Which somewhat defeats the whole object of pre season build ups!!
Or should we start the pre season bulid up even earlier so that we are ready for a "competetive" match 10 days before the season actually starts?
A better idea would be to delay the 1st round till a couple of weeks into the season when, all the summer holidays are over and done, the new shirts & season ticket costs have been absorbed, and hopefully given a good start people will have more of an appetite for going to games again having shaken off the close sesaon malaise.