September/ October International break

[Football Special]

Its going to really drag this one. 

Wrexham away on 19th September then no other games until Pompey at home 11th October 

FIFA decided to scrap the individual September / October breaks and merge them into one with international teams playing up to 4 matches across the break. 

Squads expected to be announced later this week. 

Saints will lose some key players with 

Peretz (Israel) 

Manning (Ireland) 

Azaz (Ireland) 

Larin (Canada) 

Mubama (England u21s) 

Think all the others will probably get a few days off in the first week to recharge their batteries. 

[Gloucester Saint]

Oh well, quite a few Cheltenham Town games to watch in that time. 

[Whitey Grandad]

Ridiculous. 

[Patrick Bateman]

1 hour ago, Football Special said:

Its going to really drag this one. 

Wrexham away on 19th September then no other games until Pompey at home 11th October 

FIFA decided to scrap the individual September / October breaks and merge them into one with international teams playing up to 4 matches across the break. 

Squads expected to be announced later this week. 

Saints will lose some key players with 

Peretz (Israel) 

Manning (Ireland) 

Azaz (Ireland) 

Larin (Canada) 

Mubama (England u21s) 

Think all the others will probably get a few days off in the first week to recharge their batteries. 

It'll drag and be boring as hell, but ... I'm quite glad it's just one break and not two. We can get the squad back together and focus then in a longer block. Just annoying the first game back is against that lot. 

[ecuk268]

Larin's playing in Minnesota on Wednesday 7th, so maybe back on Thursday.

Not much time to recover for Sunday.

[RedArmy]

With a bit of a thinner squad this year the 2 breaks might have actually suited us, good chance to rest up for most of the squad twice before the winter. 
 

Very annoying that we’ve been stitched up with Pompey at home after an international break again too. 
 

It’s slightly better this year with not having Will Still and it also not being the first game after the window shut. But i still expect it be a bit of a flat performance, 3 weeks of not playing together is a long time.