With the season pushed to Saturday 24 September, Gor Mahia head coach Johnathan McKinstry has welcomed the move which hands his team more time to prepare for the 2022-2023 campaign.The season was initially slated to kick off on Saturday 27 August but was pushed forward by three weeks with the Football Kenya Federation Transition Committee again announcing that the new season will kick off on Saturday 24 September.Gor Mahia boss Ambrose Rachier breaks silence on Kenyan football impasseMcKinstry admitted that his team was ill prepared for the new season after only conducting pre-season for three weeks with the postponement coming as a massive boost.“We were always a bit behind, we as a club knew that, this is our third week and a pre season should be a minimum of six weeks but because of disruption of the elections we were a bit behind.If the season was to kick off on the 10th we knew that we would be getting onto our levels in the first few weeks of the season, so the league getting pushed to September 24th will help us get a full pre-season,” said McKinstry.##NAJAVA_MECA_6624870##K’Ogalo lost their pre-season friendly against KCB on Saturday with a squad that was mostly comprised of players from the youth team as the club continues to serve a transfer embargo from FIFA.Despite being behind schedule, McKinstry noted that he will not rush his players which might cost the team at the start of the season.Muguna’s Azam appoint former Cameroon coach to replace Moallin“We won’t change anything because if you do twice as many sessions you will burn out and at the start of the season you will have lots of injuries and tired players.All we can do is to accept that we are behind and there is nothing we can do about that, we just have to work and that is definitely good for us because some teams will have a long pre season,” added McKinstry.
