| Pre-season friendlies 11:04 - May 31 with 1193 views | Shobby | I appreciate it is early doors but does anyone have any idea what pre-seasons we may have and when, please? |  | | |  |
| Pre-season friendlies on 11:21 - May 31 with 1159 views | WeWereZombies | The World Cup finishes on 19th of July and the season starts on 22nd August, so I am expecting a reduced number of friendlies this year. Maybe one of those Austrian training camp / made up two round trophy things and a game against a Premiership club in Scotland (Motherwell would be interesting.) As well as football fatigue there is going to be precious little time to bring in new signings and expect them to gel. |  |
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| Pre-season friendlies on 11:31 - May 31 with 1115 views | Shobby |
| Pre-season friendlies on 11:21 - May 31 by WeWereZombies | The World Cup finishes on 19th of July and the season starts on 22nd August, so I am expecting a reduced number of friendlies this year. Maybe one of those Austrian training camp / made up two round trophy things and a game against a Premiership club in Scotland (Motherwell would be interesting.) As well as football fatigue there is going to be precious little time to bring in new signings and expect them to gel. |
Thank you, much as I expected |  | |  |
| Pre-season friendlies on 13:57 - May 31 with 939 views | blueoutlook |
| Pre-season friendlies on 11:21 - May 31 by WeWereZombies | The World Cup finishes on 19th of July and the season starts on 22nd August, so I am expecting a reduced number of friendlies this year. Maybe one of those Austrian training camp / made up two round trophy things and a game against a Premiership club in Scotland (Motherwell would be interesting.) As well as football fatigue there is going to be precious little time to bring in new signings and expect them to gel. |
Think it’s Spain this year,not Austria. |  | |  |
| Pre-season friendlies on 14:04 - May 31 with 930 views | PhilTWTD |
| Pre-season friendlies on 11:21 - May 31 by WeWereZombies | The World Cup finishes on 19th of July and the season starts on 22nd August, so I am expecting a reduced number of friendlies this year. Maybe one of those Austrian training camp / made up two round trophy things and a game against a Premiership club in Scotland (Motherwell would be interesting.) As well as football fatigue there is going to be precious little time to bring in new signings and expect them to gel. |
Kieran told me Spain on the pitch after QPR. Think there may well be as many as three pre-season home games, certainly a couple. |  | |  |
| Pre-season friendlies on 14:13 - May 31 with 871 views | Guthrum |
| Pre-season friendlies on 14:04 - May 31 by PhilTWTD | Kieran told me Spain on the pitch after QPR. Think there may well be as many as three pre-season home games, certainly a couple. |
At least this summer we don't have to dig up the pitch or massively renovate the stadium. |  |
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| Pre-season friendlies on 14:19 - May 31 with 847 views | PhilTWTD |
| Pre-season friendlies on 14:13 - May 31 by Guthrum | At least this summer we don't have to dig up the pitch or massively renovate the stadium. |
No, although I assume they'll do the usual scrape and seed. Last year they got the company who installed the hybrid pitch to do it, so would guess the same will be the case this summer. |  | |  |
| Pre-season friendlies on 14:20 - May 31 with 836 views | PhilTWTD |
| Pre-season friendlies on 14:04 - May 31 by PhilTWTD | Kieran told me Spain on the pitch after QPR. Think there may well be as many as three pre-season home games, certainly a couple. |
Also heard a pre-season game at Oxford United has been pencilled in for August 1st. Not confirmed, though. |  | |  |
| Pre-season friendlies on 21:02 - May 31 with 481 views | SheffordBlue | Wonder if there'll be a West Ham one. Fairly convenient geographically and now we won't be in the same division that's not an issue. |  |
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| Pre-season friendlies on 21:37 - May 31 with 426 views | Bellevue_Blue |
| Pre-season friendlies on 11:21 - May 31 by WeWereZombies | The World Cup finishes on 19th of July and the season starts on 22nd August, so I am expecting a reduced number of friendlies this year. Maybe one of those Austrian training camp / made up two round trophy things and a game against a Premiership club in Scotland (Motherwell would be interesting.) As well as football fatigue there is going to be precious little time to bring in new signings and expect them to gel. |
I wouldn't expect a massively reduced number. They played 4 in 24/25 and 4 again last year. If anything there are likely to be more this year. They'll have minimum 4 weekends once again this year (26th, 2nd, 9th & 16th) and you would have thought if they're back early July they will be wanting to get minutes by the 19th. I also wouldn't expect the World Cup to have a massive impact. We will have 30+ players not at the World Cup who will need to get their match fitness and that will be the case for almost everyone outside of those stacked full of international players. |  | |  |
| Pre-season friendlies on 22:03 - May 31 with 363 views | cressi |
| Pre-season friendlies on 14:04 - May 31 by PhilTWTD | Kieran told me Spain on the pitch after QPR. Think there may well be as many as three pre-season home games, certainly a couple. |
Athletico Madrid, Real Madrid and Barcelona so we can work out how to play a low block and get used to playing without a lot of the ball. |  | |  |
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