| Results are never important pre season 15:41 - Jul 22 with 4644 views | Mullet |
I'm more happy about seeing Fridge is back, we've got a few defenders to sort and settle into the squad or move out on loan/sell it seems. Getting minutes for him and Hutchinson is a positive for me.
Preston was really enjoyable and it was nice to win, but without knowing what KmcK was looking for or thinking, it's hard to say for sure if we saw much we didn't now already. |  |
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| Results are never important pre season on 16:10 - Jul 22 with 4537 views | Nomore4 |
If a team lost every pre season game 6-0……would it then be important? |  | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 16:13 - Jul 22 with 4531 views | Mullet |
| Results are never important pre season on 16:10 - Jul 22 by Nomore4 |
If a team lost every pre season game 6-0……would it then be important? |
All depends the context, as far as I'm aware that's never happened so it's a rather hollow point to make isn't it?
How close to a proper game have any of our preseason games been? | |
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| Results are never important pre season on 16:21 - Jul 22 with 4450 views | Vic |
Yeah, the now we’re coming up against better teams we’re being found out. |  |
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| Results are never important pre season on 16:35 - Jul 22 with 4386 views | Dubtractor |
I'm sure that these overreactions, to both good and bad results, happen every pre season.
Frankly, none of it matters too much, and reading anything into it is a fools errand. Especially with the mix and match line-ups for each game. |  |
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| Results are never important pre season on 16:43 - Jul 22 with 4346 views | Illinoisblue |
HMS Pissthebed will be sailing all over Twitter tonight. |  |
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| Results are never important pre season on 17:59 - Jul 22 with 4161 views | BlueBadger |
| Results are never important pre season on 16:10 - Jul 22 by Nomore4 |
If a team lost every pre season game 6-0……would it then be important? |
Only if they lost every single coin toss for whether to kick off or not as well. |  |
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| Results are never important pre season on 18:07 - Jul 22 with 4108 views | EastTownBlue |
| Results are never important pre season on 16:35 - Jul 22 by Dubtractor |
I'm sure that these overreactions, to both good and bad results, happen every pre season.
Frankly, none of it matters too much, and reading anything into it is a fools errand. Especially with the mix and match line-ups for each game. |
Indeed. With Walton, Morsy and Broadhead in one team and Woolfenden, Davis, Luongo and Chaplin in the other that should be obvious. Sadly some would prefer to seek attention and panic instead. | | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 20:51 - Jul 22 with 3941 views | reuserfivethree |
martijn reuser once said that losing to psv pre-season in 2001-2 was a big blow to morale. they'd been training well, then got taken apart by a much better team and he felt their confidence took a long time to recover. the rest is history...
to be fair, he also felt that all the new signings didn't really help, and he was probably looking back in hindsight, but you never know... | | | |
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| Results are never important pre season on 21:00 - Jul 22 with 3926 views | EastAnglianBoy |
They're not important - i agree- but just imagine if Norwich had lost twice to league 1 opposition in one day..
This forum would be beside itself with glee...! | | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 21:09 - Jul 22 with 3908 views | Swansea_Blue |
Great innit? Win a pre-season game easily and it’s a sign we’re going to win the Champions League. Lose one and the score is utterly meaningless. Couldn’t be less of an indicator of progress. We should lose them all 10-0 they’re so unimportant.
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| Results are never important pre season on 21:29 - Jul 22 with 3860 views | BigCommon |
We've been told plenty of times already, that the training regime is tough atm. Physically and in the classroom. And going into these friendlies were going to look a bit leggy and not properly rested up...
Should think the numbers from the physical condition of players , during and after these games, is of more use to KM and staff. Than the actual results...
Always nice to win games of football. But, imo, these matches are as much data gathering exercises as they are anything else..
They are just an extension to the current training regime, atm, imo. That is all. |  | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 21:31 - Jul 22 with 3857 views | pointofblue |
| Results are never important pre season on 20:51 - Jul 22 by reuserfivethree |
martijn reuser once said that losing to psv pre-season in 2001-2 was a big blow to morale. they'd been training well, then got taken apart by a much better team and he felt their confidence took a long time to recover. the rest is history...
to be fair, he also felt that all the new signings didn't really help, and he was probably looking back in hindsight, but you never know... |
Depends - perhaps Burley told the players pre match that PSV was a good chance to measure where we were so, with a defeat, it did dent morale.
I doubt McKenna saw today's games in the same way. If anything, I think he'd put more emphasis on Preston (which we won) and Luton. | |
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| Results are never important pre season on 21:46 - Jul 22 with 3822 views | SE1blue |
Is it me or have we got loads of pre-season friendlies this year? Seems more than normal but I’m probably wrong about that. |  |
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| Results are never important pre season on 21:54 - Jul 22 with 3790 views | Chrisd |
100% agree. Those that are judging results at this stage of the season need a bit of perspective, it means nothing. Leyton Orient last pre season didn’t win a game, but look what happened to them last season?! [Post edited 23 Jul 2023 6:48]
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| Results are never important pre season on 22:20 - Jul 22 with 3752 views | SWBlue22 |
| Results are never important pre season on 16:43 - Jul 22 by Illinoisblue |
HMS Pissthebed will be sailing all over Twitter tonight. |
Makes you wonder why we are not sponsored by Huggies or Pampers. |  | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 22:57 - Jul 22 with 3697 views | strikalite |
I will say though it's still a bit disappointing, we have a lot of quality and putting the fitness to one side we should be doing more to make things happen, little patterns of play and opening up sides are important, even in friendlies... |  | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 23:03 - Jul 22 with 3684 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Results are never important pre season on 22:57 - Jul 22 by strikalite |
I will say though it's still a bit disappointing, we have a lot of quality and putting the fitness to one side we should be doing more to make things happen, little patterns of play and opening up sides are important, even in friendlies... |
Is it that important when you've got the same core of players.?
Once you're happy with fitness levels you'd just move on and work on what's been trained for the past 18 months..
It's not like we're having to show a squad load of new players how KM wants his side to play football. |  |
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| Results are never important pre season on 23:09 - Jul 22 with 3665 views | Pique |
I'm always a bit suspicious of teams that sail through preseason - if they're winning lots of games it tends to suggest they're not really stretching themselves or putting themselves in a position where their weaknesses are being tested. It tends to bite them in the bum come the start of the actual season. |  | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 07:40 - Jul 23 with 3404 views | ArnieM |
| Results are never important pre season on 16:10 - Jul 22 by Nomore4 |
If a team lost every pre season game 6-0……would it then be important? |
OP: so games (positive results?) v Luton and later the German sides will mean absolutely nothing then?
But if we happen to win those games…….. |  |
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| Results are never important pre season on 08:02 - Jul 23 with 3362 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Results are never important pre season on 23:03 - Jul 22 by FrimleyBlue |
Is it that important when you've got the same core of players.?
Once you're happy with fitness levels you'd just move on and work on what's been trained for the past 18 months..
It's not like we're having to show a squad load of new players how KM wants his side to play football. |
Yes, we should quickly get back into the swing of things considering how we ended last season and the fact we've lost the fewest minutes in the league by quite a distance.
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| Results are never important pre season on 10:23 - Jul 23 with 3211 views | cressi |
The big difference today is we are trying to give 25+ players game time to get fit . Also yrs ago we had the old combination league in effect the reserve league which was great for getting players fit after injury or suspension also sides had really good pros playing in it. | | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 10:37 - Jul 23 with 3178 views | Wickets |
| Results are never important pre season on 16:10 - Jul 22 by Nomore4 |
If a team lost every pre season game 6-0……would it then be important? |
When was the last time that happened ? |  | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 10:45 - Jul 23 with 3152 views | Naylorsrightboot |
To many preseason friendlies. More than l can ever remember. The players will be knackered before the season starts at this rate. |  | | |
| Results are never important pre season on 10:47 - Jul 23 with 3141 views | Mullet |
| Results are never important pre season on 10:45 - Jul 23 by Naylorsrightboot |
To many preseason friendlies. More than l can ever remember. The players will be knackered before the season starts at this rate. |
We've got probably the most advanced and successful sports science team the club have ever had, players returning from injury early, looking fitter than ever.
We've rotated massively to the point where people are moaning about results, now it's also too tiring? Genuinely not sure what some people are looking for here. | |
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