Team for Cleethorpes Town

Quoted from dicko995

90 minutes of just getting the lads a bit of fitness etc and your all off on one. Geez,it was just a kick about and giving minutes to the lads. If u got nothing good to say, then don't bother saying it. The players look on here and I would be peed off as much as they would be. We got 4 weeks yet to kick off, these are just games to get the minutes on pitch, other things will click into place gradually. Your entitled to your own opinions, but take it out on the wife and not on here. She may not talk to you for a couple of days, but maybe well worth it

Talk about an over- reaction.   Most are not OFF ON ONE at all.
I personally didn’t realise that this is a site for ‘positive’ comments only.  I thought it was a chance for debate.
There will always be extreme views from both sides.  
Those she can never see any good. And those who would stifle debate by never accepting anything negative.  But generally, this site has reasonable posters from both camps.

Exactly - 4 weeks until KO, that’s a very long time. In the 4 weeks leading up to yesterday, we signed Harry Davies, Elliot Whitehouse, Jordan Cook, Danny Collins, Jon Welsh, Jake Hessenthaler, Akin Famewo, got Marc Antoine Fortune, Nikolay Todorov, George Waring and Ali Koiki in on trial as well as getting Anthony Limbrick and Adam Forrest in on the coaching staff. We’ve also lost Sam Kelly, Luke Summerfield and pocketed at least £100,000 for Siriki Dembele.

The picture today is almost unrecognisable from that 4 weeks ago, and a lot will change in the next 4 weeks, whether that’s in terms of personnel or how the team play together.

It’s also worth looking at all those names and changes and recognising just how much came completely out of the blue. If you think you’ve spotted something that Jolley hasn’t, chances are you’re very wrong and I’d imagine he’s a good few steps ahead of you right now.

Still, good to hear from the “I hope I’m wrong, but...” brigade so early on in preseason. I see they’ve already picked Robles out as 18/19’s scapegoat which should be a relief to the rest of the squad.

Quoted from dicko995

90 minutes of just getting the lads a bit of fitness etc and your all off on one. Geez,it was just a kick about and giving minutes to the lads. If u got nothing good to say, then don't bother saying it. The players look on here and I would be peed off as much as they would be. We got 4 weeks yet to kick off, these are just games to get the minutes on pitch, other things will click into place gradually. Your entitled to your own opinions, but take it out on the wife and not on here. She may not talk to you for a couple of days, but maybe well worth it

Nobody is 'off on one', nor is it a Grimsby thing and if the players haven't got anything better to do than read a fans' forum then they ought to get a life. I'm looking at the signings so far and would like to see us get a goal scorer in and it's clearly a priority as most of our triallists this week have been strikers - let's hope we get someone soon and not make panic signings like Vernon and Dixon.

Quoted from dicko995

90 minutes of just getting the lads a bit of fitness etc and your all off on one. Geez,it was just a kick about and giving minutes to the lads. If u got nothing good to say, then don't bother saying it. The players look on here and I would be peed off as much as they would be. We got 4 weeks yet to kick off, these are just games to get the minutes on pitch, other things will click into place gradually. Your entitled to your own opinions, but take it out on the wife and not on here. She may not talk to you for a couple of days, but maybe well worth it

???
It's an internet forum, everyone can express any opinions.
Worrying if any player would take notice of anything on here.
Spend less time in the sun I suggest.

Quoted from Maringer

I hope none of the players got blisters. Easy to do on hard pitches like that and it's a sodomist to cope with them while trying to get properly fit.

Although the pitch was dry......hard it was not. 80ton of sand and top soil was put down when laid and a further 40 ton of sand when the grass was sprouting. It has been watered 24/7 for last 3 weeks but the hot weather is dry it out very quickly. So I will be very surprised if any players suffered with blisters.

Friendlies tend not to mean a lot County played Rolls Royce and won 19-0 can't see any point in playing that not even a test of their team.

First off, no denying that it was pretty poor.  Second half especially was bloody awful in fact.  Pre-season or not, Slade or even Hurst would have got hammered for that (rightly or wrongly, argument for another day).

Jolley says that the lads were put through the mill during the week and their heavy legs showed, big time.  With the exception of a couple of players, they all looked shattered.  Guy near me was nearly exploding that the Clee lads looked fitter, despite me telling him about a million times that they probably hadn't had a week of heavy training with the absolute intention of going into a game with heavy legs.  

First half we had a little bit more stability and a side that partly resembled last season with a spine to it (McKeown, Collins, Rose, plus the likes of Clifton, Dixon, Hall-Johnson).  No-one really stood out though.  Clifton was industrious, Collins his usual class above.  Can't say I'm convinced with Dixon as a left-sided centre half though.   Hooper and Cook linked up very nicely at times, Hooper's goal especially.  Cook definitely likes to drop into the space between attack and midfield.  Interestingly as the first half side warmed down they were doing shuttle runs between cones.  Danny Collins looked streets ahead of the rest in terms of fitness, he barely broke sweat as the others around him panted for dear life.   The heat was sapping just standing there, so god knows how they felt running in it.

Second half it was simply really disjointed.  Battersby in goal, bless him, looks a long way away from the first team.   Definitely a requirement to get someone more experienced in as cover.  Jamieson who was at centre-back looked far too nervous and got a bit of a baptism of fire really, but he wasn't helped by Fox next to him who had a nightmare at wing-back.  Davis and Whitmore looked like two guys who hadn't played together and they got caught in knots many a time. At times it was a comedy of errors with them.

John Welsh looked really off the pace.  He wasn't alone in that though, the midfield was swamped in the second half.   Up top neither lad did much other than the goal, which was well taken.  Robles looks more like someone who will hassle defenders rather than cause problems directly.  Waring didn't look as good as Cardwell.

If this was the final pre-season game, I would be worried.  It wasn't though.  I firmly believe it was designed to be a test when the players legs are already heavy to test their fatigue levels.    Anyone seriously taking the result as a reflection of the coming season needs to chill out a bit.  It wasn't great, but it doesn't matter.  Plenty to work with and plenty to do.  I'll happily take rubbish pre-season performances if it's part of the greater plan to have everything firing come August 4th.

Dicko has never criticised anybody ever on this forum........

Just a reminder that we beat Clee Town 4-2 last pre season and nearly got relegated.