A warm summer's evening, the pitch looking good, an unusually large crowd for a pre-season game, plenty of goals and good football - as these kinds of occasions go it wasn't too shabby at all.
While the opposition - and I'm going to be generous here - underperformed, Mossley acquitted themselves very well. Apart from a few departures, the vast majority of last season's squad are back at the club and that's no bad thing.
The second half, not unexpectedly, was mostly made up of trialists and a significant number, if not all, of them impressed to one extent or the other. Even taking into account the calibre of the opposition and the friendly status of both the fixture and the tackling, there were some pretty nifty looking players in a Lilywhites shirt for the first time.
I'd tell you who they were but a) I don't want to tip off any other clubs to their availability and b) I haven't got the foggiest what there names are anyway.
I could go into greater detail about the match but as a picture can paint a thousand words, you're probably better off watching a series of them flicker at 24 frames per second. It's far more entertaining than reading a badly worded recollections of what happened.
As the score is given away in the title to this posting, I'm hardly going to spoil your viewing pleasure by telling you who put the ball in Bury's net five times so here goes: Danny's Dignan and Egan got one each and Nathan Neequaye notched a hat-trick.
Anyway, that video I was telling you about:
If the video makes it look like things were one sided, that's because it was.
It might only have been a youth side that they sent but as the Shakers have no reserve team, this was effectively the back up to their first team squad and they were... well, I'll just say that I hope there's no major injury crisis at Bury this coming season.
One (or two) down, seven to go before the serious stuff begins.
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