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What ever happened to playing pre season matches at home.
This close season has allready become one huge anti-climax after the two wins on the trot end to the drabness of an annual relegation struggle.
Is anything happening to give us something to make the coming season interesting or is it going to be yet another play for eight or nine wins and sod the cups?
A few decent pre season games at home may help that and who knows it could even help the team and prepare them for that first home game.Premier League teams (and even in the old days “First Division” teams) play very few home friendlies. Even long ago when I watched Liverpool they never played a home friendly.
Smaller clubs prefer to have the kudos of a Premier League team (albeit often a collection of second stringers) visit their ground and attract their fans, than have to travel to a Premier ground with little support and really nothing in it for them.
The same goes for foreign teams. If you actually look at the friendlies planned for Premier League teams you will see that most are away, except for one game at home in the last weekend, almost all of which are against Spanish or Italian opposition.
http://www.epltalk.com/2011-preseason-friendlies/
Our game against Villareal has been added at the foot of the comments.
What ever happened to playing pre season matches at home.
This close season has allready become one huge anti-climax after the two wins on the trot end to the drabness of an annual relegation struggle.
Is anything happening to give us something to make the coming season interesting or is it going to be yet another play for eight or nine wins and sod the cups?
A few decent pre season games at home may help that and who knows it could even help the team and prepare them for that first home game.Because if you’re playing at home you need to pay for services, staff, caterers, stewards and the police, and you usually end up footing the bill for the visiting team and in some cases pay them a fee for playing.
When you stack this up against the four figure crowd you attract in, you end up losing money.
Put simply, it’s not worth it financially.
How come all the other teams have 4-5 friendlies yet we only have 2? Also, the game against Colwyn Bay isn’t even our first team, it is a Wigan XI so it will mainly be under 18 and reserve players playing. Surely we can’t only be playing one friendly?
There will be more than that. It seems all a bit hush hush though.
Sammon, i think it was, commented on Twitter last week that we were spending pre-season in Sweden and China.
There will be more than that. It seems all a bit hush hush though.Sammon, i think it was, commented on Twitter last week that we were spending pre-season in Sweden and China.
How the hell does he know you are spending the pre season in Sweden ;)
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