Quite a few changes forced on the side for this one, hopefully we'll come through without much of a fuss, not too worried though, it's only the league cup and I'd rather we did the business in the league.
It is going to be tight with some of our main players out but it will be good to give the kids a run out. I can see it being 2-1 to us with a youngster scoring each
Not too disappointed by the result, still enjoying the win over the tractor boys, i never knew why they were called the Monkey Hangers until i read Wikipedia, one of the best nicknames in world sport, and their mascot is H'Angus the Monkey, that is brilliant.
Match was better than i expected, Hartlepool played well, and a couple of the KIDS gave decent performances, i really hope today that the focus at training is on hitting the target, we created enough chances to win, but finishing wasnt good enough. Freddie again managed to put a couple of chances 'just wide", if only they moved the goal a yard away from centre we would have a 30 goal a season striker....
At least the poor attendance meant i got to park near the ground, and was home within 30 minutes after the final whistle....
Most embarrassing thing to me was that we couldnt fill the bench, i had some boots in the car and would of been happy to borrow some kit and make the numbers up...