We had another backroom meeting. I approved most recommendations, but dismissed suggestions to remove Chris Shuker from the corners-taking list and to change Bore's squad status from key player to important first-team player.
I took charge of the Reserves for their friendly against Hednesford. It made for interesting viewing. They defended anaemically, but attacked quite well. The quality of football was atrocious across the park. Fernández sat just behind the strikers, but he barely saw the ball because of scrappy play.
When he did get possession, the Spaniard impressed. If anybody was going to make something happen, I'd have put money on it being him...which is why it hurt to take him off in the 66th minute after he went down injured.
Youngster Rice replaced Fernández, then conceded a penalty, which cannoned off the crossbar. I have no idea how Hednesford got through more than seventy minutes without scoring, but we made them pay.
Pacquette pounced on a sloppy backpass around 80 minutes and fired a vicious shot into the roof of the net. Then on the 87-minute mark he chased down a long ball to combine with Rice and Lloyd-McGoldrick for our second. Lincoln Reserves took out a terrible game 2-0, despite being inferior for much of the 90 minutes.
The positives I took away numbered in the singular: Pacquette looked great off the bench. As for negatives, only two matter: Koroma was poor, and Fernández was okay before injury cut his game short—but he'll be out for two to three months with strained knee ligaments.
Should I sign Koroma? That performance leaves me in doubt.
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