PSF: Torquay United v Royal Marines 7:30pm 20/7/12

First friendly warm up of the new season tomorrow with all proceeds going to "Help the Heroes" fund.
May take myself down to Plainmoor if its a nice evening and only £3 entrance fee £1 under 16s. An opportunity to eye up the completed stand also .
Well worth supporting this cause.

Squad line up for both halves is in!

www.torquayunited.com/page/Preview/0,,10445~2855123,00.html

Any sign of the centre-half yet?

hope we get a good turn out night and enjoy the game

Not a bad little match to get into the swing of things.

Their keeper kept the score down to a respectable 3-0 with Manse looking particularly sharp for us and could have had a second half hat trick. Danny had a simple tap in early doors and Eunan scored towards the end of the half with a penalty after a rash challenge near the edge of the area. Rice had little to do but overhit a pass out to Leadbitter who acrobatically had to head the ball to keep it in and then pick himself up off the floor to just beat the closing down forward and complete the clearance. The crowd thought there was a goal before half time from Danny but it was not given.

In the second half, the new signings were on but Manse looked the pick of the side. Always full of running and terrier like sometimes, some pressure almost resulted in a goal when he forced their keeper to make a poor clearance and the long range shot was only just wide! He had a couple of shots well saved by their keeper but got his revenge when the ball came to him after a short corner and some quick feet saw him get his shot off leaving their keeper no chance. Just before the end he had a header that came back off the post when his performance justified a second.

A good solid start that saw little or no pressure on our goal.

With the gate takings going to help the heroes last night's game was just a way for TUFC and their supporters to thank the Armed Forces for what they do for the Nation especially the Royal Marines who helped to "knock" the players into shape last week.Good sized crowd from what I could make out in the family stand for a game of this nature.ML was getting a look at the squad and waying-up his options and I thought we looked good for this time of the season more tests and bigger ones will be on the way but for now things look good.The Bench looks spot on just work around the edges to sort out (refreshment outlet family end to be finished and exit to westlands etc) no much the media boxes look done, looking forward to the 2012 - 2013 season.