League 2 Friendlies

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Blackpool 3 up in 9 minutes including CJ goal v Everton. Final score 3-3

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Salford City 1 Preston North End 3 (HT: 1-2)

Watched this game on You Tube. Salford had beat Lincoln 2-1 on Tuesday. Preston were playing their first friendly of the season although they finished their Championship season off in June and July finishing 9th. PNE will play the Stags in the League Cup next Saturday. Preston went 2-0 up with goals in the 24th and 28th minute. Sean Maguire crossed from the left, Daniel Johnson’s shot was blocked and Scott Sinclair stabbed the ball home. Daniel Johnson then crossed the ball from the left for Billy Bodin to score. Ashley Hunter pulled a goal back by Salford.

Preston changed all 11 players on 60 minutes and scored a lovely goal near the end when Ben Pearson played in Brad Potts on the right and he crossed for Josh Harrop to score. Preston have massive strength in depth so whatever team they put out next Saturday will pose a massive challenge for the Stags.

Ashley Hunter looked lively for Salford but their defence needs to improve.

PNE Starting XI:
Connor Ripley
Alan Browne, Patrick Bauer, Jordan Storey, Andrew Hughes,
Ryan Ledson, Daniel Johnson, Tom Bayliss,
Billy Bodin, Sean Maguire, Scott Sinclair

After 60 Minutes
Matthew Hudson,
Joe Rafferty, Paul Huntington, Ben Davies, Josh Earl
Brad Potts, Ben Pearson, Paul Gallagher, Josh Harrop,
Jayden Stockley, Tom Barkhuizen

Salford City
Nick Hayes
Oscar Threlkeld, Tom Clarke (Jordan Turnbull), Ashley Eastham, Ibou Touray
Richie Towell, Darron Gibson (Bruno Andrade), Jason Lowe
Ashley Hunter
Brandon Thomas Asante, Ian Henderson

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Bolton Wanderers 3 Accrington Stanley 0
Goals: Nathan Delfouneso, Eoin Doyle (Penalty) and Trialist

Bolton: Crellin, Santos (Darcy 83), Delaney (Senior 76), Taft, Jones (Hickman 64), Gordon, Comley, Sarcevic (Graham 90), Crawford (White 64)(Brockbank 77), Delfouneso (Trialist 73), Doyle (King-Harmes 90).

Will Tomlinson played for Accrington Stanley

Cleethorpes Town 0 Grimsby Town 3
Goals: George Williams, Matt Green and Mattie Pollock
Grimsby Trialists: Christopher Paul (Havant & Waterlooville) and Marcus Day (Bristol City)

Ian Holloway: "At the end of the day, I'm trying to build a squad. I'm looking forward to Tuesday, we've got another trial match that I've got a lot of people turning up for who I might be able to add, and if not we've got another game on Saturday. We're having to do this to makes sure we get our squad ready for the start. We're nowhere near it yet, and we might not be ready for the start to be honest, I might have to wait until the end of the window to make sure I get the sort of quality I think our fans deserve.”

Forest Green Rovers 4 Bristol Rovers 3
FGR Goals: Ebou Adams, Carl Winchester, Nicky Cadden and Kane Wilson

Cheltenham Town 0 Bristol City 4

Wigan Athletic 1 Carlisle United 2
Carlisle Scorers: Gimle Toure and Lewis Alessandra

Leyton Orient 0 Northampton Town 1

West Ham United U23 3 Cambridge United 2

Stevenage 0 Luton Town 1

Hullbridge Sports 0 Southend United 3
Southend Scorers: Miles Mitchell-Nelson. Brandon Goodship, Stephen Humphrys

Scunthorpe United 1 Nottingham Forest U23 0
Scorer: John McAtee

FC United 2 Barrow 2
Scorers: Jack Hindle and Scott Quigley

[Dan]

Willem Tomlinson played for Accrington in the above match.

Oldham also beat Forest’s first team 2-0 at Forest’s academy!

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Cheers Dan

Nottingham Forest 0 Oldham Athletic 2
Scorers: Davis Keillor-Dunn and Zak Dearnley

Oldham are 66/1 with Skybet for League 2

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Just noticed our opening day opponents Tranmere lost 3-0 to Warrington yesterday! Suddenly our result looks pretty good

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Tranmere lost 1-0 to The New Saints in their previous friendly game. They will now go and win the league. (5th favourites at 14/1)

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Any more friendlies on today or this week?

A quick twitter search revealed

Today
Carlisle v Sunderland 2.45
Cheltenham v Bristol Rovers 7.45

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All today :
Gillingham v Cambridge
Colchester v Posh
Stockport v Salford
Crawley v Watford
Tiverton v Exeter
Brighouse v Harrogate
Workington v Morecambe
Lincoln v Scunthorpe
Charlton v Southend
Tranmere v Preston (good game for our scouts!)

Carolyn has put on insta that she is off to watch football, so I wonder if we have a game today?

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Thanks Sam

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Mk Dons playing Aresenal

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I missed one, Wigan beat Bolton 5-1. Will update results later.

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You can watch Tranmere v Preston here. Just kicked off. Otis Khan is in the Tranmere team.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msQv7vBFttY

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Wigan Athletic 5 Bolton Wanderers 1
Bolton Scorer: Nathan Delfouneso

Wanderers (3-4-1-2): Alexander; Brockbank, Senior (Taft 56), Delaney (Santos 56); Hickman (Jones 56), Trialist (Sarcevic 56), White (Comley 56), Mascoll (Gordon 56); Crawford (Darcy 46); Trialist, Delfouneso (King-Harmes 46).

Ian Evatt reaction: “We were poor, there’s no two ways about it. There were a number of people who said to me they needed more minutes and that they had been itching to play during pre-season, where we had set a high standard. And they didn’t do that. This has been a rude awakening. It is not acceptable, pre-season or otherwise.”

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/sport/1 ... ly-defeat/?

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Wigan Athletic 5 Bolton Wanderers 1
Bolton Scorer: Nathan Delfouneso

Wanderers (3-4-1-2): Alexander; Brockbank, Senior (Taft 56), Delaney (Santos 56); Hickman (Jones 56), Trialist (Sarcevic 56), White (Comley 56), Mascoll (Gordon 56); Crawford (Darcy 46); Trialist, Delfouneso (King-Harmes 46).

Imagine if we'd suffered a pre season defeat like this. We'd all be calling for GC to be sacked and slitting wrists.

Yet Bolton lose 5-1 our supporters will still be predicting they will win the league by march.

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Tranmere Rovers 1 Preston North End 1

Preston started off with the same team that played the last 30 minutes at Salford. They have dominated the game and took took the lead on 31 minutes after Brad Potts won back possession and played in Tom Barkhuizen. A minute earlier Jayden Stockley hit the post with a header from a deflected Joe Rafferty cross. Manny Monthe headed wide early on from a corner for Tranmere and Otis Khan blasted a shot miles over the bar. HT: 0-1

Preston continued to dominate the game in the 2nd half but did not have a cutting edge. They then gifted Tranmere two glorious chances. Stefan Payne was clean through on goal but Connor Ripley saved well. Billy Bodin then attempted a back pass from deep in Tranmere's half and sold Connor Ripley well short. Stefan Payne nipped in, rounded Connor Ripley who was well out of his area and walked the ball into the net. FT: 1-1

Tranmere Rovers
Joe Murphy
Lee O'Connor, Peter Clarke, Manny Monthe, Callum MacDonald
Jay Spearing, Ollie Banks
Kieron Morris, Otis Khan, Corey Blackett-Taylor
James Vaughan

After Subs
Joe Murphy
Lee O'Connor, Mark Ellis, Sid Nelson, Liam Ridehalgh
Jay Spearing, Paul Lewis
Danny Walker-Rice, Otis Khan, Callum MacDonald
Stefan Payne


Preston North End
Matthew Hudson,
Joe Rafferty, Paul Huntington, Ben Davies, Josh Earl
Ben Pearson, Paul Gallagher
Tom Barkhuizen, Josh Harrop, Josh Harrop
Jayden Stockley,

After 60 Minutes
Connor Ripley
Alan Browne, Patrick Bauer, Jordan Storey, Andrew Hughes
Ryan Ledson, Tom Bayliss
Billy Bodin, Daniel Johnson, Scott Sinclair
Sean Maguire

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Wigan Athletic 5 Bolton Wanderers 1
Bolton Scorer: Nathan Delfouneso

Wanderers (3-4-1-2): Alexander; Brockbank, Senior (Taft 56), Delaney (Santos 56); Hickman (Jones 56), Trialist (Sarcevic 56), White (Comley 56), Mascoll (Gordon 56); Crawford (Darcy 46); Trialist, Delfouneso (King-Harmes 46).

Imagine if we'd suffered a pre season defeat like this. We'd all be calling for GC to be sacked and slitting wrists.

Yet Bolton lose 5-1 our supporters will still be predicting they will win the league by march.

It’s a weakened side to be fair.

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Tranmere equalised in last minute

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Wigan Athletic 5 Bolton Wanderers 1
Bolton Scorer: Nathan Delfouneso

Wanderers (3-4-1-2): Alexander; Brockbank, Senior (Taft 56), Delaney (Santos 56); Hickman (Jones 56), Trialist (Sarcevic 56), White (Comley 56), Mascoll (Gordon 56); Crawford (Darcy 46); Trialist, Delfouneso (King-Harmes 46).

Imagine if we'd suffered a pre season defeat like this. We'd all be calling for GC to be sacked and slitting wrists.

Yet Bolton lose 5-1 our supporters will still be predicting they will win the league by march.

It’s a weakened side to be fair.

there entire teams no better than average league two apart from Doyle and Sarcevic.

Like ive said previously with Doyle you could get 30 goals a season doyle or 5 goals a season doyle.

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Preston gifted Tranmere an equaliser in the last minute. Billy Bodin attempted a back pass to the keeper from deep in Tranmere's half and sold Connor Ripley well short. Stefan Payne nipped in, rounded Ripley who was well out of his area and walked the ball into the net. FT: 1-1

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Southend United 3 Charlton Athletic 2
Southend Scorers: Brandon Goodship, Eren Kinali and Isaac Hutchinson

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All today :
Gillingham v Cambridge
Colchester v Posh
Stockport v Salford
Crawley v Watford
Tiverton v Exeter
Brighouse v Harrogate
Workington v Morecambe
Lincoln v Scunthorpe
Charlton v Southend
Tranmere v Preston (good game for our scouts!)

Carolyn has put on insta that she is off to watch football, so I wonder if we have a game today?

Gills 0-0 Cambridge
Stockport 1-0 Salford
Crawley 1-1 Watford U23

The other two have been covered by Darren. The rest not until tonight.

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Clippo v sheep.

oops that's Non League

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Colchester 1-3 Posh

They’re playing a second game too.

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Oldham 0 Rochdale 1