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You must have been sat near me then. I was on row D right in line with the six yard box we defended in game 1 first half. The guy who got the free shirt from the club for being first in the queue was sat right behind me.

Exactly, it’s awful to watch. Lots of scary passing around in the danger areas before somebody sends a ball forward to another player further up the pitch. This player is inevitably running back towards his own goal to receive the ball. He either gets tackled or hoofs a blind pass around the corner to no one in particular. Too much walking football. Unless you’re Bryan Douglas it’s really difficult to beat an opponent once you’re stood still. For their first goal they banged an ale house ball out of defence onto our left flank,, Wharton had gone somewhere to buy a pie or a cup of coffee, and they score with ease. One pass and we open up like the Red Sea.

Yes, that was a great bit of play. It was a decent save from their trialist keeper but really the chance should have been buried.

It wasn’t great Gav. Not exactly like having teeth pulled but part way through the first game I caught myself thinking - “ If football had have been like this when I was a kid I might have concentrated on playing cricket ! “ This was after several bouts of centre half to centre half to goalie triangular keep ball !

Dolan helped make one and scored the other. It wasn’t an easy chance either.

Too soon to say but we are truly desperate for a striker.

I was discussing it with my son on the way back. We’ve seen some real dogshit pre-season games in the past, especially when we’ve played at Rochdale, and this was just the same.

Good save but a very poor penalty.

Sigurdsson had better be good. We were crying out for some creativity in centre midfield. Somebody who can make things happen instead of just moving the ball ( and responsibility ) on. Wharton the younger was badly missed.

Just got back. One awful game and one poor game. Maybe I expect too much but a lot of the passing was dreadful. It looked like two bottom division teams scrapping it out, not one bottom Div team and one Championship team. We only turned it on for the last 15 minutes of the second game when we got around their right hand side twice to score two good goals. Before that we’d just played in front of our opponents as usual. No goal threat at all. Pluses- Phillips , without a doubt he looks like he’ll be pushing for a place this season. Minuses - Gally , he’s gone backwards. Somebody threaded a nice pass through to him and he got it caught between the divers boots he must have been wearing. Batty, I expected more, he’s not ready. Vale, not a left winger, did his best but kept having to come inside all the time. Wharton, badly at fault for both of their goals, went missing for the first and then got turned again for the pen. He must be behind Phillips now. Him and Carter looked a bit shaky. JRC, Hyam, Sammy, Hedges, Dolan, Brittain, Pickering all did ok. None of the kids are knocking on the door apart from Phillips. Leonard never got a touch. Buckley strolled through the game when it needed more effort. The new Norwegian guy looked ok but nothing special to me. Early days though, he only played 45 minutes.

They think they have to score off every ball ! Onedayitis.

If we could ever get Archer and Wood bowling at the same time we’d make the Aussies jump around a bit.

Another shirt I don’t need to buy.

Yeah, living in a foreign country can be tough. Plus he’s got a very young child to contend with.

Rockpile - If Sugar Was As Sweet As You

Yeah and banging the ball at an opponent when you’re already on a yellow card. Deliberately getting sent off in my opinion.

Mickey And Sylvia - Love Is Strange

That stinks. I’ve been watching football a long while and I’ve never seen anything like that from an outfield player. It should have been investigated at the time.

The Kinks - Who’ll Be The Next In Line

The Electric Prunes - Get Me To The World On Time

The Yardbirds - Got To Hurry When I first thought “ Who’s this Eric Clapton ? “

The Searchers - Love Potion Number Nine

Barry Mann - Who Put The Bomp

Marshall Crenshaw - My Favourite Waste Of Time

Tommy Edwards - It’s All In The Game