Pre-season Friendly v Walsall

[darren woolley]

Very pleased with the win and workout.

[usav]

Cheers Mr Kelly.

Surely that was a foul from Heskey for our third? 

[*shellac*]

He even left the wall to try and meet the free kick with his head. In a friendly.
Encouraging.

My new hero.

[pooligan]

Anyone know if that is the new Walsall  home kit or the new away one?

[Dave Cooper please]

Away.
And I assume the reason we didn't wear our black socks was because Walsall were wearing theirs.

[UK Redsox]

A new strategy during pre-season. Suck it and see...

Wow............. a Leeg score prediction comes true

[JD]

That's ok, Bent scoring x 2, Ireland interested. Given didn't concede a goal. A good start.

[russon]

Fonz is definitely a good finisher. He'll get there.

Couldn't finish his dinner last night. Muffed an open goal and a 1 on 1 before burying a point blank header into the away end. Good approach play but he really isn't a finisher

[Maradona10]

A good workout but that's it for me, still think we're lightweight in the middle. On Fonz he's definitely a finisher, I'd rather him fluff the ones against Walsall as it means jack shit, I remember a Luke Moore scoring goals for fun in pre season and then did nothing when season started. Blackburn will be a good test.

[Clampy]

Fonz had two pretty easy chances, should have had a hattrick. Still looked very lively though.

Ireland looked excellent before he went off, linked up very well with Warnock. Albrighton had a bit of a stinker.

Heskey played very well on the left wing, who needs Ashley. *stickyouttonguething*

  Bannan needs to stop pissing about though cos he won't get that much time in the Prem.   

Disagree with this totally, for heaven's sake it was only a freindly. I thought he was great. It's nice to see a kid of his age spraying the ball around the pitch. Not all his long range passes came off, but at least he has the confidence to have a go. We need to encourage him, not tell him to stop pissing about.

Other than that, Warnock and Ireland looked as if they had a point to prove, Fonz looks as if he's coming on nicely as a footballer and Bent could well turn out to be the best money this club has spent in a long time. Overall, really enjoyed it.

[UsualSuspect]

It's walsall. And a friendly. Bit of perspective please. Encouraging, but it's a million miles away from proving anything.

I agree

Whilst I would like to be coming in my pants this is our starting 11 against a team that were nearly relegated.

Good for morale yes but reading anything else into it no.

Most worrying for me is playing heskey and a 442

[N'ZMAV]

We still have our weakness at defending crosses...

[Matt C]

Anyone know what happened with Delph then? Surprised not to see him in the squad.

[PaulTheVillan]

I thought Ireland was superb in his short time on the pitch.

Petrov & Makoun were Ok, both coming quite deep to get the ball, but quite a few passes were under hit.

Heskey was effective wide, probably because we wern't hoofing it to his head all the time.

Delfouneso will not get easier chances than last night, he should have easily had a couple of goals.

I thought Warnock looked sharp & was especially good coming forward.

Didn't think much of Albrighton, I know it's only one pre-season game but it was worrying. He struggled against a toss team. Hopefully he'll have better games before the season starts.

[PaulTheVillan]

It's walsall. And a friendly. Bit of perspective please. Encouraging, but it's a million miles away from proving anything.

I agree

Whilst I would like to be coming in my pants this is our starting 11 against a team that were nearly relegated.

Good for morale yes but reading anything else into it no.

Most worrying for me is playing heskey and a 442

We didn't start with 442 last night.