🗓️Pre-Season Friendlies 2024/25

[matt_magpie]

Well let's hope your optimism is well founded and rewarded in kind,then I will gladly eat humble pie and celebrate .

It’s not optimism it’s fact we’re short on the squad and we’ll sign players, it’s just who, it gives me slight confidence that we’ve maybe not dived in and just got anyone.

[OldBanksy]

Fair assessment from Maynard. Thought we matched them all the way, but for one double mistake.
Lads will have trained hard yesterday and will have heavy legs and a few niggles going into today.
Like Maynard says, they need a few competitive 90 minutes in them to get fully up to speed.
I'm optimistic for next weekend. So many doom mongers on here.

[nw6pie]

Fair assessment from Maynard. Thought we matched them all the way, but for one double mistake.
Lads will have trained hard yesterday and will have heavy legs and a few niggles going into today.
Like Maynard says, they need a few competitive 90 minutes in them to get fully up to speed.
I'm optimistic for next weekend. So many doom mongers on here.

We’ve got to cut out the silly mistakes and penalties this season, because I think we’re going to have plenty of tight games where there’s only one goal in it. That may well determine whether we finish 3rd, 13th or 23rd.

[upthemaggies]

We’ve got to cut out the silly mistakes and penalties this season, because I think we’re going to have plenty of tight games where there’s only one goal in it. That may well determine whether we finish 3rd, 13th or 23rd.

"Fine margins" is a cliche but games are more often than not won or lost by the odd goal whilst those lost by a wider margin often turn on a key incident. Generally though, you can work out very early in the season if you've got enough to make those fine margins mostly count in your favour or not.

Posh finished 4th last season in L1 as top scorers, so factoring in the performance of the 1st team game you'd have to say the 0-1 was encouraging, if pre-season games do matter. If they do matter then the positives are offset by a very bad result at Boston. Not beating a York side that barely avoided a return to tier 6 North wasn't a great look either. Beating Wycombe is the best pre-season result, albeit in non-matchday conditions (BCD).

[1955pie]

They are the ‘glass half empty’ brigade

Nearly always empty brigade.

[OldBanksy]

"If they do matter then the positives are offset by a very bad result at Boston.

Didn't Slocombe (who had a shocker today) balls up for York's first goal? Also it looked well offside to me.
And at York I think we were leading and their equaliser came after numerous changes on 60 minutes?

[OldRoadsider]

Crowley is too deep to hurt the opposition. He needs to play higher up.
Jones was prolific on the left, Why play him on the right when it clearly isnt as succesful?
Slocombe is a broken man.
Hinchy had a decent range of passing.
McGoldrick albeit in the B game was terrific.
Platt was excellent
The trialist on the right at the back didcwell

[Mark_Ross]

Whoever/whatever/wherever the hell we play we cannot stop conceding bldy goals!!

Recruitment (or lack of) is an absolute ****** shambles!

Really not looking forward to this season.

Can I revise my prediction of 20th downwards please?

But looking on the bright side for once, we have got the best pitch in the league (probably). YIPPEEE!!!!!

[BigFatPie]

Whoever/whatever/wherever the hell we play we cannot stop conceding bldy goals!!

Recruitment (or lack of) is an absolute ****** shambles!

Really not looking forward to this season.

Can I revise my prediction of 20th downwards please?

But looking on the bright side for once, we have got the best pitch in the league (probably). YIPPEEE!!!!!

I think we’ll be much better defensively this season. It’s the other end that worries me, particularly if he keeps playing our best players out of position.

I listened to the Paul Mace interview the other day, and Maynard said he likes to bring a bit of ‘unpredictability’ into our team positions. Last season Jodi Jones assisted with 22 goals from the left so there were an awful lot of teams who could predict that, but still couldn’t do anything about it.

[matt_magpie]

Whoever/whatever/wherever the hell we play we cannot stop conceding bldy goals!!

Recruitment (or lack of) is an absolute ****** shambles!

Really not looking forward to this season.

Can I revise my prediction of 20th downwards please?

But looking on the bright side for once, we have got the best pitch in the league (probably). YIPPEEE!!!!!

The first team let in 1 away to what will be a top L1 team away?