team sleep-over in Brum?

[BobbyJ1956]

Doug's report on Tuesday's training said "the coach arrived after training and they'd be off to Brum around 6." Why the heck are they doing an overnight for such a short trip? Wouldn't they be better off sleeping in their own beds tonight, light training in the morning, and a quick drive to Brum early Wednesday afternoon? It can't take long to get over sitting on a bus for the time it takes to get down the M6. Or is this the Italian policy of keeping players away from their hot women the night before a match?

[JamieMCFC]

Over here some NFL teams require players to stay in a hotel the night before a home game. They do it because there less distractions for the players and for team bonding. Maybe Mancini has a different philosophy.

[Im_Spartacus]

Doug's report on Tuesday's training said "the coach arrived after training and they'd be off to Brum around 6." Why the heck are they doing an overnight for such a short trip? Wouldn't they be better off sleeping in their own beds tonight, light training in the morning, and a quick drive to Brum early Wednesday afternoon? It can't take long to get over sitting on a bus for the time it takes to get down the M6. Or is this the Italian policy of keeping players away from their hot women the night before a match?

You ever been on the M6?

1 accident and the whole shebang is thrown into chaos, the players dont eat at the right time, have been sat on their arse all day since training in the morning, get stiff, play shit, we get beat, you moan.

Lets stick with travelling the night before eh?

[BobbyJ1956]

I was on the M6 the week it was built, mate. Not that much since, mind; maybe that's your point. But I still think it's more about keeping players from a night of screwing.

[aaron bond]

I suppose, it should minimise the number of potential distractions for the players in the 24 hours before the kick off and allow the players to focus on the game coming up.

[john@staustell]

Bobby J - you need to keep up mate. Every game is preceded by a night in a hotel, and I think I'm right is saying that even extends to home games - one of the reasons Bobby upset the players' wives in the first place (Mancini's methods etc). It's about professionalism and teamwork, and it's the Mancini way.

[TomS]

Bobby J - you need to keep up mate. Every game is preceded by a night in a hotel, and I think I'm right is saying that even extends to home games - one of the reasons Bobby upset the players' wives in the first place (Mancini's methods etc). It's about professionalism and teamwork, and it's the Mancini way.

Not only Bobbys, it´s the continental way.
Normal over here, even for home games. Bundesligaplayers stay at home the night before the game perhaps one game per season, last matchday when the dices were thrown. Even for the "local" derbys or when "we" travel to Hamburg/Hannover, about a 1h bus ride...
Nearly every club has aregular hotels next to every opponents town.

[Blue Since 76]

I was on the M6 the week it was built, mate. Not that much since, mind; maybe that's your point. But I still think it's more about keeping players from a night of screwing.

Load of millionaires in an expensive hotel all night, bored. Yep, that'll stop them screwing.

[Douglas Higginbottom]

Bobby J - you need to keep up mate. Every game is preceded by a night in a hotel, and I think I'm right is saying that even extends to home games - one of the reasons Bobby upset the players' wives in the first place (Mancini's methods etc). It's about professionalism and teamwork, and it's the Mancini way.

Yes that's the way it is.Keep the players together and in the same routine before every game.

[david yearsley]

I was on the M6 the week it was built, mate. Not that much since, mind; maybe that's your point. But I still think it's more about keeping players from a night of screwing.

Load of millionaires in an expensive hotel all night, bored. Yep, that'll stop them screwing.

Not each other at least ;)

The hookers? Well they should take some advice from fat Wayne

[Dameerto]

I was on the M6 the week it was built, mate. Not that much since, mind; maybe that's your point. But I still think it's more about keeping players from a night of screwing.

Load of millionaires in an expensive hotel all night, bored. Yep, that'll stop them screwing.

Not each other at least ;)

The hookers? Well they should take some advice from fat Wayne

That advice being "go for an older woman"?

[sandman]

Doug's report on Tuesday's training said "the coach arrived after training and they'd be off to Brum around 6." Why the heck are they doing an overnight for such a short trip? Wouldn't they be better off sleeping in their own beds tonight, light training in the morning, and a quick drive to Brum early Wednesday afternoon? It can't take long to get over sitting on a bus for the time it takes to get down the M6. Or is this the Italian policy of keeping players away from their hot women the night before a match?

You ever been on the M6?

1 accident and the whole shebang is thrown into chaos, the players dont eat at the right time, have been sat on their arse all day since training in the morning, get stiff, play shit, we get beat, you moan.

Lets stick with travelling the night before eh?

This is pretty much word for word what I was going to say, so... THIS!!

[1950]

I was on the M6 the week it was built, mate. Not that much since, mind; maybe that's your point. But I still think it's more about keeping players from a night of screwing.

Load of millionaires in an expensive hotel all night, bored. Yep, that'll stop them screwing.

Not each other at least ;)

Maybe that's the reason Mancini was so eager to ship out Ade?

[PoC]

I think that it's better that we go down the night before anyway, we did the same thing for the county game, incidentally we passed the team hotel as they were coming out, we scared the shit out of the players with our noise

[Beefymcfc]

Wasn't it Stevie Ireland who kept doing a runner from the hotel?

[john@staustell]

Wasn't it Stevie Ireland who kept doing a runner from the hotel?

Dead granny?

[sweenyuk]

Sven also made players meet up night before home games and stay in Hotels together, so not just Bobby's way and as for Foreign I was in the Hilton last season the day before Bolton played United at the swamp and the lift door opened with the full Bolton Team in it, so guess they were doing a sleepover even for a game closer to where they all live than their home ground

[Bluejamie]

Brum is not that far away - no need to stay over - why not a bit of light training in the morning then on the coach?
It is after the match Mancini needs to worry - I have heard that the first team are planning a night out at Dry Bar in the Northern Quarter after the WBA game - it is that kind of night out that would worry me!