Ahead of Swindon Town and Swindon Supermarine’s first friendly this weekend, The Adver took a behind-the-scenes look at how teams prepare.

The public part of pre-season gets going for most clubs this weekend, and that will bring a host of things. Among them will be the classic manager's answer that results don’t matter, and it is more about the work that people don’t see. So this summer, I decided to find out what they meant and go behind those closed doors.

With the permission of the new Swindon Supermarine manager, Bobby Wilkinson, I was granted unlimited access to one of their training sessions as they prepare to face Town this weekend.

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The session at the Swindome began with a team meeting, reviewing the in-house friendly from two days earlier. The first thing I noted was the way Wilkinson went about his meeting. The 45-year-old has won multiple promotions in his career, and everything was clearly designed to build the right mentality.

Nothing about the execution or details of the team’s display was being criticised, more........

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