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Mullarkey mom today. Very busy and lots of skill on the right. Very unlucky with his piledriver as the keeper.pulled off a great save

On the positives I thought we looked better than last season. The back four particularly looked very comfortable with each other and we have very good players in Mullarkey and Rogers. Always liked Maher but he's come on from last season
Conteh looks a natural talent and Hunt was good as well. Thought Vernam showed glimpses without causing them any real damage and that's were the problem might lie, creativity at the sharp end
I was excited by the Rose signing but he spent too much time on the floor appealing. However, to be fair to Rose we never really got behind Wimbledon and got good balls into him
Not sure how good Wimbledon are but they certainly defended competently
Interesting results all round today, think all the pre season favourites lost. The exception were Crawley who everyone had written off!!

Lots of good build up play that lead to nothing because of a lack of creativity/killer instinct up front. Typical Hurst team performance against a team that parks the bus because of the usual lack of a plan B.

Wimbledon were poor, they were completely reliant on that hoof ball to hit the counter and very little else. Which is worrying, but I'm going to put it down to 1st game jitters.

Thought Harry had an unusualy poor game today nothing he did seemed to work.

Conteh or Hunt for my MoM.

Thought it was same old with different players.
Back 4 look like a good unit.
Clifton, Eisa and Vernam were okay
I'm gutted about Hunt, I really want to see him do well but he wasn't at the races today. How he was the sponsors mom is beyond me. I hope he get a run in the side to get his confidence going because there is a player there somewhere.
Still it's a better start than last season so onwards and upwards UTM

Surprised Hunt got MOM thought he misplaced many passes. It’s okay when it’s an attacking pass to try break through the defence and it doesn’t work but thought he misplaced some simple easy passes.

Quoted from TAGG

Thought it was same old with different players.
Back 4 look like a good unit.
Clifton, Eisa and Vernam were okay
I'm gutted about Hunt, I really want to see him do well but he wasn't at the races today. How he was the sponsors mom is beyond me. I hope he get a run in the side to get his confidence going because there is a player there somewhere.
Still it's a better start than last season so onwards and upwards UTM

Hunt was only guilty of trying too much at times today. Most of our best play came when he got on the ball. Probably not MoM but ‘not at the races’ is way from what happened.

It’s a shame for the great work that the defence and midfield are doing - no end product since Grimsby Borough and Cleethorpes Town ( probably the games when new strikers get injured)

I hope someone can spark a goal or 3

UTM

I thought by and large they were pretty poor and we laboured in the final third. We looked most dangerous running at their defence. The ref let them get away with an awful lot of manhandling. Good point considering the penalty and felt more like a game where we would take 3 than 0. At least we didn't concede 5! UTM!

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Hunt was only guilty of trying too much at times today. Most of our best play came when he got on the ball. Probably not MoM but ‘not at the races’ is way from what happened.

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I think if you look at his pass completion I think it would be 10% at best.
I think he's a confidence player that why I want him to have a good run in the side rather than bit and bobing like last season.

I was both encouraged and discouraged watching that first game.

Encouraged because the quality of player is markedly better, but discouraged because we will not score enough goals with that system. We have to play two up front I think and presumably Pyke is going to play that role when fully fit.

We wont concede many though, the defence looks very classy.