Moan that there isn’t any home friendlies this season
Personally think home friendlies are rubbish. Would much rather play a bunch of London / Bucks teams lower down the pyramid.
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To be honest, I was hoping for a home friendly this summer to take my 6yr old along to. They are normally cheap and if the afternoon failed, I wouldn’t feel guilty leaving early
A normal league fixture recently has been 1-0 or 0-1 and dull as dishwater. Imagine a home friendly (!) …0-0 tons of changes, stop start for water breaks, low attendance, kiosks shut.
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So the transfer windows open, are you guys expecting to lose anybody or are you confident of keeping the same team which did so well for you last year and if you’re recruiting are you coming back to the Reebok for Morley? It seems we were asking around £500k which sounds good value to me so I’m surprised you wouldn’t pay up given where you were at the time. We’re actually pleased you didn’t now because Aaron’s been different class since he came back and with a strong tackler hopefully next to him this season can concentrate on creating. Good luck anyway and let’s hope both Wanderers go up next year. 
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No, I am 99.9% certain we will not move for Morley. Seems his time down south brought his mojo back and glad he came back to you a revitalised player. He will get a big round of applause when we play you next season I expect.
I’m expecting some decent moves in the transfer market as we should have wriggle room from a financial scope to play with within FFP given our investments into the stadium which started as soon as the last home game finished (new pitch, new undersoil heating system and drainage) and new work at our Marlow Road training ground.
We’ll see. Hopefully some decent buys and some shrewd loan signings.
It’s fairly mixed here as to how we will do. I think we’ll be competing for playoffs minimum if Dodds turns out decent after a pre-season and the ownership make some decent signings. But it’s a big if.
Yes, good luck to both Wanderers. Already counting down the days.
Sorry, @Warranty, there is only room for one Wanderers this season and they will be local to us. Good luck in the play offs, though. 
Wow! Fighting talk from 2 visiting members and we aren’t involved!
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With about a quarter of our games having date or time changes you can’t organise anything.
The release of fixtures is like launching a sailing ship but without any sails.
Was hoping York would come up as I’ve not been to the new ground. Just Everton to do next season to get back to 92.
I’ve started ticking off Champions League/European Cup winners now. It’s now up to 24 teams with Man City and PSG winning recently.
FCSB play in the first qualifying round of the Champions League in early July and I’m hoping I can get out to the home leg and cut down the long close season.
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I think there will be Championship teams strongly coming in for Morley or even Bloomfield as Luton have the parachute money to spend.
It’s true. In fact, I’ve already mentioned this before, but I’m looking forward to going away to Plymouth. But knowing my luck, that will be moved to a 1230 which is going to be near on possible for me to get to unless I go down the night before.
If you’re a real football nut and go to lots of away games as well as organising weekends around those games then last season was a disaster.
I’ve just booked to see the Poppies at Brighton Concorde 2 on Friday Nov 7th and am staying over with another Wycombe supporting mate as I live near Reading. Of course this is FA Cup Round 1 weekend, we are hoping for Lewes away or one of the National League South teams in that area for an extended weekend away.
Good luck with that!
I tend to go to more away than home due to personal circumstances as getting away isn’t easy and takes some planning but I maintain a ST as I’m lucky enough to be able to do that.
Burton is my favourite purely as my best mate lives there, so last year it being mid week was a disaster.
But so many games now being at 1230 is quite frustrating, Birmingham, Reading and Charlton being three of them.
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The beauty of Doddsball is that even Sky will do the sensible thing to avoid showing us as much as they possibly can, so I am reasonably confident that there will be minimal changes.
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Remember 95?
Yes Peter I think FFP could be an issue for a few clubs next season but having spent heavily last season I’m not sure we need to be that profligate this time. We’ve got pretty much all we need if we can just add a hit if steel and experience. We conceded over 70 goals last year which is most unlike us as our defence was awful. Hopefully a couple of good fullbacks will sort that as well as a good keeper which I think we’re already on with. A strong midfielder alongside Morley and a big, physical presence up top and I can’t see any way we don’t make at least top six. I suppose for you it’s making sure you keep your best players, like Kone and Lowe unless you’re looking to cash in? There were some good loans in L1 last year so if you can get one or two of those you should be well set.
Yes, I do, as well as the umpteen times we have lost in the play offs. 
Good luck for the season, except when we meet of course!
I don’t remember the name @Warranty from all the excellent exchanges with a Bolton supporter last season. Are you the same person but with a different username? I’m too old to remember the username of the person who was in regular contact last season.
The pitch renovations will mean that there will not be any home friendlies, and likely that our first league game will be away.
Yes Micro, I believe I am and thank you for your kind words. I couldn’t log in when you changed your web site so had to sign in under a different monika because like you my memory’s getting worse and I’d forgotten my old user name!
Anyway, we had some really good discussions last year and hopefully will again. I think there is a really good bond between our two clubs and supporters, especially after your understanding and support during our difficult time a few years ago. Let’s hope that continues and we both have a successful season.
There’s really no reason why we can’t both do well this year although there are still some strong sides in L1. Unlike yourselves we don’t have any players we expect to lose, just hopefully additions to what is already a strong squad. Last season our defence was abysmal conceding over 70 goals though to be fair we were hampered by serious injuries to the likes of Santos and Toal and also of course Forino shortly after he arrived, plus poor signings by Evatt in the wing back positions. I expect all those to be solved so with any luck we’ll be pushing yourselves for the automatics this time round.
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