It was a disappointing night for derby reserves as they go their new campaign off to the worst of possible starts with a 4 – 1 defeat at home to Southampton.
Despite having a defence featuring Lee Grant, Jeff Kenna, Jamie Vincent, and Pablo Mills the side kept shooting themselves in the foot at regular intervals with 3 of the 4 goals coming directly from errors.
As the fourth was a direct result of collective negligence from a corner it was hard to gain many positives from the match.
Jamie Vincent and Lee Holmes did come through their first competitive football since pre-season and 16 year old Lionel Ainsworth looked a real livewire up front.
Holmes took his goal well, but there never looked any likelihood of the home side pulling anything out of a match that they had conspired to lose by themselves.