Two more friendlies confirmed (1 Viewer)

Coventry La La La · May 5, 2011

THE Sky Blues have confirmed two more pre-season friendlies ahead of the start of the 2011/12 npower Championship campaign.

Andy Thorn's side will travel to face both Kettering Town and Chesterfield, adding to the already scheduled friendly at Hinckley Town.

City will travel to the Elgoods Brewery Stadium to face Kettering Town on Saturday July 23, kick off 3pm, before making a midweek trip to face Chesterfield at the B2net Stadium on Tuesday, July 26, kick off 7.45pm.

TheRoyalScam · May 5, 2011

When do we play Barcelona?

covcity4life · May 5, 2011

i want a big game at the ricoh,get inter milan now we have staidum built lol

has espanyol and WBA in recent years,hopefully we can get some sort of big team in for a friendly

Disorganised1 · May 5, 2011

Expect Newcastle for a friendly ~ say no more

kg82 · May 5, 2011

Disorganised1 said:
Expect Newcastle for a friendly ~ say no more

Think you've kind of said everything!!

canningt · May 5, 2011

why don't we get leicester over for a "friendly"

tippex9 · May 5, 2011

Disorganised1 said:
Expect Newcastle for a friendly ~ say no more

Newcastle Town from Stafford.....

We'll_live_and_die · May 9, 2011

Kettering and Chesterfield…. Anyone seen who the Leicester scum have got.....

http://www.lcfc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10274~2354397,00.html

I wish our owners had the vision to provide an entertaining brand of football like theirs! I don’t like Leicester but I’d love their owners.

rob9872 · May 9, 2011

That's not a great idea imo. It will be a full house but they'll probably get stuffed and won't be good for confidence. Winning can be a good habit and help the mind-set. Pre-season should be about gaining fitness, togetherness, match practice trying a few new things from training and gradually building for the season ahead. Going full-pelt to show how good you are against Real Madrid and risking collecting an injury because your body isn't prepared is not what I would want to see.

I like to see squads get away from it all and play teams already into their season like Scandanavia but I guess that's out of our budget at the moment.

ajsccfc · May 9, 2011

We nearly had Juventus at the Ricoh a few years back before Ranieri pulled the plug.

We'll_live_and_die · May 9, 2011

If we got a top team down the Ricoh it'd be a sell out. A much needed injection of cash? Even if they only charged a tenner per ticket and lets say £50 corporate your still talking £350k. I know I wouldn't miss it.

ajsccfc · May 9, 2011

It'd need to be one of the big names I think, I was flabbergasted a team of the quality of Udinese only got like 5 or 6000 in.

rob9872 · May 9, 2011

The reason Leicester can get them there is not to make money (hence they don't need it). You have to pay money to get teams like RM to play you.

Walking Bird · May 9, 2011

I know it sounds a good idea to get a top European side to play a friendly before the season kicks off. But it can have a hell of a negative effect.
I remember City playing Ajax at Highfield Road & getting an absolute hammering!!
The players were totally shell shocked & all confidence was gone before the season had even kicked off...

We'll_live_and_die · May 9, 2011

ajsccfc said:
It'd need to be one of the big names I think, I was flabbergasted a team of the quality of Udinese only got like 5 or 6000 in.

Udi who. It'd need to be a big team like Real, Barca, Juve, Inter, AC, Chelski, Man Utd etc. A mid table team just wouldn't cut it.

rob9872 · May 9, 2011

Benfica was the same too - 6-1 or 6-2 something like that if I remember

ajsccfc · May 9, 2011

Rich said:
Udi who.

You are kidding here right?

We'll_live_and_die · May 9, 2011

ajsccfc said:
You are kidding here right?

of course I'm kidding

TheRoyalScam · May 9, 2011

Walking Bird said:
I know it sounds a good idea to get a top European side to play a friendly before the season kicks off. But it can have a hell of a negative effect.
I remember City playing Ajax at Highfield Road & getting an absolute hammering!!
The players were totally shell shocked & all confidence was gone before the season had even kicked off...

I thought we drew with Ajax and got hammered by Benfica. George Boateng played as a wing-back in Ajax's 3-5-2, and we signed him later that season. Wasn't the Benfica match part of the Isaias transfer deal? They played us off the pitch!

ajsccfc · May 9, 2011

We got Boateng from Feyenoord rather than Ajax, was it them we played?

Walking Bird · May 9, 2011

Forgot about Benfica.

I'm pretty sure Ajax beat us easily as it was the start of the season after we had sold Keane & had Roussell up front pretty much on his own & it was only an Ajax xi.

We did play Feyenoord, seem to remeber it being an evening game cause their fans trashed the away end.
The Udinese game was a farce, Really dirty game with players getting injured & nearly coming to blows.

mattylad · May 9, 2011

Walking Bird said:
Forgot about Benfica.

I'm pretty sure Ajax beat us easily as it was the start of the season after we had sold Keane & had Roussell up front pretty much on his own & it was only an Ajax xi.

We did play Feyenoord, seem to remeber it being an evening game cause their fans trashed the away end.
The Udinese game was a farce, Really dirty game with players getting injured & nearly coming to blows.

4 or 5 nil I think...we hardly touched the ball unless it was a throw in or a goal kick............

mattylad · May 9, 2011

Just remembered we beat Everton

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