Barnet v FC Halifax Town LIVE

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Hello and welcome to our live coverage of FC Halifax Town’s opening game of the 2022-23 National League season against Barnet at The Hive.

Stay tuned for all the updates throughout the afternoon, plus there’ll be an on-the-whistle match report and post-match reaction from Town boss Chris Millington on the Halifax Courier website.

Barnet v FC Halifax Town LIVE

Couldn’t be much more perfect. Bit of a breeze but it’s cracking the flags and the pitch is like a bowling green as fas as I can see

What to expect from Town then? Certainly think Golden and Senior will get forward a lot from full back, be intersting to see how Jamie Cooke gets on in midfield but ertainly expect Harvey Gilmour to play well alongside him, looks right at home in central midfield. Big one for me is Jordan Slew, can he rediscover the form he showed over the first half of last season? If so, I’d fancy him to get on the scoresheet, if not, he could be peripheral this afternoon

7 players will make their debuts for The Shaymen this afternoon - Golden, Stott, Clarke, Cooke, Keane, Dierseruvwe and Smart

Barnet have 9 I’m told

Injury update from The Shaymen

Kian (Spence), Matty (Warburton) and Jesse (Debrah) all miss out today for precautionary reasons due to slight injuries that were picked up in training.

So Jamie Cooke makes his first start for The Shayme, with Matty Warburton presumably out injured. Big day for him. Big chance for Tylor Golden to stake his claim ahead of Sam Minihan, who is on the bench

Walker, Wynter, Collinge, Diarra, Okimo, Gorman, Pritchard, De Havilland, Mason-Clark, Shields, Kabamba. Subs: Thomas, Beard, Smith, Hall, Callan.