[Albion] Anyone know if the boys are out in Dubai yet?

[Albion my Albion]

nip off

Is that a reference to the Dubai punishment for pulling a Janet Jackson Super Bowl exposure.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

I don't get it - all EPL clubs complain about the schedule and the effect on players. I know, let's have a winter break and fly the squad half way around the world for training. And that ignores the cost and emissions in doing so. As has already been posted - how does warm weather training help the squad when we're in the coldest season here ?

Light training in sunshine seems a very nice way to rejuvenate to me.

 

[timbha]

Light training in sunshine seems a very nice way to rejuvenate to me.

Exactly. It’s a little reward/thank you whilst keeping the squad together with the physios etc being on hand 24/7.

What’s the alternative? Do the same as they’ve been doing for the past 6 months and risk boredom, familiarity, etc

 

[Albion my Albion]

What’s the alternative? Do the same as they’ve been doing for the past 6 months and risk boredom, familiarity, etc

And having to read message boards like NSC, with knuckleheads like me during the non-training times. What else would you do but read about what the fans are saying about you. Trumpsters would say it makes you tough.

 

[worthingseagull]

Stalker alert !!

I wish - stuck in snowy Worthing I'm afraid

 

[Hiheidi]

Looks likely they are there...

 

[BNthree]

Looks likely they are there...View attachment 172534

Just came to this thread to post this. Follow most of our players on Instagram and this is the only post from Dubai so far

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just came to this thread to post this. Follow most of our players on Instagram and this is the only post from Dubai so far

Woops! That'll be him in for a telling-off

 

[Rodney Thomas]

Looks likely they are there...View attachment 172534

In the middle of the desert. Its bad enough seeing golf courses here in Greece.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

In the middle of the desert. Its bad enough seeing golf courses here in Greece.

Aren't they right next to the sea though? Not too hard to believe they have desalination plants. I dislike that region as much as the next man but using water is hardly their worst crime.

 

[nicko31]

In the middle of the desert. Its bad enough seeing golf courses here in Greece.

Dubai is an environmental disaster end of..

 

[AZ Gull]

 

[hart's shirt]

Aren't they right next to the sea though? Not too hard to believe they have desalination plants. I dislike that region as much as the next man but using water is hardly their worst crime.

Here's a link to a NYT recent article on desalination there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/business/dubai-water-desalination.html

As someone who's lived in Dubai for over 16 years and love both the place and country, I thought it was balanced, very informative and trod carefully between a pro-Dubai whitewashing or anti-Dubai scapegoating angle. It's well worth a read.

Global seawater salinity is typically 3.5 to 4.5 percent; the Persian Gulf comes in at the latter end, making it more vulnerable to brine. About 70 percent of the gulf’s coral reefs have disappeared, with 21 species of coral-dependent fish at elevated risk of extinction. These shifts have resulted in a regional loss of $94 billion a year for tourism, aquaculture and fisheries, according to a study published in 2021 in the Marine Pollution Bulletin, a scholarly journal.

Sea grass meadows and mangroves in the area are also struggling. Such ecosystems are important nursing grounds for commercially valuable species like pearl oysters; they also help stabilize wave rhythms and erosional forces and can absorb large quantities of greenhouse gas from the atmosphere. Their decline has contributed to an oceanic desert devoid of the usual biodiversity that is found in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf — the largest so-called dead zone in the world.

Since the 1970s, dead zones have proliferated across the globe, and include one in the Baltic Sea three times the area of Maryland.
“We have our own in the Gulf of Mexico, where all the water going down the Mississippi deoxygenates and everything dies,” said Bruce Logan, director of Pennsylvania State University’s Institute of Energy and the Environment.

 

[chrisg]

Dressed for winter still.

 

[Weststander]

I don't get it - all EPL clubs complain about the schedule and the effect on players. I know, let's have a winter break and fly the squad half way around the world for training. And that ignores the cost and emissions in doing so. As has already been posted - how does warm weather training help the squad when we're in the coldest season here ?

The PR will be ‘carbon offset’.

[Half a dozen Nordman Firs to be planted in Friston Forest …. which would’ve been planted anyway].

 

[dazzer6666]

Dressed for winter still.

10 degrees in the evening……..

 

[BNthree]

Igor just posted an Instagram story this morning where he’s on an exercise bike at the training ground in Lancing. Anyone noticed him in the club photos from Dubai?

 

[Hiheidi]

O'Mahony with them.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Will be interesting to find out which U-21s have made the trip: Nilsson? Samuels? Peupion? BBB? Duffus? Kavanagh?

You're right, it will be about that interesting

 

[Chicken Run]

I don't get it - all EPL and fly the squad half way around the world for training. And that ignores the cost and emissions in doing so. As has already been posted - how does warm weather training help the squad when we're in the coldest season here ?

So you don’t agree with the trip then?