Football Thread 2024/25

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For all your footbally needs this coming season...
I've already hopefully going to watch Watford v Brentford, Bristol City v Willem II and Spurs v Bayern in pre season, also hoping to be able to go to see the Stags away at Orient and Charlton. Obvs got a season ticket as well which have sold out, think it will be a tough season for us as I think league 1 is a strong league, but hopefully we can stay up. I'm not one of these delusional fans that thinks we can push into the playoffs! Keep your expectations low (with your football team) and you might be surprised.
Fixtures for the FL out on June 26th I think? But with Sky covering all the games, lots of them will be moved to friday night, saturday lunchtime and sunday kick offs.
What do you think your team will do next season?

[Paddy]

Avoiding relegation is the biggest aim for this season (Ipswich) and getting promoted is the aim for the season (Dereham)

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PL fixtures were out yesterday, with Ipswich v Liverpool the standout match from the first Saturday, with Chelsea v 115 FC the following day.

[Paddy]

115 FC? I know it's man city but the meaning?

Yes 12.30 tv game so Ipswich will ruin a few accumulators

[Panda]

Jun 19, 2024 14:28:37 GMT 1 Paddy said:

115 FC? I know it's man city but the meaning?

The number of charges they're facing over their financial operations.

[Panda]

Marske United back in Division 1 of the Northern League (step 5) after their resignation from the Northern Premier League. Fixtures out this weekend. No expectations for the coming season, just about consolidation and building towards a promotion push in the future. Will be nice to visit some old friends from when we were last at that level, six years ago, plus some new places. For me personally, it'll be good having less travelling, especially as most away games will be closer than the home games.

[Paddy]

Jun 19, 2024 14:58:35 GMT 1 Panda said:

Jun 19, 2024 14:28:37 GMT 1 Paddy said:

115 FC? I know it's man city but the meaning?

The number of charges they're facing over their financial operations.

Cheers, hadn't heard the number of charges before now. 

[Paddy]

Dereham Town FC pricing

2024-25 Ticket Pricing
- Adults £8
- U16s £3
- Concession £5

(Forces and key worker special - £5 entry upon showing of valid ID at turnstile)

2024-2025 Season Tickets
- Adults £99
- Over 65s £59
- U16s £29

Adult season ticket was £90 but still, 99 is about 3 Norwich games in the Championship.

[raliverpool]

A new season ... with a new manager ... it has been a long time since that has been the case...

Fingers crossed our Michael Van Gerwen look (& sound a fair bit) alike is our Paisley to Klopp's Shankly.

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Footy fixtures out for the FL, Stags have Barnsley away on the friday night live on Sky!
I'd have gone to it, but I'm down in London the next day, so it's too close a clash for me.
After looking at April's fixtures, we need to have enough points on the board before then to be safe!
I think we will get relegated, but I'm hoping we can do enough to stay up, and to be safe in mid table would be wonderful for our first season back at this level in 20+ years!

[Panda]

First preseason game for Marske United on Tuesday night but more importantly, the club's first first team game of 2024. New management, new squad and very good performance as they beat Knaresborough Town 2-1.

[Paddy]

First pre season game for dereham. Away at swaffham 2-0 win

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Obviously a lot of movement on the transfer front.
Archie Gray from Leeds to Spurs for 30m, and Rodon in the other direction for 10m sorts out their FFP, but they've also sold Cresswell to Toulouse for 3.8m and Llorente is going to Real Betis.
Max Dean an ex Leeds youth who was at MK last season is also going to Toulouse for 1.7m which sounds amazing for a league 2 player, but he is only 20 I guess?
One that caught my eye was Max Kilman moving from Wolves to West Ham for 40m! And apparently Maidenhead who sold him to Wolves for 40k get 10% of that and 4m which should really help them out!
Oh and Olise from Palace to Bayern for 50m!
Stags and Peterborough were trying to sign Lewis Brunt from leicester who we had on loan last season, and aparrently our offer was above Peterborough's, and then Hollywood United blow out offer and wages out of the water and he signs for them instead

[Panda]

3 friendlies under the belt for Marske now. Beat Percy Main (who are 2 levels below) 6-0 on Saturday then last night lost 2-1 to Spennymoor Town (who are 3 levels higher) with a 90th minute goal. Really encouraged by what I've seen so far from this group of players.

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Who'd have thought trying to buy tickets for a Watford friendly vs Brentford would be so difficult! "page not found" after I've selected it and then try and pay for it, but never get to the card details point, and now it's saying my password is wrong, so I've asked to reset it and they haven't sent me an email! Hopefully Spurs Bayern will be smoother when my colleague gets the tickets...

[Razzle Dazzle]

Jul 9, 2024 13:15:19 GMT 1 o said:

Obviously a lot of movement on the transfer front.
Archie Gray from Leeds to Spurs for 30m, and Rodon in the other direction for 10m sorts out their FFP, but they've also sold Cresswell to Toulouse for 3.8m and Llorente is going to Real Betis.
Max Dean an ex Leeds youth who was at MK last season is also going to Toulouse for 1.7m which sounds amazing for a league 2 player, but he is only 20 I guess?
One that caught my eye was Max Kilman moving from Wolves to West Ham for 40m! And apparently Maidenhead who sold him to Wolves for 40k get 10% of that and 4m which should really help them out!
Oh and Olise from Palace to Bayern for 50m!
Stags and Peterborough were trying to sign Lewis Brunt from leicester who we had on loan last season, and aparrently our offer was above Peterborough's, and then Hollywood United blow out offer and wages out of the water and he signs for them instead

Apparently Alan Devonshire who played for West Ham for 14 years has been Maidenhead manager for almost 10 years now, 4m will be huge for them

[Razzle Dazzle]

Bayern also just signed  Fulham midfielder Palhinha, he will be a huge miss for them

[suedehead]

Jul 10, 2024 22:44:17 GMT 1 Panda said:

3 friendlies under the belt for Marske now. Beat Percy Main (who are 2 levels below) 6-0 on Saturday then last night lost 2-1 to Spennymoor Town (who are 3 levels higher) with a 90th minute goal. Really encouraged by what I've seen so far from this group of players.

Isn’t it a bit unfair to expect Percy to play on his own? 

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Jul 11, 2024 21:14:53 GMT 1 suedehead said:

Jul 10, 2024 22:44:17 GMT 1 Panda said:

3 friendlies under the belt for Marske now. Beat Percy Main (who are 2 levels below) 6-0 on Saturday then last night lost 2-1 to Spennymoor Town (who are 3 levels higher) with a 90th minute goal. Really encouraged by what I've seen so far from this group of players.

Isn’t it a bit unfair to expect Percy to play on his own? 

The friendly against Keith should go a bit better for Percy.

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So who will replace Southgate?
Let the chaos begin!
I wish him all the best, thoroughly likeable bloke who may have had easy runs, but you can only beat the teams in front of you! And took us to two Euro finals, something no-one has ever done before. Should we be doing better with this squad, or are these players not quite as "incredible" as the media would have us believe?
Maybe the next person can get us playing more exciting football, but do we have the defence to cope with that?