundabout, continue on Sutton Road past the set of houses, and just after the Bus Stop on the right, follow the path round to the car park. We appreciate it may be quite hard to find so please see the attached image to give you an idea of where to travel.
PLEASE NOTE: WELLINGTON BOOTS SHOULD BE WORN
We look forward to welcoming you to an exciting glimpse of Blues' future, and if you have any questions please do send across