...and it's not as if BMM needs adjustment to the British game either.

Agreed RD. Our existing squad had plenty of time together in Tenarife to gel, and then spent most of the season playing like they'd never met before.

"Gelling" is such a tiny part of the picture compared to motivation, desire, and the actual quality/skill of the players. Hiku didn't need time to gel.

We'll of course go better a few games in, when we're more settled, and form and match fitness start to pick up.

I agree with kirtonLindsey's original point, which wasn't that we'll smash Leeds, it was that playing the champions first game would be a good yardstick. Even if we lose, we'll be able to have a fair assessment of our fairing, vs say if we played Cats at home, rolled them over and put 60 past them.

I think the tough run early doors will help us. No teams are really in their stride at that point and hopefully some 50/50 games will our way in the poorer weather until we start to find our style.

We will have to be on it from day 1 as a start similar to last year wont go down well.

Nonsense. If we can't give a brand new coach two years then we're as bad as the billionaires who run Premier League soccer.

Let's just hope in 2018 we have more than 1 pt after 7 games !

If we win one of those first 7 then that's an improvement right?

All teams have players at the world cup, well top teams do so all in same boat at the start. I actually think its better to play top teams first just have to make sure we're ready and mean business straight away.

What's bad about that?

Tell that to Everton then,that’s what the Sky pundits have said is one of the issues for them,to many new faces at one time still learning the systems.

Sky can call it whatever they want but if Everton don't spend the kind of money City Chelsea and Utd do, they'll never gel, if that is what they call it.

Everton and Liverpool went wrong by not excepting they share the same back garden and by not putting all their daisy's in the same flower bed means they'd missed out on only have to pay for one gardener and spend the savings on more daisys...but that's the tinkers for you.

Absolute clap-trap

Not one Sunday home game is a disgrace.
We are a club that's played all our home games (bar Sky) for the last 40odd years on a Sunday, until last year. Now we have none.
Pathetic
I can live with a mixture of days, but to play NONE on our traditional day is beyond laughable.

Yet again, the pee is being taken out of us, as fans.

Well our spend is pittance compared to money spent to gain success in the Premier league. Our entire annual salary cap won't even pay for one footballers wages for 2 months so their is an expectation of success if your paying hundreds of millions a year Tring to win something. Majority of players sackings are to avoid relegation the club's act fast as the financial implications are huge should we have faced the drop apart from being embarrassing I'm sure it would not have the financial implications of dropping out of the Premier league not even relatively close.

Price will née time to find his best starting team and have them perfect systems and set plays but also reading each other and knowing what each other will do or just being where half back want them. That takes time and not really something happens in preparation season or in friend games it's something that's finished off by playing competitive games.