Every word Joey Barton said on transfers, Forest Green and Bristol Rovers' expectations

Yeah, the champions of the division we played in last year. It’s kind of who you want to play, isn’t it? You want to play the sides you competed against last year because you know them a bit better.

We’re at home for the first time (on the opening day) in six or eight seasons, but we’re at home, we’ve got a full house and I’m really looking forward to the League One campaign starting.

We’re back at level par after getting promoted last year. Obviously, we were in situ when the club got relegated so it was important for us to get League One status back and we managed to do that at the first attempt.

We get an opportunity now to build a club the way we want to build it.

I think it is, and that’s good or bad. It’s a clean slate for everybody, even if they were relatively successful last year because unfortunately this year, what you did last year isn’t going to help you.

It’s in the bank, the history books – your goals, your appearances, your contributions – and you will be judged on what you do this year. The opening bell for the season is going to go at 3pm on Saturday and what you did last year isn’t going to serve us any benefit once the referee starts the encounter.

That’s good for the players who maybe didn’t have the year they wanted or envisaged having. It’s maybe not so good for the players who had really good years last year and have got to pick up from the start point again, but every year is a fresh opportunity to change your standing within the game.

If you don’t do well, your standing in the game drops and your salary usually goes hand in hand with that. If you do well, you get the upsides and the opportunity to increase all those good things that can happen when you do your job relatively successfully.

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