Pre-season Friendlies Match Thread

[BedsVillain]

So then with the pre season so far and the personel we have, what would be your starting line up on the 14th.

For me:

....................Friedel...................

Cuellar...Collins...Dunne...Warnock

....................Petrov....................
............NRC............Downing.......
Albrighton...........................Young
....................Carew.......................

or

....................Friedel...................

Cuellar...Collins...Dunne...Warnock

Albrighton..NRC..Petrov....Downing

...........................Young..............
............Carew.............................

Subs: Guzan, Lichaj, L.Young, Downing, Bannan, Agbonlahor, Delfouneso

[pauliewalnuts]

Pre-season, not our full team, great opposition, whatever. That was stereotypically poor. Many of us who complain about the way we're covered in the press will find it hard to complain about anything they say about us with that sort of stylistic and technical inadequacy on display. The whole thing's just so joyless.

Bingo. That's the word, joyless.

Forget some of the fanciful names being discussed in the transfer thread, and forget the talk of new tactics or a different way of playing, anyone who doesn't think we're going to sign - at best - a few more players of the quality we already have, and spend the season playing the same austere, limited, football with zero movement or possession, is living in cloud cuckoo land.

[Toronto Villa]

David Luiz was brilliant tonight.

He is. I think he's only 22 as well. He's already been called up for the Brazilian squad and you can just see him having a great career wherever he ends up.

Brazil just keep pumping them out don't they. He works hard and has a sublime touch and passing range. Very impressed.

[D.boy]

Has Curtis Davies just won an award?!

No they have just given him a ticket to Russia where he will be paragliding from a beach whilst braying loudly.

[PaulTheVillan]

I know it's a pre season friendly but I'm depressed after watching that.

Great.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Well Curtis Davies has just been presented with a big triangle, so it wasn't completely fruitless.

It's the bridge in Vila Real St. Antonio.

[D.boy]

Citalopram and whisky will help.

[SoccerHQ]

David Luiz was brilliant tonight.

He is. I think he's only 22 as well. He's already been called up for the Brazilian squad and you can just see him having a great career wherever he ends up.

Looks like Man City doesn't it?

Chelsea only ones to put in a bid so far I think.

[BC54 VFC]

Well Curtis Davies has just been presented with a big triangle, so it wasn't completely fruitless.

It's the bridge in Vila Real St. Antonio.

...which is called the Guadiana International Bridge as it crosses from Portugal to Spain, hence the name of the tournament.

[TheSandman]

Pre-season, not our full team, great opposition, whatever. That was stereotypically poor. Many of us who complain about the way we're covered in the press will find it hard to complain about anything they say about us with that sort of stylistic and technical inadequacy on display. The whole thing's just so joyless.

Bingo. That's the word, joyless.

Forget some of the fanciful names being discussed in the transfer thread, and forget the talk of new tactics or a different way of playing, anyone who doesn't think we're going to sign - at best - a few more players of the quality we already have, and spend the season playing the same austere, limited, football with zero movement or possession, is living in cloud cuckoo land.

Dear god man don't say that! If you don't have hope then what do you have?

I expect we'll have the same old same old next season but I hope we don't. More posts like that and I'll need to separate myself from sharp implements.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

So then with the pre season so far and the personel we have, what would be your starting line up on the 14th.

I wouldn't have Downing in the side. He's a passenger.

[pauliewalnuts]

To be fair to the lanky, startled rabbit-featured one, having seen the replay of their fourth, i think Curtis slipped.

[hawkeye]

i take on board that this is pre-season and fitness levels are way off.
its just that we play the same way all the time, we dont pass dont move off the ball, there is very little skill, we dont try and retain posession it is a style of football that is tedious to watch and will not take us anywhere in terms of entertainment or success, we have too many one dimensional players, the whole set up is wrong, it is sad that a lot of people cant see that

[JJ-AV]

So then with the pre season so far and the personel we have, what would be your starting line up on the 14th.

For me:

....................Friedel...................

Cuellar...Collins...Dunne...Warnock

....................Petrov....................
............NRC............Downing.......
Albrighton...........................Young
....................Carew.......................

or

....................Friedel...................

Cuellar...Collins...Dunne...Warnock

Albrighton..NRC..Petrov....Downing

...........................Young..............
............Carew.............................

Subs: Guzan, Lichaj, L.Young, Downing, Bannan, Agbonlahor, Delfouneso

I take it you're presuming Milner's gone?

I'd have -

Friedel
Luke - Cuellar - Dunne - Warnock
Albrighton - Petrov - Milner - Downing
Young
Gabby

Cuellar in for Luke and Carew in for Milner if they're not here.

[hawkeye]

Pre-season, not our full team, great opposition, whatever. That was stereotypically poor. Many of us who complain about the way we're covered in the press will find it hard to complain about anything they say about us with that sort of stylistic and technical inadequacy on display. The whole thing's just so joyless.

Bingo. That's the word, joyless.

Forget some of the fanciful names being discussed in the transfer thread, and forget the talk of new tactics or a different way of playing, anyone who doesn't think we're going to sign - at best - a few more players of the quality we already have, and spend the season playing the same austere, limited, football with zero movement or possession, is living in cloud cuckoo land.

exactly