06 Aug 2025 16:57:27
Carrying on the conversation about a potential mole for the team sheet leak
Seems their is more involved than I originally thought and thought I'd share what I looked up as not as simple as pointing at a player as a mole.
Before a football team sheet is publicly announced, only a fairly small inner circle has access - but it's still more people than you might think.
1. Inside the club
Manager and coaching staff - usually decide the lineup the day before or morning of the match.
Players - informed in the pre‑match meeting (sometimes earlier if tactics require it) .
Medical and fitness staff - need to know who's fit to play and who's being rested.
Analysts and video staff - prepare specific instructions for starters and subs.
Kit staff - lay out the correct shirts and numbers.
2. Match operations
Club media/ communications team - prepare the graphic and social media posts for the official announcement.
Club secretary / admin - responsible for submitting the official team sheet to the match officials and the league.
3. Match officials and opposition
Referee and match officials - receive the official sheet about an hour before kick‑off.
Opposition club staff - under league rules, both clubs exchange team sheets at the same time (often 60-75 minutes before kick‑off) .
4. Possibly external partners
Broadcasters - sometimes get it a few minutes early under embargo so they can prep graphics.
League officials - to confirm player eligibility and squad numbers.
Players telling friends/ family - often the biggest leak source. Even if the lineup isn't officially final until match day, some players know the day before and might text someone.
Support staff - kit managers, physios, analysts - they're trusted, but they also interact with agents, ex-players, and friends in the football world.
Media team - they prep posts and graphics ahead of time, so anyone in that chain could screenshot or hint at the lineup.
B. Match day operations
Shared training sessions - if the pre-match session makes the lineup obvious (e. g., bibs for starting XI), people watching or even passing media can guess.
Club secretary sending sheet - when it's emailed or handed over to the league/ match officials, it passes through admin systems where a careless CC or screenshot could leak it.
Take your pick ?.
06 Aug 2025 17:16:49
But did I not read that Plzen's team list was leaked as well at the same time? Does Tav have something on their manager as well to force him to tell him who they were playing ?.
06 Aug 2025 17:28:14
Just about everybody in the world then. going to be a long "whodunnit" ?.
06 Aug 2025 17:39:45
Good post stig, many can be ruled out as team was leaned at around 12.
That's if we do have a leak.
06 Aug 2025 17:42:28
Stig, given how early the leak was released - it removes 80-90% of your post.
06 Aug 2025 18:06:23
Think the majority have decided it's Tav or Dowell, not Raskin or Danilo though for some reason.
06 Aug 2025 18:16:58
Is Kelly Miller still involved at the club?
06 Aug 2025 18:33:56
Ah that is your alibi in place then EHL. ? where were you between the hours of 12 and 1 yesterday lunchtime? ?.
06 Aug 2025 18:39:08
Didn't realise how early it was John and EHL
Good info that it can remove 80-90%
John and EHl would you both assume it may have been done to jeopardise our game last night or just someone maybe telling a family member and friend and they have publicised it wanting to be smart?
06 Aug 2025 18:41:09
Just heard Stevie on four lads saying they saw it on Monday early evening.
06 Aug 2025 19:20:40
You read that Angus? Must be true then ?♂️.
06 Aug 2025 19:57:40
Stig at this stage I'm not buying into the hysteria, this is the team Chris jack named in the morning he would play
Many on here correctly predict lineups day before a game.
The team in hindsight was predictable, mb even rothwell for raskin, the other three multiple people predicted would be rotated.
06 Aug 2025 20:05:07
Kenny ???miller.
06 Aug 2025 20:30:47
A players has maybe told his agent who's then leaked tge info but let's not go overboard here teams get leaked or at least a player picked ir dropped gets leak a lot of tge time. So what do fans want if for example tge leaked came from Raskin or tavs agent?
06 Aug 2025 20:37:48
I think it was Colonel Mustard with the rope in the drawing room.
06 Aug 2025 21:09:57
It was the way it was done that caught my attention.
John I seen Asa had posted he heard possibly a investigation into the team being leaked
if you manage to hear anything let us know if you can just out of my own curiosity
As if it were leaked and it was a player who was against our new manager and players etc be good to catch the person out.
Be worrisome if it happened again in a similar fashion.