I don't think it's a mistake.

Radders has his plans for preseason so if he wants to play a scratch side against Rovers then fine by me. I don't think a spanking in a meaningless game against a Championship side in Rovers will make one iota of difference to season ticket sales, if last season's performance didn't inspire people then hammering two bit opposition won't.

The upshot is that even friendly bragging rights won't matter this season, it's a pity to gloat when Rovers won't even make it out of that league this year !

What a hypocrite. Remember that time you went on a Salford topic about their 6 potential signings to simply goad them about a result and state pity for them? Mind you, two days before your (as it turned out) historic visit to Wembley, you probably had a bit of SL swagger about you. All gone now obviously. Shame that.

Have the details for Rovers civic reception been announced yet?

For me it was just a "practice match" (never a friendly) and if we really wanted to win it we could have by putting a stronger team out. We know that and I think most Rovers fans know that. The team we had out you could see really tried but it was only ever going one way and if by some strange happening we had won, there would have been some strong comments from Rovers fans flying about. We will gauge our team against Salford and them against a full SL team in the middle 8's. It's a long season.

It was just that "practice". I think that it showed that your youth team as a whole is not up to a middle 8s standard team. I don't think anyone would expect them all to be at that level in their development and if they were they would likely be on loan at lower end SL, upper end Championship teams already.

We played what was in front of us, that's all we could do. The comments about over celebration and civic receptions are a bit boring, as they are trotted about by either side in these instances.

In the end we had a contested training session, in which both teams seem to have come through with a bit more match fitness and hopefully unscathed by injury.