Hopefully not, the idea is the train, not veg out.
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[Albion] Albion cancel Dubai warm weather trip
- Thread starter Bozza
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Hopefully not, the idea is the train, not veg out.
Bob!
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- Jul 5, 2003
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You did, I saw it as well.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
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Genuine question: has anybody, holistically or otherwise, ever questioned exactly WHY a jolly in the sun helps prepare any group of already-pampered players for a long hard slog in the cold, wind and rain of a UK second half of season? Seems to me the best you can hope for is that none of them gets sent home earlydoors in disgrace
nicko31
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Dubai is horrible, good move
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
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Gonna go for some stereotyping here. Bling Paradise for a footballer
driller
my life my word
As Dubai is full of Russian hookers
I think the problem was how knackered Shane Duffy came home!
I think the problem was how knackered Shane Duffy came home!
Change of environment, gets the players / staff around each other for a few days rather than a bit of breakfast, 2 hours training, a bit of lunch and they all go home to play Playstation I guess.
TheJasperCo
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It'll probably transpire that one of the team couldn't get a visa in time.
While the temperature’s ok here at the moment, it’s actually been chucking it down a lot recently. Wettest January I can recall for years and years, with regular flooding bringing the city to a standstill. Not such a bad reason to look elsewhere.
The idea that ISIS would see ‘BHAFC in Dubai’ as a major opportunity, however, is laughable.
The idea that ISIS would see ‘BHAFC in Dubai’ as a major opportunity, however, is laughable.
Live by the sea
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- Oct 21, 2016
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Even without the security implications, Dubai is a soulless place that makes Vegas look cultural. Dubai also has a reputation for not treating its workers in the hotel industry very well. I know human rights is not something really valued in that part of the world. They pay lip service to it because they want tourism.
There are much nicer and much more interesting places to go for winter sun.
There are much nicer and much more interesting places to go for winter sun.
hart's shirt
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That's a shame. Plenty of top European sides including some from the Premier League regularly come out here and hold open training sessions, so it would've been good for a few of the unofficial Seagulls over Dubai expats to get along to one of them and hopefully meet a few of the players.
As #bhafc99 said above, we've had some rain recently, but it's picked up now and is comfortably in the high 60s/low 70s. Perfect weather for training.
Let's hope the Albion can find some sun elsewhere in Europe then.
As #bhafc99 said above, we've had some rain recently, but it's picked up now and is comfortably in the high 60s/low 70s. Perfect weather for training.
Let's hope the Albion can find some sun elsewhere in Europe then.
I think you missed the bit about warm weather training.........................
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Not sure it's the sunshine, but I imagine a change of environment, a break from routine, a getting away from the stresses and anxieties of everyday life, and a bit of doing things together from breakfast till dusk all perhaps contribute to a marginal gain somewhere. How you measure that I don't know. If you have a bump in form, that might have happened anyway.
As we know from Saturday, or at home to Burnley for that matter, games are decided often on tiny margins. Perhaps a break helps with a tiny margin somewhere.
Weststander
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Do you recall John Beck at Cambridge United orchestrating stuff like that?
More light - increases awareness and stimulates mental activity
More heat - kills off latent viruses and bugs and soothes aches and pains
More rays - generates vitamin D - which is just the business for everything
Less dark - it makes you slow down and feel miserable
More cold - more chance of viruses taking hold , infections etc
Less sun - less vit D etc
Hope that's clear --
What's wrong with Dubai anyway ? It's not exactly going to kick off there - paranoia of the highest order .
Yes, I also recall the twats coming up to HMS Dryad when I was there in 1991 on a regular basis for a few days of beasting.
portslade seagull
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Cancel it and attempt to put things right on the training pitch. Maybe coach Webster to be a defender and get the strikers hitting balls into an empty net to give them some confidence
**** a holiday get a manager
hart's shirt
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As much as I'd love them to come here, after tonight's spineless debacle the Albion need all the practice they can get in any weather condition.
He was in a friends bar at the weekend and was good company apparently.