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We MUST be due a decent pre season surely?!! Can't remember the last time we started a season after some decent fixtures and performances. We always seem to be 2-3 weeks behind everyone else.
2011-2013, 2 seasons in the Premiership, 76 games, 14 wins........two years of my life I'll never get back!!
2013/2014 mediocrity topped off with a win at Wembley....
2014/2015 was pretty much the same as 2011-2013.....
Whatever is arranged we mustn't lose sight of what they are meant to achieve, ie, getting the team ready for the start of the season. Said at the time in my opinion, one of the main reasons our last prem campaign started disastrously was because we were woefully ill prepared by poor pre season matches in Asia. Yes is was a marketing success, but when we were beating teams easily 5-0 with a mix of first teamers, youth players and trialists, the penny should drop that they aren't worth playing. It was far too easy and complacency was allowed to set in. We'd have got a better challenge having a training match among the squad.
We started the campaign losing 0-5 to Swansea and the pressure mounted and compounded the situation thereafter to the point it became a joke. We can't let that sort of thing happen again.
Whatever is arranged we mustn't lose sight of what they are meant to achieve, ie, getting the team ready for the start of the season. Said at the time in my opinion, one of the main reasons our last prem campaign started disastrously was because we were woefully ill prepared by poor pre season matches in Asia. Yes is was a marketing success, but when we were beating teams easily 5-0 with a mix of first teamers, youth players and trialists, the penny should drop that they aren't worth playing. It was far too easy and complacency was allowed to set in. We'd have got a better challenge having a training match among the squad.
We started the campaign losing 0-5 to Swansea and the pressure mounted and compounded the situation thereafter to the point it became a joke. We can't let that sort of thing happen again.
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