| Exactly how much knowledge can be gleaned from international friendlies in the modern age is a matter of great debate. |
| The club won't play any friendlies because it has largely kept last year's squad together. |
| Those four games are seen as the ideal warm-ups for the most glamorous of the friendlies, a showpiece trip to Germany to play SV Hamburg. |
| Crooks has a few questions he will be looking to answer in the three pre-season friendlies, when everybody in the squad will get a game. |
| In the event, the frost won and clubs absent from the Fort William conference certainly were not indulging in friendlies. |
| We were not allowed to play any pre-season friendlies so we have started well under very difficult circumstances. |
