Felix confirms squad for Jacksonville friendly

[JBH]

Really worried that we are going to get trounced by DCU.... they are very in form having only lost 1 match since May 31st...

They have at least 6 or 7 players that could easily be in our squad right now (Johnson, Silva, Rolfe, Kitchen, Arnaud, Franklin and Hamid) and they play very physical in the midfield...

Its a pre-season warm up friendly for God's sake the resultbis meaningless as is this trip  

[Forever Fulham]

The Diaper Brigade.

[K33NY]

whats going on? how is it not prioritated to get our starting 11 match fit???

[Artful Dodger]

I certainly believe that tonight will set the tone for other MLS clubs... If Sporting KC and LA put out strong first half squads against Citeh and Manure... I would expect that DCU will follow suit.... I also expect Eddie to be chomping at the bit to score against us.
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Unless we put a stationary cow in goal and Eddie Johnson has a very large banjo, from what I saw, we have little to worry about. Ok, so that probably guarantees he scores against us........ :dead horse:

[westcliff white]

Stockdale may be a nice lad but Hull didnt sign him for a reasons that are clear to see

Didn't they want to sign him but we wouldn't sell?

correct

I thought they didn't want to pay the price we were asking for

[westcliff white]

It's only a squad if 16 players from what I read, is that right?

[H4usuallysitting]

Goalkeepers

Marcus Bettinelli
Jesse Joronen

Defenders

Fernando Amorebieta
Cameron Burgess
Tim Hoogland
Shaun Hutchinson
Konstantinos Stafylidis
Kay Voser

Midfielders

Chris David
Thomas Eisfeld
Emerson Hyndman
Ryan Williams

Forwards

Moussa Dembélé
Patrick Roberts
Hugo Rodallega
George Williams

No Parker?......Stek?.....Stock?......WC trio?.......but more worrying no McCormack, please don't tell me he's injured

[God The Mechanic]

It's a four day excursion for a single game the other side of the world to where the rest of our pre-season is going to take place.  It was hardly gonna be the strongest squad we have available.

[jmh]

Stockdale may be a nice lad but Hull didnt sign him for a reasons that are clear to see

Didn't they want to sign him but we wouldn't sell?

correct

I thought they didn't want to pay the price we were asking for

Sounds right.  The point (as I see it) is that they did want to sign him.  I suppose the devil is in the details; were we looking for a nominal fee and they didn't even want to pay that, or were we asking a "don't want to sell to a relegation rival" king's ransom?  

[ChesterTheTabby]

Regardless of not being able to see some of the big name's we wish we could see - I am excited to watch the defensive players and Eisfeld.

[Deanothefulhamfan]

I know we are missing some starting players, but I would be very surprised if we got hammered.

I think our back line is all there, and it gives us a chance to see a midfield without Parker... with players like David, Hyndman and Eisfield we are going to have a lot of the ball. We will probably play the best football for some time in all fairness.

[rweller86]

It's likely there will be trialists in the squad too

[bog]

What on earth is Amorebieta doing there?  :dft007:

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[Zu-Meister]

What on earth is Amorebieta doing there?  :dft007:

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i was thinking that, as supposedly he is close to a move away.........

[valdeingruo]

What on earth is Amorebieta doing there?  :dft007:

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i was thinking that, as supposedly he is close to a move away.........

Doesnt really matter in this day and age, does it? Siggurdson signed for Swansea while Spuds were in the States,  he was even slated to start last evening, but was withdrawn.

[jmh]

What on earth is Amorebieta doing there?  :dft007:

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i was thinking that, as supposedly he is close to a move away.........

Is he?  There was the article that Malaga might be interested in him, but I don't feel like we've seen anything particularly definitive.

[Captain Fulhamerica]

My best guess for the starting XI

----------------Joronen--------------

---Voser--Burgess--Hutch--Stafyl---

----------------Hoogland--------------

Roberts--Eisfeld--Hyndman--R Williams

---------------Dembele--------------

[kiwiwaka]

Amorebieta will be there because he's been injured recently, probably needs extra match minutes. Those not there from the first team are in Austria at a fitness camp, and will play friendlies there as well.

[YankeeJim]

Perhaps Felix feels sorry for MLS since they managed to lose 4 games yesterday by a combined 16-4 to the EPL.

[PaulUMD]

Ben Olsen said DC will likely be playing a few starters and mostly reserves, so despite being in season it'll be a fair match. 

MLS teams used to play their starting XIs and take these games seriously, but now seem less incentivized to do so.  The recent scorelines show it.