Pre-Season July/August 2016 (and Olympic Stadium opening ceremony)

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  • IronHerbIronHerb
    I would guess not ;biggrin
  • LukerzLukerz
    Maybe Slav is now Argentina Olympic manager ;hmm
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Olympics not for a month or so?
  • MarkNobleLocalHeroMarkNobleLocalHero
    Only two weeks and we find out who we play on the 28th
    Something I am not quite getting here. The second leg of the first round qualifier is played next Thursday 7th July. The second round qualifier 1st and 2nd legs are on 14th and 21st July. My question is how can a draw for the third round qualifier be made in two weeks when the second round qualifier is still not sorted?
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    So West Ham will be drawn against the winners of match 'A', so it's an either or type draw.
  • MarkNobleLocalHeroMarkNobleLocalHero
    Ah ha I see.
    I guess the most important thing for us is whether we are drawn at home or away for the first leg.
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    Team news for the 1st pre-season game:
    West Ham will be without their Euro 2016 and a number of other international players, including Dimitri Payet, James Collins, Angelo Ogbonna, Darren Randolph, Cheikhou Kouyate and Enner Valencia.
    Read more at http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2016/July/4-July/Preview-Seattle-Sounders#1wPRMxHBfCjR1AZK.99

  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited July 2016
    OS interview with Slav

    We have a game with Seattle Sounders on Tuesday evening…

    “It’s not ideal [to play a fixture so early in pre-season], but we have trained for a few days and on Monday on a bigger pitch so the players can play on Tuesday.
    ...
    “Normally you like to train for at least a week or ten days before the first game, so it’s not ideal like this, but hopefully it’s going to be all right.”

    Read more at http://www.whufc.com/News/Articles/2016/July/5-July/Exclusive-Super-Slaven-speaks#DftOi9QyQRcTiuql.99
    He really doesn't sound happy about it.

    In which case, you really have to ask who organised it, and why are we playing it?
  • grey_til_I_dyegrey_til_I_dye
    edited July 2016
    Doesn't sound like it is great for Seattle, either...

    http://www.seattletimes.com/sports/sounders/sounders-prepare-for-untimely-west-ham-united-friendly/
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Sounds very much like someone moosed up ;doh
  • Slaven_Cups_His_BeardSlaven_Cups_His_Beard
    Yep, seems like a poor decision to play this week, Sounders have been poor this season, they're struggling, played off the park first 60 mins at TFC at the weekend and somehow got a draw (TFC's failing more than anything). July is a very busy month in the MLS and we're only just back training, bit strange really
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    It's all about the money
  • stevesteve
    hope we took a big treatment table ;biggrin
  • Slaven_Cups_His_BeardSlaven_Cups_His_Beard
    have a look at a picture of our new signing Feghouli treading on Carroll's foot/ankle in training.....

    ;nonono
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    I saw that. ;lol
  • eskimokingeskimoking
    What do we think the line up will be? Something like:
    Adrian
    Byram Reid Burke Cresswell
    Obiang Nordveit
    Feghouli Lanzini Samuelson
    Carroll
  • tomkinsworldclasstomkinsworldclass
    Would be nice to see Byram get a strong pre-season run out at RB as he could turn out to be a vital player for us in the new campaign. Also I'd Love to see samuelson hit the ground running as well, with the amount of games we could potentially have next season he could make a real impact. I'm going to try and wake up and watch it but it will be tough!
  • horshamhammerhorshamhammer
    Soundly beaten, 3-0. Bilic out.
  • LukerzLukerz
    edited July 2016
    Wake up to one particular headline "Seattle ensure nightmare pre-season start for West Ham". ;doh

    I hate pre-season games and the media exposure they get.
  • Expat_HammerExpat_Hammer
    If only we had Tonks in defence ;puzzled
  • WHU_Champo_league_in_7_yearsWHU_Champo_league_in_7_years
    Pretty sure we had an underwhelming pre season last year too

    Apparantly from the little I've heard Feghouli looked a real threat, Martinez linked up really well with him and Brown & Page also gave a good account of themselves
  • HappyHammer_ishHappyHammer_ish
    feghouli looked very good...
    Martinez looked quite decent too...
    Browne and page did well...
    Nordveit showed his very good passing range...
    And the kid Quina looks like a very bright talent..
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    Starting like last pre season.
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    38k people there, quite impressive for a preseason game in a country where Football is what the fifth / 6 or 7 sport.

    Nice that we sent all those fans home smiling.....
  • MrsGreyMrsGrey
    edited July 2016
    vorse - that attendance jumped out at me when I read the match report ;ok


    Attendance: 38,585

    ;nonono Amazing!
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    They have 50,000 odd for MLS games.
  • VorselaarhammerVorselaarhammer
    50k wow football does finally seem to have a foothold in the land of rhe free...
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    image
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Nah!
  • TwistandShoutTwistandShout
    Didn't even know we had a game ;lol
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