Pre-season Friendly vs. FC Sochaux-Montbéliard - 17th July

[Zurichsaint]

http://www.fcsochaux.fr/en/index.php?lng=en

 

Saints are to play FC Sochaux-Montbéliard, a top flight French team, on 17th July. Time and place not yet determined, but its after Sochaux have finished their training camp near the Swiss border.

 

I wonder when our club were planning on telling us?

[beatlesaint]

11.25pm on 16 July

[boxosponge]

http://www.fcsochaux.fr/en/index.php?lng=en

 

 

I wonder when our club were planning on telling us?

 

Perhaps when the time and place of the match have been arranged

 

Le lieu et l'horaire restent à déterminer.

[Gorgiesaint]

Ah a French team, I went onto the websites of all of the top league Swiss clubs this afternoon looking for pre-season friendlies - no sign of Saints playing anyone.

[marc_saint]

 

Saints are to play FC Sochaux-Montbéliard, a top flight French team, on 17th July. Time and place not yet determined, but its after Sochaux have finished their training camp near the Swiss border.

 

Funny that they should have their training base near the swiss border..... As that's where they are from!

[SuperMikey]

Sochaux would be a good friendly, they're a good team. About on par with Sunderland perhaps. The close geographical proximity to Switzerland would suggest that we'll be playing around that area on tour, so all signs point to Switzerland!

[Thatchamsaint]

Also noticed from the Winchester City website fans forum that we are playing them on Saturday 10th July at 3.00 p.m, again this has not been advertised by Saints at all and is only 11 days away tomorrow.

[oxfordshire_saint]

Due to Sochaux releasing the friendly details ahead of it appearing on the OS, Cortese will now cancel the friendly, ban Sochaux players, officials and fans from ever setting foot inside St Marys and never deal with them again :-P

[La BoIS Saint]

How difficult is it for the **** Cortese to let us know anything? ****ing unbelievable!

[Block 5]

Lowe out!

[westofshannonsaint]

Also noticed from the Winchester City website fans forum that we are playing them on Saturday 10th July at 3.00 p.m, again this has not been advertised by Saints at all and is only 11 days away tomorrow.

 

not announced on the Winchester City OS either

[once_bitterne]

How difficult is it for the **** Cortese to let us know anything? ****ing unbelievable!

 

It certainly is unbelievable.... We almost didn't have a club last year but now fans call the new Chairman a **** for not giving enough notice of pre season games!

 

If you had forgotten the owner has taken us from Admin to having the strongest squad in the League, oh yeah we went to Wembley and won a Cup too.

 

I find it amazing that what some fans think most important in their football club is good channels of communication and brilliant PR. Call me old fashioned nut I don't give a crap about those things and instead prefer to judge how things are going on the pitch.

[once_bitterne]

P.s I would imagine somewhere in the village of Withington a certain R. Lowe is chuckling away to himself....

[Saint_clark]

Also noticed from the Winchester City website fans forum that we are playing them on Saturday 10th July at 3.00 p.m, again this has not been advertised by Saints at all and is only 11 days away tomorrow.

 

This will be a Saints 11 game, not a first team game, and those have NEVER been announced on the OS. There is a game at Weymouth every single year without fail and yet it has not once been up on our official site.

[Ponty]

Indeed.

[Dave Benson Phillips]

It certainly is unbelievable.... We almost didn't have a club last year but now fans call the new Chairman a **** for not giving enough notice of pre season games!

 

If you had forgotten the owner has taken us from Admin to having the strongest squad in the League, oh yeah we went to Wembley and won a Cup too.

 

I find it amazing that what some fans think most important in their football club is good channels of communication and brilliant PR. Call me old fashioned nut I don't give a crap about those things and instead prefer to judge how things are going on the pitch.

 

Bradley

 

You might not like to watch Saints play, many people do and many people like to actually attend the pre-season friendlies, although it seems we are not welcome anymore.

[suewhistle]

I'm driving back from Italy about then: that would make a reasonable stop-off point. Brilliant, just checked ViaMichelin and it's just off my normal route home via Besancon.

[suewhistle]

Incidentally, ta ZurichSaint: I'd had a mooch around Google the other day without finding anything. We'll still leave you with the Schweizerdeutch searches OK? I'll keep an eye on Ticino!

[La BoIS Saint]

It certainly is unbelievable.... We almost didn't have a club last year but now fans call the new Chairman a **** for not giving enough notice of pre season games!

 

If you had forgotten the owner has taken us from Admin to having the strongest squad in the League, oh yeah we went to Wembley and won a Cup too.

 

I find it amazing that what some fans think most important in their football club is good channels of communication and brilliant PR. Call me old fashioned nut I don't give a crap about those things and instead prefer to judge how things are going on the pitch.

 

So basically you would be pretty happy if Saints won every game of the season and stormed the league in front of no fans because no one could find out when we were playing? Bizarre.

[skintsaint]

So basically you would be pretty happy if Saints won every game of the season and stormed the league in front of no fans because no one could find out when we were playing? Bizarre.

 

what a silly point

 

Sochaux will be a good warm up, top flight European team. Only hope its not part of a deal for Morgan though...

[trousers]

Call me an ignorant old fool, but I've never heard of this French team before now!

[NickG]

trousers you are an ignorant old fool.

[trousers]

trousers you are an ignorant old fool.

 

You sir, are very astute :-)

[ericofarabia]

what a silly point

 

Sochaux will be a good warm up, top flight European team. Only hope its not part of a deal for Morgan though...

 

ouch ..... hope you are wrong about that little detail!!

[shirleysfc]

So we're playing away to a French team and they don't even know where or exactly when it is and this is all NC's fault because he doesn't want saints fans there?

 

Some of you need to stop finding fault in everything NC and the club does. You're getting obsessed!

[NickG]

I hope it was tongue in cheek - unless those moaning have really lost the plot!

[Dave Benson Phillips]

I hope it was tongue in cheek - unless those moaning have really lost the plot!

 

Nicholas, many people going on a Saints pre-season tour, I know it is absolutely impossible for you to be able to look at something from another persons perspective, but there is absolutely no reason why they couldn't have announced the location of the tour earlier ( Echo have known about it for a month ) . I know alot of people ( including myself and friends ) who were looking to book the pre-season tour as their summer holiday. 2 weeks away and still no announcement from the club means that now effectively nobody can go. Yeah, nice one.

[shirleysfc]

I hope it was tongue in cheek - unless those moaning have really lost the plot!

 

Having read some of the stuff on the other NC thread I'm not so sure. It seems some people aren't happy without a bit of drama in their lives.

[NickG]

seems that location and time are yet to be agreed - but still NC should have announced it!

[shirleysfc]

Nicholas, many people going on a Saints pre-season tour, I know it is absolutely impossible for you to be able to look at something from another persons perspective, but there is absolutely no reason why they couldn't have announced the location of the tour earlier ( Echo have known about it for a month ) . I know alot of people ( including myself and friends ) who were looking to book the pre-season tour as their summer holiday. 2 weeks away and still no announcement from the club means that now effectively nobody can go. Yeah, nice one.

 

The team we're playing away against don't even know where the game is, what exactly are you expecting the club to tell you!!

[Scummer]

Echo have known about it for a month

 

What do the Echo know about? Have they released details?

[Dave Benson Phillips]

What do the Echo know about? Have they released details?

 

They said it was in Switzerland, no doubt gagged by the club from releasing exact dates and venue, but they stated they knew where and when it was and it was in Switzerland, in the Pink about a month ago.

[Dave Benson Phillips]

The team we're playing away against don't even know where the game is, what exactly are you expecting the club to tell you!!

 

Southampton FC will be attending a pre-season training camp in xxxxxxxxx in Switzerland. The dates are from 10th July to 17th July. We will play 2 friendlies during this time on 12th and 17th July, venue and dates to be confirmed.

 

Are you telling me that haven't booked their training base weeks/months ago? All fans require is the date and area of Switzerland, as the friendlies will be in easy reach of the training base. That would allow people to book hotels/flights.

 

Or is this another example of someone who is not affected shouting down someone who had planned to go on the pre-season tour this year and as a result, is affected.

[shirleysfc]

Southampton FC will be attending a pre-season training camp in xxxxxxxxx in Switzerland. The dates are from 10th July to 17th July. We will play 2 friendlies during this time on 12th and 17th July, venue and dates to be confirmed.

 

Are you telling me that haven't booked their training base weeks/months ago? All fans require is the date and area of Switzerland, as the friendlies will be in easy reach of the training base. That would allow people to book hotels/flights.

 

Or is this another example of someone who is not affected shouting down someone who had planned to go on the pre-season tour this year and as a result, is affected.

 

I'm not shouting you down at all, it just seems that some people are determined to find fault in everything the club does.

 

And yes, it does affect me as I intend on going to this match but I'm not getting my knickers in a twist because the club haven't told me their plans.

[Dave Benson Phillips]

I'm not shouting you down at all, it just seems that some people are determined to find fault in everything the club does.

 

And yes, it does affect me as I intend on going to this match but I'm not getting my knickers in a twist because the club haven't told me their plans.

 

I didn't intend on going to the match, I intended on having my holiday in the area of Saints training camp, and catching a few games. As I said on another thread... I have been quite openly questioning the whereabouts of the venue for months, so I haven't just made it up as an excuse to have another pop at Cortese.

[saint.tom.clancy]

I didn't intend on going to the match, I intended on having my holiday in the area of Saints training camp, and catching a few games. As I said on another thread... I have been quite openly questioning the whereabouts of the venue for months, so I haven't just made it up as an excuse to have another pop at Cortese.

 

But you've only been registered this month?

[wild-saint]

no its you who is unbelievable.

[mikee]

I didn't intend on going to the match, I intended on having my holiday in the area of Saints training camp, and catching a few games. As I said on another thread... I have been quite openly questioning the whereabouts of the venue for months, so I haven't just made it up as an excuse to have another pop at Cortese.

 

If Cortese had the mis-fortune of reading this site, you could forgive him for not wanting to let you know where the team were going for a couple of weeks of relaxation and training / team bonding. I should imagine that your vitriolic, not to mention, schizophrenic, campaign is justification enough for all of the actions you are berating him for.

[dune]

If Cortese had the mis-fortune of reading this site, you could forgive him for not wanting to let you know where the team were going for a couple of weeks of relaxation and training / team bonding. I should imagine that your vitriolic, not to mention, schizophrenic, campaign is justification enough for all of the actions you are berating him for.

 

Nothing could make Cortese a bigger **** than he already is.

[Dave Benson Phillips]

If Cortese had the mis-fortune of reading this site, you could forgive him for not wanting to let you know where the team were going for a couple of weeks of relaxation and training / team bonding. I should imagine that your vitriolic, not to mention, schizophrenic, campaign is justification enough for all of the actions you are berating him for.

 

When I first questioned the club about a pre-season tour in January, I was very much pro-Cortese.

[the saint in winchester]

not announced on the Winchester City OS either

 

If you check your calendar, you will see those days/dates don't match with the 2010 calendar. I believe they are 2009 dates. All the content is old 2009 content.

They are no longer Winchester City, they are Winchester Football Club. (although we are still a city, with cathedral! :-) )

The new website is www.winchesterfootballclub.co.uk

I am told the reference is in the forum area, but last night and again this morning I can't get access to that area. Probably all us Saints fans trying to read this area at once! :-)

[bungle]

Can see both points of view. Having been on pre-season tours in the past they are great fun and really enjoyable.

 

However, if I was manager of a team taking them on a pre-season training week with a couple of early fixtures, I probably wouldn't want any fans there.

[saint J]

So basically you would be pretty happy if Saints won every game of the season and stormed the league in front of no fans because no one could find out when we were playing? Bizarre.

 

I think you'll find we all know when and where we are playing in the league as I think I'm right in saying the league fixtures have been released you muppet!

[Bakovnetski]

Nothing could make Cortese a bigger **** than he already is.

 

Considering that without his efforts this time last year we wouldn't have a club now, or won a cup, or have the stongest squad in L1, one couldn't agree more....(c*ck!)

[Saints67]

So there is a chance we could be playing FC Sochaux-Montbéliard for the Ted Bates Trophy at St.Mary's or does the article state the friendly will be played at Sochaux's ground?

[SaintRichmond]

When I first questioned the club about a pre-season tour in January, I was very much pro-Cortese.

 

Saviour or not, Cortese should learn the meaning of TWO WAY COMMUNICATION

 

Run SFC as a Business by all means Nicola

 

But, never forget ....YOUR SUPPORTERS ARE HUMAN BEINGS

[Window Cleaner]

doubt if it will be at St Mary's, perhaps somewhere near Divoone les Bains, Gex perhaps or even Geneva.

Might go along, must be about 300 miles from here

[Giordano]

I have gone overseas for preseason tours with saints and would do so again if i could have advance notice of when they were. I think they are a great way for a typical fan to get close and bond with the team in a way impossible when you roll up to SMS or an away fixture. Ive loads of stories from meeting the likes of crouch, strachan, claus, anders svensson, Beats, van damme etc from them + priceless memories. If the overseas fixture / friendlies have been booked and organised ( and by now if they happening mid july id have thought they would be) as much advance notice to supporters as possible seems the obvious thing. The only reason for no official confirmation is that they are unconfirmed and/or Pardew does not want supporters watching training matches. The latter i find unlikely, so it must be there are unconfirmed issues. I dont believe its an anti supporter conspiracy by cortese in the slightest and its rather sillly to think otherwise.

I can subscribe to the " could do better on the supporter PR front" but i don't think we are deliberately not being told as some kind of weird snub to fans who enjoy seeing the team play and try out different tactics ( and players) in no pressure matches....always instructive to me anyway and a helpful guide to the players real personalities.

[Dan]

I hope it was tongue in cheek - unless those moaning have really lost the plot!

 

You obviously have no intention of travelling, so why bother leaving a comment. It doesn’t affect you, go comment on a thread that does.

 

Some of us do, so travel arrangements, booking holiday from work, hotels etc. All needs to be sorted. It has been left extremely last minute but in reality we still don’t know where to book to.

[NickG]

think you failed to understand the comment.