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Blues v Nancy Pre-season Friendly - 1-1

We started as I expect us to start against Colchester



Sadler ran his nads off. Him and Dunn look good on the left. Had to laugh at the idiot who told Dunn to "get stuck in". Ignore Dunn's injury history, the fact it's a friendly and that the ball was 8 yards from him and 1 from a Nancy player, and the bloke might have had a point.

Overall we looked a bit rusty but that's just a comment, not a concern. Nancy pass the ball well and have some good players. Number 26 on the left looked promising. blues played some good stuff with the ball but struggled to win it back. Both Dunn and Nafti made some poor passes to give away possesion in the wrong 1/3 rd of the park. Danns got forward a lot more and hinted at his ability to run with the ball and to chase down what appear to be lost causes. Forse looked very comfortable and it was a typical Mighty Finn goal when he appeared to have run into 5 defenders, only for the ball to pop out of the melee and end up in the back of the net.

They say white guys can't jump, but that doesn't mean black guys can, judging on Jerome's attempts today. He seems to jump way too early, making easy to defend against. On the plus side, Bruce might tell our players not to lump it to his head. Jerome is a good player but I can see him splitting Blues fans' opinions in the same way Heskey and Morrison did.

DJ and Nafti got on with things, as did Kelly who didn't see too much of the ball today.

Central Defense looked creaky. N'Gotty is a couple of weeks behind in fitness and Tebs has only just returned. I can't see too many CCC teams being level with Nancy so perhaps we've got some time to sort out the back line.

The second half was pedestrian so it's hard to judge the subs - DJC, Kilkenny, Gray and Bruce. Some twats decided to boo when Gray came on. Nice touch guys. DJC used his pace and was unlucky to have his best moment ruined by a shirt tug which went unnoticed by the ref.
posted by kwacky at 5:58 pm