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thought I would start a thread on this one.

Any news whatsoever on this? Where are we going to tour this year? Anyone heard anything?

Id quite like to see us head up to Scotland or Ireland for pre-season - would be a nice road trip for the fans.
Thoughts, ideas and comments please!

We will play supermarine, fgr and ciren guaranteed, we always do

I would think that the likes of Burnley at home may be in there, we tend to try to tie these things in with transfers.

I'm arranging a pre-season trip to Norway.

We will start with a low-key warm up fixture against Fet IL followed by a slightly more competitive match against either Strømmen IF or Lørenskog IF and finally the big game against Lillestrøm SK!

Nice. We will hopefully get to give that horrible little kunt some abuse.

So we'll probably have Reading as well then.

Yeah, not sure they would think that would be the best of ideas for a pre-season friendly.

We played Reading in a home friendly in 2006. They ran as usual. I fancy Reading away in FACup 3rd Round.

I suspect we'll play Alfreton away in a friendly. It is getting late to announce them. What happened to the 'not making the same mistake as last year by starting to prepare too late in the summer'?

Still no news on pre-season yet

Even Ebbsfleet have sorted theirs out and they finished a week after we did

Yeah we had this little thing happening. You know we were a bit busy appointing a manager

My Mum said yesterday she heard on Radio Swindon they are off to Italy for pre season.

But she is pretty deaf and gets things mixed up in her old age, so they are probably going nowhere and it was just a comment about di Canio being from Italy

I heard that on saturday, think it was just rumour though from BBC Wilts

My mum thought they were going to do some country and western but she was wrong it was some kunt from Preston

When does the new season start?

6th or 8th august i think

Great, should be back that week so I can catch my first game in almost five years.

It's saturday 6th August I believe.

Wouldn't be suprised to play a Spurs team of sorts with Redknapp being a good mate of the gaffer.

First competitive club match in Europe is 30th June. For Fulham it's 39 days between the end and start of season.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011–12_UEFA_Europa_League#Round_and_draw_dates

pre season matches,how exciting.i almost came in my pants at the thought of those crucial games

Not been to one for years...ciren away when Constable scored when he was on trial from Chippenham was my last one.

I went to the Exeter 0-1 Swindon one in 2007 where Pook scored. Too hot for football that day.

Pre-Season games are dull and any further interest is not helped by the fact the bigger clubs now tour overseas.

I enjoy them.

You would ;)

Just enjoy watching football. I am that sad it's not unusual for me to take a walk over to buckhurst and watch the sunday league games.

when i ran a sunday league side i made sure that was our home pitch.1 min walk from my old house.probably the best council pitches too

I used to live there on Kingswood..............remember the fair that used to be there every year.

I will not be going to any friendlies this year, went to the forest one last year and came out saying i think we would go uo and that dossevi was immense, well we all know what happened there!!

Sunday League is competitive... Nothing wrong with that. There's something about friendlies that don't feel right, probably because the result doesn't matter.

I love friendlies at small grounds myself. They are no gauge of anything football performance related. But there is something about being up close to the pitch with a pint listening to the banter on the pitch (and joining in).

Not convinced about friendlies at the County Ground these days. Nothing exciting in playing a Championship team in pre-season.

I thought it came out in an interview with Jeremy W.  He said he "understood" PC would like to take the team to Italy for a short tour - I bet he would!!

Pre-season friendlies are great.

Went to a local one once and got battered with a mate of mine on warm cider. Took the piss out of Luc Nijholt throughout the game because he was sweating ungodly amounts of sweat.

When I used to play, we trained on Buckhurst and everyone lived fairly near there, but our "home" pitch was Lydiard Park. Randomly.

Anyone else go on the pre season Holland tour under Hoddle? Cant recall which year but 10 of us went over in a mini bus for it and had a cracking time. Our only mistake was going to Amsterdam for 3 days first after which the whole trip is a bit hazy. We were in some sort of tournament somewhere, Utrecht maybe?, and the entire event seemed to take place in a council sports field. The beer tent was quality though so we spent the time getting wasted, lying around in the sun and watching Town play other Dutch teams. I remember Hoddle seeing our Town shirts and coming over for a chat but he left pretty rapidly when he realised what a state we were in. John Gorman was much more fun though and invited us back to the team hotel although for some reason he also forgot to tell us where it was! Happy days! :D

Tuesday 19th July PM
Supermarine Away

Monday 25th July PM
Cirencester Away

Friday 29th July PM
TBC Home

Didn't see those two coming :)

West Ham - Spurs or Burnley for the Friday night game

I've never heard of TBC? Presumably some foreign outfit? We should be showing more ambition. Di Canio out.

Gonna be West Ham for the Friday game, 99.9% certain of that!

Should be a walkover.

http://www.tbcfc.co.uk/

Which way?

A top trip. I still use the Heineken apron I 'acquired' from the said beer tent. Town won the tournament, had top scorer and Fitz, I think, won best player. I remember one Town fan trying to nick a sponsor's flag from netting behind the goals and being gently persuaded to put it back, and the mass footy matches played on the spare pitch between tournament games.

There seemed to be loads of Town fans there, and the locals were ace.

 :clap:

Tonbridge Baptist Church  F.C.
Winning football matches for over 25 years


A final example of fantasy from the Bapist church.


 

They've got God on their side!  ;)

also too much time on there hands

Jesus Saves!

But Eastoe scores the rebound.

I worked the away pre season game at Wycombe when John Gorman took us there pre the Premier League season. I was the Plod in the control room wearing his STFC scarf  :busted:

Got to meet JG and the team in the changing room before the game.

Top bunch of blokes  :notworthy:

Reading at home on July 30th. We are gonna have a fun month!