Barrow tie up Salford connection

Bayliss is hoping to develop the best young players from the Barrow area

Barrow will train three days a week from next season as they look to be more competitive.

The club will use state-of-the-art facilities at the Salford Sports Village, where Bluebirds' joint-boss Darren Sheridan is a coach.

"Fellow joint-boss Dave Bayliss told BBC Radio Cumbria: "It's been something we've had in the pipeline for a long time now.

"It's going to be a near enough full-time structure."

The site includes several grass football pitches and two third-generation synthetic pitches.

"It's going to be a good base for us," Bayliss added. "It's basically through Darren's connections.

"It's going to cost us nothing. There will be a link-in between Barrow Football Club and Salford itself which could benefit everyone.

"It could help us maybe generate some youngsters from the Salford area which would enable some of the best youngsters to train with us and maybe some could get into the first-team squad if they're good enough."

Bayliss also revealed that the club were hoping to establish a youth programme at Barrow in the near future.

"We're not going to cut our ties with the Barrow area," he said. "We want to get some type of YTS set-up going next season or the season after to hopefully produce our own youngsters."

Financially, we won't be held to ransom by anyone, we can't pay players massive wages to do this.

Barrow joint-boss Dave Bayliss

"It shows how fast we're progressing and how fast we're moving forward and we can only do that with the help of the local community."

The Bluebirds operated on a part-time basis last season, training just once a week.

"We don't want to be losing the best talent to Preston or to Morecambe," he said.

"No disrespect to Morecambe but we are as big a club if not bigger and if they can do it they there's no reason why we can't develop our own players too."

Bayliss is now hopeful the club will benefit from training three times a week.

"We will be able to put our own stamp on the team and will be able to work on our team shape better," he said. "It can only be done at Blue Square Premier and now we've stayed up we are in a position to do that.

"The new arrangement will not suit everyone and already we've lost Matt Henney and Lee Woodyatt because they have good jobs.

"Financially, we won't be held to ransom by anyone, we can't pay players massive wages to do this. The players have to get themselves in line with the vision we've got and want to be part of it."