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Pre Season Friendlies


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4 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

Wrist slitting stuff tonight.

Christ, still building up to the start of the season.

It's a friendly, and one without plenty of regulars.

Glad I watched the tennis.

It was obvious when these friendly fixtures were announced that it would have been a tougher pre season than usual, think IE said it himself. Even with a fully fit squad it would have been a challenge. What’s the saying , you learn more from your defeats.

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24 minutes ago, Ros Coe said:

Like the look of young Max Conway, very promising 🤞

Lad at work who supports Rochdale was raving about him last season.

Struggling to get too worked up about tonight. Only a one goal defeat to a team in a higher league, after all. I’ll reserve judgement until a few games in, but it’s hard to see us starting like a house on fire. 

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10 minutes ago, onefinfrandsen said:

It was obvious when these friendly fixtures were announced that it would have been a tougher pre season than usual, think IE said it himself. Even with a fully fit squad it would have been a challenge. What’s the saying , you learn more from your defeats.

Not really - Everton and WBA last year, Fiorentina and Stoke this year.   All 4 results/performances meaningless, prepare us not one bit for Orient away or Wrexham home when it will be different intensity and line up.

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Watched the second half.

Only things I took from it are

1) Victor looked sharp and held the ball up better than I've seen him do before.

2) There was often a huge gap between our defence and midfield when Stewk attacked us at any pace.

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Just back.  Really sluggish first half although Stoke didn't have that many chances.  Much better tempo 2nd.  

Nervy start from Southwood, not that good at playing it out particularly when those in front of him are fannying about, but he made a good save and grew into it. Baxter clearly 1st choice for now.

Better when Tommo came on in midfield.  Morley poor as others have said.  Arfield solid.  Reserving judgement on Lolos.

Dion looked lively just needs some game time as does Johno, but we are much better with a natural left footed CB.

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1 hour ago, Marc505 said:

It's going to be absolute carnage that first time we can't beat a press and end up giving the ball away at Orient.

Well it’s not like everyone in the league didn’t see Oxford do a job on us so we need to evole or show a plan B . Evatt as acknowledged that can he do it fuck knows think a lot depends on this transfer window panning out as he wants 

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You genuinely can't place too much store by results in pre-season. The amount of times I've seen us rack up unconvincing results and then have a great start to the actual season, or vice versa.

We need to get players fit and firing for Orient. Every season needs to start well. After Wembley it feels like there's less leeway than ever for an average or poor start.

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9 hours ago, Johnnyrotten said:

Not really - Everton and WBA last year, Fiorentina and Stoke this year.   All 4 results/performances meaningless, prepare us not one bit for Orient away or Wrexham home when it will be different intensity and line up.

We played West Brom last pre season too iirc.

Middlesbrough this season too.

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4 minutes ago, barrycowdrill said:

Just seen him in town actually. No surprise in saying he was outside Taste of Greece. Tall lad. That’s alls I can tell you 

Tell me more about your chicken gyros :D

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1 hour ago, gonzo said:

What's this Lolos like then?

 

did nowt last night, but a bit like Collins in his early games - looked like something there but not quite coming off. Time will tell.

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