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Left after 80 minutes - slow, lethargic and pedestrian, lack of leadership, strange substitutions ( Comley had a far better game than Disley or Davies) and a striker who looked patently disinterested.

Credit to Exeter, looked decent, but frankly didn't have a lot to beat. MOM Henderson again, without whom it could have been even more embarrassing.

Very poor. Beaten by a better team, formation doesnt work at home, well didnt today, dont understand the substitutions, cant moan too much as we've just had a good run but our home form is dire, hope marcus can bring in the players he wants to play this system. But very down tonight, not one player was any good today, and our insistance on playing out from the back is doing my head in

Agreed I also left after 80minures just didn't happen today and thought the formation didn't work ! Thought Zac Mills was all over the place and didn't really know where tonne half the time...

We were shite, looked disorganised again. Too many changes during the game. Very poor!

So what went wrong then today in regards to styles of play?

Same old problem for me. Midfield totally inept.
Any team that works hard and gets in our faces will get a result.
It's frustrating to see the ball being constantly hoofed, but if the midfield aren't intelligent enough to make a pass an option, the defender has no choice.  Bogle had a poor game but having said that he got feck all service.  Outworked, outplayed and outsung.  

WORST PERFORMANCE FOR AGES TODAY !!

We play in slow motion, can't put three passes together, pass across our own box, were yards slower than the opponents, and probably 6 to 7 of the starting 11 had poor games.

Mills did not pass the ball forward more then once in the first half, and collected every ball at stop  / go slow speed. felt sorry for the forwards who had to feed off rare scraps. Very few players making themselves available for through balls, so anything from the back four going fowards seemed to be in slow motion.

Exeter - professional seeing off of us by playing as a unit, starting with harassing our back four on every occasion at top speed, never letting our guys settle, or have time to make passes.

Exeter looked at least a yard faster in most areas and their passing was far more direct and accurate than ours.

Grimsby - passing - so slow no strength to the weight of the pass - running off the ball at the back and midfield - so slow - never seen so many goalie pass backs in one game, and Henderson made a couple of good saves, but not a good performance otherwise. Distribution slow and inaccurate many times.

Is Danny Andrew invisible on the left flank - hugged the touchline and always clear for a pass and mostly ignored ??

I do hope that was a glitch, but it made for terrible viewing, and the last two goals seemed to be total giveaways to me !

So quiet, with very little to cheer or applaud !

Where do you start with that? Well the formation for a start. It gave them the initiative from the off and they took it and then some. Too many defensive players in the side and that shows with absolutely no creativity whatsoever. Bogle looked worth about 2 bob this afternoon and he just cannot hold onto the ball. Yussef did nothing either but the service to them was shocking.

Exeter were everything we weren't. Strong, quick, mobile and the best front line i have seen all season. I know we are in transition but i'm seeing nothing at home at all to get the juices flowing. We created nothing at all and didn't give the fans one thing to get excited about. I'm getting fed up of waiting for someone to give us the team the fans deserve.

I'm quite a patient bloke but a bit down after that and not seeing any signs we can stretch teams at home. Home games, with their higher expectations and more possession is just showing up our deficiences with the ball. We are better at defending away than we are attacking at home. We need creative players quickly. We are too slow and predictable.

Quoted from Hagrid

Very poor. Beaten by a better team, formation doesnt work at home, well didnt today, dont understand the substitutions, cant moan too much as we've just had a good run but our home form is dire, hope marcus can bring in the players he wants to play this system. But very down tonight, not one player was any good today, and our insistance on playing out from the back is doing my head in

Thought danny andrew played well to be fair.

To think we could have been playing in the fa trophy today - bad day at the office end off! Move onwards to the next game UTM!