It's likely to be a stronger XI than what we had for our final preseason friendly last year
I get that tickets were relatively expensive and the Lens match hadn't been announced, but bit too much moaning about the likely line up TBH
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It's likely to be a stronger XI than what we had for our final preseason friendly last year
I get that tickets were relatively expensive and the Lens match hadn't been announced, but bit too much moaning about the likely line up TBH
Bait and switch. Feel for bad for the Irish because I only paid £23 at OT yesterday.
Hope many of the first team travel and make an appearance.
Hope many of the first team travel and make an appearance.
I hope none of them do, they played yesterday and seasons starts in a week, I hope they focus on recovery. Sucks for anyone going today but that's less important than proper preparation.
Where’s Fred? Hasn’t played a single minute of pre season. He’s busy sorting a transfer himself?
apparently tickets (€90) went on sale for this before the Lens game was announced which would’ve made it our last pre season game and perfect timing for a full strength side. Safe to say it’s understandable why so many people are pissed off. I know people travelling from all ends of the country with their kids to see the match.
€90 a ticket for a friendly? That’s mental.
I thought the Edinburgh ones were well overpriced at £30/40 a pop.
Feel for the folk going to the stadium today. At least it’s not going to be the kids, but it’ll still sting a bit. That’s the chance you take with a friendly I guess.
It's not the line up its the way the club conned Irish fans. That's what has me angry. My (3) tickets were €75 that's extortionate and then the club announced another fixture after the sale of Bilbao tickets.
Total scam. No fecking hope of a sell out if fixtures were known at the time.
It’s awful from the club. Fans should have at least been told they were planning another friendly on the Saturday. Let the fans make up their own mind.
As long as the people complaining here aren’t the same ones defending it for the Wrexham game (which was disappointingly loads - and this’ll be a much stronger team anyway) then yeah, it’s another bit of shitty profiteering from the club.
No it wasn’t - it was billed as a youth focused team supplemented by players from the reserves. This was sold out before the Real Madrid game was later announced.
What a load of rubbish. No Irish fan paid 3 times the price of an OT friendly ticket to see the likes ofTom Heaton, Brandon Williams and a host of players waiting to be loaned or sold. It’s very simple - fans were completely conned by the club.
it’s like buying a €75 ticket to an event to meet the cast of the Breaking Bad and you get there and the staff from Los Pollos Hermanos are there offering selfies. It’s a scam!
Given the huge Irish fanbase (plus others heading over to Ireland for a weekend on the piss), I think it would have been a sell out regardless but probably would have been people who are less bothered about who exactly is playing and just happy to see any Man Utd team on show
It was always known that an OT game would be announced at some point, I do agree that having 2 games in 2 days is a bit weird though and would have been better if the whole preseason schedule was announced at the same time
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That's basically what I meant, not the first team, it was never misleading. Unlike the Dublin game.
Martial is injured. He should be back in 2034
That's an ambitious timeline
I think it was still quite misleading as it ended up being a wholly reserves team, rather than supplemented by the reserves
Maybe, I always thought it was academy and reserves.
Total scam.
Like prepaying for Michelin star dinner and getting a fecking supermarket pork chop.
Fuxk it I'm holding out hope that at least a few of them travel and warm up etc or maybe even get a few mins
Unfortunately I'm not surprised.such compsssion for people getting rinsed.
Yeah, they may travel and give the squad a better look. You may get a few internationals if the ones for sale get a run OUT, plus maybe AWB, Eriksen and Lindelof. Personally I wouldn't pay that money to see them in a friendly even if it was the first team but this is just taking money off folk with kids.
Really bad form by the club. I came very close to buying tickets. Would be absolutely raging if I had.
As you well know, the two fixtures were promoted very differently. So you’re not comparing apples with apples.
I don't think anyone is defending anything, just saying that the grift is not identical.
Very surprising from bootlicker extraordinaire.
I'd never dream of paying that kind of money for a meaningless friendly (I wouldn't even pay the £25 they were charging at OT yesterday), I don't get why people do but then I suppose I'm lucky to get to see the team whenever I want
it's preseason so always a gamble on what kind of team is put out
Yep, and if the gamble is a loss orchestrated by the casino, people are allowed vent. Why does that bother you?
You’ve answered your own question there. Ireland’s full of United fans who don’t the money or free time to see the team as much as they’d like in Manchester. So will happily pay over the odds to see them on the very rare occasion when they’re in Dublin.
The really shitty thing about this is it’s a classic opportunity for parents to give their kids their first taste of watching the team live. So the stands will be full of children who are gutted they don’t get to see their heroes in the flesh.
Different situations, Wrexham game was told right from the start, months before, that reserves were playing.
Why didn't we play the second XI yesterday and the first team today? It would have made barely any difference to the team's preparations. The Irish fans would have got to see the first team, the fans at OT paid a lot less than them and would have got to see the second XI. Unless that was the original plan and then ETH insisted otherwise?
Also why is this on at the exact same as the charity shield match between city and arsenal?
Also why is this on at the exact same as the charity shield match between city and arsenal?
It'll be the experienced and pricey '2nd 11' people have predicted; understand if Dublin/Irish fans are upset about no Rash/Garnacho or seeing Onana's tightrope sweeper keeper excellence and potential catastrophe etc.
My main hope would be that we see a couple of the more promising youngsters prior to loans being arranged for them, like Gore, playing alongside some of the more experienced players for at least 15-20 mins before latter are potentially subbed. Biggest shame, aside from no prospective Hojlund appearance, is that Amad and Mainoo are injured and can't stake their cases...
My main hope would be that we see a couple of the more promising youngsters prior to loans being arranged for them, like Gore, playing alongside some of the more experienced players for at least 15-20 mins before latter are potentially subbed. Biggest shame, aside from no prospective Hojlund appearance, is that Amad and Mainoo are injured and can't stake their cases...
My lad is 7 and only really getting into it now, he was dying to go to this and I'd have happily paid the €75 each to get him up to it.
Glad I couldn't get tickets now, as it comes out the day beforehand it'll only be the dregs playing.
I'll get him over to OT for a match at some point this season, and that will probably cost the guts of €1000 for the pair of us, so maybe that'll put things in context a bit for you.
Same kick off time as the Community Shield. We can plan feck all
At the end of the day I can see both sides. Yes it’s pre-season, and you always take a risk with what teams are going to be put out, as in the eyes of the guy who picks the team, it’s purely for fitness and trying new things out before the serious games begin.
However the suits know full well that pre-season is an exercise in making cash, and they have a chance to exploit the fact people will part with money for a glimpse of their heroes.
I’d be pissed as well. I bet lots of Irish reds were gutted when they saw the team sheet for the Lens game yesterday.
However the suits know full well that pre-season is an exercise in making cash, and they have a chance to exploit the fact people will part with money for a glimpse of their heroes.
I’d be pissed as well. I bet lots of Irish reds were gutted when they saw the team sheet for the Lens game yesterday.
I think I’ll watch the community shield instead to be honest. Maybe stick the Utd game on my phone.
Same.
Was hoping to watch both, expecting our game to be around 1 - 2 o clock.
Typically both at 4pm.
Anyone know which players made the trip?
Definitely have sympathy for anyone that bought a ticket... It's totally different from the Wrexham situation.
Probably because Ten Hag does what he thinks is best to prepare the side for the season, not to please our Irish fanbase.
We were going to play a reserve side in one of the games, and he chose to do it this way around:
How would you of known an Old Trafford game would have been announced, especially the day before this game.
It's obviously a rip off and for 75-90 euro a ticket, I doubt it would of sold out if it was made clear it wasn't going to be a first team line up.I know a few groups going, all disappointed. They definitely would not of purchased.
You basically have kids disappointed they're not going to see their favorite players for their favorite team and parents out a couple of hundred.
Looking at all your posts, seem to be defending it and you obviously lack any empathy towards other fans.