Bradford survive

Saturday 22nd July.

Town's third and last game of their Scottish tour took place today at Fir Park against Motherwell. After finishing fourth in the Scottish premier league last season this always looked to be the hardest game of the trio, and this was borne out by the result. Having won the previous games 2-1, Town had to settle for a 1-1 draw with Chris Beech equalising on 72 minutes. He seemed to have a knack of popping up in the right place at the right time last season scoring 10 goals from midfield and showing what a good signing Peter Jackson made from Hartlepool for £100.000.

One or two selections were curious although were probably a result of Steve Bruce wishing to give every player a run out yet these might provide an option or two once the season proper gets underway. Rob Edwards, (another player whose chances were limited last season) who is more of a natural left footer played at right back and this is probably about the only position he hadn't played before. The other unusual selection was to play Craig Armstrong as a deep midfielder, although after some of his later performances last season maybe the surprise was that he was playing at all! Tomek Iwan had a highly impressive game and must be increasing his chances of appearing on Steve Bruce's Christmas list, (knowing Town it will be December when they stop dawdling) and we can but hope that the board back him with some cash.

At least we remained unbeaten, and relatively unscathed with injuries.

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