Manorlounger
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Good entertainment this evening. Crowd was improved by the presence of a lot kids with families and friends - half term so no school tomorrow. Also we noted quite a few foreign students(?) in attendance - nice to see some had bought scarves before coming.
Shame that we are as good as out of the tournament as it brings very good prize money and affords an opportunity to play fringe and youth team players.
Also gave season ticket holders a chance to sit somewhere else, chap next to us was interested in seeing the game from the SSU instead of his normal East stand seat.
As to the players, sadly Dan Agyei looks a shadow of the player we thought he could be, Johnson was invisible in the first half, Alex Gorrin was the driving force in midfield ably assisted by McGuane (needs more game time to get back into full form) and Cooper looked better but still caught the ref's eye with some very wild looking tackles and stray legs - a liability, it has to be said. Bodin was really not at the races other than a few glimpses and missed an absolute sitter when he thought he was offside and didn't play to the whistle - schoolboy error!
Not sure any of the youngsters played their way into the first team although O'Donkor does look the business for the very near future along with Golding who looked like another very good prospect.
McNally was very unlucky to see a second yellow but, he does look clumsy when challenging and really gave the ref all the help he needed in producing a card.
Shame that we are as good as out of the tournament as it brings very good prize money and affords an opportunity to play fringe and youth team players.
Also gave season ticket holders a chance to sit somewhere else, chap next to us was interested in seeing the game from the SSU instead of his normal East stand seat.
As to the players, sadly Dan Agyei looks a shadow of the player we thought he could be, Johnson was invisible in the first half, Alex Gorrin was the driving force in midfield ably assisted by McGuane (needs more game time to get back into full form) and Cooper looked better but still caught the ref's eye with some very wild looking tackles and stray legs - a liability, it has to be said. Bodin was really not at the races other than a few glimpses and missed an absolute sitter when he thought he was offside and didn't play to the whistle - schoolboy error!
Not sure any of the youngsters played their way into the first team although O'Donkor does look the business for the very near future along with Golding who looked like another very good prospect.
McNally was very unlucky to see a second yellow but, he does look clumsy when challenging and really gave the ref all the help he needed in producing a card.