Miltonroader07 Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Got to thinking who I would like us to play before next season and who we may play. I would like to play Bournemouth Away would be good, never been to Dean Court and I guess that MP will arrange Espanyol, hopefully at SMS. Dont want to play The Skates or Brighton, F All to prove. Celtic would be good at SMS ?????
Glasgow_Saint Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Can we play Celtic or Rangers away? Or Motherwell or Partick?
WealdSaint Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 We normally play a large(ish) European team the last friendly. Could easily be Espanyol or Celtic. Being selfish, I'd like to play away at Gillingham for one freindly
CylonKing Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Notts County, Derby County or Nottigham Forest would be ideal for me!
Pilchards Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Play in one of those big tournaments involving the champions league winner (german team), Barca & Inter. Nice to see if we can beat them as well.
Minsk Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 We should play a Champions League team. Away to Bate would be nice! (They would also be mid-season so good for the fitness too.)
itchen_dan Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Pre season tour of Spain might be in the offing now with MP in charge!
Saint Garrett Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Wouldn't be surprised if we have a pre season friendly vs Barca!
CWD Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Hibs or Hearts away in August would be good as I'll be in Edinburgh
Sour Mash Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 (edited) I'd imagine it'll be Switzerland again, followed by a couple of big European teams at home - seems to be the formula these days. Would be good if the club confirmed it's plans asap this year. Edited 25 April, 2013 by Sour Mash
Saint_clark Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Espanyol and Dortmund in the Liebherr cup. Since Cortese has come in we've normally had 2 home games as well, one against a foreign team and one against an English team. Not sure if playing an English team at home is really necessary this season - any team that would be a good enough draw, we'll be playing next season anyway.
DJ_TOAST Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Not sure why Bournemouth, Brighton and Skates are mentioned when last season pre season showed we don't mess about with such little fish anymore (or Eastleigh).
bpsaint Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Would be great to have a game against a well known European club at their place so we can all go on a jolly. Last one I can remember is probably Feyenoord about 12 years ago?
melmacian_saint Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 FFS we'll be in the Europa don't ya know? SWF should organize a tour of the Faroe Islands.
VectisSaint Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Wouldn't be surprised if we have a pre season friendly vs Barca! Barca are so last year. Bayern or Dortmund.
Andre Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Dont want to play The Skates or Brighton, F All to prove. Celtic would be good at SMS As if they'd ever put a pre-season friendly against Pompey, that would be stupid! Wouldn't mind seeing a game against Bournemouth, definitely Espanyol, and possibly Watford or another team on the fringes.
fish fingers Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Tour of Argentina. Boca, River Plate and purely because of the name Douglas Haig.
SuperMikey Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Espanyol and Celtic in the Liebherr Cup sounds good to me. Few home games against European opposition and a short training camp in Spain with a few friendlies against local sides.
Dan Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Wolves at home hopefully, that was riveting last time around.
Torrent Of Abuse Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 We'll play Chelsea weeks after Shaw signs a new contract as part of a deal whereby we flick two 'V' signs at them and say "Here's what you could have won".
oldsarum Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Given the number of teams that have travelled to Far East and USA the last few years wouldn't be surprised if we go on tour to one of those destinations this summer
Lighthouse Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Northern Italy maybe. A pre season tour with a training camp in the alps and games against teams like Atalanta, Chievo, Udinese, Torino, Genoa and maybe one of the big clubs like Juve or one of the Milan teams.
South City Si Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Am in Spain in July so La Coruna, Celta Vigo or Santiago would be nice!
UpweySaint Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Dont care so long as its cheap, was pretty much standard prices last year and they barely sold tickets!
david in sweden Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Can we play Celtic or Rangers away? Or Motherwell or Partick? why not write to MP, Glasgow. They keep talking about European football at SMS...maybe a trip to another country might be a good change of air....
david in sweden Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Wouldn't be surprised if we have a pre season friendly vs Barca! ..dare I say I was thinking the same thing .....even if we played their " B side " it would be a good experience.....maybe they'd put Messi on the bench?
This Charming Man Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Guernsey Away. We can boo Le Tiss. The traitor.
Saint Garrett Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 We can boo Le Tiss. The traitor. One club man my arse!
Giordano Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 If NA was still with us I'd be 100% confident it was back to Switzerland but, all the same, I would be surprised if we had not already penciled in the dates and the arrangements already - before MP came on-board - so I'd still back Switzerland as the venue and the usual local low level swiss league teams for the first 2 matches we play out there. A variation on it might be the final game being an upgrade on last year - perhaps against a Northern Italian Seria A club - the most attractive and likely given the geography + connection is Milan, more probable though is a Lique 1 Evian or Swiss Super league Basle, less likely a German Bundesliga team from Duisberg, Stuttgart or even Munich - though very improbable.... I don't think a trip to Spain is all that likely but I may be wrong - and would be happy to be wrong- seeing us play against three spanish teams would be very informative indeed...and fun.
This Charming Man Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 If NA was still with us I'd be 100% confident it was back to Switzerland but, all the same, I would be surprised if we had not already penciled in the dates and the arrangements already - before MP came on-board - so I'd still back Switzerland as the venue and the usual local low level swiss league teams for the first 2 matches we play out there. A variation on it might be the final game being an upgrade on last year - perhaps against a Northern Italian Seria A club - the most attractive and likely given the geography + connection is Milan, more probable though is a Lique 1 Evian or Swiss Super league Basle, less likely a German Bundesliga team from Duisberg, Stuttgart or even Munich - though very improbable.... I don't think a trip to Spain is all that likely but I may be wrong - and would be happy to be wrong- seeing us play against three spanish teams would be very informative indeed...and fun. As if he had a say on where we went for pre-season. He probably had no idea where he was going until he boarded the flight to Geneva.
saints_is_the_south Posted 25 April, 2013 Posted 25 April, 2013 Hope they have learned from having so many home friendlies last summer. No need. A tour somewhere in Europe, northern Italy as has been suggested above would be great, a couple of away friendlies here. I'd scrap the tournament format for the ML trophy and make it a one off game against a big European side at SMS for the final friendly of the summer. Indeed, if we do make it into the Europa League qualifying rounds then we won't be play many pre-season friendlies.
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