Pre-season Schedule

[SloughFlyer]

Good to see the schedule out and almost complete. 8 games total currently (7+1 to be comfirmed).

A decent spread of games with various opponents.

[GlenSTFC]

Hopefully one of the managers will explain the Barry fixture! Yes good mix of opponents and with training usually starting a week earlier it’s only really 4 weeks until pre-season starts! I guess we’ll see Tyler play against us for Oxford United?

[Neil Baker]

The MD of Macron Cardiff is also on the board at Barry Town, and invited us along, we felt that we can use this weekend as a team bonding one.

Also knew that whilst lots would not make the trip, there would be some that would love something a little different.

[GlenSTFC]

13 minutes ago, Neil Baker said:

The MD of Macron Cardiff is also on the board at Barry Town, and invited us along, we felt that we can use this weekend as a team bonding one.

Also knew that whilst lots would not make the trip, there would be some that would love something a little different.

Thanks for explaining Neil.

[Irishadrian]

19 minutes ago, Neil Baker said:

The MD of Macron Cardiff is also on the board at Barry Town, and invited us along, we felt that we can use this weekend as a team bonding one.

Also knew that whilst lots would not make the trip, there would be some that would love something a little different.

Presumably that's why Dorking Wanderers have a pre-season fixture at Barry also

[Curtis]

8 hours ago, Neil Baker said:

Also knew that whilst lots would not make the trip, there would be some that would love something a little different.

A trip down memory lane to childhood summer holidays at Butlins Barry Island.

[3spirit]

11 hours ago, Neil Baker said:

The MD of Macron Cardiff is also on the board at Barry Town, and invited us along, we felt that we can use this weekend as a team bonding one.

Also knew that whilst lots would not make the trip, there would be some that would love something a little different.

Neil, the Welsh like a singalong, let's hope there's a piano nearby so you can tinkle the ivories and belt out a song ! ha ha ! Tom Jones ballads go down well in that neck of the woods....... All together now .........   'I saw the light on the night I passed by her window'. I saw the flickering shadows of love on her blind ......! ? 

[Irishadrian]

3 hours ago, Curtis said:

A trip down memory lane to childhood summer holidays at Butlins Barry Island.

RIP  1966 to 1996.

[Reading Rebel]

12 hours ago, GlenSTFC said:

Hopefully one of the managers will explain the Barry fixture! Yes good mix of opponents and with training usually starting a week earlier it’s only really 4 weeks until pre-season starts! I guess we’ll see Tyler play against us for Oxford United?

Or possibly for us?

[Reading Rebel]

3 hours ago, Curtis said:

A trip down memory lane to childhood summer holidays at Butlins Barry Island.

Now a housing development.

[3spirit]

1 minute ago, Reading Rebel said:

Now a housing development.

What a surprise. Not.

[Reading Rebel]

There's still the pleasure park and Gavin and Stacey memorabilia for Curtis to have a reminisce about  ?

[3spirit]

14 hours ago, SloughFlyer said:

Good to see the schedule out and almost complete. 8 games total currently (7+1 to be comfirmed).

A decent spread of games with various opponents.

Getting back to the pre-season friendlies themselves, I think they look a good selection of games. I'm particularly interested in seeing newly promoted Winchester City, and seeing what Aldershot fc have to offer for their new season.

Edited May 24, 2022 by 3spirit

[Reading Rebel]

1 hour ago, 3spirit said:

Getting back to the pre-season friendlies themselves, I think they look a good selection of games. I'm particularly interested in seeing newly promoted Winchester City, and seeing what Aldershot fc have to offer for their new season.

There's no Arsenal game to bring in some much needed money but the Oxford United game should be decent.

[Kaiser Gibbs Batman (KGB)]

2 hours ago, Reading Rebel said:

There's no Arsenal game to bring in some much needed money but the Oxford United game should be decent.

Sometimes people get fed up with non league clubs advertising friendlies against "big" teams who, unable/unwilling to risk their best players field a mixture of youth/third order players, and are reluctant to come again. It worked the other way for Horsham once when only a few of us turned up to see "a Brentford XI" only to discover that Ron Noades had got the hump about something that had happened a few days before and made all his first teamers turn out.