The Big Match Special match thread

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not the greatest start to the evening with all those injuries

Looks like Cropper will be at centre back.

Wonder why Pearson was overlooked?

Bet me to it Forza, took my thread down.

Start for Cropper and Pepple. Clifton and Amos starting as well and a strongish looking bench. Good to see Orsi and Khouri there as well as Braithwaite. You get the impression that Hurst doesn't think JMD can last 90mins.

I'm not too sure whether Hurst believes the starting selection is a winning one, there because of injuries & knocks or he's trying something new out.

Still we'll find out soon.

Cropper channelling the look of a young WWII recruit there. Hope he manages to throw in a few grenades tonight.

Efete at centre half maybe and Cropper at right back??

Quoted from Poojah

Cropper channelling the look of a young WWII recruit there. Hope he manages to throw in a few few grenades tonight.

And a Sea Dart or Sea Eagle. Missiles flying in tonight, I hope.

Anyone got a link to the game, seen people banding around on twitter saying theirs a way to watch it through certain sites but it's not working for me (I do have mariners TV audio as a back up!)

One or both of Waterfall and (Emmanuel) Dennis might see red tonight - Teale vs Livvo style.

Dennis has a short fuse and Waterfall will stick his head on anything.

Quoted from lukeo

Anyone got a link to the game, seen people banding around on twitter saying theirs a way to watch it through certain sites but it's not working for me (I do have mariners TV audio as a back up!)

It's not on TV

Mad that theres no streaming anywhere for nearly all the games.

Nottingham forests team looks like a pretty strong one

Wow the crowd, drowning out the commentary

Commentary link please

Quoted from Mariner John

Commentary link please

FM, DAB or Mariners TV and Freeiew 721

Any action so far? Am relying on the good people of the fishy and sky sports news tonight!

We've started well, no real chances for either side

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Any action so far? Am relying on the good people of the fishy and sky sports news tonight!

Listening on M TV. Not a lot of action more or less in sounding each other out. I don't think we've had a shot and they may have had 2 but nothing to worry Crocombe.

Anyone got a link that works abroad? BBC blocked and mariners tv, can use any other web site

Oh felicitations

1-0 forest. Poor marking. Good strike

Sh!t 1 -0 down

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Any action so far? Am relying on the good people of the fishy and sky sports news tonight!

Try Town Twitter

https://twitter.com/intent/fol.....mp;tw_p=followbutton

just seen their goal on sky sports news - great strike

Quoted from Roast Em Bobby

just seen their goal on sky sports news - great strike

Not sure he meant to put it in the top corner , seemed to slice off his boot

Sounds as if we're under the cosh with Forest having the better of play.

Quoted from DB

Sounds as if we're under the cosh with Forest having the better of play.

How dare they actually play like a team 3 divisions higher than us

Sounds like weve started the cropper blitz

😔 oh well. There’s always the second half

Can’t do that. You get punished. V disappointing.

2-0 Game over. Crash band and wallop into the net.

We needed to stay in the game for as long as possible. That’s gone to sh1t. We need to get the next goal or it’s absolutely over.

Just seen second goal, we wouldnt do that mistake in a normal league game so thats quite frustrating, just gave them a free shot essentially

Time for a mature sense of reality please.
Don’t need to read lots of stuff about how poor we are
Forest have just outspent most of the other Premier League teams on transfers.

Quoted from chaos33

We needed to stay in the game for as long as possible. That’s gone to sh1t. We need to get the next goal or it’s absolutely over.

I agree with you but all we've had are glimpses of an attack, which part from Croppers throws, have been nearly non-existant.

Quoted from WHYWONTYOULETMESIGNUP

Just seen second goal, we wouldnt do that mistake in a normal league game so thats quite frustrating, just gave them a free shot essentially

Green makes about 3 of those mistakes a game, just slightly further forward facing less clinical opposition.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

😔 oh well. There’s always the second half

Look what happened to the scunts 3-0 up… we can do it #utm

Green needs to get his act together.

Quoted from DB

I agree with you but all we've had are glimpses of an attack, which part from Croppers throws, have been nearly non-existant.

They're miles ahead of us. Enjoy it for what it is, a novelty. Getting the ball from teams that are much more talented, riding a high and motivated is always going to be difficult. We've not even played well against L2 opposition yet.

Quoted from stevej7634

Look what happened to the scunts 3-0 up… we can do it #utm

Against a team in our league, not a problem. Against a team 3 leagues above us who spent more on 1 player than 1878 did buying the club, no chance.

Best team are ahead and look like they’re only in 3rd gear, 2 disappointing goals to concede but both well finished.

Quoted from stevej7634

Look what happened to the scunts 3-0 up… we can do it #utm

I'll have some of what you are smoking ! How can we win 4-3, we have not had a shot on target in 45 minutes ???????

Been outclassed by much higher quality opposition but really we've made things too easy for them.

I think it's time to give Orsi, Braithwaite and Khouri a run out in the 2nd half, to provide them with some experience and match time. Talking of which let JMD have the full 2nd half to check his fitness level.

1 good goal 1 mistake punished

We havent laid a glove on them and all honesty from the start it never lookee like an upset would happen

But this is a side with almost 50 Million worth of talent playing….

Chance for new legs to show what they can do

Its a good payday for us . And we would not realy stand a chance with our best availabe 11 out there..  we have a long way to go 3 leagues below them  nevermind anything else

Really don't think they're that good to be honest. We've gifted them two goals and aside from picking the ball out of the net after both of them Crocombe's barely had anything to do outside of catching a few crosses. They've looked a bit dodgy from long throws and we've lacked composure when the opportunity has arisen. Clifton who often falters when it comes to the final ball spurned a glorious opportunity late on in the half to play either Keirnan or Pepple in on goal with their defenders out of position by underhitting his pass. Quite frustrating we've not made them work for their lead

I dont expect us to win tonight, or even create a lot of chances but the frustrating thing listening to the game is how often we hear, great ball  x  is away, looks up and no one near him, no one to pass to..

Enjoy the moment
Not often we play European Cup Winners

We should be in this, made a number of half decent openings but not found an accurate pass. A brilliant finish and the less said about the second, the better. They clearly have better, quicker players, but we don't deserve to be two nil down. Fingers crossed for an early goal

It could be worse, they might bring on a 16 year old who’s not got his GCSE results yet!

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Enjoy the moment
Not often we play European Cup Winners

It's a shame we're not as those players are now 42 years older.

Quoted from Hagrid

1 good goal 1 mistake punished

We havent laid a glove on them and all honesty from the start it never lookee like an upset would happen

But this is a side with almost 50 Million worth of talent playing….

Both goals were poor defending.

Nearly from Taylor, certainly gave the fans a boost.

We nned to nick one of these chances , and then pray

Quoted from denni266

We nned to nick one of these chances , and then pray

looks like we will be the prey

Quoted from LN8Mariner

It could be worse, they might bring on a 16 year old who’s not got his GCSE results yet!

He’d score a belter in the first couple minutes too

We're the better side this half, we just don't have anyone clinical on the pitch

Quoted from Chrisblor

We're the better side this half, we just don't have anyone clinical on the pitch

Utter shame we don’t have McAtee. Would be ace to see him against a Prem team like his brother.

more important is how much money we make. I'm guessing gate receipts of c£150,000. Does anyone know the split?

Quoted from Chrisblor

We're the better side this half, we just don't have anyone clinical on the pitch

Same most games, badly miss a striker.

Quoted from forza ivano

more important is how much money we make. I'm guessing gate receipts of c£150,000. Does anyone know the split?

45%

Quoted from forza ivano

more important is how much money we make. I'm guessing gate receipts of c£150,000. Does anyone know the split?

Not too sure but I seem to think somebody posted 50% Town, 40% Forest and 10% EFL

3-0. Time to give others some game time.

That fornicator loves scoring against us 5 in two games I think  

Well its not been bad overall considering its not been our strongest team, think occasion got to them first half which is a shame, hope we get a consolation goal because I think we deserve one

Quoted from WHYWONTYOULETMESIGNUP

Well its not been bad overall considering its not been our strongest team, think occasion got to them first half which is a shame, hope we get a consolation goal because I think we deserve one

we aren't at our strongest and we are up against a side that cost over £40 million to put together. Nuff said

8418
Great turnout UTM

1205 them

Quoted from LN8Mariner

It could be worse, they might bring on a 16 year old who’s not got his GCSE results yet!

Okay, they’ve brought him on then!

The BBC report that we have had 23 shots to date.  Forest had 8.  Both teams 3 on target.

They are very clinical whilst we are not.

O well, the expected result really, so it's onward to Walsall and another away victory

Quoted from TAGG

8418
Great turnout UTM

1205 them

think that means c£80,000 to us - a welcome bonus

Never gave up thay second half, third goal very harsh on us

Promising but missing that killer instinct of a number 9

Is what it is, bit of realism cant always be cup upsets, we gave it a really good go second half. At least we got to play a team in the cup that we were excited to play, nothing worse than a season where you get knocked out in both cups to teams like northampton and cheltenham.

Just feel a bit impatient to see the team start to gel and find its stride, onto the next!

Hope we get something at Walsall but won’t throw my toys out of the Pram  if we lose
Still plenty of time to get the four players Paul wants and move on

Quoted from TAGG

8418
Great turnout UTM

1205 them

So we now know a sell-out home attendance is in the region of 7,215 depending on the opposition

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

The BBC report that we have had 23 shots to date.  Forest had 8.  Both teams 3 on target.

They are very clinical whilst we are not.

Reminds me of when we played Spurs years ago .
They had 4 shots and beat us 3-0 , the other shot hit the post

Quoted from DB

So we now know a sell-out home attendance is in the region of 7,215 depending on the opposition

We could probably get 8700 if we have the away team the whole of the Osmond stand and they sold out

Oh well there you go, focus on promotion now then.

Second half thought the fans were excellent too

First half the goals killed the crowd flat

When Spurs beat us 3-0 at BP they were even more clinical.  We played very well though (without scoring).  We chanted “what is it like to be out-classed?”.

We still have the FAC.

Thought town did fantastic and was great show for a league 2 side.
The gulf in class was pretty obvious for all to see, the first touch and accuracy with passing was the main difference oh and the finishes where superb.

Well done lads can hold your heads up high.