To be honest Hobgoblin neither were we at Frome on Saturday. Pre-season games to a point are all about bedding in the new players and getting game time. Some of our players last Saturday did look out of sorts, for whatever reason, so it will be interesting to see how we fair against Newport County this evening, who only beat Supermarine 4-3 on Saturday. Back to our friends up the M4, expectations are always high up there, and their fans invariable turn on the team or the manager if they so much as concede a throw-in !!! The new manager at STFC has got a huge jog on his hands, and I do not think they will have it all their own way in Division 2. Just think potentially we could be playing them next season - now there's a thought !!!

An extremely odd comment regarding this evening's game if you don't mind me saying Blueboo - of course we care, as should any CTFC fan who is planning to go to the game. It is an opportunity to see how the team is facing up against potentially decent opposition. I think Newport will bringing a healthy number of fans, as Andy Sandell is still held in very high regard down there, and quite rightly so. When we played at Hitchin near the end of last season, we stopped, as always, at Newbury services to pick up Fergie. Newport fans were also stopped there, on their way to Pompey, and when they saw Andy walk in the Services, the place erupted as if their conquering hero had returned. So yes we do care about the game tonignt.