Colchester (H) Match Thread

Grimsby team

Crocombe; Emmanuel, Efete, Waterfall, Maher, Amos; Morris, Hunt, Clifton; McAtee, Lloyd

Subs: Glennon, Holohan, O'Neill, Dickson-Peters, Orsi, Smith, Wearne

Only 6 subs

Quoted from Dodorondon

Only 6 subs

Wearne also on bench according  to BBC

Quoted from nigelh

Wearne also on bench according  to BBC

Team news taken off Grimsby Live so wouldn't surprise me, will edit if confirmed.

Green injured. No Scannell.

Wearne on the bench

I like it alot. Be a good time to get a result against Colchester.. Won last 3 away I believe?

Akinde (Barnet penalty taker) is playing. Be warned!

Back to the Crewe line up? (With a fresh McAtee and Lloyd).
Good luck Colchester...

Quoted from GtfcGarner

I like it alot. Be a good time to get a result against Colchester.. Won last 3 away I believe?

They've won their last 4 away. Akinde (pen) and Hopper are both starting.

No Orsi again? Bit naughty that as he's earned another starting place in my eyes.

Lots of games coming up, sensible line up for this particular game! UTM

Squad rotation essential with the amount of match catch ups to complete !

Quoted from Badger57

No Orsi again? Bit naughty that as he's earned another starting place in my eyes.

Lloyd and McAtee looked like they'd played together for years at Crewe. Its nice having a problem up front like this for a chamge isn't it 🤣

Quiet start to the game, quiet BP and quiet on the Fishy.

Bit scrappy/  Colchester cloe down fast and hard to win owt in the air.

I wish we'd stop this hoof ball. We're not winning a game of head tennis against this lot up top today

Shocking by Crocombe there.

I think everyone's just waiting in anticipation and anxious ... fans need to get going aswell as the team but as it stands we're holding our own against a well improved team.

This ref isn't giving much is he? Aslong as it's the same for both sides I'll be happy.

Not much to say to that, hopefully give us a kick up the bottom now

How did that not go in for us.

Quoted from Morris Minor

Akinde (Barnet penalty taker) is playing. Be warned!

Already I count two dives. One leading to their goal. Absolute no surprise.

JT and Crtofty need to identify the players correctly,  It was Emmanuel had the last shot that went wide, not Efette.

Colchester have shut up shop and are just happy to sit and hoof clear now and hope Akinde gets hold of it.

Quoted from 123614

JT and Crtofty need to identify the players correctly,  It was Emmanuel had the last shot that went wide, not Efette.

I thought it was Akinde. JT thought it was Maher

Quoted from MarinerBen

Already I count two dives. One leading to their goal. Absolute no surprise.

He seems to have made a career out of it, I wonder how many sodding penalties the bloke has got given!

Clifton should have squared that but at least a sight on goal

HT......Town 0-1 Colchester

Town kicking towards the Ponny second half, there's still hope.

Always the way after a game like the other night isnt it, hopefully just a bad half

Well wasn't that 100% a typical Town non performance after a great one? 🤔
You can nearly rely on it!

We need to get the ball down and start playing football, we aren't going to win any headers in the air away from our defence. We are playing Colchester's game and they are bettering us at it.

Apart from some poor organisation for the goal neither side look like anything, keep the ball on the deck and we’ll be back in this.

Quoted from WHYWONTYOULETMESIGNUP

Always the way after a game like the other night isnt it, hopefully just a bad half

Yep. Was expecting an "After the Lord Mayor's Show" performance. El General will sort it, though.

Awful first half, everyone's probably play at a rating of 5 maybe 6 out of 10... not going to get too negative though, Colchester are in form and it's only half time.
If you're in the main stand please shout to PH to NOT make any subs  

Quoted from Badger57

Well wasn't that 100% a typical Town non performance after a great one? 🤔
You can nearly rely on it!

You'd think we could all be millionaires by betting on it but somehow 'you'll almost never win on a bet involving town' is also a thing

We need to get the ball on the deck. This hoof ball just plays into their hands as their entire team look near 6ft+.

McAtee need to play tighter to Lloyd like he did at Crewe and stop drifting wide so much, make colchester play more narrow and give the like of Amos and Emmanuel room on the flanks to run into.

I also feel we need a change in midfield I'd say Morris off for Holohan, but I'm really not sure who it should be really, because at the moment none of them are really in the game.

Hope I'm wrong but  just can't see us getting into it again. Refs letting them push and pull us around and won't give us anything.  Got to get it on the ground and get some more possesion. Crowd need to get loud and support at the moment Colcester players able to just sit deep and hoof and don't look pressured v often at all. Colchester really are nothing more than a bunch of big cloggers and on our game we should beat them.

My prediction was 2
1 Town so it's still on

Passing through midfield has been terrible and they aren't leaving us any space in the middle. I'd take off Hunt, who has been ineffective, and bring Holohan on to try and win a bit more aerial ball in the middle.

We need Emmanuel to get involved more as he looks useful on the occasions he wins the ball. Not sure it's the right game for Lloyd as their defence are all massive and are being allowed to shove him around.

Quoted from lukeo

Awful first half, everyone's probably play at a rating of 5 maybe 6 out of 10... not going to get too negative though, Colchester are in form and it's only half time.
If you're in the main stand please shout to PH to NOT make any subs  

Orsi on for Hunt.  If we can get the ball to his feet.  We can get back into this.

It worked!

* For those who haven't seen the fans forum PH said if you're going to ask for subs he's likely to do the opposite.

I assume we are going to change slightly to a 5212

Town 0 Colchester 2 Akinde (pen) anyone?

Frustrating game.  Colchester not good but effective.  We seem to run out of ideas.

Colchester are doing a really good job on us here and we’re doing all we can to help them.

Our inability to pass a ball today is really hurting us.

Ref is garbage

Who's been worse today, Town or the ref? 🤔
(not blaming the ref for our dismal performance mind you.)

About time Morris went off. He's been a particularly bad apple in the bunch today.

I'd try Dickson-Peters ... see if he can snaffle us a goal we may not deserve.

Wow, four subs

Just gonna be one of them days im afraid

Away gate anybody please

The yellow card to the keeper sums up the refs performance... keeper did nothing wrong  

By his own standards, Clifton has been poor.  But so have the rest of the team too.

McAtee is the worst of a bad bunch for me.

Che@ting B@stards.

Well.... on a positive Southampton were 1 0 up. Wolves go down to 10 men and are now 2 1 up!

From the sublime to the ridiculously bad - The life and times of being a Grimsby Town fan. 😔

Caught the second half on mariners player. For me Grimsby haven't been bad. Effort is collectively there  just not created that much .

I’m not sure you can say Colchester deserve to win this game but we don’t deserve anything from it.

Ref’s been sh1t again! They’ve done a job on him too.

FT 0-1
Shite happens, roll on Gillingham

Hoof ball wins,

Quoted from lukeo

Well.... on a positive Southampton were 1 0 up. Wolves go down to 10 men and are now 2 1 up!

That’s not a positive. We want Southampton to be well in touch and with Nathan Jones still in post.

I don’t think he will be by the end of the weekend.

Dog excrement

  Frustrating that. We played badly but the ball didn't fall to us.  Bobbles went away from our player.   Seemed to roll better for them.  But, Colchester did enough.  Stuck to their task.

Awful performance today in truth. As Tondeur said, the subs all looked exactly what they are, strangers. We move onto Tuesday and put this behind us.

I don’t get it, I just don’t get it,🙁

excrement game, hardly any shots from either side a lot of shithousery from them just boring.

They were awful, we were worse. 0-0 game settled because of bad goalkeeping

Could be very clever by Paul.
Southampton looking bad - make sure we look bad - plenty of games to make sure we stay up.
Southampton under the most pressure for the 5th Round tie.
UTM

Quoted from 123614

JT and Crtofty need to identify the players correctly,  It was Emmanuel had the last shot that went wide, not Efette.

It was Efete.

Deflated. A hangover from Luton game. Always seems to happen. We are always dogged by inconsistency. Cloud nine to the basement.

After the Lord Mayor parade come the Sh-tcart!

They were well organised and that's all they needed to be to defend a poor goal. We were well off it, especially going forward. I'd have changed to a back 4, wing backs were getting nothing. Disappointing,.especially in contrast to Tuesday, but as Hagrid said on most other days that's a terrible 0-0 and we move on

Quoted from DB

Away gate anybody please

JT said 252 I do believe

Quoted from AdamHaddock

FT 0-1
Shite happens, roll on Gillingham

We really need to get out act together for that one. Win and we are 12 points clear of the drop, lose and they are just six points behind us.

Let’s treat it like a cup game…

Colechester are one place above us but we have five games in hand.

Dont matter how many games in hand you have  if you are not winning them

Quoted from immariner

They were well organised and that's all they needed to be to defend a poor goal. We were well off it, especially going forward.

Interesting what I read a few years back  in a sports science article.  It's hard for a lot of athletes to maintain 100% or very close to that week in week out . If an athlete can get to 80% minimum  then higher levels of performance can be maintained consistently week in week out over a longer duration?.

We always struggle at home against teams that set up to hassle and press us on the ball so we have no time and resort to hoof ball. Don’t  see 5 at the back as the answer in these situations. Very underweight in central midfield today

Quoted from arryarryarry

It was Efete.

No, you're wrong, it was Emmanuel, he was wearing no 7 shirt.  It was clear as day Emmanuelle.

Quoted from 123614

No, you're wrong, it was Emmanuel, he was wearing no 7 shirt.  It was clear as day Emmanuelle.

You dont go to the games, it was Efete

Quoted from 123614

No, you're wrong, it was Emmanuel, he was wearing no 7 shirt.  It was clear as day Emmanuelle.

I've seen the replay it was Efete who put it wide of the post.

No, but I watched it  via a VPN, and it clearly WAS Emmanuelle wearing the no 7 shirt..Just cos JT said it was Effete means nothing, he's always calling players by the wrong name!

I thought it was Efete too.

Quoted from denni266

Dont matter how many games in hand you have  if you are not winning them

Good insight. Look everyone, the boring moaner is back again…no surprise….because we had a bad day. Where were you after the proud Luton performance?

Quoted from arryarryarry

I've seen the replay it was Efete who put it wide of the post.

You must be talking about a different incident then, as what I am talking about was 100% no 7 Emmanuelle who hit the ball past the post after a goalmouth scramble.  It was a close up view of the player, centre screen clearly with the player wearing the 7 shirt.

Well 7 is Emmanuel

Quoted from 123614

You must be talking about a different incident then, as what I am talking about was 100% no 7 Emmanuelle who hit the ball past the post after a goalmouth scramble.  It was a close up view of the player, centre screen clearly with the player wearing the 7 shirt.

There was only one goalmouth scramble, it was Efete who put it wide. Please accept defeat on this one

Quoted from chaos33

Good insight. Look everyone, the boring moaner is back again…no surprise….because we had a bad day. Where were you after the proud Luton performance?

i was not moaning i was stating a fact . And if i was you i would look back after the luton game before you start again  Doing what you are best known for , That is trying to have a go at anyone who you disagree with every time  

Quoted from Hagrid

There was only one goalmouth scramble, it was Efete who put it wide. Please accept defeat on this one

  No, because I KNOW I am right,  The player who hit the ball past the post was the number 7, Emmanuelle>  Maybe you should get a better look at it.

No, just you. We’re all disappointed, but you only appear at times of failure. Almost revelling in it. You don’t even attend.

Quoted from 123614

  No, because I KNOW I am right,  The player who hit the ball past the post was the number 7, Emmanuelle>  Maybe you should get a better look at it.

You definitely could have an argument in an empty room 😂😂😂

Quoted from chaos33

No, just you. We’re all disappointed, but you only appear at times of failure. Almost revelling in it. You don’t even attend.

If you are referring to me, I cannot go anywhere due to my physical and mental disabilities, so STFU!

BBC report says it was Efete who missed.

Evidence stacking against you BAWB.

It was Emmanuefete

Quoted from HertsGTFC

You definitely could have an argument in an empty room 😂😂😂

Prove me wrong then, get Hagrid to show us the highlights he saw which clearly shows who it was hit that shot.

Quoted from 123614

If you are referring to me, I cannot go anywhere due to my physical and mental disabilities, so STFU!

He wasnt referring to you

Btw……




It was Efete😂

Quoted from HertsGTFC

You definitely could have an argument in an empty room 😂😂😂

He does make some mistakes with what he says  ( who doesn't ) but always is a bit of respect there from my part  for the time he served in the military. What some of them lads have gone through is beyond words especially the mental and physical suffering experienced to serve for their country.

Quoted from 123614

Prove me wrong then, get Hagrid to show us the highlights he saw which clearly shows who it was hit that shot.

I dont need to see highlights Bear, i was there, so were many others, It was Michee. Please please listen to me on this

Quoted from 123614

If you are referring to me, I cannot go anywhere due to my physical and mental disabilities, so STFU!

Settle down bear, I’m talking about Denni