Colly2 wrote:
But why do we need any under 19s if we have a 20-something man first team squad?
This is my concern too.
We have a 25 man squad who are all pretty much strangers in terms of "game time" and there's no way any amount of practice pitch drills that can prepare the team for actual competitive games....I would have hope that we would have played all 3 friendlies as full squad matches, with all 25 getting game time and the final one pretty much our first 17!
Also, the Trip to the south of France? Is it a bit of a luxury we could do without, in that preparing for a cold February in South Yorkshire isn't going to be helped by playing in temps some 8 degrees higher.