2015/16 pre-season

[malcd1]

Has anyone got any idea where in Austria the training camp is taking place and if there's public access to it. Believe it or not, the club claimed to have no idea!

According to the BWFC website:

The squad flew from Manchester to Vienna, via a connecting flight from Munich, before a coach journey to their training base in Pollau.

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Doesn't say if public access.

[Bijou Bob]

Cheers Malc, I'll just have to see if they throw me out then!

[bobo the clown]

Cheers Malc, I'll just have to see if they throw me out then!

Fan-boy.

Full Kit I hope.

[Bruce Rioja]

10:30 on Wednesday is the open seession, Bob.

[boltonboris]

They're here:

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[boltonboris]

Cheers Malc, I'll just have to see if they throw me out then!

Take your boots, they'll probably offer you a deal

[LeverEnd]

Cheers Malc, I'll just have to see if they throw me out then!

Just don't start going on to Moxey about his debut and comparing him to Gerald Cid like you did on the radio.

[Worthy4England]

Cheers Malc, I'll just have to see if they throw me out then!

Just don't start going on to Moxey about his debut and comparing him to Gerald Cid like you did on the radio.

Perhaps we should let him know that Bob's looking for autographs @therealmox_21

[Harry Genshaw]

Cheers Malc, I'll just have to see if they throw me out then!

Take your boots, they'll probably offer you a deal

Or they'll think that Zach Clough has aged a lot since last season. And lost a couple of inches

[LeverEnd]

Cheers Malc, I'll just have to see if they throw me out then!

Take your boots, they'll probably offer you a deal

Or they'll think that Zach Clough has aged a lot since last season. And lost a couple of inches

He'll definitely get kicked out if he tries to prove that.

[TonyDomingos]

10:30 on Wednesday is the open seession, Bob.

There a little bit more information here http://mobile.bwfc.co.uk//news/article/ ... 28617.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Don't break anything!

[ChrisC]

Does anybody think Lennon will try for three at the back this pre season?

He tried and failed mid season but may give it another go with a full pre season to push it on the lads.

[malcd1]

Does anybody think Lennon will try for three at the back this pre season?

He tried and failed mid season but may give it another go with a full pre season to push it on the lads.

I'm not sure he will try in pre-season but he certainly likes that formation. If he gets the right personnel, I think he will try again.

[Bijou Bob]

I'll tell you on Saturday!

[Bruno3]

Does anybody think Lennon will try for three at the back this pre season?

He tried and failed mid season but may give it another go with a full pre season to push it on the lads.

I'm not sure he will try in pre-season but he certainly likes that formation. If he gets the right personnel, I think he will try again.

Nice to see the "reserves" are being brought up in the true BWFC tradition of conceding goals in the last minute, whether with 3 at the back or not. If any of them make it to the first team they will slot right in - no bother.

[ChrisC]

15 minutes of pre season

[General Mannerheim]

can some of you more informed football peeps post your heart and head formations for the start of next season? im well out of date with who's who and who's not... feel free to incl TBS (to be signed) players...

[ChrisC]

If Lennon decides to try 352 again..

-------------------------Amos

-----------Dervite------Osede-------Ream


Feeney-------Pratters---------Vela----------Ryan Taylor

---------------------- Mavies

---------------Clough---------Clayton


Things will change though because I can see another coming in up top to add strength. Madine and Heskey to be bit part players.

Midfield could be anything with Spearing.. Medo.. Danns to rotate.

[bobo the clown]

15 minutes of pre season

TWILIGHT .... just for you ...

@ 7min 50 sec

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

A reminder: here's the 26-man squad in Austria, with added Ream (at Gold Cup) and Wheater (injury rehab), in a vaguely squad-position order.

Ben Amos
Ross Fitzsimons
Hayden White
Oscar Threlkeld
David Wheater
Tim Ream
Derik Osede
Dorian Dervite
Niall Maher
Quade Taylor
Andy Kellett
Dean Moxey
Medo Kamara
Neil Danns
Darren Pratley
Jay Spearing
Liam Trotter
Filip Twardzik
Josh Vela
Mark Davies
Tom Walker
Liam Feeney
Rob Hall
Max Clayton
Zach Clough
Stephen Dobbie
Emile Heskey
Gary Madine

Everything is based on large assumptions, but here goes:

3-5-2
...........Madine...Clough.........
..................Mavies..................
Kellett...Pratley...Vela...Feeney
......Ream..Wheater..Osede......
..................Amos..................

(potential positional alternatives: Dervite in the back three, Moxey on the left, Heskey up top, Clayton for Mavies or up top

Trouble with this system – apart from the fact we played it for the last four months of the season and got fecked like a crack whore – is that it requires good wingbacks. I've high hopes for Kellett (not least as otherwise it's Moxey) and I think Feeney does the best he can, but you wouldn't say either is among the division's leading lights in that position. I'm sure Lennon will want a real right-(wing)back, who can defend as well as overlap. Which might allow us to play...


4-2-3-1
...our best formation last season, until ALF's arrival prompted a rejig.

.............Madine............
Clayton..Clough..Feeney
.........Mavies.....Vela......
Kellett-Ream-Wheater-???
...............Amos..............

Sacrifices Pratley's engine, but the youthful vigour of the "3" should help flood the midfield - in which case it's all about the transition to attack once we gain possession. Oh and we haven't got a right-back, unless we sign one, or Hayden White or Oscar Threlkeld impress in pre-season, or we continue to jam Vela there.

I haven't even mentioned Medo or Spearing, which is perhaps telling. I'm sure if we could lay off their wages we would. It's not like we're short of central midfielders, as Lennon famously noted before recruiting five more (Bannan, Twardzik, Slavchev, Coke and Lussey).