Alfreton....Match Thread

Neither Adlard or Essel can play the back to goal game nor do they come short for one twos. Lots to learn and  they may do well next season. Meanwhile, perhaps a loan somewhere. Hurst seems to be gambling on one or both of Lennie and Taylor making a recovery. Very high risk strategy as failure to replace them soon means that preseason is wasted.
McAtee, Fox, Coke and Clifton had to work extra hard to cope with the lack of experience up front. Why are we breaking our key players? There is such a gap between our better players and also rans. We have to bring in more quality sooner rather than later. Coke played on with a knock. Why?

As for the game, I thought Pearson dealt well with balls into the box and was very vocal. Revan linked well with McAtee and Coke and Efete is always looking to get down the line. Even if Taylor and Lennie were fit, we are still short of a Podge type finisher. Also a little surprised we had no trialists.  

YouTube post-match video from tonights Alfreton game, off the Grimsby Town channel, posted in the last 30-minutes.

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Quoted from Abdul19

I don't like the back of the shirts.

I don’t like the amount of space between the kit sponsor’s logo and the badge.

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Quoted from forza ivano

1-0 f.t. Distinctly underwhelmed would sum it up for me. Adlard offers v. little and Essels , who looked quick and bright,must surely have leap frogged him in the pecking order. Expected far more from Revan, just in terms of footballing ability.
Looks like it'll take abit of time for Coke to work out how him Fox and Clifton will play together.
Liked Efete & Fox, who's very busy, but McAtee was the stand out player. If only we had a forward for him to link up with....
Pearson and Longe King, on that showing, aren't a patch on Hewitt and menayese

Still it's only  a friendly, we won, still 3 weeks to work things out and we've got a lot of injuries, so i'm probably being over critical

Enjoyed reading your honest post. Not over critical as you posted what you saw which is better than being biased for or against the team.

Quoted from 123614

Three times now Macca has kicked the ball straight into touch.

He’s a great bloke though

Went to BUFC v NCFC last Tuesday and County looked very sharp indeed and won easily
Better than we looked last night
Still it’s very early in friendlies yet I guess
But will be a comparison Sat
If we finish above or around County this season we will be up there
Come on Town!!

Obvious from what PH says that this is worst pre-season for injuries he has known
We will almost certainly be going into new season with at least one very inexperienced forward
Coke has a knock - hopefully not serious

He is not going to be rushed into buying a striker for the sake of it

We need to prepare for a slow/sluggish/tough start to season - this requires patience from fans but we all know what will happen

But you can't just get a striker in for the sake of it - waste of money when the right player will eventually come along

We never seem to get off to a flyer - it's very frustrating

Quoted from sydney

Went to BUFC v NCFC last Tuesday and County looked very sharp indeed and won easily
Better than we looked last night
Still it’s very early in friendlies yet I guess
But will be a comparison Sat
If we finish above or around County this season we will be up there
Come on Town!!

Put any two of county's crop of tall, strong and athletic forwards in our team last night and you have a different game. If McAtee picks up a knock as well as Coke ,Fox, Sousa, Wright et al then we will really struggle.

Personally would like us to get a left footed midfield player in to give us better balance and hopefully a little more quality as well. Thought the defence against Rotherham looked very good so a little surprised they haven’t had another chance to play together.

As a club we appear over recent seasons to have suffered more than most with injuries and let’s hope we now have better access to facilities and medical support to get these guys back out playing sooner rather than later.

Looks like we are waiting for league teams to finalise their preferred  playing squads before we get another frontman so it might be another couple of weeks before we see anyone arrives unless Burnley U’23’s have someone of interest playing today!!

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Personally would like us to get a left footed midfield player in to give us better balance and hopefully a little more quality as well. Thought the defence against Rotherham looked very good so a little surprised they haven’t had another chance to play together.

As a club we appear over recent seasons to have suffered more than most with injuries and let’s hope we now have better access to facilities and medical support to get these guys back out playing sooner rather than later.

Looks like we are waiting for league teams to finalise their preferred  playing squads before we get another frontman so it might be another couple of weeks before we see anyone arrives unless Burnley U’23’s have someone of interest playing today!!

The Burnley game is off today. We can't field a squad and they are struggling too.