I'm not too sure of the wisdom of the friendly / testimonial personally - how daft would it have been if a key player had suffered an injury - but we won again and so I suppose we can count that as another confidence boost - well for most anyway.
Sadly, Carlton went another 45 minutes without finding the net. True he had a hand in setting up McBenni for any early goal, but what he desperately needed was a goal himself to boost his confidence. Let's face it, scoring against the Daggers can't be that hard because even Freddie Sears managed it tonight!
The other Freddie was on target too, with Piquionne burying yet another header. Carlton must be feeling pig sick right now, or Dyer sick at any rate!
Conceding two goals against D&R doesn't look too clever, but there were a lot of kids out there come the end, with a young keeper between the sticks so we shouldn't read too much into that.
The major disappointment, Cole apart, was the failure of either Hitzlespurger or Dyer to make an appearance. What price Dyer now has ME? As for the German, you wouldn't have wanted him with you at Stalingrad would you?
Another potentially significant absentee was Faubert. I've not heard anything about him being injured and he wasn't on international duty was he? A touch of the Gallic sulks perhaps?
No doubt the OS will come up with some meaningless platitudes in connection with our missing German friend.
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and as for Cole - do you think Woy, assuming he's still there in Jan, still fancies him for £8m? The words 'arm' and 'rip-off' spring to mind
As I recall, the Russians didn't really want any German with them at Stalingrad. I think that was the main cause of the kerfuffle.
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