Colchester Match Thread

Team news
MARINERS LINE-UP: McKeown, Hendrie, Waterfall, Davis, Ring, Hessenthaler, Hewitt, Whitehouse, Green, Ogbu, Hanson.
ON THE BENCH: Russell, Pollock, Clifton, Wright, Vernam, Cook, Cardwell.

We're lucky to have 11 still on. Hewitt should have been sent off for that. Personally would bring him off. Apart fromm that a good start to the game (I've only seen highlights this season)

Hewitt doing his best to get sent off. Seriously needs to rein in his careless challenges

How we playing?

Jeez they know how to throw themselves to the ground don't they.

Quoted from bawarmy

How we playing?

Looking solid at the back but not a huge amount of quality aside from that. Ring knocked in a first time cross which led to a half chance for Ogbu but he couldn't connect properly and Waterfall has just headed wide from a corner. Midfield is looking industrious but not creating much.

Anyone else's commentary behind play? I'm watching through the pc to my television so don't know if that's causing the sound to be delayed slightly

Watching on ifollow, low key and a bit steady.  Officials look like ruining it, so get ready for a penalty or blatant offside goal

We are closing down well, but late on occasion so expect more cards

Quoted from lukeo

Anyone else's commentary behind play? I'm watching through the pc to my television so don't know if that's causing the sound to be delayed slightly

Yes, by around 1 second while watching on pc

Playing well. We're the better side easy. Refs blowing his whistle every time they trip over a blade of grass but not really giving us anything. If we keep this up we should win this.

1 down

FFS what was I just saying. You're not saving that any time soon. But the defence was far too slow to close down.

Clown car defending again. Ball given away in a dangerous area and slammed in by their unmarked player. Lots of similarities to Forest Green's winner. Shot ourselves in the foot again.

Poor goal concede by us, good finish to be fair to them.

5h1t

Bahh. Poor

JT blaming Ring, but all down to Hessenthaler carrying backwards towards our area then turning in to trouble
Very poor goal to concede

Not sure where Ring was when Hess needed him and why didn’t Hess just get rid, who the f**k was marking the goal scorer?

Officials shocking BTW 😡

This ref is well aweful. No other words for it what is he doing?!?!

Our midfield and attack don't look like they've ever met each other. Long hoof, aimless pass, awful cross.
Colchester are much the better football team

We are trying hard, but chasing around a bit aimlessly

Need a bit more energy and pace to get back into this.

Macca keeping us in it. Our positioning tonight is all over the place.

Free header for the no9

We've been dogged. Hessenthaler by far our best player and his error led to the goal.

The midfield three and two wide forwards are so ineffectual here. Hessenthaler has primarily been playing as a fifth defender covering the wide areas, Hewitt has done nothing but clatter into people and Whitehouse seems to give the ball away every time it comes to him. Ogbu & Green are completely isolated and haven't really had any time on the ball. Don't understand how this formation is meant to work without some more creativity in midfield or pace out wide.

Slow lethargic performance. Ring looks absolutely woeful

flipping crap

Soft goal - game over.

Really poor defending from Ring & Davis.

Quoted from GtfcGarner

Slow lethargic performance. Ring looks absolutely woeful

Needs to be off. Completely missing and let their player head that in unopposed. Not good enough for this level.

WTF was that. No press on the man making the cross and no one marking the only man in the box. 6 town players and 2 colchester players. Shocking. Macca has no hope again.

Well after saying i thought they were good against bradford, this is dire.

I'd have Hewitt off for Clifton and tell them to get the ball on the flipping ball.

The amount of times ring has been caught out is a joke.

The whole thing tonight is a mess, is luke hendrie just having a kick about with his mates or what?

Very poor.

This is definitely a wake up call, oh to be a Town fan  😟

You could sub any one of eight players but Ring, Green and Hewitt are beyond poor tonight.

Ah excrement, here we go again...

We knock it about nicely in our own half but there's no pressure. As soon as we get to the half way line and they start pressing we're awful. Lost count of how many times we gave the ball away or hit aimless balls to nobody.
If that's representative it's going to be a long hard winter, so I hope he can sort it at half time

Still ahead of Scunthorpe on goal difference 🤗

Let's hope Shutes isn't watching the game tonight.

Impressed with the I-follow coverage by the way.
Have to agree about Ring, doesn't look up to it and the midfield are having to drop back and cover his backside. Difficult to judge the front three, they've had nothing to work with

Whatever they have been practising all week it hasn't been passing - absolutely dreadful passing from Hewitt, white house, waterfall, Hendrie and ring. Lots of delay to crosses so that they have a chance to block. Really poor from town with no quality on the ball whatsoever apart from Hess and glimpses from Hanson and ogbu.
Green has a great attitude and i like him but to be honest is not getting much joy in that wide role in any of the games ive seen (all apart from FGR), i think imps said he wasnt very effective out wide and needed to be player centrally didn't they?- looks like that could be right to me. I would like to see Wright in that role.
Colchester have shown how to play on the break always break quickly and looked dangerous every time they attack.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Let's hope Shutes isn't watching the game tonight.

He might be rubbing his hands. It's knocked a few points of the price.

4321 get the 2 wide strikers tucked Inn

V poor. Ring just seems to be not with it defensively and apart from Hess no one seems able to control or pass the ball. Cant see us coming back to be honest. Ogbu a couple of runs but hes hardly had the ball and Waterfall is incapable of directing a header anywhere useful. we just dont seem to have any individual clever skills. I am guessing opposing managers have sussed whos who and how we play now were a couple of games in.

Problem for me is we have so many defensive style players in the middle their first thought is don't lose the ball....none of them want to carry the ball or capable of beating their man or carrying it forward.....blunt as fck.

Some pace and energy on the bench ..... still!!

Well we don't look a play off team, very one dimensional with no plan B, teams are already starting to suss us out and we just play into their hands, where's the goals going to come from? We might score more goals than last season but it still won't be enough, we still look atleast 3 players short from being a play off team

were going to win 3-2

PENO! Clear as day as they clipped Ogbus legs. And its gooooooooooood! HANSON

It's Cheltenham all over again, get up ffs

Stop giving the ref the decision to make FFS

Id take Ring off, put Wright on and go 4-4-2, Ogbu on the opposite side

Free kicks in to the box are so poor, just floaty and deep

Stupid foul by Davis because hes positioned himself badly

Ogbu off for Vernam?!?! Seems like a mad decision
Hes the only one doing anything again.

Wtf is that change all about. Pathetic decision

We are so poor in the final 3rd, and from the dead ball we are toothless.

Why is Moses coming off when Green has been missing for the last 30 mins or so.

I hate to be negative but why bring Ogbu off? Also how has her not got Clifton on yet for Hewitt.. He's done nothing. By the way i like Vernham a lot.

Jolley's substitutions were shocking on Saturday. Can't see the logic of taking off the only player who has caused them any bother so far tonight. Let's hope this works out better

Quoted from GtfcGarner

Slow lethargic performance. Ring looks absolutely woeful

He’s been woeful from day one. He’s not going to get any better.
Cut our losses and send him home.

Whitehouse for Wright.

Our passing is shocking

Cook comes on for Hewitt.

Tonights performance reminded me of a classic slade performance..

Hoof it up and hope for the best.

Get In!!!

Well done Greeny.

Thats how you open your account. What a strike by Green on the half volley!! Finally that 2nd ball landing to someone in black and white this half.

Great goal for Green, smashed in from the edge of the area.

Wonderful strike

Quoted from Chrisblor

Jolley's substitutions were shocking on Saturday. Can't see the logic of taking off the only player who has caused them any bother so far tonight. Let's hope this works out better

With opinions like this it's incredible I never made it as a football manager

Well, if there was one thing that Jolley addressed in the summer, it was our lack of attacking threat.

It might not be pretty this season, but with Hanson and Green in the side we've always got a chance of scoring goals.

Even at 2-0 down and not playing well, we're not out of the tie.

when did we last come back from 2-0 down to earn any points?

As poor as we where at times we are fukin dogged and stick to the task 👍

Ground out the result then. And Scunts and Imps lost.

..And Hull lost at home.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

..And Hull lost at home.

With just over 10k there!

Strange. I can see a nucleus of a good side but why do wee constantly hoof it? Embo and Whitehouse can play football, we also have Clifton who can.. Ogbu aand greeen are better with it at their feet so why not keep it on the deck and use the long ball for when we're under pressure.. Fair result in the end to be honest

Quoted from Southwark Mariner

when did we last come back from 2-0 down to earn any points?

Aldershot v Grimsby Town 05/04/2016 after a quick look

Hessenthaler were absolutely everywhere on the pitch today! Man of the match for me!

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Ground out the result then. And Scunts and Imps lost.

Imps lost to the team I'd least like them losing to, but nice to see them lose at last. Tyler Walker scored for them again. Going to prove a v good signing for them I suspect.

A game tonight we would have lost under Slade and with last season's strike force, that extra bit of quality got us the point. We need at least one more in - we are all saying it - the creative navigator type for the good workhorses we now seem to have. They don't come easy to sign (- season long loan?) but its a must if we to be anything but mid-table...

Quoted from lukeo

Strange. I can see a nucleus of a good side but why do wee constantly hoof it? Embo and Whitehouse can play football, we also have Clifton who can.. Ogbu aand greeen are better with it at their feet so why not keep it on the deck and use the long ball for when we're under pressure.. Fair result in the end to be honest

We have some pace in the squad MJ just needs to mix it with experience and we'll be fine. Passing must improve and we need to be able to take the odd corner but considering we went in looking pretty ragged a fair result in the end.

Not sure why their manager was giving the ref the big un as he was poor for both sides.    

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Ground out the result then. And Scunts and Imps lost.

After our first-half performance it didn't turn out too bad in the end  

Scunny bottom of the league 😂😂😂😂😂

Well, well how on earth did we scrape a point out of that? Have to admire the tenacity in the second half and we never gave up but we're not good. Colchester reminded me of a classic Hurst performance, threw a point away by sitting back, summed up by taking Norris (class act) off and bring the extra centre half on.
Even after we equalised they looked like they could have stepped up and won it,  but credit were it's due we showed some fight.  

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Scunny bottom of the league 😂😂😂😂😂

Again  

Quoted from promotion plaice

Again  

Sod it. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Hang on.....

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Good comeback, better 2nd half but the subs didn't seem to have any real impact again. Wright, Vernam and Cook had a run each and thats about that but its hard for them to get into the game if the balls flying 3 foot above all the time.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Good comeback, better 2nd half but the subs didn't seem to have any real impact again. Wright, Vernam and Cook had a run each and thats about that but its hard for them to get into the game if the balls flying 3 foot above all the time.

Not to mention the lateness of the subs.. Didn't we score from the free kick Wright won?

Hessenthaler MOM by a long way.  His mistake trying to clear led to their first goal though. Poor performances from Whitehouse and Hewitt with too many misplaced passes. Colchester should have been out of sight by half time. Great strike for the equaliser from Green. All in all a dogged performance in the 2nd half and managed to grind out a result

Quoted from lukeo

Not to mention the lateness of the subs.. Didn't we score from the free kick Wright won?

No

Positives are team spirit. We looked dead and buried at half time. Hess, despite maybe being at fault for the first goal had a good busy game,  Hanson again looked a handful although he was penalised seemingly every time for having the cheek to stand 6'4. Only other positive I saw was we actually came back from 0-2 and gained a point. Credit to the lads there.

Those positives aside, I wonder why the UEFA pro badge qualified Michael Jolley learned that football from the dinosaur area gets you anywhere nowadays. The ball was thumped forward from all angles, midfield not required. No industry, no creativity and no guile. So sad to see Grimsby Town playing like that, it isn't what I was brought up on and it won't get us anywhere at this level.

Hope to see a huge improvement on Saturday, I can't fault the lads work ethic but I'll not accept that style of 'football. Russell Slade would be delighted.

Well I think the input of someone (Jolley or Limbrick?) at half time must’ve had some positive effect, as it looked to me 2nd half that Green played much closer to Hanson and they looked like a front “pair”.

Quoted from lukeo

Strange. I can see a nucleus of a good side but why do wee constantly hoof it? Embo and Whitehouse can play football, we also have Clifton who can.. Ogbu aand greeen are better with it at their feet so why not keep it on the deck and use the long ball for when we're under pressure.. Fair result in the end to be honest

The obvious answer to your question is that although Embleton is indeed an excellent and technically gifted footballer, we're going to struggle to uitilise him when he plays for Sunderland.

Hess sorry  

Quoted from Southwark Mariner

Aldershot v Grimsby Town 05/04/2016 after a quick look

Grief, that was a game and a half. Bogle saved that match pretty much on his own.

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

Imps lost to the team I'd least like them losing to, but nice to see them lose at last. Tyler Walker scored for them again. Going to prove a v good signing for them I suspect.

A game tonight we would have lost under Slade and with last season's strike force, that extra bit of quality got us the point. We need at least one more in - we are all saying it - the creative navigator type for the good workhorses we now seem to have. They don't come easy to sign (- season long loan?) but its a must if we to be anything but mid-table...

Aye. Second that. Hope they go on to lose every other match.

Quoted from buckstown

Well, well how on earth did we scrape a point out of that? Have to admire the tenacity in the second half and we never gave up but we're not good. Colchester reminded me of a classic Hurst performance, threw a point away by sitting back, summed up by taking Norris (class act) off and bring the extra centre half on.
Even after we equalised they looked like they could have stepped up and won it,  but credit were it's due we showed some fight.  

After the Parslow Point we have the Sowunmi Stage.

(Admittedly it doesn't have the double meaning of 'point')

I asked on the prediction thread who is taking the peno's this season and someone replied Green , , , , after watching last night when we got a peno I noticed Whitehouse pointing to himself as if to say I'm the taker , , , and then it was Hanson who took it!