Stevenage (H) Match Thread

Grimsby team

Crocombe; Efete, Waterfall, Smith, Maher, Amos; Green, Morris; Clifton, Khan, McAtee

Subs: Hunt, Holohan, Kiernan, Khouri, Orsi, Simmonds, Richardson

Glennon one of the injures and I’d say Pearson the other considering we have no defender on the bench?

Interesting to see how this pans out.

Come on Town.

The other injury must be Richardson? Not in the squad today

Quoted from buckstown

The other injury must be Richardson? Not in the squad today

He is on the bench

The sort of team we were expecting I think.

Senior moment!! Richardson is there

Quoted from promotion plaice

Grimsby team

Crocombe; Efete, Waterfall, Smith, Maher, Amos; Green, Morris; Clifton, Khan, McAtee

Subs: Hunt, Holohan, Kiernan, Khouri, Orsi, Simmonds, Kiernan, Richardson

The Telegraph added Richardson after I had copied and pasted the original team announcement.

JT just said he thinks McAttee looks better behind a no.9, but have we seen him play as a no.9? No, we haven't....so, this will be interesting. I see Richardson coming on for McAttee after around 65 minutes. Hope this experiment works

Quoted from buckstown

Senior moment!! Richardson is there

Don't think Richardson was in PP's original post, so senility not to blame.

Also has Kiernan listed twice.

Quoted from ginnywings

Don't think Richardson was in PP's original post, so senility not to blame.

Also has Kiernan listed twice.

Correct.

The Telegraph messed up again, I will modify and correct the original post.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Correct.

The Telegraph messed up again, I will modify and correct the original post.

Behave! That would never happen

They must’ve copied and pasted it from here

Looks like a 3-2-3-1-1 to me with wingbacks or 5-3-1-1 without.

Is this a 523... 532... 5311.. 541..
If us as Grimsby fans are lost I can only assume the opposition are (not like they'll care they'll stick to their game plan).

Quoted from ginnywings

Don't think Richardson was in PP's original post, so senility not to blame.

Also has Kiernan listed twice.

Thanks Ginny, I feel much better now!

Glennon and Cropper the injuries?

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

Glennon and Cropper the injuries?

I think Hurst said two new injuries Cropper already on the list so I think Pearson must be one or he would be on bench imo.

Cropper was on the bench last week.

Cropper and Glennon are the only two in last week's squad who are not in this week.

Intriguing line up, sure there will be plenty of ammunition for either side in the Taylor argument at full time. Hopefully the wing backs have a good game and we can get a bit of creativity and good football going up top with McAtee. UTM

Basically 5 at the back at home again?

Just hoping for a strong start today. We struggled to get going from the off too often at home and played too cautious for the home team to be. Give the crowd something to get excited about and use that home advantage.

Bit disappointed not to see JMD in the squad

Quoted from chaos33

Bit disappointed not to see JMD in the squad

From Hursts' interview, it sounds like he's injured.

I just hope it isn't 541... I hope we have 2 up top. Let's see.

Utm

Lots of empty seats...

Anyone else notice Waterfall get chucked to the floor on that freekick?

Michee stopping and turning back again,.  Not much to aim for tbf but Khn was in there

Looks like a 5212.. Mcatee as a false 9 with kahn and cliftom either side

Poor start

Come on Town

Dag & Red 1-0 Scunny

Stevenage miss an absolute sitter after Efete didn't clear the ball. Just as I write that he almost got his head round the ball and scored.

That sun seems to be cusing problems.

Quoted from lukeo

Lots of empty seats...

Considering our poor home record and the colder weather, are you surprised?

Quoted from BenBB

Considering our poor home record and the colder weather, are you surprised?

No... But when people are saying they can't get a few sears together so don't ever try go.. I hope they've managed to get there today

How can that not be a foul on Clifton.  Pushed him twice.  

the officials have been awful in the opening 20 mins

What the intercourse! You could see that a mile off. No excuse about ref angles. Ref is miles behind play and it happened right Infront of the linesman

So it seems that it is on now to put two hands in a players back, and push him over and it's not a foul?

Lino bottles a shove right in front of him and ref a mile away from anything but always seems to be there for every light foul on Stevenage. I don't know why officials in this league seem to never want to give us anything when we are the home team.

Typical Evans push and shove team with the ref ignoring most things done sneakily by them.

Town STILL not putting accurate passes together with far too much head tennis.

Town look more dangerous playing on the deck.  They winning most in the air

Sunday league , lucky to get away with that

Great work from Harry

Penalty Town

Penalty missed

Oh dear

Saved

Clifton should have taken that.

Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

Clifton should have taken that.

Anybody else tbh. McAtee is really not that good at penalties.

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Saved

It was a backpass

Shocking penno

Khan hit the Post mcatee just missed the follow up

Great effort , unlucky

Keeper well beaten there. We can  win this.

Quoted from Mayaman

Keeper well beaten there. We can  win this.

Not if we can't score a penalty we won't

Town on the up there.  Ref blows for everything.

Ref as poor as Mcatee’s pen

Why on earth did we let him take it

Other than Efetes mistake they haven’t really created anything.

Whilst we haven’t played brilliantly, Had we scored either the penalty or Khans effort we’d be calling this a tactical masterclass from Hurst.

The refs been a disgrace

Khan's effort was spectacular, unlucky not to go in after he made himself some space for a shot. Deserved to be a goal. Penalty was awful and as soon as he stepped up to take it was expecting it to be saved, he passed it to the keeper lol. Officials doing my nut in, apart from the penalty he had no choice but to give, we don't really get anything. Clifton shoved down in front of the lino at one end not given and then a Stevenage player throws themselves to the floor with clearly no contact at the other and the lino is waving his flag like he saw the worst foul ever committed. The Clifton one was way more obvious and not given so why the imbalance in what is given?

Why do referees in EVERY League, feel they have to explain to players what they can and can't do when there is a free kick or penalty.  First, they instruct the keeper, then the Penalty taker, if it's a free kick, explain to keeper again, then tell the wall what they can or can't do, then tell the free kick player too.  How many minutes do these officials waste in a game?

There was signs of us growing into the game but the refs not letting it flow at all

We're set up correctly for this, they're playing a very high line and are so open to getting done on the break. The few times we've had them backpedaling we've just not made the most of it yet (Efete being too hesitant to play an early cross / Winning & missing the penalty / Khan hitting the post when just before McAtee could have played Efete in clean through etc). Hard to tell how the second half will go.

I can’t understand why referees fall for the tactics used by Evans’ teams. He’s been at it for years - falling over every chance they get, cheating, getting soft free kicks. You’d think a decent ref would be wise to it. Pi$$es me off!!

It's been a decent start to the second half

Att  6,022 (128 Stevenage)

I'm not sure I understand the rules of football anymore, what is this, "not enough contact we keep hearing commentators talk about, and how can it not be a foul when someone grabs you, pulls you back so you can't play the ball.

I'm not sure I understand the rules of football anymore, what is this, "not enough contact we keep hearing commentators talk about, and how can it not be a foul when someone grabs you, pulls you back so you can't play the ball.

Quoted from 123614

I'm not sure I understand the rules of football anymore, what is this, "not enough contact we keep hearing commentators talk about, and how can it not be a foul when someone grabs you, pulls you back so you can't play the ball.

It’s called a dive

On top now , come on town

Can I nominate the ref fpr twit of the week early?

Phew

That would be hard to take - great save from Max who clawed it out the net/

Quoted from Mayaman

Can I nominate the ref fpr twit of the week early?

Unfortunately not, Gianni Infantino already has that accolade wrapped up this week.

Oh no

Ffs

Efete on his bottom . He needs dropping

Poor

"And there's the goal"

Such a dull decision to have McAtee take the penalty. He demonstrated last season that he's shoit at them

Absolutely excrement yet again..

I see the faces that only appear when we are losing have already got their posts in  

Quoted from Kris2

I see the faces that only appear when we are losing have already got their posts in  

Are you happy losing every week?

Dropping like a stone.
Another poor performance.
Needs a good shake-up, starting with a right back and a genuine striker!

Quoted from GtfcGarner

Are you happy losing every week?

Apparently you are because that's the only time you, Morris Minor and supertown are ever posting. When we win every week you're nowhere to be found, why is that?  

Fuckin fuming
I hate these pub team illegitimates.
They bring nothing to the football league
If their is ever a side that deserves to be non league it's Stevenage

Quoted from Kris2

Apparently you are because that's the only time you, Morris Minor and supertown are ever posting. When we win every week you're nowhere to be found, why is that?  

Me ? Can you supply evidence of that please. I’m hardly ever negative.

Forget the wonderful work that the owners have done . They have been superb ... But .... Have we really improved on the pitch since the last time we came up ? I honestly don't think we have .

Town deserved that.  Not always pretty but they battled.

YESSS boys!

Phew, thought we had no chance just seemed like one of those games, still time to win it now

Get in

Quoted from supertown

Me ? Can you supply evidence of that please. I’m hardly ever negative.

Found one…what do I win?

supertown 01/02/90:
Tony Rees is a very hairy, scary man. It’s a kind of magic. Surely if he shaved more often he’d be quicker.

How come play doesn't stop when we get a head injury

Couldve been better couldve been worse, a point against the second placed team and felt like we were slightly better overall

Some really topsy turvy results all across the league today

Quoted from Kris2

Apparently you are because that's the only time you, Morris Minor and supertown are ever posting. When we win every week you're nowhere to be found, why is that?  

I back the boys after a good performance and say when they play poor.. Which has been more often than not recently. Absolute weirdo.

Deserved that equaliser. Efete MOTM for me - was so busy all game, workhorse.

And we go again, UTM!

Even though it's another game at home without winning, you'll take that against second in the league to stop the run of defeats

Quoted from supertown

Efete on his bottom . He needs dropping

He slipped FFS!

Felt we played well second half especially once we got a more attacking team on the field... Settle for a point against the 2nd place team

Quoted from 123614

He slipped FFS!

Correct

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

Found one…what do I win?

supertown 01/02/90:
Tony Rees is a very hairy, scary man. It’s a kind of magic. Surely if he shaved more often he’d be quicker.

It’s taken 32 years for what can only be described as blatant hairism to be called out. We need FIFA to introduce faux fur armbands to raise the profile of this issue.

Quoted from BenBB

Deserved that equaliser. Efete MOTM for me - was so busy all game, workhorse.

And we go again, UTM!

I guess it’s opinion but I thought he was vulnerable at times. Smith was solid as usual and I thought khan and waterfall had a good game too. But, motm should possibly go to Danny Amos (after a very circumspect first 10 mins) although it’s all down to opinion

Quoted from 123614

He slipped FFS!

I don't think the slip contributed much to the goal, had Effete stayed on his feet, the ball would have probably still been played to the bloke on the edge of the area who scored, who Smith seems to have left unmarked. Amos could have done more in stopping the bloke get past him likewise Morris in stopping the cross.

So unfair to lay the blame entirely and Effete's feet.

Didn't deserve to lose that, least it stops the rot.

Quoted from BenBB

Deserved that equaliser. Efete MOTM for me - was so busy all game, workhorse.

And we go again, UTM!

Lmfho