Man Utd winning 2-0 according to St Johnstone website. No team news
St Johnstone v Man Utd reserves
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The game is St Johnstone Keeper, Alan Main's testimonial and he has started in goal for Utd
2-2 according to Nick's twitter.
Won 3-2 in the end, Norwood, King and Ajose scoring.
Depending on which players St Johnstone used, that's a fantastic result against a team that finished 8th in the Scottish Premier League last season.
Nicky scoring for fun....
Team:
1. A. Main
2. Dudgeon
3. Fryers
4. Wootton
5. Gill
6. Possebon
7. Norwood - '9
8. Morrison
9. King - '26
10. Eikrem (c)
11. Ajose - '88
1. Johnstone (1) - '8
12. Tunnicliffe (7) - '69
13. Backhouse (1) - 73
14. Brady (3) ' HT
15. Lingard (9) - '73
St. Johnstone's keeper, Alan Main, made a surprise Manchester United debut when he started the game - his own Testimonial - wearing United's colours. However, after only 8 minutes Sam Johnstone came on to replace him as normal business was resumed. A minute later Norwood scored with a deflected shot. King made it two on 26 minutes and at half-time the Reds led 2-0.
Brady came on for Fryers at half-time and just after the hour mark, St. Johnstone equalised. Within five minutes the home team were awarded a very dodgy penalty (welcome to the world of Testimonials!) and Alan Main's son came off the bench to equalise.
United then used the remaining three subs and Nicky Ajose popped up in final stages to snatch the winner.
Final Score: St. Johnstone 2 Manchester United 3
1. A. Main
2. Dudgeon
3. Fryers
4. Wootton
5. Gill
6. Possebon
7. Norwood - '9
8. Morrison
9. King - '26
10. Eikrem (c)
11. Ajose - '88
1. Johnstone (1) - '8
12. Tunnicliffe (7) - '69
13. Backhouse (1) - 73
14. Brady (3) ' HT
15. Lingard (9) - '73
St. Johnstone's keeper, Alan Main, made a surprise Manchester United debut when he started the game - his own Testimonial - wearing United's colours. However, after only 8 minutes Sam Johnstone came on to replace him as normal business was resumed. A minute later Norwood scored with a deflected shot. King made it two on 26 minutes and at half-time the Reds led 2-0.
Brady came on for Fryers at half-time and just after the hour mark, St. Johnstone equalised. Within five minutes the home team were awarded a very dodgy penalty (welcome to the world of Testimonials!) and Alan Main's son came off the bench to equalise.
United then used the remaining three subs and Nicky Ajose popped up in final stages to snatch the winner.
Final Score: St. Johnstone 2 Manchester United 3
Cheers for the info everyone, another highly encouraging result.
Edit: Is Backhouse your lad Stevie?
https://www.redcafe.net/f40/youth-reports-05-06-06-07-07-08-seasons-77813/index3.html#post1530152
Edit: Is Backhouse your lad Stevie?
https://www.redcafe.net/f40/youth-reports-05-06-06-07-07-08-seasons-77813/index3.html#post1530152
Aye thats my boy. Got an SOS call yesterday. One of the reserve squad keepers was injured and they asked Chris to join the squad. Just a one off but a great day out for Chris
Good for him, and a nice gesture to give him some game time.
Where is he playing these days?
Not playing regular at all. Plays for Buxton in the Unibond Premier when the regular keeper cannot make it.
After leaving Sunderland he played for Farsley Celtic in the Conference league then went to Bradford Park Avenue and then to Buxton
After leaving Sunderland he played for Farsley Celtic in the Conference league then went to Bradford Park Avenue and then to Buxton
From a St Johnstone forum:
'I really enjoyed that today. Not a bad game for a testimonial. The Utd youths looked a pretty decent side and there slick passing and moving was great to watch. If their finishing had been better it could well have been 5 or 6..'
'man utd were miles ahead whenever they stepped it up a couple of notches, and they could do it when they wanted to aswell. hard to believe they are just youngsters.
dont know why we clapped their goals though, if it was any other team we wouldnt have. '
'I really enjoyed that today. Not a bad game for a testimonial. The Utd youths looked a pretty decent side and there slick passing and moving was great to watch. If their finishing had been better it could well have been 5 or 6..'
'man utd were miles ahead whenever they stepped it up a couple of notches, and they could do it when they wanted to aswell. hard to believe they are just youngsters.
dont know why we clapped their goals though, if it was any other team we wouldnt have. '
St Johnstone 2 - 3 Man Utd XI: Fergie kids edge Saints - Scotsman.com Sport
St Johnstone 2 - 3 Man Utd XI: Fergie kids edge Saints
HAVING played for just three clubs since 1995, Alan Main turned out for two within the space of 90 minutes yesterday. Honoured with a testimonial match against a young Manchester United side piled full of graduates from their academy, he started the match in goal for the visitors and ended it doing what he has for 11 of the past 15 years, tending goal for St Johnstone.
He may have been old enough to have fathered the entire team from Old Trafford he started the game with, but it was only for the final five minutes that he was actually afforded the memory of sharing the same pitch as his son, Nicolas, a youngster currently on Rangers' books and given special permission to make a brief but undoubtedly memorable one-off appearance for the Saints.
With Sir Alex Ferguson and the majority of his first team squad on a pre-season tour of America, it was left to the stars of the future to entice the supporters in.
Amongst those who provided the guard of honour as Main was heralded onto the pitch were the likes of Rodrigo Possebon, the composed Brazilian-born Italy u-20 midfielder, who has made three senior appearances for the Premier League side, and teenager Joshua King, who played for them in the League Cup last season.
But if the match was considered a simple send-off to Main by many in the ground, that view was not shared by the St Johnstone manager Derek McInnes who wanted to guage where his squad were just two weeks ahead of their league opener against Hearts.
McInnes was an agitated man as the Scottish side struggled to get to grips with the pace and the passing of their opponents in the early period of the contest and within the space of 26 minutes they were two goals down. By the time the goals had been scored, Main had already been replaced in the United goal by Sam Johnstone and was just a disappointed observer.
The first was in just the ninth minute and while the Manchester United reserve side, managed by Old Traffod cult hero Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, had a couple of efforts bourne of their own creativity and endeavour, when the goal came it was courtesy of a freakish moment. Young full-back Liam Caddis tried to clear from inside his own box and instead drove the ball off the incoming Oliver Norwood and it ricochetted straight back past him and goalkeeper Graeme Smith.
The Northern Ireland U-21 starlet was proving one of the biggest handfuls for the Perth side, as he floated from wing to wing, finding space to run into or playing the intelligent ball and he was involved again when United made it 2-0. This time he was the provider, playing the ball in for King to slot into the net.
As the match settled down, though, there were more promising contributions from Jody Morris, who is still recovering full fitness following his hernia operation, while Liam Craig seemed to get a taste for goal and Danny Grainger forced a stop. He had the best of the St Johnstone efforts when he played in a corner and then blasted in a shot from the edge of the area when the ball was played back out to him. But it couldn't breach the goal. Craig then had a long-range attempt and his 44th minute free-kick from the angle of the box whizzed just across the face of goal and just beyond the far post.
The bright spot in a match that would sound descent into a friendly fairytale farce was the cool finish from new signing Marcus Haber which brought St Johnstone back into it. A through ball into his path from Craig and the Canadian striker, who was signed on a season-long loan from West Bromwich Albion on Friday, raced up field and one-on-one with Johnstone, calmly slotted home.
That was in the 63rd minute and four minutes later Haber was then upended in the box and St Johnstone were afforded the chance to level. Which is where it all got a bit surreal, like Superman emerging from a phone box, young Nicolas Main ran from the dug-out pulling on a strip, took the spot-kick and then scampered back off again. No subs made, the 12th man scoring the equaliser.
He did come back on, more legitimately, with five minutes to go, in a double substitution alongside his dad. Fairytale stuff, well until Nicky Ajose spoiled the party, scoring a winner past the Main man in the dying minutes. He obviously hadn't read the script.
St Johnstone: Smith, Caddis, Grainger, Morris, Rutkiewicz, Anderson, Millar, Craig, Haber, Milne, Taylor. Duberry, Gartland, Main, Trialist, Davidson, May, Jackson, Samuel, Parkin, Nick Main
Manchester United: Main, Dudgeon, Fryers, Wootton, Gill, Possebon, Norwood, Morrison, King, Eikrem, Ajose Subs: Johnstone, Tunnicliffe, Blackhouse, Brady, Lingard.
Referee: Mike Tumilty.
Attendance: 4,555
St Johnstone 2 - 3 Man Utd XI: Fergie kids edge Saints
HAVING played for just three clubs since 1995, Alan Main turned out for two within the space of 90 minutes yesterday. Honoured with a testimonial match against a young Manchester United side piled full of graduates from their academy, he started the match in goal for the visitors and ended it doing what he has for 11 of the past 15 years, tending goal for St Johnstone.
He may have been old enough to have fathered the entire team from Old Trafford he started the game with, but it was only for the final five minutes that he was actually afforded the memory of sharing the same pitch as his son, Nicolas, a youngster currently on Rangers' books and given special permission to make a brief but undoubtedly memorable one-off appearance for the Saints.
With Sir Alex Ferguson and the majority of his first team squad on a pre-season tour of America, it was left to the stars of the future to entice the supporters in.
Amongst those who provided the guard of honour as Main was heralded onto the pitch were the likes of Rodrigo Possebon, the composed Brazilian-born Italy u-20 midfielder, who has made three senior appearances for the Premier League side, and teenager Joshua King, who played for them in the League Cup last season.
But if the match was considered a simple send-off to Main by many in the ground, that view was not shared by the St Johnstone manager Derek McInnes who wanted to guage where his squad were just two weeks ahead of their league opener against Hearts.
McInnes was an agitated man as the Scottish side struggled to get to grips with the pace and the passing of their opponents in the early period of the contest and within the space of 26 minutes they were two goals down. By the time the goals had been scored, Main had already been replaced in the United goal by Sam Johnstone and was just a disappointed observer.
The first was in just the ninth minute and while the Manchester United reserve side, managed by Old Traffod cult hero Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, had a couple of efforts bourne of their own creativity and endeavour, when the goal came it was courtesy of a freakish moment. Young full-back Liam Caddis tried to clear from inside his own box and instead drove the ball off the incoming Oliver Norwood and it ricochetted straight back past him and goalkeeper Graeme Smith.
The Northern Ireland U-21 starlet was proving one of the biggest handfuls for the Perth side, as he floated from wing to wing, finding space to run into or playing the intelligent ball and he was involved again when United made it 2-0. This time he was the provider, playing the ball in for King to slot into the net.
As the match settled down, though, there were more promising contributions from Jody Morris, who is still recovering full fitness following his hernia operation, while Liam Craig seemed to get a taste for goal and Danny Grainger forced a stop. He had the best of the St Johnstone efforts when he played in a corner and then blasted in a shot from the edge of the area when the ball was played back out to him. But it couldn't breach the goal. Craig then had a long-range attempt and his 44th minute free-kick from the angle of the box whizzed just across the face of goal and just beyond the far post.
The bright spot in a match that would sound descent into a friendly fairytale farce was the cool finish from new signing Marcus Haber which brought St Johnstone back into it. A through ball into his path from Craig and the Canadian striker, who was signed on a season-long loan from West Bromwich Albion on Friday, raced up field and one-on-one with Johnstone, calmly slotted home.
That was in the 63rd minute and four minutes later Haber was then upended in the box and St Johnstone were afforded the chance to level. Which is where it all got a bit surreal, like Superman emerging from a phone box, young Nicolas Main ran from the dug-out pulling on a strip, took the spot-kick and then scampered back off again. No subs made, the 12th man scoring the equaliser.
He did come back on, more legitimately, with five minutes to go, in a double substitution alongside his dad. Fairytale stuff, well until Nicky Ajose spoiled the party, scoring a winner past the Main man in the dying minutes. He obviously hadn't read the script.
St Johnstone: Smith, Caddis, Grainger, Morris, Rutkiewicz, Anderson, Millar, Craig, Haber, Milne, Taylor. Duberry, Gartland, Main, Trialist, Davidson, May, Jackson, Samuel, Parkin, Nick Main
Manchester United: Main, Dudgeon, Fryers, Wootton, Gill, Possebon, Norwood, Morrison, King, Eikrem, Ajose Subs: Johnstone, Tunnicliffe, Blackhouse, Brady, Lingard.
Referee: Mike Tumilty.
Attendance: 4,555
Highlights here: Alan Main's testimonial: St Johnstone 2-3 Man Utd | STV Video
Dunno if anyone clever can work out how to download it...
Dunno if anyone clever can work out how to download it...
Cheers PS18.
Btw Bolton only beat them 2-0 tonight, their first goal after about 75mins.
Btw Bolton only beat them 2-0 tonight, their first goal after about 75mins.
Is it me or is there no sound in that video? ...
I think I have it downloading right now and I'll upload it somewhere (Rapidshare?) when I'm done.
I think I have it downloading right now and I'll upload it somewhere (Rapidshare?) when I'm done.
Morrison seems to have grown quite a bit over the summer, for a moment I thought it was King on the ball before the first goal but it was actually Ra'vel!
Morrison is looking back to his exciting best right now, albeit I've only seen clips from Dunfermline and this game. It seems as though he'll be more involved with the reserves this season. He certainly has filled out a bit and is looking taller too.
I wonder if he could make a Carling Cup appearance this year. He has always had a physical side to he game but now it seems as though he has the physical build to go with it.
What an exciting bunch.
I wonder if he could make a Carling Cup appearance this year. He has always had a physical side to he game but now it seems as though he has the physical build to go with it.
What an exciting bunch.
We're spoilt for talent and that's why I wish more people watched the kids. This season again we will get to see some great games and Morrison manipulates the ball better then a lot of English players that i've seen. Hopefully he does the right things.
Morrison has been very disappointing in most games I have seen this season. A real mix of true class for ten minutes then anonymous for the rest of the half.
He got a real bollocking at Curzon and also at Yeovil for giving the ball away and not chasing back.
He is very talented but it remains to be seen if he can become a team player and start to dominate the midfield.
He is still young with lots to learn so let's hope the coaching staff can have the impact we all hope for.
He got a real bollocking at Curzon and also at Yeovil for giving the ball away and not chasing back.
He is very talented but it remains to be seen if he can become a team player and start to dominate the midfield.
He is still young with lots to learn so let's hope the coaching staff can have the impact we all hope for.
That's the problem with highlights packages, you miss all of that. He's still 18 isn't he?
He's 17 I think.
Really?! Christ, I forget how young some of the kids in the reserves are. In fatc, just checked, and he won't be 18 until next February. Really hope that the coaches can sort out his mentality because from the flashes he shows, he's an incrediblt talented kid
If he stays with the reserves he's going to still be hearing Warren Joyce's voice in his sleep.
I hope this season is a real breakthrough for him. His end to last season was very promising, he seemed to gain a maturity to his play and his workrate was far improved and he was more effective as a result.
This pre season? Agh well let's hope he improves over the season. Last season, he missed too much football which can't help helped his development but when he came back in the team, his work ethic was better. The good thing is these bollockings will hopefully make an impression on him
I did notice a while back, the morrison vids on youtube were taken down and I do wonder if they're working on him so to speak. There's always the worry about his 'attitude'. I think it's important we protect him somewhat
Just to be awkward, don't suppose this can be uploaded again/anywhere else - seems to have expired
I took them down because they repeatedly threatened me with legal action
yikes. Very harsh. They still got kings vids up. Guess you were very unlucky then. Were good vids
Honestly don't understand the point of this. YouTube has a much bigger reach than MUTV can ever hope to reach and videos of the tricks and skills of our young players are bound to attract more viewers to MUTV, and possibly more attendances to reserves and youth matches, and builds the brand. As long as it's not a stupidly long amount of footage or the quality is as close to MUTV's broadcasting resolution as possible, it is honestly in the copyright holders' interest for fans to make some (short) clips of players because it's free promotion.
/rant
I'll PM you when it's uploaded so you can get a definite copy.
If anyone else wants a copy fire a PM away...