PSF 2021 - Halifax (H) Match Thread

Positives. Agree with the guy above, Mampala looked well above Halifax standard. He takes too much time and too many touches but that I think will get beaten out of him when the league starts. Clough was busy, his free kicks are a definite weapon. MacDonald came on and looked good. Bell looked useful, didn't give the ball away. Dickenson beat both his full backs for pace constantly, and the second goal was very good.

Negatives. I think I'm biased against Whelan but on the odd occasions Halifax attacked he looked way out of position. Once the second goal went in, we had little creation. When Mampala went off we had nothing, balls into the box, no one there- Pressley's false 9 all over again. Toure ran and ran and went nowhere.

We are woefully short of players. Whelan instils no confidence in me. After 70 minutes we had Whelan at centre back, Mellish at left back and no striker. If that is the squad on 1 September it is going to be a long season.

An ok game Mampala was our most effective forward, a little disappointed in Clough apart from his free kick he is a bit to keen on looking for free kicks goes down way to easy hopefully CB can remove that habit. Some good performances though else where, it’s good to see the young lads step up and not be fazed which bodes well but until the proper kick off we are not going to know whether we are going to challenge at the top or the bottom of the league
Still think there are pieces missing from the puzzle not much in the way of creativity or an out and out centre forward although Mampala might fill that role.

Quoted from Demonseye48 on Friday, 30 July 2025

Not many members left on here to comment then, I guess the cartel have really [censored] this website up then, its become a total joke......

The beauty of any match thread is that it is a Kessler free zone.

For those of us that live outside Cumbria can someone give a run down of how the new players did tonight.

An easy win against sub-standard opposition.

The game was over within 15mins, and the second half was a waste of time once the Subs started coming on.

Anyways, onwards…

Not many members left on here to comment then, I guess the cartel have really [censored] this website up then, its become a total joke......

They even said on the radio that it was disappointing we didn't have a better team to test ourselves against.

Beech just chose a bunch of games to massage the egos of the players, oh - and the Blackpool game.

Own goal, 3-0

Sounds like they are back on.

That was the commentary on the nine minutes silence.

I hope that you enjoyed it.

Quoted from bluealf on Friday, 30 July 2025

Quoted from munchymagic on Friday, 30 July 2025

There is a gadgie who keeps saying "If we lose this" "If we lose this" and that is all I could make out WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE LOSE THIS FFS?!?!

We won't win?

We may never know - there may be more to his story than that, I hope so anyhow.

Lummy needs to eat his pie quieter ffs - I know that they are nice but it is muffling the sound even further....

Quoted from munchymagic on Friday, 30 July 2025

There is a gadgie who keeps saying "If we lose this" "If we lose this" and that is all I could make out WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE LOSE THIS FFS?!?!

We won't win?

There is a gadgie who keeps saying "If we lose this" "If we lose this" and that is all I could make out WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF WE LOSE THIS FFS?!?!

Quoted from munchymagic on Friday, 30 July 2025

I dare someone to shout Nixon is a [censored] - I will hear you

add fat in as well

I dare someone to shout Nixon is a [censored] - I will hear you

If I was at the ground right now I would be filling those empty airwaves with the most foul mouthed rant the BBC has ever heard in its history - just because

Very one sided. Mampala, clough, dickenson, guy, mellish all playing well. Whelan got done by the big striker early on but settled in now.

Quoted from ccu on Friday, 30 July 2025

Quoted from munchymagic on Friday, 30 July 2025

Anyone know if there is any radio commentary please, BBCRC are playing music?

Click link:

Ah - nice one, thanks CCU.

Quoted from munchymagic on Friday, 30 July 2025

Anyone know if there is any radio commentary please, BBCRC are playing music?

Click link:

Should get double figures here really, that is a strong line up we have and they are just giving players one last look by the sounds of it.

Anyone know if there is any radio commentary please, BBCRC are playing music?

Mampala makes it 2…

He is going to be a great signing, in the Bridges mold, would he have come here if it wasn't for Beech though

Zac Clough, 1-0

And their full squad contains even more…

The #trialistfamily getting a fair old outing here at Brunton Park tonight #cufc pic.twitter.com/NpmQglPBMo

— Jon Colman (@joncolman) July 30, 2025