[ Tue 26th Jul ] v Brackley Town, KO 7:45pm PSF HOME

[Dazzler]

Jon Dunham chats with Andy Burgess

[Olly]

Glad to see plenty of positive signs last night, it is absolutely vital that we keep hold of Evan, he was immense, hope we can squeeze something more out of the lottery money for him cause we will need his quality this year.

Plenty of decent other performances, hopefully on that performance we'll get Ngwa in, not convinced by Connor. And have a really good feeling about Jensen, think we could have a gem on our hands there, 4 goals in preseason is decent.

One thing I wondered though, how come we only named 5 subs and no room for some of the new academy intake?

[gibston]

another positive game,,,backs to the wall first half,but coped quite well against a strong brackley side,,,courtney was turned inside out by their tricky physical little winger,, ,,,it will be a great learning curve,,, but he never let his head drop ,,,,back four did ok,although very quiet (voice wise).no hicksey through injury,wilson up front,,was ineffective,again,,,i would have liked to see the lad from northampton and jenson(great goal) up front.i personaly would like to see a big centre back/leader come in,,,,still got the viking to come in ,hicksey back and fernando to come in,,,thats quite a spine to come back in,,,,,my only negative to the team is burge,,,,its starting to bug me now,,,,he sits in the dug out for long periods of games,where other managers are out in the technical area,,,to me it gives off the wrong vibes to the players,,,if your 3 nil up i understand,,,,,anyhow,young lads did ok,we are still going in the right direction

Burgess was very animated during games last season. I hadn't noticed he wasn't doing that this season but if not, maybe it's because it's pre-season.

I believe the winger from Brackley a couple of people have referred to was Cosmos Matwasa, who is only on trial at Brackley having been at Stamford last season.

Cosmos good player! Watched him few times for Anstey Nomads few years ago before joining Stamford, and mentioned his name to staff back then.

Burge gave fair bit of guidance from the dugout last night, more so 2nd half admittedly! The 4 guys I stood with we were all talking about it funny enough, gives good constructive advice without going over the top.