What are peoples thoughts on playing five friendly games in 14 days. Only two will be full first team players but i still think it is too much.

My thoughts are 'leave it to the coach'

5 in 13 days is a bit much but the way the weather is u may be lucky to get any ,if this cold spell continues ,maybe the ur coach is edging his bets

To be fair 5 in 13 days doesn't really tell the story of them, 2 are in 2 days so its obvious one will be an academy reserve run out and possibly one of the others will too.

I'd expect us to not be at full strength for the Horne testimonial either, think it will be a split between 1st team and youth to give the young lads a run out as well as blooding our new signings in a derby.

The only game i can see the 1st team playing at full strength would eb the warm up against Bradford the week prior to the season proper.

I thought Morgan & Agar both claimed it would be full strength for the Horney game...it is always a difficult one with friendlies we paid the price a couple of seasons ago, however they still need a big hit out, suppose the injuries arguably could come in the first game, like some-one has already said leave it to the coaches.

morgan said he'd start with the strongest side available to him, which could mean anything of course, but I wouldn't bet on too many big stars playing longer than 20 to 30 minutes as its the first friendly and in the past 2 years he has used it for a full squad fitness tune up with non stop substitutions

If a couple are cancelled, and with the present conditions and the forecast for the next couple of weeks looking bad, which they could well be, at least the team will have another two or three chances of a hit out.

Well don't know if any of the others are the same but the Gateshead game is only semi-contact so wont take anything out of the players
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