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HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - Lord Snooty - 08-06-2022
Sat July 16th. Harrogate away. 12:00
Sat July 16th. Doncaster away. 15:00
Sat July 23rd. Tranmere away. 12:00
Sat July 23rd. Bolton away. 15:00
RE: HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - Lord Snooty - 10-06-2022
Two games now on July 16th.
The actual season gets underway on July 30th.
RE: HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - WakeyTerrier - 10-06-2022
9 weeks from the end of the play offs to the start of the new season doesn't give much downtime for the players. On the other hand its less time for them to get out of shape.
RE: HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - theo_luddite - 10-06-2022
Most of the pros these days daren't get out of shape the way those of (mostly) our, er, "experienced in life" generation used to do by going to Majorca or Ibiza and getting pissed for 2-3 weeks (or maybe a month). It was after all Big Frank's idea of a relaxing week or two when Liverpool told him his blood pressure was too high (or so the nurse doing his medical reported, whether she wrapped the blood pressure "sleeve" round his arm or just looked at another part of his anatomy and drew her own conclusions is anyone's guess).
They are all given fitness & weight goals and are tracked at home/abroad over t'interweb with the all the fancy dan monitoring stuff available these days. Many were also tracked during Covid, several sharticles appeared in The Unexamined about it at the time with players running up and down steps with their kids on their shoulders.
I wouldn't doubt they still go for a holiday in the Med or even the Caribbeens and beyond, but I also don't doubt they all have to take their "tracking kit" with them.
Hope there isn't a train strike on the 16th, how else are the players going to turn up at both games? Isn't that taking "double training sessions" to a bit of an extreme?
RE: HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - Lord Snooty - 17-06-2022
Tranmere away 23rd July.
RE: HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - Lord Snooty - 12-07-2022
Town playing Morecambe today at the Millers Oils High Performance Complex.
RE: HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - Lord Snooty - 12-07-2022
2-0 up at half time. Ben Jackson with both.
Rhodes gets the third and it's 3-1 at full time.
RE: HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - Lord Snooty - 16-07-2022
We've arrived in sunny Donny. A proper football ground. The stewards don't steal your food and drinks like at that disgraceful dump where we played the play offs final.
And got in for a fiver instead of £98.
Team line up is the first team. But no Toffolo or O'Brien. Subs seem to be the same as at Harrogate. I assume they're rusting down the A1 for the second half.
Kick off delayed. Subs not here yet.
RE: HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - Lord Snooty - 16-07-2022
Goal less at half time. It's like watching a friendly.
Eleven kids on for last half hour.
Donny get a pen.
1-0
RE: HTFC pre season friendlies 2022 - Lord Snooty - 16-07-2022
Diarra looked good. Unless he gets sent on loan, he'll be in the first team squad soon.
Grant looked ok. Got in some good positions. But at the end of the day, we lost to Doncaster flipping Rovers.
Quote of the day from the know it all nine year old behind us; Russell's like Paul Pogba. Too slow!
