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 The Sir Jack Hayward Training Ground
Opened in November 2005

The Sir Jack Hayward Training Ground is a part two-storey building, which measures 72m x 16m, has a curved roof and balcony areas overlooking three pitches and both sides of the building.

Accommodation includes changing rooms (11 in total), medical and physiotherapy facilities, gymnasium, hydro-therapy pool, kitchen and dining room, players' lounge, meeting rooms, academy study centre and administration offices.

The building will be the permanent base for the professional squad and academy players aged 16 to 18 years, for day-to-day training purposes, and for the club's academy games programme. It replaces the temporary changing facilities which have been home to the first team squad since 2002.

The new building complements Wolves' £750,000 indoor arena, which opened in October 2002 at Aldersley Sports Village, where the academy teams - ranging from under eights to under 16s - train on a nightly basis.

The training facility is at the end of Douglas Turner Way which is a private road, named in honour of a life-long Wolves fan who bequeathed the majority of his estate, £375,000, to the club on his death 18 months ago.

Mr Turner, a railway worker who had no remaining family members, was born and lived in Newport, South Wales, but his mother, Edith Bate, came from Wolverhampton.

The 73-year-old died of pneumonia in April 2004. At the time of his passing he was a season ticket holder in the Stan Cullis Stand.

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On the 9th November 2005 Sir Jack Hayward cuts the ribbon with Wolves longest serving player (at the time), Lee Naylor and the Academy's youngest player (at the time), eight-year-old midfielder George Forsyth.