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VinnyGTFC
February 2, 2024, 9:33am
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The January window is always tricky. The players made available are for the most part out of favour at their clubs and in the end there's always a reliance on their clubs bringing players in to release them from their squads.
Looking at the players who have come in, and that's six in total, none have come with a poor reputation and supporters have been on the whole complimentary. And that as we have seen over the years sits with some level of credence.
We can all agree the defence situation was the most important, that seems to have been addressed adequately with a light warning on those players needing to get used to each other as well as not having played much lately. So bedding in is still a concern.
On top of that a midfielder with a bit of bite and presence with some injury concerns but hopefully we will get something from him.
We are still unlikely to set the world alight but I think we'll all take a comfortable drama free rest of the season and see what the summer brings.
My hopes for Town is that we get to a position where we don't need to replace 7-8 players each season but have a developing squad which stays together and gives some stability and consistency to the squad. Promotion from this league as the likes of Bradford and Mansfield can attest to isn't an easy task and at times some supporters get ahead of themselves a touch and then voice their distain as their own expectations aren't met. We need to become a football league club again before we can demand continued success and if we get another promotion that should come with some level of ability to compete.
Let's see what the rest of the season brings and hopefully a couple of the new players will become fans favourites and give us something to sing about
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HerveJosse
February 2, 2024, 9:40am
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Need to see the new guys play first before any of us can know . While some good career history there all have been out of favour laterlly so it’s wait and see for me . Still concerned we only have one senior player in club capable of playing number 9 role . Ironic that the position we have least cover in has been the one thing that’s worked so far this season but can’t expect luck to last forever on that.
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horsforthmariner
February 2, 2024, 9:41am
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I basically agree with this.

Unlike previous windows we've secured players who are experienced but not old. We've shipped out players we all know would have gone in the summer and on paper we have the players to solve the defensive maladies (or should that be mularkies?) I think if you'd offer me this at the start (bar Conteh) I'd have been reasonably happy and lets be frank we couldn't do anything about Conteh.
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sam gy
February 2, 2024, 10:09am
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I'm content. We needed better full backs and a new option in centre mid and we've got that - they're all experienced in playing higher too.

Attacking wise we are more than ok, as demonstrated against Notts.

Just need Pyke and Arthur to get fit as i really thought they both shone in those first few games under Artell.


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AdamHaddock
February 2, 2024, 10:24am

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I'm happy overall but was hoping for another centre back.


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February 2, 2024, 10:26am
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Ultimately this was a functional window. A year ago, I think we were all a little bit disappointed that we hadn’t signed that elusive striker who might fire us into the play-offs (though George Lloyd was better than most, myself included, expected), but the reality is we’re not there now. As depressing as it is, this season isn’t about looking forward but simply about avoiding relegation.

Let’s get to the shore and then we can do the post-mortem of this season in the summer.


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Nelly GTFC
February 2, 2024, 10:31am
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How I felt once a right back was brought in at the dying minutes.



Performance / Top Scorers / Assists / Discipline - Grimsby Town Statistics >> https://www.espn.co.uk/football/team/squad/_/id/386/eng.grimsby
Form Over Last 10 Games - Grimsby Town >> https://www.footballwebpages.co.uk/grimsby-town/form-guide/ten
Player Contracts - Grimsby Town >> http://codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?article=4202
Links on football clubs inc Grimsby Town >> https://footballclubforums.com/
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fishcake63
February 2, 2024, 9:31pm
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lol
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We shall see . Fingers crossed Rose stays fit


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On paper it looks like we have done pretty good business. Fingers crossed that it works on grass.
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