I'm glad JJ Hooper is in the starting 11 because he needs to prove to the Town fans he actually gives a excrement about playing for our football club

McKeown Davies Clarke Collins Dixon Bolarinwa Berrett Rose Kelly Dembele Hooper

Killip Mills Osborne Clifton Cardwell Summerfield Jaiyesimi

Quoted from Sussexmariner

I'm glad JJ Hooper is in the starting 11 because he needs to prove to the Town fans he actually gives a excrement about playing for our football club

I'm not he's a waste of wages, at least Cardwell will give it a go if we put him up front.

Berrett is back. Fantastic. And Hooper up front in his own. Yep that should work.  :D

I think it's possibly time for blind optimism!

FFS

Town 5/1
Draw 3/1
Derby 11/20

Quoted from chaos33

FFS

Games not even kicked off yet ;)

Why don't we try getting behind the team and all the players instead of writing them off after two bad games.  

Whatever the performance, we went behind v Coventry due to a dubious refereeing decision and might have otherwise got a point.  Against Chesterfield we had a goal disallowed and a penalty disallowed.  

There's 43 more league games as well as Cups.  I'm sure the players prefer supporters to moaners.  

I think 5/1 is a decent bet?

I've backed Derby to win but both teams to score.

Would like to have seen Karleigh Osbourne get a start.

It's not like we're gonna win the competition and a very low chance of us getting past Derby and Barnsley to get a money spinning tie..

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Games not even kicked off yet ;)

He was just getting the first ffs of the evening  in early Herts  ;D

Quoted from chaos33

FFS

FFS

Is Dembele up front/playing behind Hooper?

Out wide, with Kelly in the middle from what I can gather.

Cheers missed the frist few minutes and couldn't work it out from the commentary so far

I can't get commentary on I follow? Is it on the wireless? UTM

It's on DAB

DAB Humberside

Berrett booked

Great, I can't get Humberside Dab as I'm an exile in Yorkshire. What's the point in me paying for ifollow ffs!!

Many there BTW?

Ref fancy showing berrett another yellow by any chance ?

Quoted from oochiad

Great, I can't get Humberside Dab as I'm an exile in Yorkshire. What's the point in me paying for ifollow ffs!!

I seem to think that ifollow is only showing and doing commentary on the league games mate (I may be wrong though)

Quoted from oochiad

Great, I can't get Humberside Dab as I'm an exile in Yorkshire. What's the point in me paying for ifollow ffs!!

Ifollow commentary is working ok.

HT 0-0

Are we looking better from Saturday ?

Dembele showing his quality again tonight. Always looking to run at their back line and causing issues.
Kelly having an ok game in the middle.

Rose and Hooper not playing well at all.

Derby haven't really done much so far,

JJ Hooper is literally everything in a striker we hoped as a club we got away from .

He has done eff all tonight and the shining light is dembele as usual.

Didn't go on Saturday but we've matched them tonight. A relatively low-key performance from both teams and they had the better of the first 15 or 20 minutes but I reckon we've shaded it since then. Bolarinwa the first to test either keeper in the 45th minute!

Berrett playing quite well. Hooper got off to a slow start but has done OK since then. He's realised he's not going to win many headers so is holding the defender off to let the ball bounce past them! Looks a very lackadaisical runner so I can see why he's accused of being lazy!

Some really good and tricky runs from Dembele but with no end product. Best touch of the game was from McKeown who plucked a wild, skied backpass from Rose out of the air with the outside of his foot!

Yes we are playing well. Dembele is causing them all sorts of problems coming in from the right touchline. He has unbelievable skills. We haven't looked out of place and played some good football. Not many chances at either end.

One piece of outrageous skill from Macca from a lofted back pass from Rose. He took it out of the air and killed it dead with his foot before looking up and clearing it.

Back underway

Quoted from lee65

It's on DAB

Don't mind if I do

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Penalty for derby

Stupid penalty. Clear pull

0-1

Clarke you flipping idiot

Clarke out for Osborne on Saturday please. He's been responsible for far too many mistakes leading to goals already this season.

Davies and dixon booked

Oooooo who is going to win the red card sweepstake for today.....

Derby are upping their game now.

Nathan Clarke with the turning circle of the Ross tiger brings him down for a clear pen.

Fooking great.

I'm beginning to see WHY we we're 5/1  ;)

Quoted from jaygy

Oooooo who is going to win the red card sweepstake for today.....

it's Davis!

Davies sent off

4 reds. flipping shambles

Referee a complete male masturbator.

Cardwell on for Hooper
Mills on for Kelly

4 red cards in 4 games is unacceptable. Slade claimed there wasn't an issue after the 3rd, but there clearly is and he needs to take some responsibility for it.

😂😂 ffs seriously we setting a record or what

Mills on for kelly

Another sending off. Well done Town. Going down to 10 men every game is a great play.

Slade is taking us back to hell

Can't we get fine for having all these red cards ?

Quoted from OllieGTFC

😂😂 ffs seriously we setting a record or what

Willing to bet we're leading the entire football league for red cards this season already by some margin.

I'm just starting to think Slade is the shadow of the manager he was since he was last here ..

I mean cup nights were Slade nights but tonight just nowt , I seriously think the poor bloke is mentally shot from having been sacked from about 20 different clubs.

He has no confidence in himself hence the one striker he now plays with ,I mean would our old Russ play one striker at home ? I know football moves on but I just don't think Russ has.

Btw this is not a dig as I like Slade as a person he comes across to have time with the fans and the media but come on Russ you have certainly bought in some excrement to the club this season players wise and your dinosaur tactics won't work in 2017.

Bloody disgraceful... get a grip Slade... this is
totally unacceptable.....  with injuries and suspensions
I fear another home defeat on Saturday  in front of 3,000...
ffs....

Quoted from OllieGTFC

Can't we get fine for having all these red cards ?

Yeah, but that is the least of our worries.

You gotta be thinking summatt ain't right with 4 reds in 4 games surely ?

Quoted from jonnyboy82

I'm just starting to think Slade is the shadow of the manager he was since he was last here ..

I mean cup nights were Slade nights but tonight just nowt , I seriously think the poor bloke is mentally shot from having been sacked from about 20 different clubs.

He has no confidence in himself hence the one striker he now plays with ,I mean would our old Russ play one striker at home ? I know football moves on but I just don't think Russ has.

Btw this is not a dig as I like Slade as a person he comes across to have time with the fans and the media but come on Russ you have certainly bought in some excrement to the club this season players wise and your dinosaur tactics won't work in 2017.

I don't think the players we have available is helping. It's becoming quickly apparent our squad is severely lacking in quality. Beyond Dembele (and maybe McKeown & Collins) there's not one player who can claim to have had a decent start to the season. We're relying on far too many players who we already know are utter dross, and now it seems half of them are incapable of staying on the pitch for 90 minutes. There's no comparison to the players we had in Slade's last team - Bolland, Rob Jones, Gary Jones, Mildenhall, Reddy, Cohen, Whittle, McDermott etc. all miles superior to what we have now.

Tbh i dont think we've been that bad tonight. Just dont look like scoring ever

Do you think when Russ said he has "unfinished business" he meant it  but this time to completely fvck us over ?

Any managers out there who want a job for Christmas ?

As far as Davies getting sent off, no idea what the first yellow was for.
And I thought he got the ball when given the second.
Shocking ref.

FFS WTF is going on this must be a record it's hard enough with eleven players on the field our defence is old and stale hence desperation is evident not good.

3033 attendance with 850+ from Derby. Interesting. Think there'll be less than that on Saturday.

I think it's quite obvious from the way the summer panned out that he was hoping for other targets to sign and missed the vast majority of them. However, as a manager you have to expect that and have a reasonable 2nd, 3rd, even 4th and 5th target and we just haven't brought in anyone with any quality. I also think we were looking to get players in that played differently to the ones we've got and he's struggling to adapt the side. For example, both Tyler Walker and Nicky Maynard who we were supposedly after play very differently to Hooper who seems very reluctant to make channel runs. This isn't making excuses for RS btw, he's the one who signed the players and once you've signed them you have to work out how to get the best out of your team.

Quoted from chaos33

3033 attendance with 850+ from Derby. Interesting. Think there'll be less than that on Saturday.

Just groaned when I remembered I have a season ticket. Suppose i'll be able to pick up tickets for Mansfield away on Saturday at least.

I think there is a chance we will score a goal in this game.
There are no teams with as much experience as Grimsby playing 10 against 11 in all of the the league system.
It probably is a strange new tactic employed by Slade to confuse the opponents.

Quoted from grimsby pete

He was just getting the first ffs of the evening  in early Herts  ;D

FFS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Classic - JT has just said to Buckley "you want to coach Dembelle don't you Alan" well if things don't get better he might be soon :)

Jaiyesimi on for Dembele

We just look like a team devoid of ideas and how to play as a team. No one can hold the ball up. Every ball is lumped in the air straight to their defence.

As per the other games this season, Dembele was quality.

1-0 down and still playing one up front, now the clown has taken Dembele off.

These are experienced players. The manager shouldn't need to tell them that you should avoid 2nd yellow cards let alone fouling in the penalty area.

Most predicted we would get dicked by four goals, so we aint doing bad with 10 men.  ;)

Quoted from arryarryarry

1-0 down and still playing one up front, now the clown has taken Dembele off.

May as well save him for Saturday. He's the only remotely threatening player we have.

Quoted from arryarryarry

1-0 down and still playing one up front, now the clown has taken Dembele off.

He's probably out of energy thats why

I haven't seen town yet this season but weirdly looking forward to seeing how sh.ite we are

0-1 against a team two divisions above us is hardly a disaster is it? But the unnecessary red cards and totally avoidable goals we're conceding need nipping in the bud

We are worse than we were with bignot in charge ..... this is gonna end in tears .

Alan Buckley just then, " Collins is the pick of our centre backs forsure" said whilst sniggering!

FFS

Quoted from AdamHaddock

0-1 against a team two divisions above us is hardly a disaster is it? But the unnecessary red cards and totally avoidable goals we're conceding need nipping in the bud

It'd be better against the majority of their first team (like we played at Pride Park last season), but they made 10 changes from Saturday so it's practically their reserves.

Was about to say, despite the score and red card, the stats are finally in our favour!

Quoted from AdamHaddock

0-1 against a team two divisions above us is hardly a disaster is it? But the unnecessary red cards and totally avoidable goals we're conceding need nipping in the bud

The trouble is we have a defence that is slow apart from Mills,

Players that can not tackle,

AND

Players that can not pass the ball ,

APART

From that we have no idea what is supposed to be happening,

I fear the worse.

FT 0-1

Gonna say again, we were not that bad tonight. Think some of you are beinf very harsh

Last season turned out fine and we started slow with early loses then, let's get a win on Sat cmon!!

We will see if this improvement lasts on saturday playing against Wycombe. Looking forward to that.
My bet is Paul Dixon for a red on saturday. In the 64th minute after a career-ending tackle on Akinfenwa.

Looking forward to Saturday.......UTM!

Not a bad performance tonight but intercourse that JJ Hopper off lazy flipping illegitimate

Quoted from Hagrid

Gonna say again, we were not that bad tonight. Think some of you are beinf very harsh

We lost through another preventable defensive mistake, had another needless sending off and barely troubled their keeper. Suppose everything's fine if you're happy with that.

Quoted from geir

We will see if this improvement lasts on saturday playing against Wycombe. Looking forward to that.
My bet is Paul Dixon for a red on saturday. In the 64th minute after a career-ending tackle on Akinfenwa.

;D ;D ;D

That made me laugh Geir,

Did you mean Dixon got a career ending injury tackling Akinfenwa  ?

Quoted from Chrisblor

We lost through another preventable defensive mistake, had another needless sending off and barely troubled their keeper. Suppose everything's fine if you're happy with that.

Did they trouble macca? They are 2 leagues above us, we were not outplayed, general opinion around me, and of others coming out is we wernt that bad. I agree with that. I think clarke is crap and needs dropping though, accident waiting to happen

Quoted from geir

We will see if this improvement lasts on saturday playing against Wycombe. Looking forward to that.
My bet is Paul Dixon for a red on saturday. In the 64th minute after a career-ending tackle on Akinfenwa.

I just hope he doesn't land on him.

Feels like a similar run to last year until it was broken by the Bogle show in a 5 - 2 win versus Stevenage (of all people) big concern is the lack of a Bogle type up front this season to date.

Also thought tom B was very good tonight, hope to see him play on saturdayy

Was thinking the same earlier. Last season we were generally pretty cr@p, but had Bogle who won us points with his goals. We don't have that threat now. We are still pretty cr@p, but don't have any real threat. I just hope there are 2 teams worse than us.

Quoted from Chrisblor

We lost through another preventable defensive mistake, had another needless sending off and barely troubled their keeper. Suppose everything's fine if you're happy with that.

And it was Clarke again !!!!!! I've not been convinced by him at all yet very poor the last 3 games

The age of our defence worries me a bit.

To lose 1-0 to a Championship club is nothing to be that disappointed about. However the real lack of any threat up front, a 4th red card and what seemed like giving away alot of silly free kicks are something to be worried about.

My god there's some blind optimism on here. Our first team played Derby's reserves tonight.

If we don't sign at least two or three players by the end of the window we're screwed..

It may have been a reserve team, but the majority were still championship quality.

Quoted from grimsby pete

;D ;D ;D

That made me laugh Geir,

Did you mean Dixon got a career ending injury tackling Akinfenwa  ?

Yep. ;-)  It can be dangerous tackling Akinfenwa.

Unlike some I was at the game.

Penalty looked a bit soft from where I was sat.

Sending off was a joke. Didn't even look like a foul and a lot worse tackles didn't warrant a card. There seemed to be two sets of rules one for them and a completely different set for us.

We nearly nicked an equaliser at the death when Macca went up and got a free header but put it wide.

They were wasting time at the end against 10 men.

I thought we played good football but didn't have a cutting edge. They didn't either.

Thanks for that Mimma, didn't sound that bad on the radio either. On to Saturday we go....UTM

Quoted from Bigdog

My god there's some blind optimism on here. Our first team played Derby's reserves tonight.

If we don't sign at least two or three players by the end of the window we're screwed..

I bet virtually every one of their starting eleven would walk into any league two side. They probably are all paid £10kplus a week.

For all that we did ok against them however the lack of firepower is a huge worry. Clarke made a howler for the penalty but generally played well against Chris Martin who has had a good career in Championship, far from the standard we will face in League 2.

Berrett, and I am far from a fan, competed well whist Tom B and Dembele also looked decent.

The one that really got my goat this evening was Ben Davies. For an experienced player his first yellow was pathetic, his show of petulance outweighed how unlucky the 2nd yellow may have been.

Far more encouraged by tonight than some of the doom and gloom merchants on here. Still hope for a loan striker to spark us and give us some firepower as Hooper looks clueless

Wasn't bad at all, we matched a good derby side. Nothing outstanding but we certainly put in a good shift and had some bright moments. Berrett had a good game, Tom B and dembele very good. Would like to see more of DJ, looked bright in the short spell he had on the pitch.

I think we all agree we're lacking a goal scorer and never really looked like scoring (although creating a few good chances.) Maybe play 442 and we might have more luck? You can't really blame the strikers when they're so isolated upfront. Although Hooper sadly looked useless.

Credit where credit is due, if we play with the same attitude Saturday we should get something from the game.

Hooper and Kelly up front powder puff and will be the demise of Slade  if he continues playing them, the rest of them did Ok

I thought that Rose was Towns best player. He was all over the pitch breaking up attacks and he kept the ball well.

Dembele has unbelievable skills. Goes past players for fun . Looked knackered when he was subbed.

Also one of the best games I've seen Bolly play. He could be influential for us this season against 2nd. div. players

We did OK tonight despite the ex Port Vale duo. It was not entirely a Derby reserve side with the likes of Vydra and Martin up top.

Are you kidding Oldun?

They are proven Championship goal scorers. Vydra helped Watford get into the prem. and had a full season there.

If that was Derby's reserve team, they must have a pretty strong squad - 7 full internationals in the starting line-up tonight. A narrow defeat after playing a third of the game with ten men (thanks in part to what looked another extremely harsh red card, it must be said), isn't half bad at all. Derby certainly couldn't have complained had we nicked an equaliser near the end from the overall balance of play - despite the fact that we have a terribly weakened squad ourselves due to injuries in midfield and up front! - and we still managed more efforts on target than them.

Some of the comments earlier in this thread from those who didn't go to the game are, frankly, pathetic.

The team is not there yet, that's for sure, a number of the players have a lot to prove yet and the formation isn't working at the moment, but to claim we played anything but pretty well tonight is way off the mark.

Quoted from Maringer

If that was Derby's reserve team, they must have a pretty strong squad - 7 full internationals in the starting line-up tonight. A narrow defeat after playing a third of the game with ten men (thanks in part to what looked another extremely harsh red card, it must be said), isn't half bad at all. Derby certainly couldn't have complained had we nicked an equaliser near the end from the overall balance of play - despite the fact that we have a terribly weakened squad ourselves due to injuries in midfield and up front! - and we still managed more efforts on target than them.

Some of the comments earlier in this thread from those who didn't go to the game are, frankly, pathetic.

The team is not there yet, that's for sure, a number of the players have a lot to prove yet and the formation isn't working at the moment, but to claim we played anything but pretty well tonight is way off the mark.

First game I haven't watched was last night.

I went more than a month not posting on here over the summer because I didn't want to be negative about how the club was being promoted since last season and a bit shocked at RS and PW quality of signings too. My gut feelings are on the whole correct so far, early days I know.

You may think I'm pathetic and a doom merchant someone else said. Well I'm not. I actually think that over the past fifteen seasons too many fans have been conditioned into accepting mediocrity and hang on far too much to slivers of hope in the name of loyalty.

I am going to speak out if I think there are ways that the club could be run better, I am going to give my honest opinion on signings or PR or club funding. Why? Because I want the best for my club and more than mediocre for our far from mediocre fans. I write about it in the hope that one or two others add to that voice so when GYFR is trawling through this late at night, something hits home.

Isn't anyone else bored of the same old, put up with this and put up with that season after season. We need some new investment and blue sky thinking to get out of this long term rut that at least a few of us can see is happening.

Quoted from Bigdog

First game I haven't watched was last night.

I went more than a month not posting on here over the summer because I didn't want to be negative about how the club was being promoted since last season and a bit shocked at RS and PW quality of signings too. My gut feelings are on the whole correct so far, early days I know.

You may think I'm pathetic and a doom merchant someone else said. Well I'm not. I actually think that over the past fifteen seasons too many fans have been conditioned into accepting mediocrity and hang on far too much to slivers of hope in the name of loyalty.

I am going to speak out if I think there are ways that the club could be run better, I am going to give my honest opinion on signings or PR or club funding. Why? Because I want the best for my club and more than mediocre for our far from mediocre fans. I write about it in the hope that one or two others add to that voice so when GYFR is trawling through this late at night, something hits home.

Isn't anyone else bored of the same old, put up with this and put up with that season after season. We need some new investment and blue sky thinking to get out of this long term rut that at least a few of us can see is happening.

Shout all you like about new investment . It isn't coming anytime soon with GYFR in charge.

We are not going to go from 6 years in non league to world beaters overnight. We are a few players short without a doubt but there has been a massive over reaction to the last two league games imo. We have to rebuild the club, and that is a long and sometimes slow progres. That isn't accepting mediocrity but equally realism has to come into it.

A glass half full fan would say a win on Saturday gives us 6 points from the first 4 games which isn't a disaster by any means.

Last night was encouraging except for the goal threat. Hopefully someone like Tyler Walker could solve that through the loan market

Some investment last season and I reckon we'd have been promoted , Some people including the chairman think that being back in the four division is an achievement and are happy just to sit here doing nothing.
I've always pretty much backed Fenty but I honestly believe he's tried to do this season on the cheap and it looks like it'll bite us in the bottom

Quoted from grimps

Some investment last season and I reckon we'd have been promoted , Some people including the chairman think that being back in the four division is an achievement and are happy just to sit here doing nothing.
I've always pretty much backed Fenty but I honestly believe he's tried to do this season on the cheap and it looks like it'll bite us in the bottom

Well I think we have spent money backstage on fitness coaches and equipment etc which is no bad thing, at the expense of signing a couple of quality players, one being a proven goal scorer.
If we just go that final half mile we could suprise a few

Quoted from mimma

Are you kidding Oldun?

They are proven Championship goal scorers. Vydra helped Watford get into the prem. and had a full season there.

Exactly my point