Team:
McKeown
Hatton
Miller
Pearson
Thomas
Marshall
Artus
Naylor
Devitt
Cook
Brodie

Subs:
John-Lewis
Colbeck
Wilson
Wood
Hearn (!!)

A vital three points today could see the Mariners' play-off spot look very secure, and maybe rejuvenate title hopes if others drop points.

Maybe just included to provide a morale boost to squad?

Wel if someone had told me a fortnight ago that Niven, Disley and Thanoj would be missing you wouldn't give much for our chances. Still great chance for Artus to stake his claim.
No hannah either?

Quoted from buckstown

No hannah either?

Failed fitness test.

Chance for Artus. Surprised the loanee still hasn't been given a chance, must not be doing so well in training.

So good to see Hearn on the bench :D

Tamworth 1 up against Kiddy

Kiddie one nil down, doubt it will last though

My god, AB is so negative it drives me mad. On a positive note sounds like a fair start given we have a new midfield

Naylor you flipping moron

Devitt and Artus playing well, ref is having a shocker and is letting Cook get chopped to pieces. Brodie not a great start. And Naylor scores an own goal... Good :(

well thats my comfy 3-0 down the drain isnt it

This shocking luck cant last forever lol. Come on town respond now

And the wheels have flown off... Gutted. Come on Town, Kiddy 0-1, games in hand on the the top two who are still to play each other. Turn this around and we can win this league!!!

Well done Brodie a bit of fight shown there.

Can Brodie actually pass a ball?

Kiddie equalised

We had to much luck since crimbo now its our turn to have none

let's hope a half-time sort out will work its magic on Town...  surely we cant lose 3 on the trot....  :o

Boo hiss boo town

Slow in thought, slow in deed. Unless there is a very quick change in that we aren't going to win.

JT at his best here

'And its a real oppotunity ........... for an overhead kick'  ;D

I'm certain he loves it so much when we concede that he tries to convince himself at all times that we're just about to.

kiddy now winning scored in the 5th minute of added time!

Quoted from pontoonlew

I'm certain he loves it so much when we concede that he tries to convince himself at all times that we're just about to.

Yeah...

:-/

come on fellow fishies, lets try and keep positive here, apart from their goal did they really threaten us, NO,   and even the goal was a fluke. so lets stay focussed and believe we can turn this round, i hope some constructive criticism was given at half time and not a rant.    we need a goal and then who knows?


keep the faith :D  UTM

We sound very poor. :-/

The only problem is where will that goal come from!

Kiddy 2-1 up

How the f... did Brodie ever score 30 goals in one season?

We cant hit a flipping barn door with a banjo!! Literally cant hit the flipping target, joke

So this is a side that have conceded 60 goals so far yet we don't look like scoring against them!

Quoted from winteringham mariner

So this is a side that have conceded 60 goals so far yet we don't look like scoring against them!

Pearson, Marshall, Brodie and Naylor SHOUlD have all scored... Thats the problem mate

Give us Hearn he can hit the target

Bringing Hearn on could give us the lift we need, I would bring him on with 20 to go if things stays the same.

flipping come on town

After such high hopes only a few weeks ago, things are starting to look a little grim lately :( Still plenty of time to turn this one around though.. COME ON TOWN!

Liams coming on.

good luck Liam

F*cking get in!!!

People need to realise that its been on the cards we looked poor for ages

Brodie is such a massive mammary

welcome back liam, all the best for a trouble/injury free rest of the season

kiddy 3.1

Quoted from Chrisblor

Brodie is such a massive mammary

for me brodie is a trier, and at least he has shown he gives a toss.    ok so he hasnt had a great game, but who has?   cooke has done nothing either so brodie mught me entitled to be a bit disgruntled at always being the one to be subbed, i mean when was the guy able to play a full 90 mins?


dont blame him for our innadequacies at present, its a team game remember.

ffs put a decent cross in

Quoted from Chrisblor

Brodie is such a massive mammary

Why, because he was angry at being subbed? Absolutely the right attitude as far as I'm concerned.

Midfield  look shocking

We just can't finish teams off like the likes of Wrexham,Newport,Kiddy and Mansfield, To many individual errors.

i knew we would miss niven when he got injured  but by 'eck this proves just what an essential player he is to us.

Quoted from northbankmariner

i knew we would miss niven when he got injured  but by 'eck this proves just what an essential player he is to us.

Yeah agree we are struggling without Niven.

How many touches has Hearn had already?

Play the Youth team at Wembley now  :-/

Cook must paying the managers, he doesn't seem to get rotated like the other strikers, yet has been our worst performer in the last three games.

Pearson struggling, Things are getting worse. :-/

Jesus christ now we've lost Pearson. This season is going down the drain

sigh... shoulders sagging heavily.... just trying to keep some positivity to be in the play-offs now....  :-/

Come on Town, don't give up we can get something from this and get the season back on track.

Alan Buckley, you are a legend but you are very good at knocking us too!

UTM

Not once do we ever look like having a late surge, not seen one bit of evidence of that since the Barrow game earlier in the season.

It seems the players are deflated after the loss Tuesday night, Just hope the team pick themselves up as we have  plenty of games coming up, Looking like playoffs at best now, Just hope we can reach some form ready for the playoffs!!

Colbeck sounds like a flipping embarrassment. All he's done since he came on is pass every cross to the keeper and give the ball away.

I suppose people can blame injuries for breaking the rhythm of the squad, but last week we had a great chance to beat one of our title rivals and we messed up big time, in mid week despite not playing badly we got beat by another rival and now this. Niven and Disley are two of the biggest cogs in the engine, you take them away and the team dosen't run properly, its a sad state of affairs that we have wimpered to this defeat today.

Cant see where goals are coming from now. Wheels well and truly fallen off the wagon.

Clearly not enough quality in the squad to cope with the bad look of the injuries to the spine of the team.

Rotation of strikers looking more and more like a big mistake.

Cant cross the ball, cant hit the target, Disley, Hannah, Pearson, Niven all injured... Wingers not in the game, no service. Artus only player thats performed very well today.

trying to find a positive today, cant think of one except welcome back liam, glass which was previously half full, now suddenly appears half empty,    form needts to recover as we still need a few more wins to be certain of the playoffs which alas is all we can hope for now, but despite our obvious dissapointment, the playoffs are still a great chance of getting promoted, its a 1in 4 chance after all, and york did it last year after finishing 15 points off the pace last year.  its easy for us to knock the team right now, but they will be desperately unhappy themselves lets not forget and they dont need neagativity and criticism.

players need to come back from injury soon as midfield is where games are won and lost at this level.

Come on lets have a goal form this free kick

UTM

Shite

Utter urine. Got to snap out of this awful form immediately otherwise we won't even make the playoffs.

Well that's f***ed it. Sounded like utter sh1te.

I'm disgusted at this result, a massive game and yet again there we put in a performance totally devoid of any effort or quality. Not once have we really gone gung ho at them today to get that title challenge by the scruff of the neck. Absolutely embarrassing.

excrement excrement and more excrement

Id still say the play offs are a cert given Fororest Green losing last night, but that auto spot has gone now without a doubt. I felt saying it was gone after kiddy was a bit premature but 4 defeats in 6 is the same form Hyde are currently on, so lets get back on track on tuesday and grab that play off spot.

The forward players don't look interested, very little movement or runs from any of the wingers and the forwards were dire. Somebody said that Brodie throwing a strop was a good sign but if he saved some of his moaning/stropping energy for his game play then he might be more effective. Not that Cook had a good game either, don't know where the goals will come from. Need to find some soon or we won't even make the play offs.

Our only hope at goals played 25 mins today, hopefully when the play-offs come round he'll be well up for it.

Quoted from springstomind

Artus only player thats performed very well today.

Take it your weren't there.

He's absolute junk.  End of story.

Quoted from chaos33

Well that's f***ed it. Sounded like utter sh1te.

spot on mate.  It was fuk ing sh1te, well and truely. Be lucky for the play offs at this rate, it just cant carry on

My worry is the managers are starting to panic,

Bringing Hearn on for 25 mins without any match time at all,

Smells of desperation to me,

It could have back fired and Hearn could have got injured again,

Only the other day Scott was saying , " we can not rush him, would it be fair to put Hearn on the bench at Wembley and leave one of the other strikers off it " ?

Well I would not be surprised if Hearn starts at Wembley now,

I would not be surprised either if Hearn limps off injured,

DON'T   DO    IT    S + H .

I was ( as I have been last 3 on my leave ) and first half thought he worked his socks off, won lots of tackles and loose balls and stood out for me in a team that looked completely off the pace. Don't get me wrong I'd of preferred Disley, Niven or Thanoj but they weren't an option today and when called upon after a long break Artus did well. I think "Absolute junk" is more applicable to our crossing today but not to Artus. But I'm sure you'd make a cracking manager and breed confidence with that analysis lols.

Frankie was not the problem today. He did his job well for an hour before he tired a bit.

To be honest I think Quagmires the only person who thought Artus was junk today.

He wasn't junk and wasn't too bad considering his lay off.

Quoted from oldun

Frankie was not the problem today. He did his job well for an hour before he tired a bit.

Agree mate well said. Calling him absolute junk is just a useless and pointless comment. Earlier in the season Mansfield, Hereford, Forrest green wins we went on a good run with him in the side and he's an experienced player that I agree is not as good as others but did his job today. We didn't get the result due to a mix if tired players, bad crossing, a few bad decisions, bad finishing, no need or want or desire for the ball from some players, the wingers not getting in the game enough and when they did wasting it and playing catching practise with their keeper pope. But hey at least Forrest Green lost last night and we can concentrate on getting a fully fit team and rebuilding some momentum and confidence ahead of the play offs.

Some people like to pick on a particular player. The shop did not play today so someone else has to be to whipping boy. It is a disappointing feature of some fans as is the overuse of the word excrement. But eh ho everyone is entitled to an opinion.

To be fair I actually disagree with my original post.

Looking to lash out at 'somebody' re our recent 'form'.

Our delivery from the wide areas and from corners/free kicks can be described as absolute junk though.

He played ok, certainly better than Marshall today.

Although I will stand by my opinion that he isn't good enough for a side trying to get promotion out of this division.