18-07-2022, 08:45
July 18:
On this date in 2015, Chris Powell had taken his Town team away to Spain for a pre season training camp. And today we had a friendly match with Leyton Orient in the Spanish sunshine. The game kicked off at half nine in the morning, to avoid playing in the intense mid day heat.
Powell gave a first start to new signing Jordy Hiwula, young William Boyle, Dean Whitehead and trialist Martin Cranie. It was Joe Lolley who opened the scoring five minutes before the break, cutting in from the right and firing into the corner of the net.
We were hoping that this would be a big season for young Joe. Unfortunately he ended up going on loan to Scunthorpe.
Powell swapped the entire eleven for the second half, with the likes of Sondre Tronstad, Duane Holmes and Jake Charles getting a run out. Also getting a first game was new signing from Carlisle, Kyle Dempsey, who's cross was turned into his own goal by one of the Orient defenders.
Sean Scannell hit the post late on and the squad flew back home the next day.
The season didn't start well, not winning a game until the 7th match and Powell was out by November, to be replaced by some unknown German geezer.
![[Image: 8kaQ8Y0.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/8kaQ8Y0.jpg)
That German geezer, turned out to be an American bloke called David Wagner and he had gotten us promoted in a famous Play Off Final penalty shoot out, you possibly may remember.
On this date in 2017, he had taken his Town squad out to Germany for a pre season training camp and today's game was played against Bundesliga side SV Sandhausen at the BWT Stadion. Again, it was played in sweltering heat and there was much tinkering with the line up.
Martin Cranie must've had a good game two years previously because he was one of only four players from the Orient game still there. The others being Lolz, Deano and Scanz.
Town squandered many chances before the home team took the lead and then doubled it. Two nil down on the hour when Wagz made a load of changes and soon after, we pulled a goal back through tricky Tom Ince. Cranie then gave away a penalty, which they converted to make it 3-1. But then one of the players we'd been looking forward to seeing, the eleven million quid signing from Montpellier Steve Mounié, got another one for Town. It came from a floated teaser by Rajiv van La Parra, that big Steve met and sent a bullet header into the back of the net.
The game ended in a 3-2 defeat.
![[Image: pykPx7Y.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/pykPx7Y.jpg)
On this date in 2015, Chris Powell had taken his Town team away to Spain for a pre season training camp. And today we had a friendly match with Leyton Orient in the Spanish sunshine. The game kicked off at half nine in the morning, to avoid playing in the intense mid day heat.
Powell gave a first start to new signing Jordy Hiwula, young William Boyle, Dean Whitehead and trialist Martin Cranie. It was Joe Lolley who opened the scoring five minutes before the break, cutting in from the right and firing into the corner of the net.
We were hoping that this would be a big season for young Joe. Unfortunately he ended up going on loan to Scunthorpe.
Powell swapped the entire eleven for the second half, with the likes of Sondre Tronstad, Duane Holmes and Jake Charles getting a run out. Also getting a first game was new signing from Carlisle, Kyle Dempsey, who's cross was turned into his own goal by one of the Orient defenders.
Sean Scannell hit the post late on and the squad flew back home the next day.
The season didn't start well, not winning a game until the 7th match and Powell was out by November, to be replaced by some unknown German geezer.
That German geezer, turned out to be an American bloke called David Wagner and he had gotten us promoted in a famous Play Off Final penalty shoot out, you possibly may remember.
On this date in 2017, he had taken his Town squad out to Germany for a pre season training camp and today's game was played against Bundesliga side SV Sandhausen at the BWT Stadion. Again, it was played in sweltering heat and there was much tinkering with the line up.
Martin Cranie must've had a good game two years previously because he was one of only four players from the Orient game still there. The others being Lolz, Deano and Scanz.
Town squandered many chances before the home team took the lead and then doubled it. Two nil down on the hour when Wagz made a load of changes and soon after, we pulled a goal back through tricky Tom Ince. Cranie then gave away a penalty, which they converted to make it 3-1. But then one of the players we'd been looking forward to seeing, the eleven million quid signing from Montpellier Steve Mounié, got another one for Town. It came from a floated teaser by Rajiv van La Parra, that big Steve met and sent a bullet header into the back of the net.
The game ended in a 3-2 defeat.
![[Image: 2ZJuVRk.gif]](https://i.imgur.com/2ZJuVRk.gif)