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i am hoping he gets all the nerves and errors out of his system before the start of the season

It's not just nerves and errors Harold. He doesn't control his penalty area adequately, and stays rooted to his line far too often. I don't believe he can be cured.

Remember Andrew Dawber ? Neil Young brought him in with a decent reputation from West Ham, and he was appalling. Every error was somebody else's fault in his opinion. Inside 5 years he drifted down the pyramid to Charnock Richard, and then out of the game completely. It pains me to say it, but Ollie Byrne puts me in mind of him in so many ways.

Nothing on Twitter, and can't get RR. Ah well, it's only a friendly.....

Joey Jones has got 22 - probably lucky for him - so I'd expect him to get a start ahead of Osborne.

The live stream is a good 3 minutes behind the actual game, but I've enabled FlashScores so I've got a 3 minute warning.

I've occasionally wondered whether Nom de Plume and I (and a few others) are over critical of Ollie Byrne. Tonight I know it's not the case, because of even FCUM's commentary team have picked up on his ineptitude :

"The keeper will be thinking he could have done better with at least two of the goals.......none of them have been particularly well struck."

I'm horribly afraid that if we continue with him, all of our opponents will get a goal or more advantage in every game, and having voted in the recent poll for a top half finish, I'm becoming afraid of a relegation struggle.

No commentary on the live stream 🤬

8.00 kick off

Lancaster played really really well and appear to have a couple of very decent keepers (the Brazilian lad was very good). Aaron Bennett looked much leaner and lasted more than 80 mins. For us, it was fabulous to see Kosy back in the team and I felt he did really well in the 10 role. Our number 2 (Donowa) was easily the best of our new players - an excellent addition.

Our no.2 was Lewis Banks - Justin Donawa wasn't involved this afternoon.

On going into the details of the industrial action, it's not a full strike but an overtime ban. Both Northern and Avanti say that they expect to operate "more or less a full service" so I should be able to get there OK.