Pre-Season Piala Presiden 25 - was it a success?

[OxfordYankee]

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Many thanks to @OxfordYankee too

 

[Carpy]

Brilliant, job done.

I would never, in a million years, have realised that was what I had to do. I've had an iPhone for 15 years and never once followed that process, or even tapped my name in settings! Every day really is a school day!

Many thanks.

Many thanks to @OxfordYankee too

Who said you can't teach an old dog new tricks, eh?

 

[chuckbert]

Slight change of direction here.

Has anyone managed to unsubscribe from Vidio yet? I cannot work out how to do it despite several attempts. Any help from the more tech savvy on here would be greatly appreciated. I have the app on my iPhone but watched the games on my Mac, and both show me as signed in.

I did on my iphone. Settings, then click on your face to get to Apple account, then click subscriptions and you’ll see it there.

 

[Northstandboy]

Re: club Merch for Indonesians

If we wanted to get the OUFC brand out and about, we could have had some cheap tshirts with the crest + OUFC printed and handed out, but we didn't. A simple, cheap way, but wasn't looked at.

 

[chuckbert]

Re: club Merch for Indonesians

If we wanted to get the OUFC brand out and about, we could have had some cheap tshirts with the crest + OUFC printed and handed out, but we didn't. A simple, cheap way, but wasn't looked at.

I think they did!

 

[Marked Ox]

Travelling 16 hours round the other side of the world probably heightens the chance of getting injuries though.

Understand it’s a good opportunity for the owners but the pitches weren’t good enough.

Wrexham are still in Australia as they are playing Sydney.

 

[Grumpy Git]

My opinion is that it was a success.
It gave the team time to work together and bond.
Gave the club further exposure in Asia.
Gave us £135,000.
Gave them all an insight into another culture.
Enabled them to train in different conditions.
And by losing, might have made them realise they won’t get it all their own way.

 

[OUFCGav]

Re: club Merch for Indonesians

If we wanted to get the OUFC brand out and about, we could have had some cheap tshirts with the crest + OUFC printed and handed out, but we didn't. A simple, cheap way, but wasn't looked at.

definitely saw some photos on socials of fans in tshirts with Oxford United Indonesian Tour and the OxHead on.

 

[brinyhoof]

definitely saw some photos on socials of fans in tshirts with Oxford United Indonesian Tour and the OxHead on.

those that the players were throwing in to the crowd at the end of the Arema match perhaps?

 

[OUFCGav]

Gave us £135,000.

Think we were paid an appearance fee as well as the prize money.

 

[brinyhoof]

“Fans are bored of European teams coming in and playing against the national team or All Star teams, that’s been done to death and very rarely creates a good match,”

Premier League fans in Asia want to feel valued – and not just as a source of revenue

Pre-season trips to Asia may not be new for English clubs, but they remain a huge global engagement opportunity

www.theguardian.com

 

[mooro]

I think I agree with Jerome's latest take on this trip...

... basically there was a lot of good things about it - team bonding, cultural experience, commercial benefits, political benefit for owners, goodwill ventures, match minutes, youth integration, players opening goal accounts for the season, etc, etc....

... and some not so good - approach of opposition, conditions, injuries, disruption, etc ...

...but instead of using the latter as a reason to turn our back on the whole thing in future (and potentially jeapardise relationships, partnerships, and revenue streams built up over there) we should instead use this trip this year as a start point to make future versions more beneficial, successful and suitable for the squad's needs ( and supporters too) while maintaining and developing those off-field benefits.

Maybe look at timing, format, opposition & location of future tours over there - develop events here (especially at new stadium) including hosting Indonesian international games with European based players - potentially send extra people/players over there for PR events when ole and lino go over for internatonals - potentially plenty of other tie-ups, messaging, exchange visits and much more....if we approach it right

Why not build on what WAS achieved over there this time, rather than turning our back on all that potential after the first hint of things not quite going to plan

 

[chuckbert]

I think I agree with Jerome's latest take on this trip...

... basically there was a lot of good things about it - team bonding, cultural experience, commercial benefits, political benefit for owners, goodwill ventures, match minutes, youth integration, players opening goal accounts for the season, etc, etc....

... and some not so good - approach of opposition, conditions, injuries, disruption, etc ...

...but instead of using the latter as a reason to turn our back on the whole thing in future (and potentially jeapardise relationships, partnerships, and revenue streams built up over there) we should instead use this trip this year as a start point to make future versions more beneficial, successful and suitable for the squad's needs ( and supporters too) while maintaining and developing those off-field benefits.

Maybe look at timing, format, opposition & location of future tours over there - develop events here (especially at new stadium) including hosting Indonesian international games with European based players - potentially send extra people/players over there for PR events when ole and lino go over for internatonals - potentially plenty of other tie-ups, messaging, exchange visits and much more....if we approach it right

Why not build on what WAS achieved over there this time, rather than turning our back on all that potential after the first hint of things not quite going to plan

Agreed. If I interpret what you're saying correctly, you're saying "GO TO PERTH NEXT YEAR"
Tiger definitely wants Thailand. Not sure how I feel about that after the tackle on Keerstaermer.

 

[Kernow Yellow]

Wrexham are still in Australia as they are playing Sydney.

Indeed. I just saw a facebook post from an Australian cousin (not a football fan at all) who was at that game with her daughter. As far as I could tell the ground was pretty full, and it holds 42,000 people. For Wrexham FFS! And in Australia - not even the US or Canada where the owners are linked. Although Wrexham's U21s toured Canada and drew decent crowds too. Just shows the power to be harnessed if you market it right. We obviously haven't got the Hollywood factor but if we can do anything like that in Indonesia, the 6th most populous country in the world, then we'd be crazy not to.

I would rather we were playing to 40,000 people in Jakarta than a few hundred in some resort town in Spain or whatever.

 

[chuckbert]

Indeed. I just saw a facebook post from an Australian cousin (not a football fan at all) who was at that game with her daughter. As far as I could tell the ground was pretty full, and it holds 42,000 people. For Wrexham FFS! And in Australia - not even the US or Canada where the owners are linked. Although Wrexham's U21s toured Canada and drew decent crowds too. Just shows the power to be harnessed if you market it right. We obviously haven't got the Hollywood factor but if we can do anything like that in Indonesia, the 6th most populous country in the world, then we'd be crazy not to.

I would rather we were playing to 40,000 people in Jakarta than a few hundred in some resort town in Spain or whatever.

Every year for the last few years a couple off top league European teams have come to play a round robin with Perth Glory. I’ve been to a couple and they are s**t games as Glory are Arema to Milan’s Oxford. It would be much more real to have a champ or league one team (being polite to current day Glory).
We’ve had Milan, Roma, “EPL giants” (sic) Spurs and West Ham (went to that game because Kemar Roofer played), Chelsea, ManU, Villa, Leeds, Palace.
Optus stadium has 60K capacity and while I don’t know if it sold out, it is always very full for those games.

 

[Orkney Islands Yellow]

 

[Jster]

I thought the BDK injury rumours had been squashed now?

 

[Stranger]

I thought the BDK injury rumours had been squashed now?

People chat shît, haven't you learned yet?

 

[billyturleyscurlywurly]

We’ll only know the true success of this off the pitch in the next few months. If we announce lots of Indonesian deals etc then it was worth it commercially.

Likewise we’ll see how much of a toll this has taken on the players in the first 5/6 games before the 2 week international break beginning of September.

 

[Royalstandard74]

We’ll only know the true success of this off the pitch in the next few months. If we announce lots of Indonesian deals etc then it was worth it commercially.

Likewise we’ll see how much of a toll this has taken on the players in the first 5/6 games before the 2 week international break beginning of September.

The later being the more important.

 

[Carpy]

OXFORD United’s pre-season trip to Indonesia was successful for the club off the pitch, and it’s ‘highly likely’ there will be a return, says chief executive Tim Williams.

The U’s won both their Group A games in the President’s Cup, against a Liga Indonesia All-Star team and Arema FC, but then lost the final 2-1 to Thai side Port FC amid monsoon-like conditions.

United were based in the capital Jakarta upon arriving in Indonesia, and then made the city of Bandung their home for the majority of the tour.

Williams said: “We were all moving into a bit of uncharted territory going into this, and there was an awful lot for the past three months in terms of organising, and chopping and changing.

“This is the first time we’ve ever really done anything like this, so all of us were feeling our way in terms of what it meant to get a team of people out here on different flights.

“What I’ve certainly been impressed with is the level of organisation over here. You’re not going to come here and expect Premier League quality stadiums and Premier League quality grass, but I think what we’ve seen has been as good as I think we could’ve possibly hoped for.

“The support staff from the PSSI [Football Association of Indonesia] and the way they’ve interacted with us and treated us has been exceptional. We’ve really felt like VIPs.

“I’m not sure many of us have had police escorts to a training ground before, so that was a new one on me.

“For us, it shows us the scale that we’ve got now. It shows the ability to reach out to the fourth most populous country in the world. It’s incredible for us.

“By actually coming out here and being physically present here has given us that ability to have meetings with potential sponsors, meetings with potential commercial partners.

“We’ve done immensely powerful things around the Jakarta area, going to orphanages and donating funds there, interacting with local schools and local children.

“You feel it then. When you’re actually here on the ground, you feel it. We walk around in our Oxford United T-shirts and people look and they smile.

“We’ve got real recognition out here. That’s the real springboard for us now, to try and do a little bit more over here.

“It’s something I’m really encouraging Adam [Benson, chief commercial and marketing officer] and the commercial team to do, to actually make more trips to be physically present here during the year.”

Williams added: “I would think it highly likely we’ll be back here. The advantage of us having gone through this experience, not everything has gone perfectly and not everything has gone to plan, so I think going forward, we will probably start to engage with the PSSI a little bit sooner.

“That’s a feeling our way process. We are on a real learning curve with this stuff.”

Source: Oxford Mail

 

[Sarge]

OXFORD United’s pre-season trip to Indonesia was successful for the club off the pitch, and it’s ‘highly likely’ there will be a return, says chief executive Tim Williams.

The U’s won both their Group A games in the President’s Cup, against a Liga Indonesia All-Star team and Arema FC, but then lost the final 2-1 to Thai side Port FC amid monsoon-like conditions.

United were based in the capital Jakarta upon arriving in Indonesia, and then made the city of Bandung their home for the majority of the tour.

Williams said: “We were all moving into a bit of uncharted territory going into this, and there was an awful lot for the past three months in terms of organising, and chopping and changing.

“This is the first time we’ve ever really done anything like this, so all of us were feeling our way in terms of what it meant to get a team of people out here on different flights.

“What I’ve certainly been impressed with is the level of organisation over here. You’re not going to come here and expect Premier League quality stadiums and Premier League quality grass, but I think what we’ve seen has been as good as I think we could’ve possibly hoped for.

“The support staff from the PSSI [Football Association of Indonesia] and the way they’ve interacted with us and treated us has been exceptional. We’ve really felt like VIPs.

“I’m not sure many of us have had police escorts to a training ground before, so that was a new one on me.

“For us, it shows us the scale that we’ve got now. It shows the ability to reach out to the fourth most populous country in the world. It’s incredible for us.

“By actually coming out here and being physically present here has given us that ability to have meetings with potential sponsors, meetings with potential commercial partners.

“We’ve done immensely powerful things around the Jakarta area, going to orphanages and donating funds there, interacting with local schools and local children.

“You feel it then. When you’re actually here on the ground, you feel it. We walk around in our Oxford United T-shirts and people look and they smile.

“We’ve got real recognition out here. That’s the real springboard for us now, to try and do a little bit more over here.

“It’s something I’m really encouraging Adam [Benson, chief commercial and marketing officer] and the commercial team to do, to actually make more trips to be physically present here during the year.”

Williams added: “I would think it highly likely we’ll be back here. The advantage of us having gone through this experience, not everything has gone perfectly and not everything has gone to plan, so I think going forward, we will probably start to engage with the PSSI a little bit sooner.

“That’s a feeling our way process. We are on a real learning curve with this stuff.”

Source: Oxford Mail

Question Id like an answer to is, did Timmy get to ride a stuffed Lion, or was that honour reserved for more important club staff?

 

[Carpy]

Question Id like an answer to is, did Timmy get to ride a stuffed Lion, or was that honour reserved for more important club staff?

Plot twist... Timmy was the stuffed Lion, Rowett took him for a ride.

 

[Ewes]

I see GR and him being paraded around on a toy lion featured in today’s The Upshot email, along with a comment about the floodlight failure and unsuitable pitch.

If anyone wants to read the full article & Upshot email, DM me your email address. Cheers.

It was all smiles for Oxford United boss Gary Rowett, as his side arrived for a preseason tour of Indonesia. ​

He even received a traditional welcome at the first press conference, where he was held aloft astride a nodding, model lion.​

But sadly, things went downhill from there.​

The U's first game was interrupted by a floodlight failure, and their second - against Thai side Port FC - was marred by “monsoon rain of epic proportions”.​

Port ended up scoring a winner during the deluge…

 

[ECYellow]

Surprised that there were no training ground pictures today, if indeed the players were back in…

 

[billyturleyscurlywurly]

Surprised that there were no training ground pictures today, if indeed the players were back in…

Very strange especially with a rumoured BCD friendly versus Colchester tomorrow being reported at #ColU end even though we said we cancelled it

 

[MarkG]

I see GR and him being paraded around on a toy lion featured in today’s The Upshot email, along with a comment about the floodlight failure and unsuitable pitch.

If anyone wants to read the full article & Upshot email, DM me your email address. Cheers.

It was all smiles for Oxford United boss Gary Rowett, as his side arrived for a preseason tour of Indonesia. ​

He even received a traditional welcome at the first press conference, where he was held aloft astride a nodding, model lion.​

But sadly, things went downhill from there.​

The U's first game was interrupted by a floodlight failure, and their second - against Thai side Port FC - was marred by “monsoon rain of epic proportions”.​

Port ended up scoring a winner during the deluge…

Get your facts right.
The first game was delayed by an introductory speech of some 15 minutes. Or the singer or the national anthem. Whatever it started 7:45.

The other games. Yes.

 

[West Oxon U’s]

Very strange especially with a rumoured BCD friendly versus Colchester tomorrow being reported at #ColU end even though we said we cancelled it

 

[Ewes]

Get your facts right.
The first game was delayed by an introductory speech of some 15 minutes. Or the singer or the national anthem. Whatever it started 7:45.

The other games. Yes.

Copied and pasted from the renowned magazine themselves. Reads as if they were there, and some of the photos back that idea up. Their facts may be wrong but equally so might yours - were you there?