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Three signings by 21st June seems like good going to me. Doubt there'll have been many seasons we've managed that.

Great signing at our level. Real sign of intent. So he's already played alongside Patterson and Palmer. Anyone else?

Genuinely have no memory of Flash nearly returning to the club.

2003-04 Starts with a short tour of the Netherlands: 8/7/03 VV Dovo 0-5 SWFC (Lee 3, Owusu, Watson) 10/7/03 DOS Kampen 0-4 SWFC (Evans 2, Holt, Shaw) 15/7/03 Donny Rovers 0-2 SWFC (Watson 2 [1 pen]) 19/7/03 Macclesfield Town 1-3 SWFC (Kuqi 3 [1 pen]) 22/7/03 SWFC 1-2 ADO Den Haag (Quinn [pen]) 26/07/03 Hartlepool 1-3 SWFC (Owusu, McLaren, Armstrong) 1/8/03 SWFC 4-3 Newcastle (Owusu, D.Smith, Armstrong, Kuqi) 12/5/04 Rotherham 2-1 SWFC (Quinn) - Testimonial for Hurst.

Right, time for another update: 2002-03 Starts with a tour of Scandinavia. 16/7/02 FC Copenhagen 1-1 SWFC (O'Donnell) 18/7/02 Trelleborgs XI [SWE] 1-4 SWFC (Crane 2, Sibon, Armstrong) 20/7/02 Ystads [SWE] 0-3 SWFC (Sibon 2, Crane) 24/7/02 Partick Thistle 2-0 SWFC (Sibon, Knight) 27/7/02 Kilmarnock 2-1 SWFC (McLaren) 30/7/02 SWFC 1-2 Middlesbrough (Beswetherick) 3/8/02 Oldham 1-2 SWFC (Donelly, Sibon) I'd managed to delete Leon Knight from my mind. What a ********.

2001-02 18/7/01 Dunfirmline Altheltic 3-1 SWFC (Sibon) 20/7/01 Kilmarnock 0-0 SWFC 25/07/01 Hull City 0-0 SWFC 28/07/01 SWFC 0-0 Derby 31/07/01 York City 1-2 SWFC (McLaren, Quinn) 4/8/01 SWFC 1-0 Deportivo Alves (McLaren). What an exciting pre season campaign. 6 games, 4 goals scored, 4 goals conceded and three consecutive goalless draws.

Obviously mean 2000-01

Back for another update: 2020-21 15/7/00 Chesterfield 3 2-1 SWFC (Holmes) 17/7/00 Crawley Town 1-3 SWFC (Sibon, Cresswell, Humphries [pen]) 19/7/00 Stevenage 0-3 SWFC (Sibon 2, Muller) 22/7/00 Wrexham 1-4 SWFC (Sibon 2 [1 pen], Booth, Hamshaw) 29/7/00 Scunthorpe 3-2 SWFC (Quinn, Jonk) 2/8/00 SWFC 2-2 PSV (De Bilde, Booth) 5/8/00 Brighton 2-0 SWFC. Interesting note, the PSV was our first home friendly in seven years, with the previous being Worthington's Testimonial against Derby in 1993. Whilst we had been a Prem team throughout that period, and Prem the higher teams are usually away, 7 years without at friendly seems extreme. Also interested as to who Holmes was. Looking at the player record in the same book, he never played a competitive game for us.

Yeah, it is. It was the on the same day as another game. I wonder if they do some weird thing of inviting random select 11s, made up of mainly youth players.

Last one for tonight: 1999-2000 20/7/99 QPR 1-2 SWFC (Donnelly, own goal) 23/7/99 Peterborough 0-1 SWFC (De Bilde) 27/7/99 West Brom 1-2 SWFC (De Bilde, Alexanderson) - Testimonial for Raven) 29/7/99 Stockport County 0-1 SWFC (Donnelly) 31/7/99 Rotherham 0-1 SWFC (Carbone) Wow, 5 wins out of 5. I think we might be on for a great season in 1999-2000.

1998/99: 15/7/98 Reading 3-0 SWFC 17/7/98 Peterborough 1-2 SWFC (Booth, Magilton) 23/7/98 Man City 0-0 SWFC 25/7/98 Blackpool 1-0 SWFC 29/7/98 Lincoln City 0-3 SWFC (Booth, Di Canio, Atherton) 1/8/98 Birmingham 4-0 SWFC 3/8/98 Wasall 2-1 SWFC (Booth) Also 3/8/98 Shrewsbury Town 1-0 SWFC - Shropshire Senior Cup. 18/5/98 Chesterfield 1-1 SWFC (Own Goal) - Testimonial for Hewitt. Certainly our worst pre-season yet posted. 9 games against lower league opposition and only won two of them. Lost 5 of them.

Doesn't Moneyball also include signing players to make a profit on later? Here's where it falls down.

I'm assuming he's a Wedneaday fan? Is the other guy a pig?

Easily the most important contract renewal option for this season. Really please with that. Can very much still go.

These damn end of season testimonials keep catching me out: Also for 1997-98 5/5/98 Luton 0-2 SWFC (Whittingham 2) - Testimonial for Johnson