Our pre-season

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Blacky Blacko said:
If you play a 'big' team, it's not like they put out their first team and go for it, is it? Whereas arguably against the smaller teams their players are trying to get noticed etc. So you could argue that these games may be just as much of a challenge. The preseason is all about fitness, not so much about tactics. Do you really think managers are going to allow all the scouts from other teams to come and see what's going on? No, they keep that behind closed doors. Certainly formations and other larger experiments would go on, but all the intricate play would be practiced on the training ground alone. This is only a guess, but I'd be bloody surprised if its not how it is.

The reason we started so well last season was not because of the games we played in preseason, but because of the fitness work and training schedules and the fact that we have an awesome squad of talent.
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Why wouldn't they? Have they booked Real Madrid on the same day?
 
Lff said:
The year we got relegated from The Championship we played Stoke and West Ham, if I remember correctly, both Premier League. We played superbly in both games and then had the worst season ever.

I'm not sure which side of the debate this supports but I thought I'd put it out there.
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Mr. Nice said:
It supports the sensible logic of it doesn't matter at all who or how you play in pre-season.
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Not really. What it does support, albeit feebly, was that Sturrock wasn't a half bad manager, and that Lowe shouldn't have sacked him in favour of Steve Wigley, and then Harry Redknapp. One could say it was Redknapp who relegated Saints, but really it was the moment that Sturrock was allowed to go, without a proper manager in waiting, that relegated Saints. Hindsight maybe 20/20, but that just means anyone is able to look back and judge the situation fairly accurately.

And the fact that several players went to Lowe to voice their disrespect of Sturrock is neither here nor there. Under him, Saints would not have been relegated, in my opinion. Mind you, we wouldn't be in this position now, if the whole sorry saga hadn't taken place, so I'm not regretting the train of events, these days.
 
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