Pre-Season 2022/23

[samhaydenjr]

Thought I should start a thread for this pre-season, which has shockingly started already and there have already been Irish interest - as mentioned in his own thread, Georgie Kelly scored for Rotherham. Also:

New cap CJ Hamilton was on target as Blackpool beat Southport 2-0: https://www.blackpoolfc.co.uk/news/2022/july/02/report--southport-0-blackpool-2/

Luke McNally played 34 minutes of the first half for Burnley against Rochdale, Kevin Long played the full half, while Dara Costelloe was part of an U23 side that lined out for the second half: https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/content/friendly-report-burnley-1-0-rocdhale

Former Cork City youngster Ricardo Dinanga got 45 minutes in Coventry City's 3-1 win over Leamington: https://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/2022/july/report-leamington-1-3-sky-blues/

Darragh Lenihan started his first game at Middlesbrough against Bishop Auckland. Calum Kavanagh featured for the second half and came close to scoring on several occasions: https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/five-star-boro-kick-off-with-a-victory

With injuries affecting the contingent at Norwich, Tony Springett was the lone Irish representative in a 4-0 defeat of Dereham: https://www.canaries.co.uk/content/city-breeze-past-dereham-in-first-pre-season-friendly

Sean Maguire only lasted seven minutes of Preston's game with Bamber Bridge before going off injured. Greg Cunningham played the full first half: https://www.pnefc.net/news/2022/july/match-report-bamber-bridge-preston-north-end/

A trio of Irish players featured for QPR in their 2-0 win over Uxbridge - Jimmy Dunne for the first half, Conor Masterson and Olamide Shodipo for the second: https://www.qpr.co.uk/fixtures/first-team/2022/qpr-v-uxbridge/?tab=report

[tetsujin1979]

The season is starting early in England because of the world cup in November

[CraftyToePoke]

Seems Ryan Cassidy is in trial at Swindon & scored yesterday in their friendly.

[nigel-harps1954]

Seems Ryan Cassidy is in trial at Swindon & scored yesterday in their friendly.

Looked very poor at Bohs this season.

[tetsujin1979]

Liam Kerrigan included in Como's squad for preseason training: https://comofootball.com/en/first-day-of-pre-season-camp-in-bormio/

Below are the squad members who left for the retreat: Tommaso Arrigoni, Racine Ba, Alessandro Bellemo, Davide Bertoncini, Alex Blanco, Pierre Bolchini, Edoardo Bovolon, Andrea Cagnano, Enrico Celeghin, Alberto Cerri, Moutir Chajia, Filippo Delli Carri, Elia Di Giuliomaria, Alessandro Gabrielloni, Massimiliano Gatto, Ettore Gliozzi, Alessio Iovine, Elvis Kabashi, Liam Kerrigan, Matteo Piombino, Filippo Scaglia, Matteo Solini, Marco Tremolada, Gabriele Verga and Luca Zanotti.

Suggestions from John Fallon in the examiner that they're scouting Adam O'Reilly as well: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-40911443.html

That will see him keep the gaze on Ireland, with Adam O'Reilly the latest target. The Cork youngster worked under Bircham[ex-Waterford manager Marc Bircham is on the coaching staff at Como] at Waterford and his latest loan from Preston North End, to St Patrick's Athletic, is up for renewal in three weeks. Don't rule out an Italian job entering the equation.

[elatedscum]

Jonny Kenny scored 2 for Celtic and Rocco Vata scored 1 in a win against an Austrian minnow. Bosun Lawal and James McCarthy both started, Lawal at centre half.

[tetsujin1979]

All goals on Celtic's youtube channel
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[Eirambler]

It's a pity they seen to be trying to develop Lawal as a centre back and not a central midfielder. Plenty of good young Irish centre backs knocking around already obviously.

[Razors left peg]

It's a pity they seen to be trying to develop Lawal as a centre back and not a central midfielder. Plenty of good young Irish centre backs knocking around already obviously.

I think he played in midfield for the Celtic B team last season, I have a vague memory of that anyway, so it may have just been a case of getting everyone minutes yesterday and get him on the pitch anywhere.

[JR89]

I think he played in midfield for the Celtic B team last season, I have a vague memory of that anyway, so it may have just been a case of getting everyone minutes yesterday and get him on the pitch anywhere.

Pretty sure he played mostly at CB and it's where he played with the U19s. Though Crawford played him midfield last summer but since his move to Celtic he's played CB at his own age group with us.

Unless they feel he's better suited to playing CB than CM it would be nice if he played CM at international level with us. We're stacked for CBs but lacking in holding midfielders, especially ones that are physical midfield players rather than ball playing midfielders.

[elatedscum]

Think he was primarily a CM for Watford and a CB for Celtic. Internationally he played centre mid for the 17s, centre back for the 19s and got a few minutes in midfield for the 21s.

Lawal is very much a wait and see type case. Declan Rice was a centre-mid for us all the way through, but he broke through initially at West Ham at centre-half. Generally, if you're good enough to play in centre-midfield, that's where you'll end up...

[Razors left peg]

1st and foremost lets hope he can get some 1st team football soon and see where he goes from there.

[samhaydenjr]

A few games tonight:

As noted in his own thread, Calum Kavanagh scored twice for Middlebrough against York:https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/match-report-york-city-2-boro-3

Conor Coventry played the full game for West Ham in their pre-season opener against Servette, Armstrong Okoflex for the last half-hour:https://www.whufc.com/news/west-ham-make-winning-start-pre-season-servette

[tommy_c12000]

No sign of our Norwich boys again for their second friendly game. Hopefully we will see them soon…

[tommy_c12000]

No Moran, Ferguson or Connolly for the first or second half teams for Brighton today as well…

[CraftyToePoke]

Shane Flynn got 45 for Leicester V Notts County today. Think he lost a chunk of last season to the obligatory worst possible timing for an injury which afflicts many of our emerging players, having made match day panels in the EL the season before.

[samhaydenjr]

Time to fire up the tea leaves, as the Premier League pre-season gets going:

The next One to Watch? Tommi O'Reilly played the second half for Villa against Walsall andset up the third goal: https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/match-reports/aston-villa-player-ratings-walsall-24445347

Jake O'Brien and Tayo Adaramola both played the second half for Crystal Palace in their 5-4 win over Millwall, who had Danny McNamara in their second-half line-up. O'Brien scored Palace's third, while Adaramola was involved in the build-up for the fourth: https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/pre-season/crystal-palace-v-millwall-in-pre-season-live-blog-and-match-report/2022-07-09/

And In the Championship:

Maybe we shouldn't write off James Collins just yet -he opened the scoring for Cardiff against Cambridge - Joel Bagan also scored: https://www.cardiffcityfc.co.uk/news/pre-season-match-report-cardiff-city-3-2-cambridge-united

Robbie Brady played the first 45 for Preston against Tranmere: https://www.pnefc.net/news/2022/july/match-report-pne-0-tranmere-rovers-1/

All three Irish lads at QPR (Dunne, Masterson and Shodipo) played the second half against Crawley, with Shodipo getting an assist on the third goal (unfortunately they conceded three in the last 30 minutes, which doesn't bode well for the defenders: https://www.qpr.co.uk/fixtures/first-team/2022/crawley-town-v-qpr/?tab=report

Kian Leavy can now say he's played against Benfica, coming off the bench for Reading in their defeat to the Portuguese giants: https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2022/july/09/pre-season-reading-vs-benfica/

If you were down at The Cross this evening, you would have seen Gavin Kilkenny get thirty minutes against City: https://twitter.com/stokecity/status/1545820956588998659?cxt=HHwWhoC8vYn-7fMqAAAA

And of course Michael Obafemi scored, opening Swansea's account against Forest Green, with Ryan Manning also playing the first half: https://www.swanseacity.com/news/swansea-city-continue-pre-season-victory-over-forest-green-rovers

O'Shea, Molumby and Robinson all featured in West Brom's defeat at Stevenage: https://www.wba.co.uk/news/stevenage-2-0-albion

[tetsujin1979]

I think O'Reilly isn't eligible, despite having his nationality as Republic of Ireland on his profile on Villa's website.
He was called into an U19 training camp - https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/u19-35-called-up-for-dublin-training-camp - but that's the only time he was involved with the national side. There's a few posts on YBIG saying he's not eligible

[Eirambler]

I think there was a post on the (now defunct) Republic of Ireland Player Tracker Twitter page saying that he wanted to play for us so the FAI brought him in for a training camp, but when they looked into his eligibility he didn't actually qualify to play for Ireland. Something similar happened with Gardner-Hickman from West Brom also.

[elatedscum]

Kelleher doesn’t make Liverpool’s preseason tour squad, no reason given. Of the other players who didn’t travel, they are about half half moving vs injured…

[samhaydenjr]

I think O'Reilly isn't eligible, despite having his nationality as Republic of Ireland on his profile on Villa's website.
He was called into an U19 training camp - https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/u19-35-called-up-for-dublin-training-camp - but that's the only time he was involved with the national side. There's a few posts on YBIG saying he's not eligible


I think there was a post on the (now defunct) Republic of Ireland Player Tracker Twitter page saying that he wanted to play for us so the FAI brought him in for a training camp, but when they looked into his eligibility he didn't actually qualify to play for Ireland. Something similar happened with Gardner-Hickman from West Brom also.

Ah, that's disappointing

[tetsujin1979]

Ryan Nolan has played in two of Northampton Town's pre season games so far
Played the second half against St Mirren on Tuesday: https://www.ntfc.co.uk/matches/fixtures/first-team/202223/july/-vs-northampton-town-on-05-jul-22/#report
Northampton played a different set of eleven players in each half

Half an hour on Friday against Dundee: https://www.ntfc.co.uk/matches/fixtures/first-team/202223/july/-vs-northampton-town-on-07-jul-22/#report

[tetsujin1979]

Article on U20 squad player Tom Hill, he's included in Liverpool's squad for preseason in the far east
https://www.thisisanfield.com/2022/07/the-feel-good-story-from-liverpools-travelling-squad-to-far-east/

[Razors left peg]

Interesting bit on Spurs Preseason from The Athletic today...

https://theathletic.com/3414849/2022/07/11/antonio-conte-is-showing-his-spurs-stars-no-mercy-as-pre-season-heats-up-in-korea/

"They may have athletic and footballing talents that we mere mortals could only dream of matching, but there was something extremely relatable about the struggles of the Tottenham Hotspur (https://theathletic.com/team/tottenham-hotspur/) players in Seoul on Monday night.
Collapsing, some struggling for breath, all absolutely exhausted. This was a brutal pre-season training session played out in close to 30-degree heat with extreme humidity in front of around 6,000 supporters at the imposing Seoul World Cup Stadium. But for all the pageantry around it, there was a very bleep-test-in-school-PE feel to it. That sense of exhaustion, of nothing more to give, of “please make it stop”.
Everyone present could feel it keenly from the stands.
Harry Kane (https://theathletic.com/player/premier-league/tottenham-hotspur/harry-kane/) was the first to go, collapsing off the pitch in some discomfort — he even vomited — and requiring a cold towel on his neck. Son Heung-min soon joined him, along with Lucas Moura (https://theathletic.com/player/premier-league/tottenham-hotspur/lucas-rodrigues-moura-da-silva/) and Yves Bissouma (https://theathletic.com/player/premier-league/tottenham-hotspur/yves-bissouma/).
For Kane and Son, given extended leave after playing post-season internationals, the two sessions on Monday were their first proper training sessions of this pre-season. But there was no mercy from Antonio Conte and fitness coach Gian Piero Vetrone — the man whose brutal methods have earned him the nickname “The Marine”.
The players who lasted until the end completed 42 laps of the pitch (some with short breaks in between), taking in a total of around 4,200 meters, all done at pace, in extreme heat and humidity and after an already demanding session. Players like Kane and Son, who have only just come back from internationals, were given a maximum of 30 laps. Watching Troy Parrott (https://theathletic.com/player/premier-league/tottenham-hotspur/troy-parrott/), who returned earlier from national team duty, finish the final lap strongly and lead the way had the feel of a middle distance runner “kicking” after the bell had rung for the final lap."

[samhaydenjr]

Scott Hogan looks in good form - second in two games: https://www.bcfc.com/news/all/report-portimonense-1-1-blues

Good to see Andrew Omobamidele back on the pitch, let's hope Idah isn't far behind: https://www.canaries.co.uk/content/kings-lynn-town-match-report

[culloty82]

James Abankwah and Festy Ebosele both play the full second half of Udinese's first pre-season friendly, the latter providing two assists:

https://www.udinese.it/news/squadra/rapid-lienz-udinese-0-11

[tommy_c12000]

https://www.udinese.it/news/squad/rapid-lienz-0-11-udinese A full second half for both Ebosele and Abankwah in a 11-0 friendly win. Abankwah involved in one of the goals according to their Twitter page. Promising that there were also a few unused subs, and they still got a run out. Also appears the 3-5-2 formation was used. I had read their new manager did not use wing backs which wasn’t ideal for Ebosele, perhaps he is open to wing backs?

[tetsujin1979]

Anselmo Garcia MacNulty played the second half of Wolfsburg's friendly against WSG Tirol on Saturday. The whole game is on YouTube, second half starts below on 49:25 with MacNulty wearing number 18
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[samhaydenjr]

Joshua Kayode scored a late equalizer for Rotherham against Salford City: https://www.themillers.co.uk/news/2022/july/match-report-for-salford-city-vs-rotherham-united-on-13-jul-22/

Troy Parrott got 15 minutes for Spurs against Team K League: https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2022/july/pre-season-begins-with-big-win-over-team-k-league/

Joe Patrick played in Getafe's victory over Preston: https://www.getafecf.com/Noticia/tabid/137/Article/8373/Victoria-en-el-primer-amistoso.aspx

[Stuttgart88]

The players who lasted until the end completed 42 laps of the pitch (some with short breaks in between), taking in a total of around 4,200 meters, all done at pace[/B]Must be a very small pitch!

[liamoo11]

https://www.pinkun.com/sport/norwich-city/canaries-ncfc-dean-smith-kings-lynn-town-reaction-9139568 idah back for game tomorrow

[samhaydenjr]

West Ham played two friendlies on Tuesday - Conor Coventry and Armstrong Okoflex played in what looks like the stronger team against Ipswich: https://www.whufc.com/news/zouma-and-chesters-stall-tractor-boys - Darren Randolph played in the other team against Boreham Wood: https://www.whufc.com/news/ogbonna-returns-action-boreham-wood-draw

[Demesne Lad]

Two for Darragh Burns and one for Conor Grant as MK Dons beat Norwich U-23s 6 - 0 today. Adam Idah played 40 mins for the Canaries.

[JR89]

Two for Darragh Burns and one for Conor Grant as MK Dons beat Norwich U-23s 6 - 0 today. Adam Idah played 40 mins for the Canaries.

Quiet a bit of Irish involvement in this game with Devoy and Burns playing 90mins, Grant 60mins, and O'Hora came on for the last 30mins. Springett also played 75mins for Norwich.

Killian Phillips coming in for praise in Palace's 2-0 loss to Liverpool. Played 65mins and both Adaramola and O'Brien played the last 25mins.

[samhaydenjr]

McNally, Costelloe and Cullen all featured for Burnley in their win against Shrewsbury. Jordan Shipley scored for Shrewsbury: https://www.burnleyfootballclub.com/content/friendly-report-shrewsbury-town-1-3-burnley

[samhaydenjr]

Second goal in two games for Joshua Kayode in Rotherham's 1-1 draw with Mansfield - he was replaced shortly after by Georgie Kelly. Ogbene and Kioso also featured: https://www.themillers.co.uk/news/2022/july/match-report-for-mansfield-town-vs-rotherham-united-on-16-jul-22/

James McClean still has an eye for goal, scoring Wigan's first against Oldham: https://wiganathletic.com/news/2022/july/16/match-report-oldham-athletic-1-latics-3/
West Ham's internationals returned for their 1-1 draw with Reading - Conor Coventry still got close to half an hour of game time, while Randolph was an unused sub. Hendrick, Leavy and Long all featured for the Royals: https://www.whufc.com/news/vlasic-nets-internationals-return-reading-draw

James McCarthy got some more minutes for Celtic against Blackburn, Johnny Kenny was an unused sub: https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/july/16/report--celtic-xxx-rovers/

No sign of Idah yet, but Omobamidele played the first half in Norwich's 3-0 win over Marseille, Springett was an unused sub: https://www.canaries.co.uk/content/marseille-v-norwich-city-match-report

All three Irish senior lads at QPR were second-half subs against Hallescher FC: https://www.qpr.co.uk/fixtures/first-team/2022/hallescher-fc-v-qpr/?tab=report

[JR89]

No sign of Idah yet, but Omobamidele played the first half in Norwich's 3-0 win over Marseille, Springett was an unused sub: https://www.canaries.co.uk/content/marseille-v-norwich-city-match-report


Idah played 40mins against MK Dons for the U23s yesterday. Forgot to add it in when retyping my post yesterday.

[tetsujin1979]

James McCarthy got some more minutes for Celtic against Blackburn, Johnny Kenny was an unused sub: https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2022/july/16/report--celtic-xxx-rovers/
Rocco Vata and Bosun Lawal also played the last fifteen minutes in that game
https://www.celticfc.com/news/2022/july/16/celtic-held-by-blackburn-rovers-in-first-pre-season-game-at-celtic-park/

[Predator]

Duffy and Ferguson played from 60 minutes in Brighton's 4-1 win vs Estoril. Full game here: https://youtu.be/sKNvVLD0BD4
EDIT: See 1:57 for some Duffy showboating. :eek:


https://youtu.be/sKNvVLD0BD4?t=7020

[culloty82]

Abankwah and Ebosele both start for Udinese today:

https://twitter.com/KennysKids/status/1548694964758102017

[culloty82]

Indeed, the former Pats man played the full 90:

https://www.udinese.it/news/squadra/udinese-ilirija-lubiana-3-0

[samhaydenjr]

Gavin Bazunu not in Southampton's squad against Klagenfurt. Will Smallbone plated the first half:https://www.southamptonfc.com/news/2022-07-18/match-report-austria-klagenfurt-vs-southampton-pre-season-friendly-202223

Troy Parrott got some more game time against Sevilla, replacing Kane on 72 minutes. Doherty played the second half: https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2022/july/sevilla-v-spurs-match-report-in-korea/

Conor McCarthy and Luca Connell played the full 90 in Barnsley's scoreless draw with Forest. William Hondermarck was a second-half sub: https://www.barnsleyfc.co.uk/news/2022/july/forest-report/

[Eirambler]

Barnsley fans seem impressed with Connell. Though I remember Celtic fans being the same after a pre season match a couple of years ago and he didn't play another game for them after that. Hopefully he can kick on this time.

[tetsujin1979]

Crystal Palace playing Man United in Australia this morning, Phillips starting, O'Brien and Adaramola on the bench
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[elatedscum]

Saw Conor Noss scored for Monchengladbach a few days ago

[JR89]

Crystal Palace playing Man United in Australia this morning, Phillips starting, O'Brien and Adaramola on the bench
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Good chance for Phillips to impress with Palace having to leave so many senior players behind because of vaccination rules. Might even help get him a decent loan move.

[samhaydenjr]

This Phillips lad seems to be making good progress, playing the first 65 minutes. Adasamola and O'Brien did come on as second-half subs: https://www.cpfc.co.uk/news/match-reports/live-blog-manchester-united-v-crystal-palace-at-the-mcg/2022-07-19/

Two goals in the end for Georgie Kelly against Doncaster, with the assist on both occasions coming from Peter Kioso: https://www.themillers.co.uk/news/2022/july/report--doncaster-v-rotherham/
Mark Sykes on the scoresheet for Bristol City against Forest Green: https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/report-bristol-city-3-1-forest-green-rovers/

Jeff Hendrick on target again for Reading, this time against AFC Wimbledon: https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/2022/july/19/pre-season-wimbledon-reading-report/

Calum Kavanagh was a second-half sub for Middlesbrough against Morecambe: https://www.mfc.co.uk/news/match-report-morecambe-0-boro-3

Great to see Adam Idah back - played the first half for Norwich against Cambridge; Omobamidele came on for the second: https://www.canaries.co.uk/content/cambridge-united-match-report

Gavin Kilkenny played the full hour for Stoke in their defeat to Bristol Rovers: https://www.stokecityfc.com/news/2022/july/19/match-report/

[pineapple stu]

Two goals in the end for Georgie Kelly against Doncaster, with the assist on both occasions coming from Peter Kioso: https://www.themillers.co.uk/news/2022/july/report--doncaster-v-rotherham/
I think you've read the same goal twice there. He only got the second goal. Odoffin got the first

[tetsujin1979]

Harvey Neville was a second half substitute for Inter Miami against Barcelona last night
https://www.intermiamicf.com/news/match-recap-inter-miami-cf-faces-fc-barcelona-for-historic-friendly-at-sold-out-

[Eirambler]

Nothing like a bit of nepotism to ensure a run out when Barca are in town.