I went today. Thought we passed the ball around strikingly well at times, very patient build up though without creating tonnes of chances.
Daniels looked fine in goal without having much to do - it's reassuring to see someone 6ft+ between the sticks again anyway. Creswell looked very good left back, especially going forward. Taylor did some good work playing center-half alongside a certain doddery Nigerian 5'10" trialist, whose fault it was for their goal, largely. Pursehouse was pretty pathetic at right back, shirked out of loads of challenges and seemed scared to get the ball.
Mclaren, Welsh and Allot all played very well in center mid, kept the ball quite astutely. Mahon looked impressive on the left - scored a cracket - and was replaced in the second half by an equally impressive Fraughan. Barnett started on the right hand side but didn't really affect the game and was eventually brought off for the equally ineffective Shuker.
Both Moore and Curran were fairly quiet up top, the latter particulaly unimpressive and second to every ball and looking to have lost a bit of pace as Boz has mentioned plenty of times before. Still only 19 though... =]
Barnes "philosophy" has already started to take some shape, it was clear we were trying to keep the ball on the deck and both fullbacks were bombing right up at every oppertunity. Just gotta sort out the back-line with a bit of Martin Kelly and Ryan Shotton...we'll be sorted then...