Summer Friendlies 2024 (p8 - lost to Millwall, standard)

Pavoren007 said:

Slovenia is beautiful and I have no idea whether the club intends a fan tie in for the trip, but if they do and you can afford a few extra days, I would highly recommend visiting Lake Bled and Ljubljana…?

My offspring went there a couple of years ago and loved it. Apparently, they also do excellent horse meat (there’s got to be a song in there somewhere…)

valleynick66 said:

Callumcafc said:

Looks like the Welling friendly might be off the table.

IF true that would be an own goal by our owners without a proper explanation. 

Hopefully just conjecture.  

Do many really care about welling fixture?

Genuine question as I've never been bothered about it really.

If it made way for a fixture that better prepared us for the season I'd prefer that. 

What is the link between the clubs and how long back does it date back as  'tradition'?

Appreciate it probably has a significant financial boost for Welling but other than us being charitable to a random club why is this fixture seen by some as sacred?

TelMc32 said:

valleynick66 said:

Callumcafc said:

Looks like the Welling friendly might be off the table.

IF true that would be an own goal by our owners without a proper explanation. 

Hopefully just conjecture.  

Bit rich about not playing the ball. It was Welling not playing the ball last year that saw them clobber Leaburn.  If they want to go round kicking players, let them play the spanners and the stripey mob. It’s certainly not an own goal by the owners, although some might want to gripe about anything they can jump on. 

Nonsense.  An over exuberant tackle / clash can happen any time. 

Would like to keep the welling game, but not play too many other non league teams like Dartford and Wealdstone like last year.  

Wrong thread?

This has happened a few times in recent years with the club umming and arring over it until the last moment when a friendly finally gets sorted. The discourse on CL usually plays out with half the comments being "Who cares, is this WellingLife for f*cks sake?" and the other half "This is a tradition and we should help out local non-league teams". 

As Welling are my other team I fall on the latter side, but it looks like the same scenario is playing out again. 

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Valley11 said:

Perhaps NJ doesn’t fancy it and wants the players to be tested against a different opposition. 

Seriously who cares? 

It’s a kick-start, warm-up game for the fans, not the players, that signals the count down to the new season. It wouldn’t surprise me if the week before sees the sales of shirts etc spike.

I really doubt that the sales of shirts (that won’t be on sale yet) spike for Welling away 

valleynick66 said:

TelMc32 said:

valleynick66 said:

Callumcafc said:

Looks like the Welling friendly might be off the table.

IF true that would be an own goal by our owners without a proper explanation. 

Hopefully just conjecture.  

Bit rich about not playing the ball. It was Welling not playing the ball last year that saw them clobber Leaburn.  If they want to go round kicking players, let them play the spanners and the stripey mob. It’s certainly not an own goal by the owners, although some might want to gripe about anything they can jump on. 

Nonsense.  An over exuberant tackle / clash can happen any time. 

It’s not the fault of the fixture it’s one player getting it wrong on one occasion. 

We are a third division team not premier league and not necessarily a sought after fixture for that many teams. 

As I stated IF true an explanation should be provided is all I said. 

It didn't look like an over exuberant tackle, more like a deliberate foul.

ElfsborgAddick said:

NabySarr said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Valley11 said:

Perhaps NJ doesn’t fancy it and wants the players to be tested against a different opposition. 

Seriously who cares? 

It’s a kick-start, warm-up game for the fans, not the players, that signals the count down to the new season. It wouldn’t surprise me if the week before sees the sales of shirts etc spike.

I really doubt that the sales of shirts (that won’t be on sale yet) spike for Welling away 

A few clubs start selling their shirts before July, this gives supporters a chance to parade their new tops on holiday etc.  I am sure we would sell more tops if this was the case.

A shame we are unable to do this, although I imagine there is a very good reason for this.

Because we are nowhere near the priority list for castore, or any other supplier. It's been years since we had a kit available in the summer and it's getting later and later. 

We've even struggled to have kids kits for Xmas in recent years. 

shine166 said:

ElfsborgAddick said:

NabySarr said:

letthegoodtimesroll said:

Valley11 said:

Perhaps NJ doesn’t fancy it and wants the players to be tested against a different opposition. 

Seriously who cares? 

It’s a kick-start, warm-up game for the fans, not the players, that signals the count down to the new season. It wouldn’t surprise me if the week before sees the sales of shirts etc spike.

I really doubt that the sales of shirts (that won’t be on sale yet) spike for Welling away 

A few clubs start selling their shirts before July, this gives supporters a chance to parade their new tops on holiday etc.  I am sure we would sell more tops if this was the case.

A shame we are unable to do this, although I imagine there is a very good reason for this.

Because we are nowhere near the priority list for castore, or any other supplier. It's been years since we had a kit available in the summer and it's getting later and later. 

We've even struggled to have kids kits for Xmas in recent years. 

You're probably not too far off the mark with that.

valleynick66 said:

redbuttle said:

valleynick66 said:

TelMc32 said:

valleynick66 said:

Callumcafc said:

Looks like the Welling friendly might be off the table.

IF true that would be an own goal by our owners without a proper explanation. 

Hopefully just conjecture.  

Bit rich about not playing the ball. It was Welling not playing the ball last year that saw them clobber Leaburn.  If they want to go round kicking players, let them play the spanners and the stripey mob. It’s certainly not an own goal by the owners, although some might want to gripe about anything they can jump on. 

Nonsense.  An over exuberant tackle / clash can happen any time. 

It’s not the fault of the fixture it’s one player getting it wrong on one occasion. 

We are a third division team not premier league and not necessarily a sought after fixture for that many teams. 

As I stated IF true an explanation should be provided is all I said. 

It didn't look like an over exuberant tackle, more like a deliberate foul.

However we describe it that is down to the player not the fixture. 

If it were the category of fixture / Welling status we would never have previously played them. 

Thanks for the explanation. 

TelMc32 said:

valleynick66 said:

Callumcafc said:

Looks like the Welling friendly might be off the table.

IF true that would be an own goal by our owners without a proper explanation. 

Hopefully just conjecture.  

Bit rich about not playing the ball. It was Welling not playing the ball last year that saw them clobber Leaburn.  If they want to go round kicking players, let them play the spanners and the stripey mob. It’s certainly not an own goal by the owners, although some might want to gripe about anything they can jump on. 

I'm not overly fussed by Welling either way, though I do like the idea of staying connected to local clubs. But because of that tackle, I'd say it's probably best to wait another year at least before playing them again. Obviously bad tackles happen in friendlies, whatever, but it turned out to be quite impactful on how we started the season. If I were leadership at the club, I would worry about retaliation, and then retaliation for the retaliation, etc. Everyone take a breath, we'll pick back up next year.

Just put the kids out v Welling like we do other non league clubs.