The Advantages of Pre-Season Games

I've very much taken a hands-off approach with it because I do think that definitely we would be much better off having seen all those things that you'd said, rather than not. But by the same token, that is to a large extent why I have taken the other option with pre-season. It's much rather you did see them play coherent, cohesive, smooth football and the system looked like it was working on all cylinders instead of not. You can't just completely dismiss it out of hand. There are reasons you play those pre-season games. It's not just fitness. And if we aren't seeing those things yet, we are hopeful that there's still time between