Pre Season 25-26

[KentExile]

18 minutes ago, ruggles1995 said:

have we really only got 4 friendlies? seems rather short, I know the squads not huge, but you would of thought 6 friendlies? 

There is a 2 week gap between the Elche friendly, & the first day of the season, so you do wonder if something fell through

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2025/july/09/dates-for-your-diary-ahead-of-2025-26/

[JHRover]

5 minutes ago, MarkBRFC said:

I think the club have been caught out by league one/two starting a week earlier than us, and haven't got the capability of finding an alternative opponent for the weekend before the season.

Most friendlies involving foreign teams or PL outfits either require a financial incentive or a degree of organisation/competence/forward planning to involve the travel/timing stuff.

Everton takes care of itself as their fans will cover the cost of hosting the game.

What this lot want is cheap and easy - a League Two side turning up on their coach from an hour up the road, but we are now getting to the stage where really we need a match on the weekend of the 2nd August and probably also one to fill the gap between getting back from Spain on 26th July having played on 25th against Elche and the following weekend - you'd normally have another one midweek there to keep building up.

[MarkBRFC]

9 minutes ago, JHRover said:

Most friendlies involving foreign teams or PL outfits either require a financial incentive or a degree of organisation/competence/forward planning to involve the travel/timing stuff.

Everton takes care of itself as their fans will cover the cost of hosting the game.

What this lot want is cheap and easy - a League Two side turning up on their coach from an hour up the road, but we are now getting to the stage where really we need a match on the weekend of the 2nd August and probably also one to fill the gap between getting back from Spain on 26th July having played on 25th against Elche and the following weekend - you'd normally have another one midweek there to keep building up.

They did the exact same thing last pre season so it's no real surprise.

We were doing Friday/Saturday double headers, and the week before the season we had Stockport on the Friday night but didn't bother organising anything for the Saturday, despite Elliot telling us all summer that the plan was to have a home game on that Saturday.

Feel like we'll be miles behind on other sides when the season starts due to terrible Pre Season planning.

Even last weekend on the 5th July most other Championship sides were playing, not sure why we couldn't have had a game then after two solid weeks training.