A fascinating sportsman, as a cricketer he was an early proponent of head safety when batting, he had small padded strips attached to his cap to protect his temples.
Looks like Bromley have just reduced the ticket prices (seen on their facebook page). For anyone who collects programmes, Bromley issue a monthly magazine type thing. Our game is included in the current (September) issue, already available.
These BCD or 'unannounced games' are more of a contested training match I think, where pre-planned tactics are worked on rather than a match scenario where players have to be ready for anything. (Some rugby league friendlies are listed as contested training sessions).
The only reason I can think of is that a trialist or trialists are being given a run out and they are known to be on the radar of other clubs and we don't want them to know we are interested. That seems a bit far fetched really as these days of agents even at U21 level would seem to disprove the...