Hows your pre-season been then ?

Northwood 1-3 WATFORD (Jarrett, Priskin, Blizzard)

Wycombe 2-3 WATFORD (Spring, Mackay, King)

Boreham Wood 2-5 WATFORD (Young, Priskin 2, Bouazza, Henderson)

AC Horsens (Den) 0-4 WATFORD (King 2, Young, Priskin)

WATFORD 1-1 Inter (King)

WATFORD 2-1 (Young, Spring)



The Chievo game today was great - excellent goals from Young and a superb volley from Amauri (good work from Semioli, Brighi and Obinna in the build up - although the latter was very dissapointing).


I'd like us to start with this team at Everton and I reckon we can win there:


...................Foster

Doyley..Demerit..Shittu..Powell

Chambers..Francis..Mahon..Young
.....................Spring

......................King




* Interestingly, Ashley Young (probably the most productive player in English football last season from set-pieces) didn't take any corners or free-kicks v Inter and Chievo and all our set pieces were shit.

I reckon this is so Moyes' people are in the dark with regards to our set piece routines for the new season.

http://europeanboard.ephpbb.com/viewtopic.forum?t=451

- Done well in South Africa
- Rooney scored against Mansfield (Mansfield 1:2 Man United)
- Won the Amsterdam Tournament
- Oxford 1:3 Man United (2 goals from the winker)
- Man United 3:0 Sevilla

Our pre-season (Chelsea) has been very poor. We suffered a lot from having many players in the WC until latter stages.

A loss against an MLS All-star side, a win vs Feyenoord (pretty good performance), a draw vs Celtic and a loss to Liverpool today.

I dont think José has quite got his formations sorted tbh.

Sheva - Drogba is a good partnership, but were having a lot of trouble putting midfielders behind them.

Ballack wrote:http://europeanboard.ephpbb.com/viewtopic.forum?t=451

I didn't see that one.

rai Mihawk wrote:- Done well in South Africa
- Rooney scored against Mansfield (Mansfield 1:2 Man United)
- Won the Amsterdam Tournament
- Oxford 1:3 Man United (2 goals from the winker)
- Man United 3:0 Sevilla

You forgot playing Celtic off the park with a side the average age of 22

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

Ballack wrote:http://europeanboard.ephpbb.com/viewtopic.forum?t=451

I didn't see that one.

its ok. This thread is better anyway.

poiuy1 wrote:

rai Mihawk wrote:- Done well in South Africa
- Rooney scored against Mansfield (Mansfield 1:2 Man United)
- Won the Amsterdam Tournament
- Oxford 1:3 Man United (2 goals from the winker)
- Man United 3:0 Sevilla

You forgot playing Celtic off the park with a side the average age of 22

you forget to add the celtic team was the 3rd team with an average age of 21

Our pre-season has gone pretty well, we had respectable results against better teams in PSV and Villarreal and we seem to be qualifying for the UEFA Cup quite comfortably.

Newcastle 1-1 Lillestrom (Luque)
Lillestrom 0-3 Newcastle (Ameobi 2, Emre)

Norwich 1-2 Newcastle (Ramage, N'Zogbia)

Newcastle 2-3 PSV (Ameobi, Luque)

Newcastle 3-3 Villarreal (Ameobi, Butt 2)

Ventspils 0-1 (Bramble)


Emre, Ameobi, the Zog, and Milner have been most impressive.

Ballack wrote:

poiuy1 wrote:

rai Mihawk wrote:- Done well in South Africa
- Rooney scored against Mansfield (Mansfield 1:2 Man United)
- Won the Amsterdam Tournament
- Oxford 1:3 Man United (2 goals from the winker)
- Man United 3:0 Sevilla

You forgot playing Celtic off the park with a side the average age of 22

you forget to add the celtic team was the 3rd team with an average age of 21

how can i forget..2 from the Ginger Ninja..

Ballack wrote:

poiuy1 wrote:

rai Mihawk wrote:- Done well in South Africa
- Rooney scored against Mansfield (Mansfield 1:2 Man United)
- Won the Amsterdam Tournament
- Oxford 1:3 Man United (2 goals from the winker)
- Man United 3:0 Sevilla

You forgot playing Celtic off the park with a side the average age of 22

you forget to add the celtic team was the 3rd team with an average age of 21

They had a lot of older players in the team i know it wasn't their first choice but the average age was higher then that they had more experienced (older) reserves

Bolton havnt won a single pre season game...does this really mean anything though ?

We've been shit.







Mainz are superior to Chelsea.

arsenal have been awesome. we've been winning all our games. alot of positivies such as adebeyour, van persie and hleb. they all shown good sgns for the future.

Sgoater1 wrote:Bolton havnt won a single pre season game...does this really mean anything though ?

That Sam Allardyce can't be fucked anymore possibly

I dont think it means anything, we won all of our pre-season games a few years ago and we were still poor throughout the season.

poiuy1 wrote:

Sgoater1 wrote:Bolton havnt won a single pre season game...does this really mean anything though ?

That Sam Allardyce can't be fucked anymore possibly

not getting the england job probably got to him

Can't say too much because I haven't gotten to watch any of it . But the games appear to have been a bit haphazard, with starting lineups all varying greatly. We haven't started a single match with our strongest 11, mainly because of all the different fitness levels of the World Cup players. Glimpses of our brilliant attacking play are there, but that was mostly against easy opposition.

Commercially it's been a huge success, hopefully now with the club making a profit we won't need any more of these big tours.

kasnani wrote:Can't say too much because I haven't gotten to watch any of it . But the games appear to have been a bit haphazard, with starting lineups all varying greatly. We haven't started a single match with our strongest 11, mainly because of all the different fitness levels of the World Cup players. Glimpses of our brilliant attacking play are there, but that was mostly against easy opposition.

Commercially it's been a huge success, hopefully now with the club making a profit we won't need any more of these big tours.

neither have arsenal. loads of our players arre still yet to play in s mstvh. henry hasent played yet

ditto. we've done this b4 glenn