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He did look pretty raw - his touch was a bit hit and miss, although he did almost score with a reasonable shot from outside the box. Wilson and Marsh have both looked like natural finishers throughout pre-season but we have lacked power and strength upfront - Gime fills that gap.

He didn't feature in that game. He had been on trial with Wrexham all pre-season but they let him go.

I am also really happy with that. He was raw, but so strong and fast. I think JA could work wonders on him. For the first time in many years, we are starting the season with more than two strikers in the squad, and a target man of sorts.

That's nailed two of the four seasons under JA. The other two we started pretty terribly - 3 points from the first 9 games and 4 points from the first 6 games. I think with this many new players and a difficult start where we're likely to lose early games such as Wrexham away, Hartlepool, Sutton...

Thanks - sorry if you found my original post disrespectful, it wasn't intended that way. I thought as much as our team got weaker as the game went on, Stockport (particularly their movement) were good throughout and you had some good players. I agree with 1 and 2, but with 3 I more saw it as...

You're correct in the sense that it wasn't entirely trialists, but it was more a short way of saying that the team from 60 minutes onwards (the predominant period where we were completely outplayed) was a team that consisted of trialists, players who had never played with the other players...

Completely agree. We were pretty impressive in the first half and were winning due to some excellent finishing. Then the changes came, chaos descended and we were awful, you could have had 10. I thought County looked quite useful though, some nice movement upfront. As for Courtney...

Too many useless trialists in a second half we lost 4-0!

I'm inclined to agree with you on that last part. It always feels like a pre-season friendly when you go to Borehamwood.

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He was always a good player against us until this season. When he played in April for Borehamwood against Macc, he looked overweight and disinterested.

We have 15 I think, so 4 subs at the moment? He is our fourth centre-back, so I would expect one isn't even going to make the bench if we start the season with 17/18 in the squad.

Can't really blame him. It's so much closer to home, probably on more money than we could have offered and he would have struggled to make the bench here.

I agree with both the above posts. Anyone from about the top 4/5 down could conceivably finish anywhere between 15+ places. With so many similar standard squads, I think the managers are going to be even more important than usual, which is why I'm pretty glad we have Askey!

Burgess was our best player on Saturday, and on the basis of that, should start. However, I thought Richards played well, and broke up the play more effectively than anyone did last season, and therefore I'd put Hancox on the bench and play Richards and Burgess.

Yeah, it was our first game of pre-season. We were really good first half when it was signed players plus Gogic, Kerr and Arthur, everyone looked good and we gave Derby's first team a really good game. Then, as the team essentially became solely trialists, we became disjointed and Derby could...

Weird that he barely featured earlier. His career has been a mixed bag, at some places he's got good goals to games ratios and then at others he hasn't scored. Hopefully Askey gets the best out of him! Edit - where did you see this signing, I can't see it anywhere?

He might have been shite when playing for all these other teams, but it's a myth that he was shite for us on loan last season. He started one game in the short spell, away at Tranmere, and was arguably our best performer on the day. He picked up a daft yellow card though, which was his 10th of...

Koby Arthur and the keeper in the first half were excellent against Derby's first team players, and 3 or 4 of the defenders who trialled played well. Then there were a number of the usual useless trialists, which included Meppen-Walter, who looked several stone overweight and Storer who appeared...