The gaffer (Wayne Rooney) will want to win every game, I know that - first pre-season game, last pre-season game, Carabao Cup. Hes never going to go and say this is just about minutes, Shuttleworth told Plymouth Live.
Now, the reality is its a first game, there will be things we want to see that we have implemented in the last seven days (of pre-season training), and we have seen some of that in our internal 11 v 11s as well.
So it will be nice to see that against an opposition and see whether the lads are taking in what we are asking them to do and trying that. We will also get the lads some exposure to that 11 v 11 competitive minutes, but ultimately the gaffer will want to win every game.
If we can go into Sheffield Wednesday with a 100 per cent record of winning five games its never going to do you any harm. The gaffer doesnt believe in this It doesnt matter what you do in pre-season. Hes a winner and thats what his mentality is.
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