Bury Manager Chris Casper sent mixture of first team players and trialist to the Brian Boys West View Stadium, In Caspers own words his trialist were quality. There was no doubt about it the game was played fast, furious, and highly competitive with the home side matching their Football League opponents for most of the way.
Bacup’s trialist keeper Jack Mcgregor was well protected by former Bury Players Captain Ian Hughes and Lee Anderson along with new signing Wayne Jopson and Player Coach Matthew Cross, it was the Bury keeper that was brought into the action in the first half pulling two fine saves off, the first from Tony Carroll and the other from Danny Hartley.
The half finished all square but the home side could feel somewhat unfortunate having not gone in at the break with their noses infront.
With sixty minutes on the clock Bacup Manager Brent Peters made three changes, the disruption to the balance of the side and the new personal coming into the game allowed Bury to start to get a foot hole in the middle of the park pushing the home side on the defensive and for the first time in the match they did test keeper Mcgregor who made two very good saves, however he could do little with Burys opening goal which took a wicked deflection wrong footing the keeper to give Bury a seventy third minute lead.
This was Bacups first competitive game against such fit sharp opposition but the home side can take a lot of credit for the way they competed with Bury for most of the way, it was inevitable that the non-league lads would start to tire having put so much into their opening pre-season game this did lead to a mistimed challenge by trialist Ryan Hall to award Bury a freekick which was whipped into the near post and was met with a quality header to make the score line Bacup Borough 0-Bury 2
Team Mcgregor, Anderson, Hughes, Jopson, Cross (Hall), Oldham, Shepherd, Borg, Herbert (Greenwood), Carroll (Barker), Hartley (Young)
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