First-team coach Matt Gill believes “consistency of style and identity” are going to be vital during the season ahead and felt the players showed that they had taken on board what's been worked on during pre-season up to now in the two 75-minute friendlies at Colchester on Tuesday.

"We were looking for some patterns of play that we’ve been working on and the lads did that," Gill told the club site, reflecting on the 4-0 and 1-0 defeats of the U’s at the JobServe Community Stadium.

"It was important to set the tone on how we’re trying to play this season and to get off to a good start.

"I’m really pleased that the lads have taken information on board from the coaching staff. Hopefully we can take that into the next game.

"We reviewed last season and looked at what we could have done better. That consistency of style and identity is going to be vital this year.

“That’s consistency from the staff then hopefully that provides consistency for the players. That’s going to be important going forward and hopefully we can build on that.”

Looking ahead to tomorrow’s friendly at Tottenham, he added: "We need to look at the bigger picture in terms of what we’re going to take into our season.

“There will be times where we’re going to be played around against Spurs, like when we’re looking to press but you're not going to be going up against Spurs every week.

"There’s a bit of stuff on who you’re going to be going up against but ultimately, it’s about the longer term goals and the process of what we’re going to be like, in and out of possession, during the course of the season.”

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ntoms97 added 18:56 - Aug 21 Consistency of games as well I'd suggest. Rearranging games because 2 players were missing disrupted the rhythm last term.
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TractorRoyNo1 added 19:00 - Aug 21 Consistent team selection, consistent formation, then I'll be interested
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itfcjoe added 19:00 - Aug 21 Make sure you actually do it, because last season was a disgrace in how haphazard it was
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hadleighboyblue added 19:03 - Aug 21 So the question has to be , why didn't the club do it last season ? it's hardly rocket science is it
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Cakeman added 19:13 - Aug 21 Hadleighboyblue you are spot on. It's indeed not rocket science. Too many teams us included make a simple game difficult. Do the Bobby Robson thing of picking the strongest eleven, seldom tamper with system and let the players have freedom to express themselves.
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rfretwell added 19:24 - Aug 21 "Consistency of identity"? We are all probably baffled by that!
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Len_Brennan added 19:45 - Aug 21 Leaving last season behind us, this is encouraging, following on from a couple of similar comments from Lambert.
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blue86 added 20:30 - Aug 21 Good, a settled side and formation will be much better. Early signs look like a 433 system, but when things arent going our way we also need a plan b. Stop the poxy rotating, unless injured or badly out of form, stop postponing games.
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ArnieM added 22:08 - Aug 21 I think there's a few on here who frankly need to move on . The Club are clearly looking to learn from last season . So get off their f lucking backs , and stop bloody moaning and whinging. Last season is history . Move on !!!!
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leftie1972 added 22:10 - Aug 21 Should've said this last year Matt. You may have ensured a better league finish!
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Skip73 added 22:34 - Aug 21 It sounds like he has more of an idea of whats he's doing than Lambert.
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Carberry added 22:41 - Aug 21 Isn't this the bloke who PR Paul hired from Norwich with no experience of 1st team coaching?
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Bluearmy_81 added 09:30 - Aug 22 Carberry... "Your PR is excellent mate, you'll do well, welcome aboard!" 😂
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Radlett_blue added 09:32 - Aug 22 Hmm...weren't we intending to do this last season, but when certain teams pressed us, our team descended into a rabble?
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herfie added 10:19 - Aug 22 Sadly, we're asked to ‘move on' following a depressingly monotonous series of failing seasons. But we never do - except in the wrong direction. So people's' frustration and cynicism at yet more words from an individual who, to some degree, was responsible for last season's cluster-fluck, is understandable However, we have to hope that some very basic management and coaching lessons, having been learned the hard way, will be put right this term. We are a club in steady decline, and that had to be reversed as the highest priority. Has to be a top-down, totally inclusive, process.

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COYB11 added 10:20 - Aug 22 Hallelujah! We've all known that we need a consistent team and pattern of play for over a year, but better late than never I guess!
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Edmundo added 14:23 - Aug 22 Agreed herfie, but the players have to buy into it as well. Felt like last season they either weren't or didn't understand fully what was expected: by the Club as a whole. We have to look for evolution, not revolution, otherwise another season will be gone "in transition".
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tractorboybig added 15:38 - Aug 22 they can do as you want mate but the scottish dippo will f it up anyway
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