Oppositions view

Nice to get praise from the opposition and more importantly they were magnanimous in defeat. More refreshingly no "we should beat the likes of" posts.  

"A word for Grimsby today. Fair play to them and there 700 or so fans… A long journey surprised they brought so many.
Having been to all games home and away so far I thought they were the best team we have played … Pretty solid in defence and carry a threat up front with Hanson and clinical in front of goal.will be there or there abouts I thinks".

https://youtu.be/Xb6cUkbbEwc  

Here you go

Can’t beat the likes of Grimsby at home. Who does he think they are Barcelona

Quoted from chipsandgravy

Nice to get praise from the opposition and more importantly they were magnanimous in defeat. More refreshingly no "we should beat the likes of" posts.  

"A word for Grimsby today. Fair play to them and there 700 or so fans… A long journey surprised they brought so many.
Having been to all games home and away so far I thought they were the best team we have played … Pretty solid in defence and carry a threat up front with Hanson and clinical in front of goal.will be there or there abouts I thinks".

I suggest you listen in at 1:10 So with only one win against Northampton on the opening day, how are you evaluating the start of the season, it's worrying, if we can't beat the likes of Grimsby and we are losing 3-1 to Grimsby is it non league next for us.  

Well it could be saddle bags if you lose to the Scunts

The likes of Grimsby?! You support Walsall pal. You've spent 10 seasons above L1 since WW2. I know we've had a big slump recently but come on.

Quoted from mariner91

The likes of Grimsby?! You support Walsall pal. You've spent 10 seasons above L1 since WW2. I know we've had a big slump recently but come on.

I agree with you, but this is not how it looks to the football world, and the vast majority of fans at other clubs,

We have spent the bulk of the last 20 years in non league or division 4 and however much it hurts about the "likes of Grimsby" to them it is the truth.

I hope we have a better few years soon, to ram such talk down their throats.

We did the same when we were relegated to non league.

As opposition match threads go I thought it was fairly balanced.

Quoted from psgmariner

We did the same when we were relegated to non league.

As opposition match threads go I thought it was fairly balanced.

We did but the difference between us and Braintree, for example, is really quite stark whereas Walsall are arguably a smaller club than us and have certainly historically done nowhere near as well as we have.

Quoted from mariner91

We did but the difference between us and Braintree, for example, is really quite stark whereas Walsall are arguably a smaller club than us and have certainly historically done nowhere near as well as we have.

History doesn't really matter when it wasn't recent history. That's the problem some of our fans have and why many of our fans have a sense of self importance over other fans. What have we done in the last 20 years? It was like when Liverpool were a nothing team for years while Manchester United  and Chelsea were wining everything and they kept talking about how great they were in the 70's and 80's. We do that all the time and it gets boring.

We've been shocking for 20 years remember, it's a long bloody time and outsider's perspectives about us will have changed as a result. I know the old guy said that but the youngster wouldn't have even been born last time we were any cop let alone remember it!

Quoted from Kris2

History doesn't really matter when it wasn't recent history. That's the problem some of our fans have and why many of our fans have a sense of self importance over other fans. What have we done in the last 20 years? It was like when Liverpool were a nothing team for years while Manchester United  and Chelsea were wining everything and they kept talking about how great they were in the 70's and 80's. We do that all the time and it gets boring.

How/when did you fall in love with GTFC, don't tell me it was Jamie Clarke's free kicks and obviously not boring enough for you to take your moaning bottom elsewhere, you'd fit in well that those misery guts down the A180..

Town fans reminiscing about previous Town teams does matter it's part of why we all follow Town, be it McMenemy's day or Alan Buckleys pass and move teams those were great times and why most of us still follow Town even though there has been little joy over the last 20 years and those Town teams went up against teams with bigger budgets and we were constantly the under dog.

We have played at Championship level a lot longer than any team of a similar size, we have more than enough to be proud of and why shouldn't we talk about those days, beating Newcastle at St James the season they got promoted to the top flight and hadn't lost at home all season, Jim Dobbin bangs it in the top corner. The Scunts released a memorial plate just for playing Newcastle, Jesus what would they have brought out if they had won like we did back in the day.

As for the Walsall fan saying the likes of Grimsby, he wasn't a kid, he may have been new to the game, or a bit clueless fair enough. Most of us roughly know when you mention a team, and have been following football for a fair number of years you have an idea of a clubs history, you can say he was focusing on our clubs recent history but historically Walsall have always been 3rd / 4th tier team, he is the one who shouldn't have any grandiose attitude about him.

Quoted from Marinerz93

How/when did you fall in love with GTFC, don't tell me it was Jamie Clarke's free kicks and obviously not boring enough for you to take your moaning bottom elsewhere, you'd fit in well that those misery guts down the A180..

Town fans reminiscing about previous Town teams does matter it's part of why we all follow Town, be it McMenemy's day or Alan Buckleys pass and move teams those were great times and why most of us still follow Town even though there has been little joy over the last 20 years and those Town teams went up against teams with bigger budgets and we were constantly the under dog.

We have played at Championship level a lot longer than any team of a similar size, we have more than enough to be proud of and why shouldn't we talk about those days, beating Newcastle at St James the season they got promoted to the top flight and hadn't lost at home all season, Jim Dobbin bangs it in the top corner. The Scunts released a memorial plate just for playing Newcastle, Jesus what would they have brought out if they had won like we did back in the day.

As for the Walsall fan saying the likes of Grimsby, he wasn't a kid, he may have been new to the game, or a bit clueless fair enough. Most of us roughly know when you mention a team, and have been following football for a fair number of years you have an idea of a clubs history, you can say he was focusing on our clubs recent history but historically Walsall have always been 3rd / 4th tier team, he is the one who shouldn't have any grandiose attitude about him.

When? Suppose I was bought up on it in my family. The first games I attended that I can recall were around 89/90 season. I guess if you want to measure your male private even more than you already keep doing you can have that one over me  .

I don't really care about how many people who are old enough to remember the good old days and talk about them, I'm just bored of people acting like we are a big club when we aren't. Punched above our weight for a little while but don't have a great deal to show for that. Just surviving in a league isn't really an achievement that we can claim makes us any more important than other teams who did it on a small budget. People still go on about the Wembley double like it matters anymore, we did nothing of note in division 1 after that, we pretty much fell into a downward spiral a couple of seasons later.

I'm not saying people can't enjoy the past but some folks need to get over the fact it was 20-30+ years ago since we mattered. In the last 20 years we've mostly been struggling to get out of non league and barely making the playoffs. We went up on a single game and not on a season of great achievement. Time to get real, we're not one of the bigger clubs in the division and most see us as a team they should be beating. You don't earn respect just because of the past, you earn it by having top form and achieving things in the now. I think it's more important to focus on the team we have now and pushing them to build on last season over comparing our dicks to every team who has been around long enough to care when we might have played higher than them for a length of time.

Quoted from Kris2

When? Suppose I was bought up on it in my family. The first games I attended that I can recall were around 89/90 season. I guess if you want to measure your male private even more than you already keep doing you can have that one over me  .

I don't really care about how many people who are old enough to remember the good old days and talk about them, I'm just bored of people acting like we are a big club when we aren't. Punched above our weight for a little while but don't have a great deal to show for that. Just surviving in a league isn't really an achievement that we can claim makes us any more important than other teams who did it on a small budget. People still go on about the Wembley double like it matters anymore, we did nothing of note in division 1 after that, we pretty much fell into a downward spiral a couple of seasons later.

I'm not saying people can't enjoy the past but some folks need to get over the fact it was 20-30+ years ago since we mattered. In the last 20 years we've mostly been struggling to get out of non league and barely making the playoffs. We went up on a single game and not on a season of great achievement. Time to get real, we're not one of the bigger clubs in the division and most see us as a team they should be beating. You don't earn respect just because of the past, you earn it by having top form and achieving things in the now. I think it's more important to focus on the team we have now and pushing them to build on last season over comparing our dicks to every team who has been around long enough to care when we might have played higher than them for a length of time.

Punched above our weight for a little bit   and as for male private measuring it's obvious you sit down to pee.

You need to find fellow mood hoovers who love nothing more than to suck the life and joy out of everything, nothing sucks like an electrolux. Although I bet you could suck a golf ball through 40 foot of hose pipe if the golf ball had any joy attached to it.

You apply rules to Town fans who talk about the past but ignore the Walsall fan who was also guilty of that, we are the leagues top scorers and yet he claims we shouldn't be losing 3-1 to the likes of Grimsby, what is next non league. How derogatory is that to our current form, you can't get more recent than that, we are scoring for fun and the 5-2 over Port Vale should have been an indication we are not to be taken lightly.

Football fans who have worthy history will talk about and reminisce, we are not the worst culprits for this, there is I bet nearly 2/3rds of the fans in the league have done this at some point or another you need to get over yourself, it's not a Town thing.

We may have won in the play off final but to be in that final we had to finish in the play off places so our performance was over the season and not purely on one game as you wrongly claim. There were many victories on the way that led to the opportunity to play in the final. You have turned the mood hoovering up to maximum.

I’ve always been proud of this club, even in the really miserable times, and a lot of that is down to our history which, pound for pound, is more notable than all the clubs in this part of the world - Lincoln, Scunthorpe and Hull too. Why shouldn’t we be proud of that? And reference it, when we want to? ‘The good times’ of the past were all we had to cling to when things really went down the pan in the non-league days. We are GTFC, we are a special club, with fantastic fans, a history of ups and downs, pain and glory, at all levels of the professional English game going back 141 years, and, all being well, we have a bright future ahead of us. Those seeking to play this down and say it is not relevant can shove your negativity where the sun doesn’t shine! UTM.

Great Post
Come on Town!!