Preseason

[4D]

I won't be attending any. High Wycombe as the "highlight". No thanks.

[Batch]

I'm struggling this year. Might to the local jaunt to Supermarine.

Needs some non-league variety. Don't really care about the league oppo side.

[Riddick]

I won't be attending any. High Wycombe as the "highlight". No thanks.

Ah so you go to watch the opposition and not the town? Makes sense!

[Peter Venkman]

I won't be attending any. High Wycombe as the "highlight". No thanks.

Their new owner says he wants them to be the next Bournemouth! Its a fairy tail.

[Riddick]

Their new owner says he wants them to be the next Bournemouth! Its a fairy tail.

I guess you have to give him credit for understanding the limited fan/attendance interest in Wycombe.

Just one of those frustrations where you wonder why Wycombe is more attractive than Swindon.

[Peter Venkman]

Just one of those frustrations where you wonder why Wycombe is more attractive than Swindon.

Because our owner was unwilling to sell.....to anyone.

[ThreeDrawsMentality]

I guess you have to give him credit for understanding the limited fan/attendance interest in Wycombe.

Just one of those frustrations where you wonder why Wycombe is more attractive than Swindon.

Definitely a big frustration, but guess that's where we are at with an owner unwilling to sell and the hanger-on risks associated with us.

[Quagmire]

Costs more than a fiver, so no.

Power for all his faults, even indulged in warm weather training. I think we went to Portugal, Spain and Tenerife during his ownership. This lot think Eastleigh is the seaside.

Let’s be honest - things under Power were a lot better pre Covid than they’ve been since Clem has been here.

[theakston2k]

I see the players are back today and at the UoG facilities. As it’s only a minute or so from me in years gone by I might have gone and had a nose. But zero interest this year and probably wouldn’t recognise many anyway.

[4D]

Ah so you go to watch the opposition and not the town? Makes sense!

Nothing games against nothing opposition, makes perfect sense to me.

[Riddick]

Meh.

Preseason is not about the opposition. Preseason is about scratching that Saturday afternoon itch. Going to some crap non league grounds, having a beer or two in the sunshine, getting an early look at new players and new style, seeing an exciting trialist or two etc etc.

[UTR]

Fwiw I think from a footballing point of view, it’s a decent mix of opposition that will provide more benefit than that summer we played 3/4 Prem/Champ teams at home. I get from a fans point of view it’s not as exciting but a test from League One, Champ and Prem (albeit probably a mixed XI) is a good mix and then the additional non league fixtures.

It’s mostly about fitness but in terms of football, we’ll be able to get more out of a more even challenge against a Wycombe than chasing around a mixed Prem XI for 90 minutes.

Maybe one more lower Champ/League One team at home (not behind closed doors) would have been perfect

That being said, I won’t be at any of them bar maybe one of the local non league ones if the weather is decent, but that’s the same as every summer.

[RobertT]

Friendlies are friendlies, so opposition really makes very little difference to prep.  The missed opportunity is around Revenue - all the blather about the weekend of Moyles and Fakes is put firmly in it's place when you consider the Revenue two bigger fixtures could bring in.  Make a bit of a thing about them both, making them into "events", like having an open training session pre-game, meet the players etc.  Have that fabled fanzone in operation for a few hours before the game, or after the game.  Football stadiums are pretty good at turning revenue for footballing events.

[Jimmy Quinn]

Don’t get the Highworth Town friendly may as well let the first team take on the youths at baverstock.

[RobertT]

I very much doubt any first teamers will be at that game.  We have those every pre-season, matches where the Academy play with a couple of trialists thrown in.