Pre season friendlies

bigmart · 8 Jun 2023

5 announced starting off away to Vauxhalls then Southport, behind closed door games v Fleetwood and Rochdale then home to an Everton eleven with 1 more game to be announced

Boz · 8 Jun 2023

They’re not very inspiring. Might try to make Vauxhall .
The idea of a pre-season Ireland tour floated by Palios at one of the forums seems to have got nowhere.

Sparky · 8 Jun 2023

I’ll be at vauxhall although not sure how many proper first teamers will play

Rockford's Love Child · 8 Jun 2023

It sounds like Everton will play some squad players, so that game could be fairly interesting.

Keith Hill (Bolton) · 8 Jun 2023

It will probably be u23s.
We won't know until they an ounce their preseason schedule.

drwhoman · 8 Jun 2023

On a different note, I see that Liverpool Ladies will be training at Melwood in future and not the Solar campus. I assume that our income will decline sadly.

Higgy 2 · 8 Jun 2023

Rockford's Love Child said:
It sounds like Everton will play some squad players, so that game could be fairly interesting.

Might see Lewis Warrington turn out for Everton. Or he could play for Fleetwood if he starts the season with them.

bigmart · 20 Jun 2023

Wigan at home Friday 28th July added to the list.

Keith Hill (Bolton) · 20 Jun 2023

bigmart said:
Wigan at home Friday 28th July added to the list.

Decent warm up that, hope Max is still with them with the new owners.

ONIGP · 20 Jun 2023

Keith Hill (Bolton) said:
Decent warm up that, hope Max is still with them with the new owners.

It would be nice if he was playing against them!

ONIGP · 21 Jun 2023

Fleetwood and Wigan in the EFL Trophy.

O4anotherplayoff · 21 Jun 2023

bigmart said:
Wigan at home Friday 28th July added to the list.

They’re also playing at Morecambe the following day so I guess they‘ll be splitting their first team squad between the two games.

bring back the cowshed! · 21 Jun 2023

O4anotherplayoff said:
They’re also playing at Morecambe the following day so I guess they‘ll be splitting their first team squad between the two games.

Hope we can find 22 players by then.

Boz · 21 Jun 2023

ONIGP said:
Fleetwood and Wigan in the EFL Trophy.

Pretty uninspiring.

ONIGP · 21 Jun 2023

Boz said:
Pretty uninspiring.

Very!

Higgy 2 · 22 Jun 2023

Fixtures.
We're Home to Bartow first game.
Wrectum host MK Don's.
We're Away to Don's second game....a chance to see how we compare to Wrectum All Stars early on.

Rockford's Love Child · 1 Jul 2023

Despite my reservations about the way the club has been led in recent months, I am looking forward to the game next Saturday.

It is a novelty to have pretty much the entire core of the squad in place at this stage of pre-season, and it will be interesting to see how Dawes uses the relative embarrassment of riches at his disposal. He has got the options to play any one of 442, a diamond, or 4231 as in the closing weeks of last season.

Will he try and accommodate Dennis, Norris and Saunders, assuming Hemmings is no longer first choice and is possibly on his way out, or will he go for a forward partnership of Dennis and Norris given their success last season ?

We shall see.

Sparky · 1 Jul 2023

I’m also looking forward to the short trip to Vauxhalls next Saturday. Probably more so because we had nothing to play for during the last few months of the season when it was pretty dire. Whereas now we’re starting afresh with the excitement of some positive new signings.

Keith Hill (Bolton) · 1 Jul 2023

Usually,

Rockford's Love Child said:
Despite my reservations about the way the club has been led in recent months, I am looking forward to the game next Saturday.

It is a novelty to have pretty much the entire core of the squad in place at this stage of pre-season, and it will be interesting to see how Dawes uses the relative embarrassment of riches at his disposal. He has got the options to play any one of 442, a diamond, or 4231 as in the closing weeks of last season.

Will he try and accommodate Dennis, Norris and Saunders, assuming Hemmings is no longer first choice and is possibly on his way out, or will he go for a forward partnership of Dennis and Norris given their success last season ?

We shall see.

The make up of the first couple of pre season friendlies, will be two different elevens as the players build up their match fitness and get some minutes and miles in their legs. It won't be first eleven to start, it will be a mixture of young and old.

Keith Hill (Bolton) · 1 Jul 2023

Don't forget that Vauxhall won promotion.