Pre-Season Friendlies announced

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Pre-Season Friendlies announced

Post by Darlo2807 » Tue Jun 05, 2018 3:57 pm

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Re: Pre-Season Friendlies announced

Post by poppyfield » Tue Jun 05, 2018 4:07 pm

No York then, not bothered.
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Re: Pre-Season Friendlies announced

Post by AndyPark » Tue Jun 05, 2018 4:24 pm

poppyfield wrote:No York then, not bothered.
I hope we are getting some kind of fee from them then?

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Re: Pre-Season Friendlies announced

Post by H1987 » Tue Jun 05, 2018 4:24 pm

Good thing we play York in the league eh :mrgreen:

Hope York are sending us a few grand to honour the agreement though.

Oh and what a great line up. Some guaranteed big crowds there I would expect!

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Post by JE93 » Tue Jun 05, 2018 4:32 pm

H1987 wrote:Good thing we play York in the league eh :mrgreen:

Hope York are sending us a few grand to honour the agreement though.

Oh and what a great line up. Some guaranteed big crowds there I would expect!
Echo that some very good friendlies there. Leeds and Motherwell are a nice change. Curtis Main and Ryan Bowman to return to Darlo.

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Re: Pre-Season Friendlies announced

Post by Spyman » Tue Jun 05, 2018 6:01 pm

JE93 wrote:
H1987 wrote:Good thing we play York in the league eh :mrgreen:

Hope York are sending us a few grand to honour the agreement though.

Oh and what a great line up. Some guaranteed big crowds there I would expect!
Echo that some very good friendlies there. Leeds and Motherwell are a nice change. Curtis Main and Ryan Bowman to return to Darlo.
I wonder if they had any involvement in lining them up. Main played with Wright for a little while from what I remember.

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Re: Pre-Season Friendlies announced

Post by al_quaker » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:25 pm

Some interesting pre-season matches lined up - obviously Eindhoven away but Motherwell too should be good.

Been a while since we've had so many home friendlies! I wonder if there will be some sort of multi-buy ticket

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Post by AndyPark » Tue Jun 05, 2018 7:35 pm

al_quaker wrote:I wonder if there will be some sort of multi-buy ticket
I'd hope so, some of those games are quite appealing and will be well attended in my opinion.

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Post by liddle_4_ever » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:43 pm

Is Sunderland the 1st team or a select XI? The article appears to suggest both.

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Post by super_les_mcjannet » Tue Jun 05, 2018 8:52 pm

liddle_4_ever wrote:Is Sunderland the 1st team or a select XI? The article appears to suggest both.

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Post by jjljks » Wed Jun 06, 2018 3:59 pm

Never saw why we agreed the York friendly (away) as any sort of compo for Gray. I Would not have gone there on principle!

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Post by AndyPark » Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:18 am

jjljks wrote:Never saw why we agreed the York friendly (away) as any sort of compo for Gray. I Would not have gone there on principle!
Sure it was for the David Ferguson transfer.

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Post by H1987 » Thu Jun 07, 2018 11:36 am

AndyPark wrote:
al_quaker wrote:I wonder if there will be some sort of multi-buy ticket
I'd hope so, some of those games are quite appealing and will be well attended in my opinion.
Could be a good idea / way to guarantee a good attendance of home fans. I'd expect Sunderland, Boro and Leeds to all bring a sizeable (by Blackwell standards) following.

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Post by Allan Quatermain » Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:20 pm

AndyPark wrote:
jjljks wrote:Never saw why we agreed the York friendly (away) as any sort of compo for Gray. I Would not have gone there on principle!
Sure it was for the David Ferguson transfer.
It was in lieu of compensation for MG.
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Post by Darlo_Pete » Thu Jun 07, 2018 12:27 pm

H1987 wrote:
AndyPark wrote:
al_quaker wrote:I wonder if there will be some sort of multi-buy ticket
I'd hope so, some of those games are quite appealing and will be well attended in my opinion.
Could be a good idea / way to guarantee a good attendance of home fans. I'd expect Sunderland, Boro and Leeds to all bring a sizeable (by Blackwell standards) following.
It'll depend if we are playing their first teams or a youth/reserve team.

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Re: Pre-Season Friendlies announced

Post by theoriginalfatcat » Thu Jun 07, 2018 2:07 pm

Allan Quatermain wrote:
AndyPark wrote:
jjljks wrote:Never saw why we agreed the York friendly (away) as any sort of compo for Gray. I Would not have gone there on principle!
Sure it was for the David Ferguson transfer.
It was in lieu of compensation for MG.
What is going on with this friendly?? I don't intend to go and I was far from happy about why it was agreed in the first place, but agreed it was.

It should of been a way of us getting a little something back from YCFC re the underhand and shabby way in which they tapped up M.G.

We can't afford to let go of this income, so what is going on?
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Post by darlocity » Thu Jun 07, 2018 8:55 pm

Spoke to a couple of York fans today whilst working in York. They state that the friendly would only take place if York were promoted so not in the same league.

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Post by theoriginalfatcat » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:28 am

Thanks for that darlocity. In a way I'm glad it's not going to happen - but on saying that they've kind of screwed us over again!
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Re: Pre-Season Friendlies announced

Post by Darlogramps » Fri Jun 08, 2018 7:41 am

theoriginalfatcat wrote: We can't afford to let go of this income, so what is going on?
What income? A friendly against York would have generated next to no revenue. Wouldn't exactly be a money-spinner - a friendly against a side we'll play at least twice anyway.

So I (and evidently the club) think it can do without this income.

And with all the bad feeling towards MG it would be a total wet fart of a game anyway. The only people who'd look forward to it would have been the MG obsessives who can't let go.

Ultimately, very few people give a stuff anyway, so spare us another York/MG-related whingefest and let's look ahead to one of the freshest pre-seasons we've had in a while. Our annual trips to Whitby and Gateshead were getting a bit repetitive and monotonous.
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