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[–] ThePowerOfGeek 4 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I hadn't heard about that until you mentioned it here. So I just looked it up. Wow, yeah that is fucked up.

They are kicking the women's team out of their training ground to make way for the men's team, due to a revamp of the men's training facilities. This will result in the women being forced into temporary portacabins for the next 12 months.

Plus, a lot of their first team players are leaving, including the likes of Earps, Zelem, and Garcia. Sounds like due to poor contract management, lack of planning, and general disillusionment.

And the PFA are now stepping in on behalf of their players because of gross mismanagement - for the second time in 3 years.

Meanwhile, our women's team is going from strength to strength, and they are being raised up and respected by our club and fanbase with each passing year. Because class is permanent! 😎

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (5 children)

What exactly are portacabins¿?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek 3 points 5 days ago (4 children)

It's like a little mobile temporary office. Imagine a small residential trailer, but at a building site and with a construction foreman using it as his office.

Whenever I think of them I see small, drafty stand-alone offices sitting in top of breeze blocks and with dents in the walls and cheap shitty vinyl siding walls. I'm sure there are different sizes and levels of comfort for them. And that Man United would get decent ones for their ladies. But even still, it's a big downgrade for them from the nice permanent changing rooms they are used to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So will the women's team use the gym, cardio and other training facilities present in their permanant facilities while using the portacabins as locker rooms amd changing rooms or will even the fitness training facilities used by the women's team be shifted to a portacabins while the men use the fitness training facilities in the women's permanant facility¿?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good questions. Hopefully it's only the changing facilities that they are losing for 12 months. I mean, that alone sucks and would be demoralizing for them. But losing all their facilities would be even worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hopefully it's only the changing facilities that they are losing for 12 months

If it is just this, it makes no sense to shift the women. They say that they are shifting the women out in favour of the men for "performance reasons" but what performance advantage do you get by having a closer change rooms¿?

[–] hangonasecond 1 points 5 days ago

Bruno Fernandes having a dummy spit over a change room would probably be season ending for the club lol

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