pre-season friendly v Bury, 10th july 2009, Gigg Lane

[Gazzarh123]

preseason game, not worried, even if it was the mighty bury lol, preseason about fitness not results, althought wud be nice to see some wins chalked up tho, looking forward to a very exciting an competitive season this year.

 

[Cahill's Metatarsal]

Awful performance, awful result but it was our 1st pre-season friendly, less than a week after our players who haven't been involved in international games returned to training. It would have been nice to ruin them but in the circumstances I'm not worried.

Peterlin & Mustafi seemed tidy enough, Coleman has got tremendous pace & in the 2nd half when playing left back pushed forward a lot more but that could have been more to do with instructions from the manager rather than the change of position.

 

[theboywho]

Nash - solid, calming influence
Coleman - much better at LB than RB, encouraging
McCarten - looked shaky
Duffy - started really well but then lost his head
Baines - good, as per usual
Baxter - a few good touches, somehow missed from a yard though
Wallace - good passing range, great ball over the top for Vaughan
Gosling - started badly but was the best player on the park by the end
Neville - usual self
Saha - looked sharp
Vaughan - missed several chances

Turner - useless, doesn't inspire confidence in the back four
Mustafi - tidy but too small for a CB
Peterlin - anonymous
Apkan - looked good, strong in the tackle
Osman - awful, considering he took the armband as well
Hibbert - Hibbert
Jutkiewicz - awful control
Jo - inexplicably took the ball off Coleman and was flagged offside during an attack
Agard - quite lightweight, can beat a man though, weak shot

I think that's everyone!

 

[Neiler]

Coleman impressing at LB, that could fill a hole for us as a covering LB.