Everton boss David Moyes will stick to his old-school preseason methods.

For Jimmy Lumsden, Moyes' first team coach, the ends justify the means, even if he does have a little sympathy for those dread-filled players currently trying to forget about July's imminent exertions.

"To be fair to the gaffer he does sometimes admit it might be a little bit old school, but he does it mostly for mental reasons rather than physical," says the Glaswegian, who marked a decade at Goodison in March.

"If they can do these runs they can do anything. They drag each other through them and that's an important aspect too.

"Coming to the last 10 minutes of a game, if you can drive yourself that little bit harder, go again that tiny bit quicker, than the seeds were sown in pre-season. It's mental training.

"If you can be sharper in the last phases of most games, you have a better chances of getting more points. Our stats tend to show that."