Melbourne Storm's CEO is "disappointed" the NRL club has been forced to train at a facility normally used by a rival code.
The rugby league side had hoped to use Albury's Greenfield Park, but on Tuesday evening, Albury City councillors voted 5-4 against them using the ground they manage.
Unable to train as a large group in Victoria due to Melbourne's COVID-19 restrictions, the Storm will be based in Albury for the next two weeks.
The Storm have instead activated their backup plan and will train on Albury Sports Ground, a non-council owned facility, which hosts Aussie rules and cricket.
"I was involved in a phone hook-up last night so I wasn't particularly shocked but certainly disappointed is probably the best way to sum it up,"' Donaghy said on Fox League Live.
"We were aware of some of the challenges that the council was expressing and like any of our plans we made a contingency.
"We've got our hotel set up, we've got the gyms set up and from tomorrow we'll be training at the Albury Tigers ground."
Donaghy stressed the Storm's plans would effectively separate them from the rest of the community, which is located just outside the NSW border.
'We will largely be ghosts in Albury," he said.
'We will be at the hotel, we will be shuttled to the gym.
"The gym actually has a roller door where the minibus, which has a limited amount of people that can fit on it, will be able to drive in.
"Players will alight from the minibus inside the gym.
"They will train in there, the bus will leave and it will come back and then pick the guys up to take them to the field.
"They are all within what's called the clean zones and they are all blocked off from the community.
"It's actually the first time we've gone to a country town and asked the community not to come, not to engage with the team."
