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I’d happily take Jake King for the record.

Looks odd on the face of it. Sami is already in that position and can’t even get in the bench?  One for the long term maybe, expect to see him out on loan somewhere.

I think you and a couple of others are over rating Sami a bit if I’m honest? I’d like to be proved wrong but I think he’s a bit of a squad filler while we were short in attacking positions.

I think if anything you’re more likely to see Kaja (injured yday I believe) than Sami.

But who knows I guess. Hopefully Zak Goodson will do well here. I guess he’s been playing and scoring this season, albeit at a lower level so we’ll see how he goes. He says he pacey and we could certainly do with a bit more pace up front.

You spoke slightly too soon.

It was 3 x 30 mins.

We won 4-3.

Kaja put us 4-1 up before they got a couple back .


Before anyone gets too excited at us beating their u23s just be aware that they’re at home to Everton tonight…

If that bit you walked across is the designated way across then it probably needs marking out as such. It’s not actually that visible if you’re not a regular.

I didn’t get daggers as such but I was walking across the view of 20 people with my 2 boys rather than brushing past 3 media people so I can see why upset.

There’s no other facilities on the other side of the stand is there.

That said, it’s a relative non issue in the scheme of things.

I concur with that. I don’t know whether it’s a lack of confidence or just pace down the flanks but we aren’t going forward enough. Could be Osborne and Lundstram not quite gelling but we’re not quite brave enough facing forward (like Jake was) but we aren’t passing through the lines at all. In fact, times when we can play into midfield we keep going back.

I’ve been critical of Bennett and remain unconvinced but there were a few times he was showing for the ball ‘in the hole’ and not getting it.

The hesitancy of the standard passing across the back is doing my head in, get some pace on it.

It’s getting a bit embarrassing watching our best centre half tripping over the ball on the right wing. Lord knows there’s enough of the back 4 who could be dropped for him to go back to his natural position.

Marple Alty may be right we just need to gel a bit but by God, I’ve sat through two Altrincham performances this week that have been really bad. And by bad I mean, technically, tactically and physically as well as being boring and not attractive to watch. It’s a long time since I’ve endured two games like that.

Happy to get the late equaliser but we’ve got to sort ourselves out, at the moment I’d say no ones place is safe and I can’t agree with the managers assessment that we’ve recruited well this summer I’m afraid.

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Well, that was pretty poor if I’m honest. Ponderous and timid in possession, no flexibility, some positional changes that didn’t work and gifted them two goals.

It’s not the time to panic or get too down about it but we’ve got to take the bull by the horns and get serious now. Sort the goal keeper situation, tell Barrows to get fit, sign at least two more adults who’ve played football and get aggressive in the final third.

We’ve essentially done the same passing over and over again and expected a different result. Insanity?

Baines held up well, we didn’t look too threatened by them but it was like a training ground game. Need to crack on now.

Good post.  It's very unfortunate that Dermot Mee's first significant contribution was to make a mistake which led to a goal, but that was the case, and his team-mates therefore have that worrying lack of confidence in him.

We actually had two strikers on for a time tonight, but stiil seem to be prone to pass it around the circle that one time too often, trying to find the perfect opportunity rather than have a go at goal.

The players aren't suddenly bad players though, so we can turn this around, starting against a Yeovil Town team who have had a worse start than us.

In fairness to Mee,  anyone who T**ts a ball from near enough half way unnanounced is going to struggle to control it.

Clearly the ball caught him out as it probably wouldnt have been deemed a backpass.

He made two great saves at 1 nil.

Couldn’t make last night but fact of the matter re Mee is that United are trusting us with one of their kids for an extended period for the first time in god knows how many years-for the long term health of the club that can only be a good thing. Now, if only we could get City to do the same…

I thought the same, obviously the lad needs to perform but hopefully we look after him and it's the start of a decent long term relationship.

He’ll never ever play a first team game for Man Utd so they’re entrusting us with rock all if we’re honest about it.

I should add that the travelling support was superb, 80/90 or so. A healthy dose of exiles.

Can confirm that Toby should not play right wing at all.

Not sure CCC and Bennet are up to it. One of them is most certainly enough.