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Title: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: simon ward 50 on June 05, 2018, 03:07:06 PM
Details here:

https://www.avfc.co.uk/News/2018/06/05/first-2018-19-pre-season-friendlies-announced
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: dave.woodhall on June 05, 2018, 03:21:20 PM
There's a good pie and a few pubs in there.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: AsTallAsLions on June 05, 2018, 03:37:01 PM
I remember going over to see Villa v Inter at VP for pre-season, some 11 years ago now was it? What a long way away that seems, in tangible terms as much as the sense of time passing.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on June 05, 2018, 04:24:25 PM
Dresden is stunningly beautiful. After the bombing in 1945 the centre was just a heap of rubble and the rebuilding didn't begin in earnest until after German unification in 1990. The Coventry Cross of Nails is a poignant symbol of the city's rebirth.
Dresden airport is very small. There are flights from Stansted to Leipzig/Halle, which is 1½ hours away on the fastest train. The fastest train from Berlin does the journey in under 2 hours and from Prague just over 2.


(https://thumb.ibb.co/f9qDXo/dresden.jpg) (https://ibb.co/f9qDXo)
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: PGW on June 05, 2018, 04:51:53 PM
Just looking at flights to Germany for this, i see there are 3 airports around Berlin, Tegel, Templehoff and Schoenefeld.
Flybe fly from Brum to Tegel just really wanna know which is the easiest for rail journey on to Dresden....If Tegel Ok ill stick with
FlyBe from brum.
Ryanair from Manchester cheaper but that flies to Schoenefeld

Any advice please
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on June 05, 2018, 05:27:51 PM
Neither Schönefeld nor Tegel has good rail links.
From Tegel there's a regular bus service to Berlin Central Station (Hauptbahnhof). That takes 20 minutes and then it's about 1 hour 50 direct to Dresden on the fastest train. That direct connection is every 2 hours. On other trains the journey involves several changes.
From Schönefeld you'd take a slow local train (the S-Bahn) to Berlin Südkreuz. That leg is about 30 minutes and then it's 1 hour 40 on the fastest train direct to Dresden.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 05, 2018, 06:19:51 PM


One of my favourite bands are playing in Dusseldorf two days before we're in Dresden

Anyone tell me how hard/easy that is to cover distance wise ?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on June 05, 2018, 06:37:42 PM


One of my favourite bands are playing in Dusseldorf two days before we're in Dresden

Anyone tell me how hard/easy that is to cover distance wise ?
Not easy. Over 6 hours by train and expensive
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 05, 2018, 06:54:23 PM
Maybe we can ask Walsall to switch the game to VP to help us out.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Steve67 on June 05, 2018, 06:59:06 PM
17th and then the 28th.  I presume they will be away for a week in-between for a training camp with games involved.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: The Moose on June 05, 2018, 07:20:31 PM
Why can't we have a prestige friendly at home for a change? One of the big clubs, like Watford or Huddersfield...or Fulham.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Steve67 on June 05, 2018, 07:25:25 PM
We will play Watford again in the Graham Taylor cup won't we?  Or was that a one-off?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: ozzjim on June 05, 2018, 07:26:16 PM
We having a whip round to get the team to Dresden?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Richard E on June 05, 2018, 07:30:39 PM
We having a whip round to get the team to Dresden?

Dresden. A once proud city reduced to ruins as a result of over ambitious hubris. How apt.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: SoccerHQ on June 05, 2018, 08:50:07 PM
We will play Watford again in the Graham Taylor cup won't we?  Or was that a one-off?

One off I imagine given how low the crowd was (mind you wasn't it supposed to be played at Watford and got changed late on).

We start the season (bills permitting) a week after Dresden so won't be able to fit it in unless we play it midweek but that would likely be a lower crowd than last year.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 05, 2018, 08:55:21 PM
We will play Watford again in the Graham Taylor cup won't we?  Or was that a one-off?

They played Real Sociedad at Vicarage Road for the Graham Taylor Memorial Cup.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: curiousorange on June 05, 2018, 09:21:49 PM
I'll be hanging onto my twelve quid for the Walsall match for a while yet. I might not be able to claim it back from the receiver.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: The Man With A Stick on June 05, 2018, 09:25:31 PM


One of my favourite bands are playing in Dusseldorf two days before we're in Dresden

Anyone tell me how hard/easy that is to cover distance wise ?
Not easy. Over 6 hours by train and expensive

Think about the poor players, they'll have to fucking walk there.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on June 06, 2018, 07:40:43 PM


One of my favourite bands are playing in Dusseldorf two days before we're in Dresden

Anyone tell me how hard/easy that is to cover distance wise ?
Not easy. Over 6 hours by train and expensive

Ouch. Fuck that then!
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: ian c. on June 06, 2018, 08:04:29 PM
Dresden's fans have a bit of a reputation.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on June 06, 2018, 08:10:09 PM
Dresden's fans have a bit of a reputation.
Yes they do. A few of the German Villans have mentioned this.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Clampy on June 07, 2018, 05:11:22 PM
Burton Albion has been added on the 21st July.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: wittonwarrior on June 07, 2018, 05:21:27 PM
Dresden flights quite expensive so will probably give it a swerve.

Burton away frills me with excitement - the sort of fixture Blues are normally referred with. 

Kidderminster away it is then.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: villa `cross the mersey on June 07, 2018, 06:00:23 PM
I await the announcement of the Nou Camp game arranged as part of Jack's £50m move to Barca
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Richard on June 08, 2018, 08:50:45 AM
To me it looks too much like a repeat of last years pre season fixtures - and look how poorly we started in August
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: kippaxvilla2 on June 08, 2018, 09:28:26 PM
Two more friendlies announced today.

Rapid Decline and Inter Administration.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: villa `cross the mersey on June 08, 2018, 09:50:18 PM
Two more friendlies announced today.

Rapid Decline and Inter Administration.
and another one in Holland ...Fortuna Shitted
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: dave shelley on June 08, 2018, 10:16:24 PM
Dresden is stunningly beautiful. After the bombing in 1945 the centre was just a heap of rubble and the rebuilding didn't begin in earnest until after German unification in 1990. The Coventry Cross of Nails is a poignant symbol of the city's rebirth.
Dresden airport is very small. There are flights from Stansted to Leipzig/Halle, which is 1½ hours away on the fastest train. The fastest train from Berlin does the journey in under 2 hours and from Prague just over 2.


(https://thumb.ibb.co/f9qDXo/dresden.jpg) (https://ibb.co/f9qDXo)


I agree, Dresden is a shining example of how a city can rebuild itself after being razed to the ground.  It has a truly interesting history other than its wartime experience as well as  being the capital of Saxony.  A river trip on the Elbe is a pleasant way to pass a couple of hours and yes, the Cross of Nails is a very interesting story.  A trip to the top of the Church in the city centre gives a splendid view of the city and its surrounds.

We were there in 2010, flew into Berlin Shoenefeld and then rail to Dresden, just over two hours.  Taxi prices were average not too expensive.  Meissen isn't too far away either.

I'm sorry but I can't remember the author but I read a very good book about Dresden and what it went through over those two nights in February 1944.  Harrowing stuff indeed.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Clampy on June 12, 2018, 05:07:54 PM
A kickabout against West Ham at the Banks Stadium has now been added.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: curiousorange on June 12, 2018, 05:24:30 PM

I'm sorry but I can't remember the author but I read a very good book about Dresden and what it went through over those two nights in February 1944.  Harrowing stuff indeed.

Frederick Taylor. His book on the Berlin Wall is excellent too.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: dave shelley on June 12, 2018, 06:05:17 PM

I'm sorry but I can't remember the author but I read a very good book about Dresden and what it went through over those two nights in February 1944.  Harrowing stuff indeed.

Frederick Taylor. His book on the Berlin Wall is excellent too.

That's the one and, believe it or not, I've read the Berlin Wall book too, just couldn't remember the author.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: darren woolley on June 13, 2018, 10:09:34 AM
I would've liked to have played West Ham at there ground the London Stadium it's a ground I have never been to so would have been nice to chalk it off as one i could see Villa play at.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: ktvillan on June 13, 2018, 11:23:28 AM
Just looking at flights to Germany for this, i see there are 3 airports around Berlin, Tegel, Templehoff and Schoenefeld.
Flybe fly from Brum to Tegel just really wanna know which is the easiest for rail journey on to Dresden....If Tegel Ok ill stick with
FlyBe from brum.
Ryanair from Manchester cheaper but that flies to Schoenefeld

Any advice please

Templehoff is no longer a functioning airport - park and museum I believe.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on June 13, 2018, 08:49:50 PM
Apologies if already covered but I’m thinking of taking my 7 year old to the friendly in Germany. As I haven’t travelled abroad with Villa since Utrecht a few years back, can anyone confirm how easy it’s likely to be to get tickets for this?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on June 13, 2018, 09:44:07 PM
Apologies if already covered but I’m thinking of taking my 7 year old to the friendly in Germany. As I haven’t travelled abroad with Villa since Utrecht a few years back, can anyone confirm how easy it’s likely to be to get tickets for this?
It was very easy for last summer's friendly in Duisburg. And with the cost of travel all the way down to Saxony I hardly think we'll sell all our allocation
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: PeterWithe on June 13, 2018, 11:22:49 PM

I'm sorry but I can't remember the author but I read a very good book about Dresden and what it went through over those two nights in February 1944.  Harrowing stuff indeed.

Frederick Taylor. His book on the Berlin Wall is excellent too.

Do I recall reading that around 50k people died in Dresden over a few night during the raids?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 13, 2018, 11:31:36 PM
Wiki

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The bombing of Dresden was a British/American aerial bombing attack on the city of Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, during World War II in the European Theatre. In four raids between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city.[1] The bombing and the resulting firestorm destroyed over 1,600 acres (6.5 km2) of the city centre.[2] An estimated 22,700[3] to 25,000[4] people were killed, although larger casualty figures have been claimed.

Large variations in the claimed death toll have fuelled the controversy. In March 1945, the German government ordered its press to publish a falsified casualty figure of 200,000 for the Dresden raids, and death toll estimates as high as 500,000 have been given.[15][16][17] The city authorities at the time estimated up to 25,000 victims, a figure that subsequent investigations supported, including a 2010 study commissioned by the city council.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on June 13, 2018, 11:47:41 PM
The exact figure will never be known because thousands of bodies were burnt to a cinder in the intense heat. 25,000 dead is a conservative estimate.

I'll be there tomorrow with a British group. I always try to give a balanced account of the bombing. My parents, who had relatives in Coventry when it was bombed in 1940, said that the destruction of Dresden was seen at the time as a deserved retaliation. There is no doubt that Dresden, with its industry and rail links, was a legitimate target. Whether the intensity of the bombing was justified is another question.

The message of the rebuilt city is forgiveness and reconciliation, symbolised by the Coventry Cross of Nails.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on June 14, 2018, 09:41:39 AM
Well I've booked a hotel and know my travel arrangements, just need ticket info now.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Villa Lew on June 14, 2018, 09:56:15 AM
I see that Wolves are at home on the first day of the PL. As the EFL starts a week earlier and we are nearly always at home, when Wolves are, it looks like our first fixture will be away.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on June 14, 2018, 09:57:32 AM
Well I've booked a hotel and know my travel arrangements, just need ticket info now.
Which hotel MB?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: AlexAlexCropley on June 14, 2018, 11:16:34 AM
I see that Wolves are at home on the first day of the PL. As the EFL starts a week earlier and we are nearly always at home, when Wolves are, it looks like our first fixture will be away.
?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on June 14, 2018, 07:43:20 PM
Well I've booked a hotel and know my travel arrangements, just need ticket info now.
Which hotel MB?

The Westin Hotel, Dresden
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: russon on June 16, 2018, 04:15:34 PM
Hell’s bells. I move 400 miles north to Aberdeen and I’m still not safe, the  blinkin Albion have announced a friendly at Pittodrie next month. I’m booking a simultaneous weekend in the Gorbals, the prospect of blue & white striped shirted wasters walking up Union St is too much to take.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on June 20, 2018, 07:18:32 AM
When would you expect the ticket information to become available (in particular for the Dresden game)? I keep checking the OS every day but nothing yet.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on June 20, 2018, 07:57:43 AM
Hell’s bells. I move 400 miles north to Aberdeen and I’m still not safe, the  blinkin Albion have announced a friendly at Pittodrie next month. I’m booking a simultaneous weekend in the Gorbals, the prospect of blue & white striped shirted wasters walking up Union St is too much to take.

I doubt that the dozen or so Albion fans who turn up will be much of a problem.

Have just looked at our fixtures. Not one new ground for those that can't afford to go abroad, and two matches played at the same time.

Utter shite, fucking boo.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on June 20, 2018, 10:20:49 AM
When would you expect the ticket information to become available (in particular for the Dresden game)? I keep checking the OS every day but nothing yet.
There's nothing specific about tickets on Dynamo's website either. It just says that details will be released in good time.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: PeterWithesShin on June 21, 2018, 10:07:34 PM
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Tickets for our friendly clash against Dynamo Dresden go on sale next week.

The game takes place at Stadion Dresden on Saturday 28th July, with a 2pm kick-off.

Tickets are available to buy next Tuesday from 9am.

We have an allocation of 1,800 and they are priced at €9.90 (adults), €7.70 (students), €4.40 (U16s) while U6s are free-of-charge.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Mortimer's Bear on June 26, 2018, 01:56:55 PM
Dresden tickets booked this morning, happy days.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: wittonwarrior on June 30, 2018, 04:13:56 AM
Dresden - anyone travelling by car and have one spare space?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cheltenhamlion on July 02, 2018, 06:20:04 PM
I quite fancied the Dresden trip as I haven't been there before. We are on holiday though. I don't fancy any of the others though.

I admire the commitment of those who want to get back in the saddle ASAP but I can't muster up any Villa watching enthusiasm at the minute.

I have said it many times before but I do feel this will be my last season of going regularly.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on July 06, 2018, 01:52:15 PM


Walsall and West Ham booked. Let's ave it
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 08, 2018, 01:03:07 AM
We're playing West Ham? That at Villa Park?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Axl Rose on July 08, 2018, 01:17:50 AM
We're playing West Ham? That at Villa Park?

I think it's being played at Walsall, mate. I'm not sure to be honest.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 08, 2018, 01:23:20 AM
Thanks. That's strange. Are we still playing Walsall or is this instead of that game?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: saunders_heroes on July 08, 2018, 02:21:15 AM
Dresden tickets booked this morning, happy days.

Got mine too. Never been to Dresden so I’m really looking forward to it. No direct flights though, so have to change at Munich.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Scratchins on July 08, 2018, 08:01:29 AM
We play Walsall at Walsall on 17th; use Bescott to play West Ham on 25th, we are the home team so will have 3 sides of the ground. The Villa Park pitch is being re-laid.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on July 09, 2018, 07:59:08 AM
I've just booked my flight to Germany (Berlin) for the Dresden game. I delayed for a long time on account of all the uncertainty surrounding the club  but I'm now going ahead. Sadly, I don't think many of the German Lions will be there. It's a long train journey from where most of them live and Dresden is nearly on the Czech border. But a few are coming.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Dave Cooper please on July 09, 2018, 11:22:41 AM
Anyone doing Kiddy on Saturday?
I'm sort of tempted if only so I can do the decent pubs round by the station.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cheltenhamlion on July 09, 2018, 06:07:21 PM
I am still not feeling the love for any Villa watching at the minute.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 09, 2018, 10:27:19 PM
I'd go if they could be arsed to play anywhere that they don't play all the time. But they're not arsed so I don't see why I should be.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: PeterWithesShin on July 09, 2018, 10:30:46 PM
I think it's nice to help out a local club by adding a few quid to their coffers. So many thanks to Telford, Walsall and the inbreds at Kiddy for playing us.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Richard on July 09, 2018, 10:43:32 PM
Not sure how we can play 2 fixtures simultaneously with only 2 strikers available ? Unless McCormack is going to turn up at one of them.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 09, 2018, 11:24:28 PM
I think it's nice to help out a local club by adding a few quid to their coffers. So many thanks to Telford, Walsall and the inbreds at Kiddy for playing us.

I don't disagree, but don't think it needs to be the same grounds every year. There are plenty of non-League clubs round here we could play.

Or maybe play a club at the seaside, seeing as how we never get to play one in the League (and when we do it's at a ground with a tiny allocation or shifted to a sodding night game after I've used up all my leave).
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: dave.woodhall on July 09, 2018, 11:35:45 PM
I think it's nice to help out a local club by adding a few quid to their coffers. So many thanks to Telford, Walsall and the inbreds at Kiddy for playing us.

I don't disagree, but don't think it needs to be the same grounds every year. There are plenty of non-League clubs round here we could play.

Or maybe play a club at the seaside, seeing as how we never get to play one in the League (and when we do it's at a ground with a tiny allocation or shifted to a sodding night game after I've used up all my leave).

One of the big problems is the massive gap in standards in local football. Walsall are the only League One club (I'm guessing Coventry would think playing us to be more trouble than it's worth with regards to police costs). After them there's nobody new at a decent standard except Solihull, which is a horrible ground, and Tamworth, where we sometimes send a team.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on July 11, 2018, 08:56:13 AM
I'm in Dresden with clients and will be back with Villa in a fortnight. Dresden, brilliantly rebuilt after the bombing, is an example to Villa of how an institution can be reborn after devastation.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: UK Redsox on July 11, 2018, 10:32:55 AM
One of the big problems is the massive gap in standards in local football. Walsall are the only League One club (I'm guessing Coventry would think playing us to be more trouble than it's worth with regards to police costs). After them there's nobody new at a decent standard except Solihull, which is a horrible ground, and Tamworth, where we sometimes send a team.

Do the games have to be quite so local ? How about Northampton or 'Nam. Only around an hour from Brum
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Clampy on July 11, 2018, 01:07:37 PM
Kiddy is £12 and Telford is £8 this saturday, both pay on the day.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 11, 2018, 02:45:17 PM
One of the big problems is the massive gap in standards in local football. Walsall are the only League One club (I'm guessing Coventry would think playing us to be more trouble than it's worth with regards to police costs). After them there's nobody new at a decent standard except Solihull, which is a horrible ground, and Tamworth, where we sometimes send a team.

Do the games have to be quite so local ? How about Northampton or 'Nam. Only around an hour from Brum

Or Notts County, Vale, Oxford even. Plenty of grounds not too far that we don't play at all the time.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: itmustbe_it is! on July 11, 2018, 10:54:09 PM
Kiddy or Telford?

Both more or less equidistant in terms travel time for me. Anyone got any thoughts?
Presume we can pay in at both on the gate. Any past history on which is the nearest to a "first team game" or is it just pot luck?

At the moment Kiddy is shading it because I'll be able to fit in a pint of Bathams at the Swan In Chaddesley Corbett on the way.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Clampy on July 12, 2018, 08:30:44 AM
One of the big problems is the massive gap in standards in local football. Walsall are the only League One club (I'm guessing Coventry would think playing us to be more trouble than it's worth with regards to police costs). After them there's nobody new at a decent standard except Solihull, which is a horrible ground, and Tamworth, where we sometimes send a team.

Do the games have to be quite so local ? How about Northampton or 'Nam. Only around an hour from Brum

Or Notts County, Vale, Oxford even. Plenty of grounds not too far that we don't play at all the time.

In fairness we did play at Shrewsbury last year but yes, otherwise I do agree.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: PGW on July 12, 2018, 09:44:33 AM
Kiddy or Telford?

Both more or less equidistant in terms travel time for me. Anyone got any thoughts?
Presume we can pay in at both on the gate. Any past history on which is the nearest to a "first team game" or is it just pot luck?

At the moment Kiddy is shading it because I'll be able to fit in a pint of Bathams at the Swan In Chaddesley Corbett on the way.

Good choice.....Swan i'm referring to!!!
Enjoy
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 12, 2018, 10:01:56 AM
One of the big problems is the massive gap in standards in local football. Walsall are the only League One club (I'm guessing Coventry would think playing us to be more trouble than it's worth with regards to police costs). After them there's nobody new at a decent standard except Solihull, which is a horrible ground, and Tamworth, where we sometimes send a team.

Do the games have to be quite so local ? How about Northampton or 'Nam. Only around an hour from Brum

Or Notts County, Vale, Oxford even. Plenty of grounds not too far that we don't play at all the time.

In fairness we did play at Shrewsbury last year

Indeed. And an excellent day out was had by all. Apart from the result, but I never really care about those in friendlies.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Dave Cooper please on July 12, 2018, 10:18:05 AM
Kiddy or Telford?

Both more or less equidistant in terms travel time for me. Anyone got any thoughts?
Presume we can pay in at both on the gate. Any past history on which is the nearest to a "first team game" or is it just pot luck?

At the moment Kiddy is shading it because I'll be able to fit in a pint of Bathams at the Swan In Chaddesley Corbett on the way.


Kiddy has much the better pubs within strolling distance of the train station and the ground, and it has food on a totally different level to almost any club in the country.
Plus it's a nicer ground than the plastic thing that Telford replaced their lovely old ground with. Kiddy might be moving soon as well, to a plastic thing out in the country somewhere.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Risso on July 12, 2018, 10:25:52 AM
Kiddy or Telford?

Both more or less equidistant in terms travel time for me. Anyone got any thoughts?
Presume we can pay in at both on the gate. Any past history on which is the nearest to a "first team game" or is it just pot luck?

At the moment Kiddy is shading it because I'll be able to fit in a pint of Bathams at the Swan In Chaddesley Corbett on the way.


Kiddy has much the better pubs within strolling distance of the train station and the ground, and it has food on a totally different level to almost any club in the country.
Plus it's a nicer ground than the plastic thing that Telford replaced their lovely old ground with. Kiddy might be moving soon as well, to a plastic thing out in the country somewhere.

You're selling it quite well to be honest.  Might make the effort.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Dave Cooper please on July 12, 2018, 10:29:26 AM
Plus I've got permission from SWMBO who likes The Elephant and Castle because she can watch steam trains while supping her wine.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: wittonwarrior on July 14, 2018, 10:40:39 AM
Sat at Crewe station waiting on usual suspects- not knowing which venue I am attending - I fancy kiddy
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Clark W Griswold on July 14, 2018, 12:30:32 PM
They're both live on YouTube if anyone's arsed. Might have already been mentioned. I'll see what Villa team I fancy watching...
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: oldtimernow on July 14, 2018, 02:31:22 PM
No Hogan or Mccormack in either of the two teams
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: sirlordbaltimore on July 14, 2018, 02:43:49 PM
No Hogan or Mccormack in either of the two teams

Hogan's injured and Ross is an arsehole.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 14, 2018, 02:50:07 PM
We have a Clark and a Clarke on our books? I can't imagine this will cause any confusion.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 14, 2018, 02:51:37 PM
Our team to face @telfordutd at New Bucks Head this afternoon...

Steer, Bree, Chester, Bedeau, Clark, De Laet, Whelan, Hourihane, Green, Davis, Kodjia.

SUBS: Sarkic, Revan, C Taylor, Ige, Birch, Pastorek, Mooney, Tait, Guy, Sea.

And our line-up at @khfcofficial....

Bunn, N Taylor, Elphick, Suliman, Hutton, Gardner, Lansbury, Clarke, Adomah, Grealish, Knibbs.

Subs: Ramsey, Odutayo, Pressley, Patterson, Sinisalo, McConnachie, Cox, Walker, Vassilev, Brunt, Prosser.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Toronto Villa on July 14, 2018, 02:52:43 PM
Our team to face @telfordutd at New Bucks Head this afternoon...

Steer, Bree, Chester, Bedeau, Clark, De Laet, Whelan, Hourihane, Green, Davis, Kodjia.

SUBS: Sarkic, Revan, C Taylor, Ige, Birch, Pastorek, Mooney, Tait, Guy, Sea.

And our line-up at @khfcofficial....

Bunn, N Taylor, Elphick, Suliman, Hutton, Gardner, Lansbury, Clarke, Adomah, Grealish, Knibbs.

Subs: Ramsey, Odutayo, Pressley, Patterson, Sinisalo, McConnachie, Cox, Walker, Vassilev, Brunt, Prosser.

see the match thread

*winky*
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 14, 2018, 03:30:02 PM
Did the commentary really just describe Stoke away as an example of a "trip to look forward to"?
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: cdbearsfan on July 14, 2018, 03:30:24 PM
Oh FFS I'm in the wrong thread again...
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Axl Rose on July 14, 2018, 03:32:05 PM
Did the commentary really just describe Stoke away as an example of a "trip to look forward to"?

You certainly did, mate. I was muttering under my breath to myself, seconds after he said it.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: Ads on July 14, 2018, 04:45:05 PM
Did the commentary really just describe Stoke away as an example of a "trip to look forward to"?

Only 40 miles away, so yeah. Plenty of pubs. Grounds tin pot though and Rowett will have Pulis Redux going on.
Title: Re: Pre-season fixtures 2018/19
Post by: frank on July 24, 2018, 10:23:20 AM
For those coming to Dresden on Saturday:
the match ticket includes free public transport in the Dresden area for 4 hours before and 6 hours after the game;
Dynamo are organising a big pre-season party around the game, with entertainments, live music etc from 10.00am.
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