Not mentioned on Newport site either, going into season having played only 4 pre-season games could be a risk given most teams play around 7/8 against mixed levels of opposition.

Hopefully fitness levels won’t be affected

Equally dominating possession against 4 lower league sides won’t test the players much. Always good to play higher league opposition if only to see what level your at and compare levels of fitness with teams further up the pyramid.

Hopefully the the Newport game comes good otherwise going into the most competitive national league south in recent years with our most challenging game coming against a relegated Frome side isn’t ideal preparation in my eyes.

We are the self proclaimed premier team in Wiltshire yet can’t even secure friendlies with either Swindon, rovers, Bristol city, forest green, and maybe Newport depending if it’s played.

Bath are playing forest green, Newport, rovers and Exeter.

Supermarine playing Swindon and forest green

Hungerford playing Swindon

Slough playing Eastleigh, Sutton, Bournemouth u23

Salisbury played reading u23, Swindon and Eastleigh

No arguments about it our pre-season schedule isn’t great,

Having a home pitch unavailable is going to be a huge part of that though mate. 

I will imagine none of the above mentioned sides will be playing at these higher oppositions ground. They will almost all be at home to what will likely be a reduced side. 

Also bear in mind a lot of these sides securing friendlies will likely be because they are feeder or connected via academy. I am not disputing it would be great to have some high profile friendlies but I am also going to say we "As the Premier club in Wiltshire" would have been able to secure friendlies against all of the above if we had the ability to invite them. 

Also let's cut a little slack here, imagine if the situation was. You can play friendlies against Swindon, Rover, FGR reserves and trialists but once again the pitch will be battered to dust half way through the season. We need to embrace the larger goal here and I don't think that a pre-season stacked with attractive fixtures at home would turn out the right decision when you consider the alternative. 

No worries St Albans play - Stevenage (Div 2), Barnet (National). We've got Melksham Town.
Yes I take what your saying about the pitch, but this is a disgrace! So we can't play a higher ranked team in the whole United Kingdom away from home? Who is the person at CTFC making these decisions?