I'll give you my report Wotsisname as someone who stood and watched it.

Defensively we were all over the place and should have been behind before we got our goal. We made stupid individual mistakes at the back and a better side than GT would have punished us. The defenders were waving their arms at each other after for the first fifteen minutes, and it all looked horribly familiar.

Proctor is big and strong and will be a right handful for any defender. Emmanuel looks like he enjoys getting forwards. Joe Newell was a class apart in terms of ability and strolled through it.

I suspect we are going to be quite a big, strong side that will go fairly direct at times, hitting and running channels, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

I guess the object of the exercise was match fitness and of course it was probably only half a first team. Just as you shouldn't get too excited by winning pre-season games, you perhaps shouldn't read too much into the things that look rough.

There were positives to come out of the game Calypso. Proctor clearly has an appetite for work and is tremendously strong. I don't know how many goals he has in him but I like his physicality and I guess other forwards would enjoy playing off him.

The down side is definitely the defence. There is that constant feeling that is hard to describe but you can sense it in the players and the crowd that we could slip up at any time. Purrington got his pocket picked trying to shield the ball out and they should have scored from it. O'Donnell got robbed second half messing about outside his area and was lucky to be given a free kick. Emmanuel completely lost his man at the back post from a first half free kick and they should have scored from it. Ihiekwe (excuse spelling if wrong - and this apart he looked ok to me) mis-controlled a simple pass late on and brought the forward down - it might have been a red card in a league game. A couple of times early on we gave the ball away cheaply trying to play out from the back. I remember Wood in particular doing that, although he was shouting at the forwards for a lack of movement.

They are just basics. When you get them wrong it sets a tone, and makes everyone nervous which makes it more likely it will happen again. It becomes a vicious circle. For me it is a real concern.

For me, for the time being at least, if in doubt put it in the stand or bang it long. Better that than mess about and give stupid goals away. Lets make it objective number one to be miserly at the back and hard to beat. You can get a few results and get something going off the back of that.

It's good to get a report from people who were there, thanks.

Another two decent results, yes, I know its against non-league opposition but, the guys have just come from a gruelling training camp, flew home Sunday, trained Monday and Tuesday (Tuesday mornings session was only hours before the game, which I understand was very hard and would obviously not happen during the season) and we still came away with victories. I'm sure a few mistakes can be expected as the team had not rested or prepared as they normally would have.
I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that we do not get any injuries, its a fine line between pushing the players 'to their limits' and not 'over them'!

I think you will find Richie Barker was there as the reference to the 'tough training session' was taken from his interview on the official site.

 Maybe my original post should have said 'It's good to get a report from people who were there and also the people who posted information on the game. Thanks'?

 Apologies if you took offence in thinking your contribution was not being recognised, it was not intentional at all and a genuine comment.