Brighouse - Friendly

Good turn out from city fans, pie & peas excellent. Tuesday night football for 8 quid on a summer night, who cares if it’s a team full of trialists. Good payday for a small local non league club.

1) Oliver Byrne - didn’t have a great deal to do to be honest. Do we need a 3rd keeper?
2) Rhys Jenkinson - Played for Brighouse 1st half & came on as RW for City 2nd half - meh
3) Andy Taylor - didn’t stand out to be honest.
4) Regan Bootly - solid enough, some good touches but nothing special, given opposition
5) Charlie Fox - Excellent first half, good in the air, left sided CH, good eye for a long pass.
6) Josh Martin - steady away, seems a little lightweight for L2
7) Lionel Ainsworth - not helped by the pitch (long grass) looks a little rusty
8) Chris Taylor - some good touches..nothing special on this performance may be worth another look?
9) Myles Hippolyte - took 2 pens well. Seems to have something, but never going to dislodge likes of Vaughan, Doyle & Clayton. Sorry to say but I don’t think we need him.
10) Mason Fawns - didn’t play pulled up in warm up
11) Chay Tilt, Good first half, difficult pitch, some good crosses, good pass, improvement on Patrick as he takes the ball with him when he runs! Hit & miss one on one, needs to improve final ball.
15) Naughty Naughty (sic) looked good, likes a run forward, solid, pace...worth another look
12) Reece Flanagan - steady away, nothing special
14) Luke Wall - ditto
16) Alkeo Bani - can’t remember if he came on...?

Footnote if you thought a ‘shirt off their back’ was a crap prize for last season’s halftime draw, tonight’s first prize was a box of veg!

 

I bet @Allotment Bantam wish they had gone now.

 

....and fruit.

 

I've got a feeling the manager was connected to City.

 

Of course it was they represented city tonight. We want as much of the squad as we can turnout for the Liverpool game and the matches that follow. So this was a chance to have a look at all the trialist without disrupting the team going forward i I doubt that any more fans would have turned up if we had played more first team players.
If we pick a decent player out of this it will be well worth it

 

Think Bani was the floppy haired lad that came on in the second half, with Martin moving over to the right?

 

Footnote if you thought a ‘shirt off their back’ was a crap prize for last season’s halftime draw, tonight’s first prize was a box of veg![/QUOTE]

1st prize a box of veg. 2nd prize a case of Lager - wrong way round surely

 

1st prize a box of veg. 2nd prize a case of Lager - wrong way round surely[/QUOTE]

Nearly spat my beer out, cheers @hippo

 

As if your getting your knickers in a twist over a friendly!

Bowyer can pick who he wants. Good chance to see a few trialists while giving a local non league team a bit of £.

 

If only it was just “a few trialists” eh?

 

Or was he a trialist too

 

The young kids who set off a flare, disrupted the game and frightened minors last night need identifying and severely reprimanding to nip this in the bud early. If it`s the same lot that showed us up at Rochdale last season why were they there last night? Sunday is an occasion that shouldn`t be spoiled by incidents like this but they might see it as an opportunity.

 

Were they City fans though, green flare according to Simon Parker Brighouse or Avenue fans?

 

Bowyer is trying to get our squad back to where it was. This was probably his last realistic chance to get some of these lads a run out before it ramps up this weekend.

If we sign 2 of them as a result then it’s a success for us. And that’s all that matters.

 

To be fair he could have played the youth side. What he did was play a side of trialists who have something to prove. Brighouse therefore got more of a game than other Bradford XIs in the past may have gave them

 

Deffo City fans, early teen tearways frightened me half to death.
Last friendly I'll be going to.
Woah woah woah is me.

 

Don't think they'd sign Hippolyte as a forward. Played 90% of his career on the left wing in Scotland, occasionally going upfront. Last season, he was playing on either wing but that left hand side was him and Longridge whenever he came on. Surely got to be better than Patrick as a Winger/Foward on that left side.

 

Please tell me it is an error, Naughty Naughty?? Is this seriously a players surname?

 

It's not his surname, it's his FULL name

Nortei Nortey I think

 

Is he any good? Would be great to have a name like that on the team sheet