Match thread Port Vale

Quoted from DB

Just listening to PH. Seems Jake Taylors not coming but nobodies leaving! What have is what we have, so I hope I'm wrong, on todays performance we know what we are going to get.

Ph says we have time, half a season to go, I hope he's right. Tilley dropped and Hansen still not fit.

That’s what I took from it. A player who couldn’t get game time for Scunny doesn’t want to come to us.

Bennett, Hendrie, Habergham and Morais were the only ones who showed they could cut it in League Two today. We need a new keeper, two centre backs, complete central midfield although I do like the look of Spokes. I like Scannell and Wright when they're fit and we haven't got a single forward good enough including Hanson if he's ever going to be fit. The messiah he isn't.

Macca is going downhill rapidly.
Pollock and Waterfall are too similar and too slow. We've conceded the most goals in the league. Mattie needs a break and Waterfall needs binning.
Midfield all tippy tappy 5/10s every week at best. Never going to win you games. Complete lack of bravery with the ball.
Forwards are all National League North/South at best.

Not sure whether three or four of added quality raises the game of others and the team as a whole or we need eight additions. After today, I'm now leaning towards the latter..

Quoted from Bigdog

Bennett, Hendrie, Habergham and Morais were the only ones who showed they could cut it in League Two today. We need a new keeper, two centre backs, complete central midfield although I do like the look of Spokes. I like Scannell and Wright when they're fit and we haven't got a single forward good enough including Hanson if he's ever going to be fit. The messiah he isn't.

Macca is going downhill rapidly.
Pollock and Waterfall are too similar and too slow. We've conceded the most goals in the league. Mattie needs a break and Waterfall needs binning.
Midfield all tippy tappy 5/10s every week at best. Never going to win you games. Complete lack of bravery with the ball.
Forwards are all National League North/South at best.

Not sure whether three or four of added quality raises the game of others and the team as a whole or we need eight additions. After today, I'm now leaning towards the latter..

Unfortunately I think you might have this bang on.

Quoted from Kris2

Preston is no longer on the pitch and people are still blaming him for everything.

Fair point, and I did correct my error. Missed the sub entirely somehow.

Dicko Bennett was our best player today.

Hagrid, that shows how good we was.

I am embarrassed to be a Grimsby Town supporter right now.
John Fenty this is ALL your fault.
Absolutely heart breaking watching or listening to this each week.
I am praying for a miracle.

Quoted from easypeersy

I am embarrassed to be a Grimsby Town supporter right now.
John Fenty this is ALL your fault.
Absolutely heart breaking watching or listening to this each week.
I am praying for a miracle.

WHS

I don't understand why Rose and Bennett keep taking corners and free kicks. Why a professional footballer isn't able to kick a ball correctly now and again baffles me

Quoted from golfer

I don't understand why Rose and Bennett keep taking corners and free kicks. Why a professional footballer isn't able to kick a ball correctly now and again baffles me

It's shocking.  Fact is that we have a group of players who struggle with the basics. That's why we are so easy to score against, and score so few goals.

This team is lightweight. It's incredible that someone who has been in the game as long as Holloway assembled such a crew.

It's a measure of how poor the squad is that when we list our 'best' players most of us include Hendrie, Waterfall and Pollock. But the fact is that they are basically three quarters of the worst defense in the division. That's how low our standards have sunk.

We have problems all over the pitch, in every department. Basically we need a new team.