Fixtures

[Rob_the_Saint]

While the website is being re-vamped, here are the next few fixtures...

 

Tuesday 27th July BARNET HOME 7:45

 

Wednesday 28th July ROMFORD AWAY 7:15 Bank of England sports ground, Debden

 

Friday 30th July MILLWALL XI HOME 7:45

 

 

[Webbo MFI]

cheers for that Rob!

[Laz]

Booze bus to Romford anyone?

[YELLOW]

I'm up for it Laz but after my experiences today, you can't rely on public transport too much!!

[Rob_the_Saint]

Some more...

 

Tues 3rd August - Away to Hitchin Town - PSF - ko 7:45 pm

Weds 4th August - Away to London Colney - PSF - ko 7:45 pm

Sat 7th August - HOME to Charlton Ath. - PSF - ko 3 pm

Tues 10th August - HOME to Boreham Wood - HCC - ko 7:45 pm

[AFF]

Charlton Athletic Rob?

 

Would that be Charlton XI? Still nothing on their web-site, I suppose? Apart from the 1st team pre-season friendly vs. Chievo Verona on Friday, August 6th?

 

Hitchin Town will be a good test.

[Rob_the_Saint]

Reserves, it is...

 

http://www.charlton-athletic.co.uk/sub_fixtures.ink?team=R&diary=&season=04/05

[GHA EFM]

As much fun as it is playing Luton reserves, Watford youth/reserves, a Millwall XI and Charlton's reserves, surely a club such as ours should be playing a higher standard of teams..?

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

You'd think so, wouldn't you?

 

 

[YB941 5thD EFM ~soul~]

How can the club expect to attract floating fans from the area, when the standard of those friendlies can't even attract City veterans like webbo and myself??

 

 

[GHA EFM]

And you and webbo aren't even veterans, Zeal! <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

 

Gone are the days when 5 or 6,000 would come down and see an Arsenal side with Wright, Bergkamp and Platt, or a Spurs side with Campbell, Baardsen etc.

[GHA EFM]

Come to think of it, those who turn up most weeks to watch the Mighty Saints would only be interested in the formation of the side in the pre-season, and as long as they're given good workouts against decent opposition, then there's no problem.

 

But these pre-season friendlies are doing nothing for the wanted average attendance of around 500 (?) for the coming season. And no-one seems to realise that.

[Van Helsing EFM GialloBlu]

Chievo Verona 'The Flying Donkeys'.

[AFF]

You may have made an interesting point there, GHA.

 

I don't know anything about football but in my view, the pre-season friendlies against Fisher, Dunstable, Barnet and Hitchin were arranged to provide appropriate opposition to properly test the side that the manager is putting together for the forthcoming season. That's good in terms of the football.

 

I imagine that the PSFs against the XIs from Luton, Watford, Millwall and Charlton have been arranged in order to raise funds. There can be very little that the manager learnt from the two of those games that we have seen. He will always be learning, of course, so it would be better to say that the drubbings received from Luton and Watford did not justify the little that he learnt.

 

I don't imagine that these games are designed to 'showcase The Mighty Saints and Clarence Park.

 

I'd guess the gate against Luton to be 500 and 250 for the Watford game.

[GHA EFM]

In order to raise funds?

 

Is that why the games aren't truthfully publicised?

[Van Helsing EFM GialloBlu]

And Barnet ? There didn't seem to be many there, the majority of which seemed to be sporting dodgy haircuts and Barnet colours.

 

Is Barnet in Essex ?

[Rob_the_Saint]

Quote:

GHA EFM said:

Is that why the games aren't truthfully publicised?

Care to expand on that one, old fruit?

[GHA EFM]

For example, Rob, the 'Forthcoming Fixtures' board on Hatfield Road states that we are simply playing Millwall, and not a Millwall XI or Millwall reserves.

 

You or I, Rob, know more than your average citizen in St. Albans with regards to City and the forthcoming fixtures. But I'm presuming that the average citizen would hate to be mislead. You can't deny it hasn't happened before, or isn't happening now.

 

The little publicity the games receive, that is.

[AFF]

But GHA, if a passing citizen were to see Millwall, Watford, Luton or Charlton Athletic on the fixtures board, they might be forgiven for thinking that the 1st team of those clubs was coming to the City.

 

Said citizen might then check on the fixtures page thingy of the web-site and see the 'XI' after each name and think to him, or her, self "A mixture of 1st team and Reserve players, perhaps."

 

They might be re-assured to read in the local press that 'A number of players with 1st team experience are expected to play'.

 

They might. But only once.

 

As a casual football 'fan', they might not think to look on the web-sites of our opponenets to see confirmation that it's a Reserve team fixture.