FT:Barton town 0-6 Grimsby town

sounds like a great game looking forward to seeing the highlights on mariners player!

doubt it.

2 goals each for artus and elding (1 pen) and goal each for duffy and mulready

I look forward to the Lincoln fans having their post match viewpoints after THAT result - Town must have failed somehow in their eyes!

I have a good feeling for this coming season after this seasons display because its such a long time that we have had so many player who can find the old onion bag and also  a team of different player  who can last 90 mins and turn on the style I know they are some teams who we have played who are below us but our lads did a job they were ask to do unlike so many times last season.
cleefish.UTMM!!!

Clean sheet too.

Quoted from acko338

I look forward to the Lincoln fans having their post match viewpoints after THAT result - Town must have failed somehow in their eyes!

Lincoln played Barton last week, they won 2-0 and it looked like an easy match for them.  I thought Barton tried more tonight...

Just back and we played very well tonight, let our superiority shine through. Played some good football and scored some nice goals.

Artus looked very good in midfield and was probably our best player, he's very creative. Scored two goals and set up another with a great ball.  Duffy and Mulready linked up well in attack too. Was also nice to see Elding get his first couple of goals when he came on. Two good finishes and if he can do that for us this season then there will be no complaint from me.

All in all, a great workout.

Thanks Andy. Looks promising  

I agree very promising, i have to say i've loved everything Scott & Hurst have done with the club since the day they joined.

Under these two good times i am sure are on the way.


Like Mr Fenty i am Massively Optimistic.

Quoted from BigDez

Clean sheet too.

Yes good peno save.

Just back.

Funny old game - felt strangely underwhelmed until the 2nd half when the chances and goals started flowing.

To me, Barton looked to have some fair attacking players (without too much imagination or cutting edge) and caused us 1 or 2 problems(especially 1st half) but looked pretty damn poor at the back.

Obvioiusly you don't read too much into these things - we fielded an under strength side but despite the scoreline had a few small concerns
Despite the clean sheet the defence didn't look completely solid tonight - lots of players blew hot and cold.
Headless chickens also spings to mind at times, but hey it's just a workout and pleased to hear Scott said on RH they haven't really started the footballing side of things yet.

Several positives to take but think maybe 4-1 would have been a fairer result.

Startng team

.......................Arthur
Silk........Marshall.....Pearson.....LB trialist ?
Southwell.....Thanoj....Artus.......Eagle
,,,,,,,,,,,,,Mulready........Duffy

Arthur 7.5 - Vocal. Little to do but made a good penalty save and tipped it away after Pearson gave the ball away.
Freeman 6.5 - Looked alright in the air, but didn't really impress me very much. If he's on trial think we can do a lot lot better.
Marshall 7 - Made some good headers but also lost out in the air a lot too. Don't think he's up to being 1st team centre back.
Pearson 8 - Only made 1 mistake when he lost ball in defence otherwise safe as houses. Obvious threat at set pieces again.
Silk 6.5 - Blew hot and cold I thought. Plays some good passes but lost out in the air more than I thought he would and looked a tab vulnerable when being taken on.
Eagle 8.5(MOM) - Made a few errors but looked the quality player to me tonight down the left with his penetrating passes. Good right footed cross to set Mulready up for the first goal. Corners were a lot better tonight.
Artus 7.5  - Set up Duffy for the 2nd goal with a little dink pass behind the defence(suprised it wasn't offside). Hit a cracking freekick which Coulson headed onto the bar from the goalies save. His last goal was a cross(did ok again with those) that evaded everyone and dropped in. Despite his goals and assists was more impressed with his Barnsley performance but maybe that's the sign of a good creative player.
Thanoj 7.5 - Wasn't setting the world on fire until some good passing play 2nd half.
Southwell 6.5 - Good in the air again but a shade disappointed - when he got the ball in space I thought he could have made more use with his runs and seemed to want to run down the wing when there were opportunities to hurt the defence in the centre.
Duffy 7.5 - What you'd expect, some very assured hold up play and a mixed bag of passes.
Mulready 7.5 - Unmarked when scored with a glancing header. Passing and oldup play was variable but pulled a good ball back for Artus's goal and think he has some potential even if he never looks assured in possession. Good movement and had a couple of good chances + hit the target but maybe should have scored 1 of them.

Subs:
Bradbury 8 - Looked pacy and very dangerous running with the ball. This lad was looks a hot prospect to me !   Not afraid to get stuck in too.
Elding 7.5 - Like last night his touch looked rusty but he scored the penalty and an assured finish. Sure he'll be an asset of sorts with his size and experience when he gets 100% fit and sharp.
Coulson 7 - Came on up front but hardly involved. One poor touch I saw. Probably needs space to run with ball and woudl like to see him play behind a front two.
Wood - 6.5 - Hardly involved but got done by the attacker down his left side again !  

Grant(CB) + Central Midfielders - hardly saw anything of them tbh.

Thanks to the OS for telling me who all these missing players were.

Thought Pearson was immense, won every single header in both boxes and nearly scored at end of 1st half. Also thought young Bradbury did very well. Not big enough yet but looked much better than Southwell.

Totally agree bax, who is this Bradbury ? He looks a decent prospect to me.

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Yes good peno save.

Justice was done tbf. I was behind the dugouts and the Barton bench were laughing their arses off at the ref for giving that peno. The lad tangled himself in a knot and tripped over his own feet.

Quoted from 1600

Totally agree bax, who is this Bradbury ? He looks a decent prospect to me.

Do you know who the really young-looking lad was who came on about 20 mins from the end? Had long-ish hair. Am sure RS kept calling him Jack

The right winger, number 17? He's a YT called Jack Bradbury. Was brought down for Town's pen. He looked good running at defenders but barely tracked back and looked a little lost positionally. He had a good turn of pace though.

That's him !  

Quoted from 1600

Totally agree bax, who is this Bradbury ? He looks a decent prospect to me.

jack bradbury is a 2nd year yt

Quoted from bax

The right winger, number 17? He's a YT called Jack Bradbury. Was brought down for Town's pen. He looked good running at defenders but barely tracked back and looked a little lost positionally. He had a good turn of pace though.

Yeah that was him cheers. I thought he looked quite decent tbh. Played a nice through ball that was a lovely idea but jsut a little bit too hard and went out.

I'd give him a contract right now, might even stick him on the bench.

Quoted from 1600

Just back.

Funny old game - felt strangely underwhelmed until the 2nd half when the chances and goals started flowing.

To me, Barton looked to have some fair attacking players (without too much imagination or cutting edge) and caused us 1 or 2 problems(especially 1st half) but looked pretty damn poor at the back.

Obvioiusly you don't read too much into these things - we fielded an under strength side but despite the scoreline had a few small concerns
Despite the clean sheet the defence didn't look completely solid tonight - lots of players blew hot and cold.
Headless chickens also spings to mind at times, but hey it's just a workout and pleased to hear Scott said on RH they haven't really started the footballing side of things yet.

Several positives to take but think maybe 4-1 would have been a fairer result.

Startng team

.......................Arthur
Silk........Marshall.....Pearson.....LB trialist ?
Southwell.....Thanoj....Artus.......Eagle
,,,,,,,,,,,,,Mulready........Duffy

Arthur 7.5 - Vocal. Little to do but made a good penalty save and tipped it away after Pearson gave the ball away.
Freeman 6.5 - Looked alright in the air, but didn't really impress me very much. If he's on trial think we can do a lot lot better.
Marshall 7 - Made some good headers but also lost out in the air a lot too. Don't think he's up to being 1st team centre back.
Pearson 8 - Only made 1 mistake when he lost ball in defence otherwise safe as houses. Obvious threat at set pieces again.
Silk 6.5 - Blew hot and cold I thought. Plays some good passes but lost out in the air more than I thought he would and looked a tab vulnerable when being taken on.
Eagle 8.5(MOM) - Made a few errors but looked the quality player to me tonight down the left with his penetrating passes. Good right footed cross to set Mulready up for the first goal. Corners were a lot better tonight.
Artus 7.5  - Set up Duffy for the 2nd goal with a little dink pass behind the defence(suprised it wasn't offside). Hit a cracking freekick which Coulson headed onto the bar from the goalies save. His last goal was a cross(did ok again with those) that evaded everyone and dropped in. Despite his goals and assists was more impressed with his Barnsley performance but maybe that's the sign of a good creative player.
Thanoj 7.5 - Wasn't setting the world on fire until some good passing play 2nd half.
Southwell 6.5 - Good in the air again but a shade disappointed - when he got the ball in space I thought he could have made more use with his runs and seemed to want to run down the wing when there were opportunities to hurt the defence in the centre.
Duffy 7.5 - What you'd expect, some very assured hold up play and a mixed bag of passes.
Mulready 7.5 - Unmarked when scored with a glancing header. Passing and oldup play was variable but pulled a good ball back for Artus's goal and think he has some potential even if he never looks assured in possession. Good movement and had a couple of good chances + hit the target but maybe should have scored 1 of them.

Subs:
Bradbury 8 - Looked pacy and very dangerous running with the ball. This lad was looks a hot prospect to me !   Not afraid to get stuck in too.
Elding 7.5 - Like last night his touch looked rusty but he scored the penalty and an assured finish. Sure he'll be an asset of sorts with his size and experience when he gets 100% fit and sharp.
Coulson 7 - Came on up front but hardly involved. One poor touch I saw. Probably needs space to run with ball and woudl like to see him play behind a front two.
Wood - 6.5 - Hardly involved but got done by the attacker down his left side again !  

Grant(CB) + Central Midfielders - hardly saw anything of them tbh.

Thanks to the OS for telling me who all these missing players were.

danny grant never came on neither did brodie blankly

Two young kids came on and played last 5 mins. One played centre half with Marshall. Don't know who he was though.

A CD and CM defintely came on just before the end.

The OS said
"Danny Grant replaced Pearson at the centre of the Town defence, before Thanoj was also replaced as the final whistle approached."

Was Brodie Blankly the CM or are you taking the mickey ?

Quoted from 1600

I'd give him a contract right now, might even stick him on the bench.

I do hope this is sarcasm. He's a long way off being anywhere near ready for first team action, that's if he ever is good enough to play first team. Far too small (at the moment) Doesn't have a good understanding of his position (struggled with positioning when tracking back). I'm not sleighting the lad btw, I hope he progresses well, just underlining parts of his game which would stop him getting a spot in the first team.
yes, fair play he has a good burst of pace, and he did try to get stuck in and take players on (only did that successfully once btw) He's very lightweight, and we didn't see any form of good passing or intelligence to even think about offering him a contract, and S+H will have no intention what so ever of offering him a contract at this stage, literally just a run out for the lad, as there is no reserve team this year.

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I do hope this is sarcasm. He's a long way off being anywhere near ready for first team action, that's if he ever is good enough to play first team. Far too small (at the moment) Doesn't have a good understanding of his position (struggled with positioning when tracking back). I'm not sleighting the lad btw, I hope he progresses well, just underlining parts of his game which would stop him getting a spot in the first team.
yes, fair play he has a good burst of pace, and he did try to get stuck in and take players on (only did that successfully once btw) He's very lightweight, and we didn't see any form of good passing or intelligence to even think about offering him a contract, and S+H will have no intention what so ever of offering him a contract at this stage, literally just a run out for the lad, as there is no reserve team this year.

Ok not saying we should necessarily offer him a pro contract right now but 10 minutes to go and we're 1-0 down, I don't see the problem personally. Pace and trickery will always cause problems.

Coulsons lightweight too - if they can either take players on or score goals then I don't really give a toss.

If we don't at least look to include talented young players like this in our future plans we're shoooting ourselves in the foot IMO.

Sure I'd like to see him again but also noticed Tommy made a comment about him and that gives me massive encouragement that others think the same.

Who are we talking about?

Bradbury.

Quoted from 1600

Bradbury.

Thought so. I do feel he's worth looking at in some way. Course he didn't get very long but everyone at the game Iinc. me) seems ipmressed by him.

Lets keep a sense of perspective it was a run out for some of the young players who came on and I am sure they benefitted. Not much flowing football as Barton made it hard. A good workout though. Unlike another earlier post I thought Connor Marshall did very well in centre of defence alongside Pearson. As I was near the Town bench, I can tell you Rob Scott was complimentary to him throughout the game. Pearson is an awsome player both in defence and in attack and was Captain last night. I few intresting points from the bench, Kempson seems confident of returning to some sort of action in the next few games. Spencer is still struggling to shake off his injury and get fit and also Coulson's ankle is still a problem and spoke about injections. The team spirit amongst the players seems to be good, lots of banter between those not involved in the game, although they were encouraging those who were playing. Also impressivee was the amount of coaching RS did throughout the game, not only to the young players but seniors too,(straight onto Elding a couple of times for casual sloppy play). He even took a couple those not involved to one side to point out various techniques and tactics. Very professional.

Quoted from oldun

As I was near the Town bench

Did you hear the blokes singing "who's the scouser on the bench" (near the woman with mummy 7 on her shirt)? Was pssing myself, they made me laugh.

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Also impressivee was the amount of coaching RS did throughout the game,

Yeah I agree with that. Spoke to nearly all of them. Some good dance moves too on occasion !

Bradbury is a decent youth team player but in reserve games last season looked a little lost, out of his depth.

That doesnt mean he can't improve. That is precisely what a two year YT contract is about. Developing and improving.

Certainly no need to throw around pro contracts at this stage.

Southwell has been the one who has caught the eye throughout his time in the youth set up BUT that means nothing if his development has peaked. He too has the rest of this season before any decisions will be made. Plenty of youth team football and no doubt a few reserve games as and when they are arranged

Quoted from acko338

I look forward to the Lincoln fans having their post match viewpoints after THAT result - Town must have failed somehow in their eyes!

Damned if we do, damned if we don't ..... good result btw, we only managed 2-0, but lets see how we get on v Florest!

Quoted from upthestripes

Did you hear the blokes singing "who's the scouser on the bench" (near the woman with mummy 7 on her shirt)? Was pssing myself, they made me laugh.



Yeah I agree with that. Spoke to nearly all of them. Some good dance moves too on occasion !

Heard the singing, was very good humoured on the bench.