by paulstreet Mon Jul 30, 2012 11:02 am
Well, back home again and Ive calmed down a bit after the scarcely believable game on Saturday. A couple of large glasses of Irish Whiskey went down very well on Saturday evening!
A few more thoughts: if that was Crudsaders strongest squad (and apparently it was) then it must rank (friendly or not) as one of the best performances by Town certainly in my time as a supporter. Crusaders looked quite skillful, they passed the ball around well, but their finishing was poor and we seemed able to almost walk through their defence at will (how come they only lost 1-0 to Rosenburg?). As I said Saturday I thought Dean was superb, but he had lots of space to play in, Chib looked really dangerous, should probably have scored 5! I was impressed with Beesley as well, to be honest thought he looked a bit out of hisd depth last season, but he and Chib made a great partnership in the first half. Samuels impressed again, but hard to fault anyone really.
Bit of a mystery how we struggled to get a 1-1 draw with Knaresboro', but I guess thats pre-season for you. Wednesday's game becomes even more interesting, will Town carry this form on? My guess would be thast the Irish League is roughly Conf Premier standard, so we should really be nailing teams like Railway.
From what I have seen (and read) my starting XI against Hinckley would be: Viega/Samuels,White, Killock,Merris/Bolder,Dean,Bolland/Meechan/Chilaka,Beesley
This is tough on Radcliffe, Adam and a few others, but only XI can start. My subs would be: Radcliffe,Nowakowski,Allan,Stimpson,Youhill
This looks a good squad, but when the 'real' stuff starts, lets hope we carry on this form.