Andy Smith

Quoted from Maringer

Amos fired a few fast passes forward - and with both feet, which was encouraging. Looked weaker in the air than Crookes, but a bit quicker. You can't have everything in a 5th level defender so that's fair enough. I think Crookes will have a fight on his hands to get his place back.

There was one cross that he drilled low across the box at pace which caught everyone by surprise.

I thought both Amos and Smith had solid debuts. Altrincham are probably the least dangerous side I've seen this season so far, so I'm sure they'll get tougher tests in the weeks ahead but if they improve as they go with their teammates then we may have added some worthwhile players into the mix.

I thought both had great debuts.  As mentioned above, almost the perfect scenario to make your debut considering 50% of your defence are new and in a side that's struggling for form.  Not tested massively defensively and afforded plenty of time to get bedded in.

Smith's last ditch intervention was much needed as that could have gone badly wrong and seen us facing a side that were wasting time and defended deep when 1-0 down, never mind if they had taken an early lead.

I actually thought initially we lined up with a back three and Amos and Maguire-Drew as wing-backs in a four man midfield, soon changed to a quite obvious back four though.  Smith looked fairly quick and I do wonder if he'll be moved inside when Efete is back.  I like both Waterfall and Pearson but do think we look suspect to balls clipped over the top with them as a pair.