But you do that every season. Watch the same old shit unfold and then pick some future date until you make a judgement. And it seems fair on the surface. Yes, of course don't judge a coming season on the strength of the pre-season. That's reasonable. At any normal club.
This isn't a normal club. Watching the lack of options and the lack of ideas in that chav match was like meeting work colleagues on a Monday morning. You know what you're going to get all week long.