Salford Match Thread

Ollie has just met the fans and made a short speech in the Trust bar, I'm impressed already.

Today’s #GTFC XI: McKeown (c), Hendrie, Waterfall, Davis, Gibson, Clifton, Robson, Hessenthaler, Cook, Vernam, Wright.

Subs: Rose, Cardwell, Ogbu, Hewitt, Pollock, Whitehouse, Russell.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Ollie has just met the fans and made a short speech in the Trust bar, I'm impressed already.

https://twitter.com/MarinersTrust/status/1212378443951869952

No one on the pitch capable of holding the ball up front, will have to totally rely on balls for strikers to run onto

If you happen to bump into Ian Holloway today tell him I love him  

What is the matter with Ohman Is he still injured / ill or does Limbrick just not fancy him ? (or is he on his way?)

Ha ha watching on ifollow Ollie comes out dressed like a Peaky Blinder gives a rousing speach with a West Country 'Up The Mariners!'. Quality!

Nothing happening at the game?

Not much

It’s pretty poor tbh . Vernam only decent player going forward but he is on the left side miles away from the striker . Salford are very sharp going forward and their back line looks solid . Their gk is the calmest man on the pitch

Quoted from jock dock tower

Nothing happening at the game?

Plenty of effort, not a lot of quality. Even Salford have not looked that amazing but they had the better chances so far, they probably should have scored when Waterfall messed up and I'm sure he handballed it so got lucky on both counts. Doesn't seem like we've figured out how to deliver balls with the forwards we have so service has been poor.

Dampest of squibs so far. Good Vernam cross clipped the bar but neither keeper unduly troubled. They look slightly better than us so far.

Crowd very quiet, waiting for something to happen.

When our forwards get the ball they are trying to do things too fast . It's head down-charge. doesn't look as though they have been doing much practising.

Quoted from It Bites

It’s pretty poor tbh . Vernam only decent player going forward but he is on the left side miles away from the striker . Salford are very sharp going forward and their back line looks solid . Their gk is the calmest man on the pitch

Welcome...and thanks for that.

Pretty poor, but the pitch looks bad compared to previous seasons quite muddy/bobbly. Salford missed a couple of sitters, we have been ok till final 3rd then as often no final ball, we have put all 4 crosses so far straightb into the keepers hands within  a yard of his line unchallenged and Gibson mishit one that keeper touched onto the bar. Cook lasted 30 mins before his injury f;ared up and replaced by Ogbu.

Still afraid to go for goal.  Whack it.  Especially with that surface

Welcome to the world of being a GTFC fan Ollie, toothless.

4555, with 138 visitors. Not as many as i thought it would be

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Pretty poor, but the pitch looks bad compared to previous seasons quite muddy/bobbly. Salford missed a couple of sitters, we have been ok till final 3rd then as often no final ball, we have put all 4 crosses so far straightb into the keepers hands within  a yard of his line unchallenged and Gibson mishit one that keeper touched onto the bar. Cook lasted 30 mins before his injury f;ared up and replaced by Ogbu.

It was Vernam's cross that the keeper touched onto the bar.

Let's hop they don't float this corner.

Whoever thought Ogbu was a footballer must be fookin nuts.

This is two very poor teams.

Will be interesting to see who we ship out and go for in January.

Quoted from TAGG

Whoever thought Ogbu was a footballer must be fookin nuts.

Watching him stumble around like Bambi on ice would be funny if he didn't just mess up our best chance.

Macca saves with his legs to keep us in it.

This is dire

Sunday league, how did we get away with that, two poor teams.

Sunday league, how did we get away with that, two poor teams.

You can see why Ogbu gets overlooked if he's on a big wage I'd ship him out in Jan.

We got very lucky there.

Get in...

Get in Rose

Missed an absolute sitter  

Get in, 1-0 Rose

ROSE YEESSSSS

Never in doubt

Get in!!

Get in😂

Hooray, Hooray, its a holla holloway!!

3 points in the bag, well done Town 👍

Always felt like the first team that scores will win. Scored with our one real shot on goal and really was not Salford's day as they had tons of chances to score that were easy.

At last,, good win, does that go down to  AL or IH  ?

Blimey we won a game! 🥳

Such a relief to finally get over the line.

First win/final score for Div 2 shown on the BBC website.  😀😋😀

BREAKING NEW: IAN HOLLOWAY HAS STEP DOWN AS MANAGER DUE TO AL HAS WON A GAME

Unbeaten this year

Quoted from bawarmy

Unbeaten this year

Longest winning run for over 3 months...

It wasn't pretty but you can't knock the work rate.  We dodged a bullet when Salford hit the post but maybe, just maybe our luck is turning.

Uarr Uarr Get In!  

Both Stevenage and Morecambe lose to very late goals! In Stevenage’s case, very VERY late!

Nice to have a gap.

Not and exciting game but a great result .
We really worked hard today and I reckon we was worth the win in the end .
We’ve given Ollie a bit of breathing space now so let’s see what he can do

Not a great game but a great win.

Onwards and upwards.

Really pleased for AL to get a win under his belt as he steps out of the Caretaker role and a great start to 2020 with a win long over due. Hopefully the goal will boost Akem's confidence and although they hit the post after a mix up I thought we did enough in the game to take all 3 points. Salford were a half decent side and better than most we have seen at BP so their league position is a fair reflection of why they are 11th.

Three precious points sweetened further by a Northampton winner in the 94th minute against Stevenage. From what the other guys have written here the players put a proper shift in for Ollie. Well done, lads.

Quoted from Kris2

Always felt like the first team that scores will win. Scored with our one real shot on goal and really was not Salford's day as they had tons of chances to score that were easy.

I can remember one

Quoted from Abdul19

I can remember one

Salford hit the post and a couple of half chances they could have capitalised on.

Yes but the one that hit the post is the only one that could be classed as 'easy'.

Woeful game again. But 3 points

It's a massive 3 points and with goal difference we are effectively 10 points above Stevenage

People giving Ogbu a kicking? i thought he did alright.  He held the ball up ok and played a couple of decent balls.  Considering the guy hasnt had a run in the team yet he done more than Green has all season for me.
Think he needs to stop wondering out wide when he is the only striker and stay central, he is very capable of holding ball up and bringing others in to play.

Think whole team did ok today but nothing spectacular, probably the worst we have played in a few games and won so hopefully turning the corner now.

Delighted for AL, great result against a team full of League 1 and ex Championship players on loads more money than our lads.

The work rate was excellent especially second half but we do make it hard work with some real hospital passes. It is bad enough to be passing sideways and back but they should at least do a decent one and not put the team mate under pressure and nowhere to go. We keep doing it down the wings especially.

But everyone put a shift in and I thought we deserved the points in the end for wearing them down and going 4-4-2 second half.

Ogbu led the line in our last win so surely he deserves a run in the team to prove himself

Quoted from monkeyboy

People giving Ogbu a kicking? i thought he did alright.  He held the ball up ok and played a couple of decent balls.  Considering the guy hasnt had a run in the team yet he done more than Green has all season for me.
Think he needs to stop wondering out wide when he is the only striker and stay central, he is very capable of holding ball up and bringing others in to play.

Think whole team did ok today but nothing spectacular, probably the worst we have played in a few games and won so hopefully turning the corner now.

He's so clumsy, lost the ball tons of times because he has no real control with the ball at his feet, looks like he's running on ice with his legs flying all over the place. Before Rose found space and got a shot off it was Ogbu with our best chance to do something and he screwed it up by getting the ball caught in his feet and kicking it out. The one thing he did right was draw some fouls.

Quoted from MrsMariner

Ogbu led the line in our last win so surely he deserves a run in the team to prove himself

I don't get the hate.yes he's unpredictable and sometimes it goes wrong, but that's why he's playing for us. I thought he was a massive improvement on green in the game v crawley and as you said he was very good when we beat exeter

Quoted from forza ivano

I don't get the hate.yes he's unpredictable and sometimes most of the time it goes wrong, but that's why he's playing for us. I thought he was a massive improvement on green in the game v crawley and as you said he was very good when we beat exeter

FIFY.

He's the sort of player who shows up in non league hoping to play football in England. Has some raw attributes in strength and pace but has no idea how to actually use it. He doesn't run out of gas in 10 minutes like Tom Bolarinwa did but I don't see him offering much more. He's sort of okay if you want to bring somebody on to cause problems for the last 10-15 minutes but not somebody you want to be spending a huge wage on if the rumours are true. We need more than something good happening 1 in 20 times he touches the ball, it even looked like players were avoiding passing him the ball in the box on several occasions so maybe even they know he's rubbish.  

I guess because we have a new manager and the first win in months everyone is in a super positive "nobody can do any wrong" sort of mood. Will remember these comments the next time we lose badly in a game Ogbu played in.

Quoted from forza ivano

I don't get the hate.yes he's unpredictable and sometimes it goes wrong, but that's why he's playing for us. I thought he was a massive improvement on green in the game v crawley and as you said he was very good when we beat exeter

Unfair on Green who wasn’t fit. I think Ollie will want better than Ogbu, and probably Green, Cardwell and Cook as well.

Thought ogbu did okay against 2 very physical centre halves.

Quoted from Hagrid

Thought ogbu did okay against 2 very physical centre halves.

All about opinions but thought he was really poor until after we scored then he managed to win us several free kicks. Control was iffy, work rate not the best and he rarely bust a gut to get in the box as I would expect all forward players to do. I would be looking to replace him in ths window, thank him for giving it a go and try and offload back to Sweden.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

All about opinions but thought he was really poor until after we scored then he managed to win us several free kicks. Control was iffy, work rate not the best and he rarely bust a gut to get in the box as I would expect all forward players to do. I would be looking to replace him in ths window, thank him for giving it a go and try and offload back to Sweden.

We were saying that he definitely didn't fit the remit of a IH player from what he said yesterday. Don't think he works hard enough and was on his heels several times when he could have won the ball but let the defender get in front of him.