Subs  Auton, Braithwaite, Maher, Bramell, Clifton, Wood, Andrews

Glad Khouri and Gardner are getting starts 👍

Nice to Gardner get his 1st appearance and a start for Khouri.

disappointed that theres no Gav or Ainley

Bit odd Ainley's nowhere to be seen after a great cameo + assist last weekend, and Holohan not in the squad either which is a shame given he's all but confirmed to be leaving the club after this.

Absolute disgrace Gav isn’t in the squad unless he’s injured. If someone knows can they enlighten us please.

Some clues on who is staying and going and in that first 11 Only the two full backs of players not under contract ( or under option ) for  next year selected. . Hardly suggests any of the others are staying or surely you woukd be looking at them.

Wondering what to read into it….

Pykes been told
He can go

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Absolute disgrace Gav isn’t in the squad unless he’s injured. If someone knows can they enlighten us please.

Y would he be ? He’s going

Quoted from supertown

Y would he be ? He’s going

Cos we're completely safe and it'd be nice to give someone who has contributed so much to the club a proper send off, even if it's only in the form of a couple of minutes off the bench at the expense of Wood or Andrews (who aren't even our players).

Quoted from Chrisblor

Cos we're completely safe and it'd be nice to give someone who has contributed so much to the club a proper send off, even if it's only in the form of a couple of minutes off the bench at the expense of Wood or Andrews (who aren't even our players).

But Wood and Andrews may become our players - who knows.

Quoted from rancido

But Wood and Andrews may become our players - who knows.

hope not.

Quoted from rancido

But Wood and Andrews may become our players - who knows.

God almighty help us if wood signs for this football club

Wood
Khouri
Ainley
Three very good footballers at L2 level - skilful and technically good... Wood is inexperienced but a summer under guidance of Artell and he'd improve

Thompson - very good all round player
Green - face he's captain says he will be staying

All about opinions..

Quoted from Hagrid

God almighty help us if wood signs for this football club

Hagrid, always dangerous to judge a young player on a few appearances. The lads got talent but not the physical attributes required, especially at this level, but he might end up having a decent professional career but I agree he certainly wasn’t ready for league football this season.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Hagrid, always dangerous to judge a young player on a few appearances. The lads got talent but not the physical attributes required, especially at this level, but he might end up having a decent professional career but I agree he certainly wasn’t ready for league football this season.

Absolutely - Wood gets knocked off ball to easily... and he plays himself into trouble too much
But he's learning his trade... his equaliser v Notts County shows class he has

On a more positive note good to see Khouri & Gardner starting.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Hagrid, always dangerous to judge a young player on a few appearances. The lads got talent but not the physical attributes required, especially at this level, but he might end up having a decent professional career but I agree he certainly wasn’t ready for league football this season.

Indeed maybe harsh from myself, but ive seen nothing from
Him that would suggest he’d be a good signing for us.

What miss by Gardner

What a chance

Keep your head up Cam. Missed a sitter but it happens

Cam Gardner oh no

Sitter of the year miss?
TF it doesn't mean anything.

Miss of the season in all of the English leagues

Terrible miss. That will keep him awake tonight unless he bags one

Now that's a miss and a half

Gardener try to bury it.  A toe poke would have probably finished that.

Bobbled up just as he hit it tbf to him, but still should be scoring

MK Dons 1-0 Sutton

I’d rather he missed in a nothing game for us, than it being something important. Got into a great position, which was probably the hardest thing, and it hit a molehill (I’ll use that excuse).

Quoted from promotion plaice

MK Dons 1-0 Sutton

Down and out.

Hume has started really well

Actually Town have got a grip of the game  more now

Ainley not being involved worries me a bit.
I don’t want to keep Wood, Andrews or Maher - none are up to par and they’re all on the bench.

We should be 2-0 up

Make that 3-0

Another miss

Another sitter missed! 😂

Another sitter missed by Green this time

Should be 2 up 🙄

Jesus. Green misses from what? A yard?

these are some incredible chances we're missing here

Another sitter… actually worse somehow…should be a few up

The more i'm watching Green, the better he's getting. He's really starting to dominate midfields

These are harder to miss incredible really

Great movement.

Loving the ‘Grimsby way’

Orsi scores.

Written in the stars!

WE all knew who would score 1 0 down

... And the inevitable Orsi goal! 😂

We are  Liverpool in disguise

Sums us up. excrement from Rodgers. What a surprise

Orsi showing us what we miss

Where is Khouri playing? The BBC website has him at centre half.

Shock and suprise, Orsi scores a badly defended goal.

Rodgers stood like a statue as that cross came in, the man is incapable of playing in a back 4.

Quoted from supertown

We are  Liverpool in disguise

Calm down calm down

Oh dear  :B

Missing sitter after sitter …. They get one chance and goal.. shock horror.. ps crawley are shite

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

Where is Khouri playing? The BBC website has him at centre half.

Left of the 3 CM

Sums our season up . Poor finishing. First chance Orsi gets , goal . Gardiner is stinking the place out btw

We've conceded that goal so many times when we've played with a back four this season. Striker finds space in between Rodgers and Hume then Rodgers gets caught under it.

Who IS that Orsi fella?  Looks quite handy.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Rodgers stood like a statue as that cross came in, the man is incapable of playing in a back 4.

Hume? That was Rodgers' ball to deal with all day.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Rodgers stood like a statue as that cross came in, the man is incapable of playing in a back 4.

Absolutely agree, yes Rogers misjudged the flight of the ball but Hume just stood n watched Orsi...awful defender, tbh I don't think he's an upgrade on Glennon imo.

good save by Eastwood

Good that Artell see's this again, busy summer coming up.

Quoted from It Bites

Sums our season up . Poor finishing. First chance Orsi gets , goal . Gardiner is stinking the place out btw

FFS that comment about Gardner is why people think The Fishy is full of nut jobs.

Orsi had a good attitude and a real eye for goal, not one for us. :X

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Absolutely agree, yes Rogers misjudged the flight of the ball but Hume just stood n watched Orsi...awful defender, tbh I don't think he's an upgrade on Glennon imo.

Hume can’t defend

Quoted from Wrights35

Missing sitter after sitter …. They get one chance and goal.. shock horror.. ps crawley are shite

Crawley might not be good but they just moved into the last play off position

Quoted from devs

Wood
Khouri
Ainley
Three very good footballers at L2 level - skilful and technically good... Wood is inexperienced but a summer under guidance of Artell and he'd improve

Thompson - very good all round player
Green - face he's captain says he will be staying

All about opinions..

How many games have Wood and Khouri started at Lge 2 level?

Gardiner completely free on the right and Green goes for a worldy. So many bad decisions so often. Tale of the whole season really.

Comes back and bites us on the bum, should never of let Orsi go

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Hume can’t defend

Amos was no worse than Glennon or Hume.

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Absolutely agree, yes Rogers misjudged the flight of the ball but Hume just stood n watched Orsi...awful defender, tbh I don't think he's an upgrade on Glennon imo.

That’s the centre half’s fault all day, when he misses it Hume is wrong side of Orsi (as he should be) and was never going to be able to get between him and the goal in time.
Hume has started well, there seems to be a desire to call him out for everything, where for me he’s much better than Amos (good national league player) and Glennon (seems unfit and abject defensively in a back 4 - probs better in a 5)

Is that Orsi's 20th goal?

Quoted from buckstown

Crawley might not be good but they just moved into the last play off position

They will do nothing in the playoffs should of been 3-0 down to us

Quoted from buckstown

Crawley might not be good but they just moved into the last play off position

Creeped

Quoted from It Bites

Sums our season up . Poor finishing. First chance Orsi gets , goal . Gardiner is stinking the place out btw

Give the kid a chance

2-0 down. Defending like they've had a skinful before the game.

Ffs

2 0 down and we went to pieces

5 Town players in the vecinity 1 player from Crawley and we conceded, players letting down a big travelling support again.

Very good finish to be fair, but for him to get away from three of our players like that is not good enough.

Just hammers home what we already knew, our defence is shite and needs improving, especially if we intend to play four at the back

The summer improvements required are massive. I'm a bit worried tbh.

Crawley 2-0 Town.

A Town win or draw would have simply papered over the cracks, look on the positive side.

sums up our season.  No ability to finish, leaky defence and capitulate faster than a French garrison.

Dear oh dear  :B

Not won two on the trot all season, so wasn't expecting that to change today.

We have missed glorious chances again, parted like the red sea at the back, and that is our season in a nutshell. Glad its almost over.

Nobody wants to take responsibility now.

If we’d had played well today and smashed them off the park it would only be hiding the facts. The club and mainly Hurst got everything wrong this year. We need to go back and start again. New beginning needed.

What are all those short corners about?

Just sat watching the weed float past my boat is more entertaining than watching town this season

Quoted from Mayaman

What are all those short corners about?

It’s like those long corners but you don’t kick it as hard 😉

Only 45 minutes of this hideous season to go! 🎉🍻🍻🙏🎉 Can't wait! 😁

Quoted from denni266

Just sat watching the weed float past my boat is more entertaining than watching town this season

Careful there are no thawny weeds floating by or they may puncture your dinghy

Thank god this awful season is over, this game absolutely sums up our season, should be two up, but after two defensive lapses, we found ourselves two down. I expect big changes in the summer and plenty of new faces ( hopefully)..

Reflections on that half:

We need to take our chances
Our cbs aren’t good enough to play in a 2
Cam doesn’t look ready for the first team yet
Green isn’t a attacking midfielder
Played some nice stuff at times
We look effective down the left with Hume & Vernam running at them

In other news...

HT...Scunthorpe 0-0 Boston Utd

Come on the Pilgrims.

Quoted from Brummie Codfather

It’s like those long corners but you don’t kick it as hard 😉

Ha but useless.

Paul Hurst is a war criminal for letting Orsi go on a free

Quoted from Mayaman

What are all those short corners about?

Without waterfall we have nobody in the mddle who can get up to head a ball - absolutely need proper strikers.

If we intend to play 4 at back next season think we need 3 new defenders to partner Tharme..

Quoted from MidnightMariner

Careful there are no thawny weeds floating by or they may puncture your dinghy

I don't think he meant that kind of weed 😉

Same old excrement, different Saturday !

Can't defend and can't score. Those two misses were criminal !

Can't even be bothered to watch the second half, lots of work for Artell to do in the pre-season.

How Green is Captain and we are thinking of retaining him is way beyond my comprehension, he’s been worse than poor in the first half. Defensively we are demonstrating why we’ve played 3 at the back since the Doncaster game and Rogers continues to be very inconsistent and looks lost against Orsi for the second time this season.

As for Mrs Mariner getting on Cam Gardner’s back on his debut you should be ashamed of yourself it’s the lads debut for gods sake. Shocking miss but anyone who has played up front knows it goes with the territory. Lads got potential and a perfect game to get a run out.

Quoted from rancido

I don't think he meant that kind of weed 😉

;) ;D

Quoted from golfer

Without waterfall we have nobody in the mddle who can get up to head a ball - absolutely need proper strikers.

The only time we looked like scoring was with 3 balls into the middle.

I'm not bothered we're losing now after seeing loads of Bradford supporting losers moaning their heads off about us being excrement on twitter. Apparently it's all our fault they couldn't do any better than scraping two last minute draws against town this season and are subsequently going to miss the playoffs by a point, very funny!

Does Khouri ever offer anything when he plays? Ever.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

How Green is Captain and we are thinking of retaining him is way beyond my comprehension, he’s been worse than poor in the first half. Defensively we are demonstrating why we’ve played 3 at the back since the Doncaster game and Rogers continues to be very inconsistent and looks lost against Orsi for the second time this season.

As for Mrs Mariner getting on Cam Gardner’s back on his debut you should be ashamed of yourself it’s the lads debut for gods sake. Shocking miss but anyone who has played up front knows it goes with the territory. Lads got potential and a perfect game to get a run out.

Sorry but I think if you read it again you will see I was sticking up for the lad it was It Bites who was attacking him

Quoted from Hagrid

Does Khouri ever offer anything when he plays? Ever.

Red cross all you want, none of you can answer it

Tondeur and Crofty have just said the same.

Kouri gets better the less he plays

How can Hume have so little confidence in his weak foot that he couldn't just hit that?

Does Hume not have a right foot.  I never can understand how a man who spends all week training can't use both feet. I got switched from right to left in Sunday league and worked on my left foot.

Let’s bring a striker on…

Oh…..we haven’t got one on the bench. Nice.

Town going through the motions here.

We may as well give Braithwaite and Bramwell a run out, we have nothing to lose.

Looks like Sutton's race is run.

On a positive note, there's less than 30 mins of this poor season left for us to put up with.

Get into shooting positions and have a crack.  Owt can happen with that surface.

Quoted from MrsMariner

Sorry but I think if you read it again you will see I was sticking up for the lad it was It Bites who was attacking him

Apologies Mrs M

I bet Artell will point to how much possession we've had, sadly we don't look like scoring and its obviously Crawley are sitting back looking quite comfortable.

Apparently we’re not bothering with any subs today

Is Wilson still on the pitch?  

So this game just following the blueprint of the whole season. Bright start, miss golden chances, concede soft goals, game's lost, go to excrement, half heartedly play the game out.
Easily one of the worst Town squads ever in my lifetime. Hopeless and lucky to be a league club next season.
I'm done. Glad to see the back of most them.
No anger and stress for 3 months, I'm going to enjoy it. I hope you do to. Cya! 😎
#UTM

Quoted from gytone

I bet Artell will point to how much possession we've had, sadly we don't look like scoring and its obviously Crawley are sitting back looking quite comfortable.

Crawley are allowing us to have possession. Zero movement up front.

Our fans are in good voice, they deserve a better performance than this.

Missed opportunity today for Khouri, dunno why we offered him a contract extension earlier this season if he's just going to put in anonymous performances like that when he gets a start.

I think we should keep all those players.... and start a walking football team.

If we recruit right. Only 2-3 of the players starting today should be in our 11 for the first game of next season.

Looks like we have a team full of Ray Wilkins'.......unable to pass the ball forward

They couldn't give a excrement now

Thompson's still fighting.  Shame the others don't take his lead. I thought we'd have a go today

Well theres a  name I never thought I'd see scoring, step forward Aribim Pepple, theres hope for all.

Let's take the two best players off,!! although Thompson looked knackered.

Quoted from gytone

Let's take the two best players off,!! although Thompson looked knackered.

Hardly think it matters pal

I wish we’d brought Bramwell and Braithwaite on for their debuts rather than Andrews & Wood

Don't get why we're bringing on loanees who won't be with us next season.

Quoted from MarinerDevil

Don't get why we're bringing on loanees who won't be with us next season.

Don’t know why we’re allegedly offering contracts to anyone out of contract either.

🐶💩 season

Match stats on the BBC seem to indicate we haven't had a shot of any type during the second half. Is this correct?

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Don’t know why we’re allegedly offering contracts to anyone out of contract either.

I'd be retracting any that were on the table after this performance if I was Artell

Todays performance sums up the season - below par in all aspects.

Town losing
Man U let me down on me bets.
Fuk it I'm going to watch Boston beat Scunthorpe in extra time

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Don’t know why we’re allegedly offering contracts to anyone out of contract either.

Cant say that mate “ Greens learnt how to pass a ball and played well for 2 games”

Every one of those out of contract players should be let go

Sutton scored 3.  Glad the season has come to an end.

A safe journey home to all our 632 travelling fans, you all deserved a better performance from the team, again.

Over to the Scunny game then.

Well I’m glad that season is over with, absolute car crash.

Thank god that is over

End of season with a whimper. Now what ?... on here ?, transfer romours??, dont think so, had enough of crap on here, see u all in August

lmao braintree have just chucked away a 2-0 lead in stoppage time in the national league south playoffs and it's now 2-2 against chelmsford, they really aren't very good in the playoffs those lot are they

In summary, 2 shining lights this season Danny Rose and the travelling fans, outstanding, you deserve so much more, safe journey home all!!!

Quoted from Maringer

Match stats on the BBC seem to indicate we haven't had a shot of any type during the second half. Is this correct?

No. Hume blasted one over the bar

Absolutely flipping clueless in that second half.

Most of this shower of excrement needs binning even those on long contracts. I would also like to know if our recruitment manager had any involvement in the signing of Rogers and giving him a 3 year contract, if he has he can intercourse off as well.

No faith in Artell either.

Season over, and good riddance.

Now let’s have a huge clear out.

Only Sutton won fewer games than us.

Today was a more realistic view of the team . Problems all over the pitch , obviously midfield stank but the front 2 were poor too . Vernham can go , he offers nothing at all

Quoted from It Bites

Today was a more realistic view of the team . Problems all over the pitch , obviously midfield stank but the front 2 were poor too . Vernham can go , he offers nothing at all

Still has 2 yrs on his contract, so he's going nowhere

Quoted from DB

Still has 2 yrs on his contract, so he's going nowhere

He’s been dreadful.

Quoted from It Bites

He’s been dreadful.

Thats not fair. He's spent far too much of the season on the physio bench to even be dreadful

There’s a complete mismatch between what Mr Artell was promising in yesterday’s GET and the performace on the pitch this afternoon.
Wayne Bridge said that Howard Wilkinson’s team talks sent him to sleep when he played for England U21s. Wonder if it’s the same with some of our lads.
Let’s hope for better things next year and that we’re biting our nails about possible promotion, rather than relegation/

Doesn’t sound like too many did their retention hopes much good today.

Besides the top three don’t think there are many decent teams in L2 as proven by the fact Crawley and Crewe are in the playoffs. Take the two chances and we win a mediocre end of season fixture.

Biggest disappointment was Khouri for me. He finally gets a start but ambled through the game without doing anything of note. Thompson decent again, maybe Mullarkey but nobody else did much and didn’t understand why JT and Crofty kept bigging up Vernam as I thought he offered very little.

A season too far for me and I will give up my season ticket after many years and just come over as and when I get the urge.

Praying for a mass clear out of players but it did cross my mind that Orsi left last summer and not one of our starting eleven today were with town when he played, incredible.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Besides the top three don’t think there are many decent teams in L2 as proven by the fact Crawley and Crewe are in the playoffs. Take the two chances and we win a mediocre end of season fixture.

Biggest disappointment was Khouri for me. He finally gets a start but ambled through the game without doing anything of note. Thompson decent again, maybe Mullarkey but nobody else did much and didn’t understand why JT and Crofty kept bigging up Vernam as I thought he offered very little.

A season too far for me and I will give up my season ticket after many years and just come over as and when I get the urge.

Praying for a mass clear out of players but it did cross my mind that Orsi left last summer and not one of our starting eleven today were with town when he played, incredible.

Khouri was.

Quoted from arryarryarry

The only time we looked like scoring was with 3 balls into the middle.

That's why we need proper strikers

In DA's post match interview he said that Callum Ainley wasn't in the squad because he's just had some more treatment for his cancer and has to isolate.
He also didn't sugar coat anything, saying that we need to improve on players, that's why Gav is going, though he did give Gav a glowing tribute.
It's good that he says things as it is, instead of making excuses.