Pre Season 2023

[cdbearsfan]

Team haven't just been training since their arrival in Oz, they're also all set for an emergency call-up to IACGMOOH if need be.
https://twitter.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1546461457235472387

Coutinho seems VERY pleased to see them.

[RamboandBruno]

All the way down to Bournemouth is where we play our first league game. It takes another flight because it's so far away.
then first game is an early Everton start.
And to add potential Covid difficulties with all this travel, fatigue could be a problem. But that's looking at it most negatively.

We'll have to have faith that the players' individual duty to take care of themselves and be ready, as well as the accuracy of the fitness and conditioning  coaching instruction, to be correct.
SG totally wants that squad fit and firing, consistent and prepared, but the lengthy preseason and then having that first match journey,  could prove tour to be a mistake.

I believe the idea is by the end of the tour, all of the players will have integrated into the SG playing style and bonded, and those are the positives that must be taken.

It takes 3 hours to get to Bournemouth from Brum, its hardly timbucktoo

[cdbearsfan]

Not impossible that they fly there. Man U flew to Leicester away, last season.

[cdward]

The whole idea of pre season is not just fitness, but team building and bonding as well.
 It helps the players get to know each other doing other things (koalas), and being away from home together helps to bond  them as a team, as they are living, eating, sleeping, training and playing together. 
You just know the likes of McGinn and Martinez will be the jokers in the pack, Young and Mings will be the leaders, the young players will become part of the group and the new players will hopefully settle in easier.
It’s not all about the football at this stage of the season.

PS anyone know which of the younger ones travelled? Chuk, Archer, Irog, any others?

[Brazilian Villain]

You just know the likes of McGinn and Martinez will be the jokers in the pack, Young and Mings will be the leaders, the young players will become part of the group and the new players will hopefully settle in easier.

Pretty sure I saw an interview with one of the players last season and they said Konsa was the most talkative player in the squad which surprised me.

[sid1964]

Saw the photos of Spurs pre-season training in Thailand? yesterday, looked as though most of the players were collapsed on side of the pitch through exhaustion.

Hopefully our trip to Australia will benefit the group with a lot of hard work and not just taking photos in the usual tourist hot spots,
don't want to read on here that the players don't look fit when the season starts.

[ldavfc4eva]

That is Elmo on the right of the photo isn’t it?

[Clampy]

I can imagine it now if we lose our first game. 'We' d have won that if we hadnt spent pre-season arsing around with Koala Bears'.

[PaulWinch again]

Saw the photos of Spurs pre-season training in Thailand? yesterday, looked as though most of the players were collapsed on side of the pitch through exhaustion.

Hopefully our trip to Australia will benefit the group with a lot of hard work and not just taking photos in the usual tourist hot spots,
don't want to read on here that the players don't look fit when the season starts.

Well clearly but equally do we know that your players being on the floor is a good thing? Or that it’s not just a nice bit of PR?

[Ads]

That's a special kind of whinge.

[sid1964]

I love a good whinge.

Notice there are only 50 tickets left for Rennes, that is fantastic support.

[Risso]

I can imagine it now if we lose our first game. 'We' d have won that if we hadnt spent pre-season arsing around with Koala Bears'.

You flamin' galahs!

[Footy-Vill]

I can imagine it now if we lose our first game. 'We' d have won that if we hadnt spent pre-season arsing around with Koala Bears'.

Emi Buendia out jumps a kangaroo.

[London Villan]

Anything has to be better than the Goodbye Grealish Riverside BBQ we had last season.

[ChicagoLion]

Anything has to be better than the Goodbye Grealish Riverside BBQ we had last season.

Too right, it seemed t set the tone.