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[Albion] Brighton v Pompey tomorrow
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There are some who probably believe you now.
Stumpy Tim
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I don't fully understand the secrecy of the training ground in general. I played there last week as part of a work tournament, and we were banned from taking any pictures or discussing the event on social media. I don't really understand - it's not a secret where it is based. It is not a secret what goes on there, you can see images of the various pitches on a Google image search. We were there to play football on a 4G pitch, which is what happened. There's no need for secrecy, not that I can see.
My 8 year old played in a tournament there a year ago, and we had the same thing. No pictures at all allowed - seemed a bit weird. You would think they could designate an area for the kids to take a photo, but they didn't so there was a lot of people doing it anyway. All very odd given the Sky Cameras are there quite often, especially on transfer deadline day
The same is true of most (if not all) clubs' training grounds.
Who the xxxx are Blazing Squad? The new Take That? Was the Maine Line Service Crew in my day............
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Genuine superstar and Copa America mentioned in the same sentence and referring to Brighton. Yeah I really really believe
“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”
It’s like that, innit.
It’s like that, innit.
TWOCHOICEStom
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Fixed that for you.
Stumpy Tim
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Yes, but why?
Don't know. My guess would be that there is obviously some stuff going on that they wish to keep private, and that it is much easier to have a blanket ban on all public photography on site, than to task the the security staff with exercising discretion on what is, and is not allowable.
schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
Not Andy Naylor
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In Palace's case it will be because they're so ashamed of the crappiness of their facilities compared to, well, almost every other club's.
DarrenFreemansPerm
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I really don’t think you need to worry about that scenario.
Icy Gull
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Palace ashamed? Really?
SollysLeftFoot
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I'm not kidding by the way - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02463c0 it was Maine Line Service Crew. Rebranded, apparently it's meant to be ironic and a piss take on the 2000s boy band, but i'm not buying.
This is well worth a watch if you can get it. There's literally a scene with him ringing West Ham's firm and it goes like "Hello, is that West Ham?".
Ninja Elephant
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I could understand them not wanting us to take pictures of the active training session which was ongoing for the u16 squad, or with the goalkeepers (Tom McGill and someone else) - but we were asked not to take any pictures of our matches in progress. Even facing away from the rest of the training ground - our pitch was the Community Pitch on the far side of the complex and looking East means you're seeing nothing of the training facility. It just seemed a bit much, but it's their facility - their rules. We got a few sneaky photos, like the true rebels we are.
Sure, agree entirely. the Community Pitch ought to be exempt, and I'd imagine that in reality they probably wouldn't care. Much easier though to have a blanket ban in place though, to empower the staff to prevent any photography of any importance.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
The results mean nothing. If GP is using this match to put brand new tactics that could easily mean a big loss as it's all new, why would the club want a tidal wave of bedwetting? Just sounds like a training match to me, let em train.
Nottseagull
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Corrected for you.
junior
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**MOD EDIT. THIS IS BOLLOCKS**
Just seen on Twitter (sorry can't work out how to do links), team for this afternoon is:
Button
Bernado
Burn
Duffy
Sanders
Trossard
Baluta
Roberts
Undisclosed
Hemed
Connelly
Subs: Sanchez, clarke, Cox, Longman, Richards, Gyorkeres
Most interesting thing there is why would one player be 'Undisclosed'?
Just seen on Twitter (sorry can't work out how to do links), team for this afternoon is:
Button
Bernado
Burn
Duffy
Sanders
Trossard
Baluta
Roberts
Undisclosed
Hemed
Connelly
Subs: Sanchez, clarke, Cox, Longman, Richards, Gyorkeres
Most interesting thing there is why would one player be 'Undisclosed'?
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