Rangers have opened their new £14million training centre at Auchenhowie, just outside Glasgow. The Centre will be known as 'Murray Park' as an honour to Chairman David Murray who, as well as bankrolling this project has done more than anyone else to revive Rangers Football Club in the last 15 years. The naming of the centre after him was decided by the board and supporters clubs, without Murrays input, and was a big surprise to the Chairman. The £14m centre features several pitches, including half-sized, indoor and undersoil heated pitches. It has a top-of-the-range gymnasium, rumoured to "have cost as much as it would take to save Morton football club", modern medical facilities and even an editing suite where players can watch cips of their opponents and dissect previous displays of their own. The centre can only be good for the whole of Scottish Football, as well as Rangers. Rangers will benefit from improvements with day-t-day training and youth players, Scotland will benefit too. The Scottish national team are to lease the grounds to prepare for crucial WC Qualifying matches, and any youth players who dont make it at Rangers will filter down to smaller clubs. Also, players who are undecided about joining Rangers will see this as a major advantage - it will attract bigger names to the club. <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> top class!
