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the privacy battle..... sorry its sad I know but i just needed to type those words again, its been so long.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-32393459
Retractable shutters to stop people watching us in training, watching us playing in matches has been bad enough at times lately what sort of masochist forces themselves to watch training as well.

 

Yet another exercise that distances a big club from the community it inhabits.

 

Know what you mean but I thought most clubs train behind closed doors now?

 

Saw that earlier... shame as I'm sure kids love to stand and watch their heroes training... but from a club point of view, privacy on coaching and tactical aspects is probably the reason.

Tricky one though, can see both sides of the argument.

 

True but doesn't make it right, why should we be the same as everyone else? I understand not wanting to give tactics etc away but that article suggests the privacy will be applied for every first team training session, not selected ones. IMO, they're stopping people watching the players for free, usually the ones that can't afford to go to a game. How often do we see young kids watching their idols from the boundary? That's not going to happen any more.

 

You pikeys should get a proper training facility like Finch Farm

 

i think the key thing is your point about every session, surely they could be open for some but not others? although now I have thought about that , how would people know in advance so would not go there anyway.

 

How about just opening the shutters for the last ten or fifteen minutes of training, the cooldown or whatever once all the tactical aspects of the session are done?? Or for the warmup, just any part that won't give any footballing plans away

 

Do we even have any footballing plans?

 

Not since you decided to step down as mod. They're thinking, **** no Gerrez is gone, what's the point lads??

 

They must have had inside knowledge

 

This is rather simple...
Every club holds open training sessions and closed sessions.

word will soon get out when open sessions are and people who want to see will see. closed sessions are closed for a freaking reason.

 

The shutters will be open for the majority of sessions , to allow for grass growth and to reduce the impact on neighbouring houses, according to the Liverpool Echo.

I'd believe them more than the Beeb tbh.

 

This . 100% agree.

Football match tickets have been increasing so much that ordinary people on ordinary wages have been finding it difficult to attend matches.

Training sessions open to the public is the very least clubs can do to give something back to the community. Children can see their heroes in real life kicking a ball. If there are no open sessions to the public, this is a massive retrograde step and the club should urgently reconsider. FFS there can be closed sessions if tactical things need to be kept secret.

 

Back in the day Shanks used to let kids watch the team train at Melwood as long as they behaved, it was during the Paisley era they started locking the entrance which meant climbing onto the barbed wired perimeter fence to watch, in the modern world of phone's with cameras anything controversial happening there would end up on social media, maybe a reason or the tactics being leaked to the opposition.
But a club with a so called bond with their supporters should allow access to a certain amount of kids per training sessision supervised by one of the groundsmen.

 

The modern game is highly tactical, I would say that after last season people would be watching the training this season.

Take set pieces, working on them, you might as well send a note to the opposition manager saying exactly what you are going to do if just anyone can watch the training.
Movement
Runs
setpieces
strengths and weaknesses

Sure managers have to cover their gobs when discussing tactics during a game cos lip readers are employed.

It's never highlighted but there is a lot of skullduggery in the modern game and keeping an eye on your opponents is something that is done.

Things can be so tactically tight that watching training sessions of opponents can be the difference between winning and losing.

The financial cost of losing can be huge. This is risk mitigation, it is a part of any business, to ignore it would be a failure.

 

well this is just the times it is.

the era of youngsters kicking about on the street is long gone. We have teams who send people along with long distance lenses to analyse every aspect they can to find an advantage theses days in money no object football.

you are right that ith even new apps like periscope you can watch our session live.

I believe if you want a local community input you should host open sessions in a good controlled way and not just lock everyone out all the time but you have to create closed sessions somehow.

And then mourinho will hire a helicopter to look.. its inevitable.

Press, agents, WAG wanabees, opposition spies... thats the crowd you get more than ordinary star struck kids.

I agree should be a liason offier bringing kids into sessions to watch