I’ve thanked your post les because I agree with you 85%. (Approx.)
I can’t go along with:-
“Secondly, I think he did precisely the right thing trying to use ‘dead season time’ to blood loadsa youngsters and let ’em experience what it’s really like at the sharp end”
IMO it was too many at once and clearly, for some, much too soon. I fear some may never recover.
