The stat posted from our regular statto was startling - that we’ve scored all of our goals in the first half and conceded all in the second half in the recent matches. Let’s hope this is due, as someone else said, to working the players hard on the previous day (though who’s to say that all of our opponents aren’t doing likewise?).

I’m not a big fan of this new 45 mins/60 mins “minutes in the legs” approach to PSFs, but maybe that’s me being a Luddite. I preferred it when we simply arranged more friendlies, including some that would be against lesser opposition and would feature “the squad players”, ensuring that everyone got 90 minutes.

The fact we’ve not been able to host a PSF at Meadow Lane has clearly not been ideal, but the club hasn’t helped with its lack of coverage (anyone seen any interviews from after the Boston game?). The most telling thing for me is that we only have this single thread to cover the entire pre-season like it’s some amorphous blob - can’t ever remember that happening before.