“If” Artell does go…..

Quoted from Poojah

I think we all know that Stockwood’s inference is that “the Grimsby way” is a nod to the Buckley football of the late 80s and 90s, with the club consistently punching above its weight and not just beating much bigger clubs on a regular basis, but playing them off the park.

But the simple notion that Buckley teams were solely about sexy, pass and move football overlooks one important thing. His teams were always full of grit. Yes, you had to be able to play a bit, but those teams had players who were, to all intents and purposes, as hard as nails. Livvo, Groves, Cunnington, Lever, Rees, Pouton, just off the top of my head.

Not withstanding the fact we can’t currently do the tippy tapping stuff very well either, this is a huge part of the Grimsby identity that is completely missing at the moment. Blundell Park is a place that will always respond positively to effort and commitment, and we saw none of that yesterday, with the notable exception of Danny Rose. Other than him, I don’t see anyone I’d want beside me in the trenches.

It doesn’t matter what brand of football you try to play, we are absolutely spineless. Like some invertebrate, football playing bowl of primordial soup. For as long as that remains the case, we will remain in deep, deep trouble.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Been saying since October that this set are complete fannies. Up until this season Hurst’s sides had heart & resilience and a few lads away from whoever was skipper willing to take accountability. Whether that was by upping the work rate, directing others around the park or just being a Max style sh1touse when required.

Regardless of the outcome of this season I wouldn’t want to see any of the current out of contract players here next season, and a few contracted ones need to consider if they truly want to be here.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

But not only are we playing as a poor team we are also probably the smallest and least physical side I have ever seen town put out so set pieces are not a real goal threat when we are attacking and conversely they are massive when we are defending.

Worrying times.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Think people are forgetting how new Shaun is to coaching.

Quoted from grimsby pete

Every man who has managed a club never had any experience of doing it before he actually did it.

Quoted from ginnywings

People keep saying Green is limited, but he looks head and shoulders better than Holohan, who can't control and pass a ball to save his life.

We looked much better with him in the middle and he very rarely gave the ball away.

Quoted from dapperz fun pub

I watched the intensity of the warm up shaun  was involved in , I have to say it was very one paced very similar to our overall performance.  

Quoted from chaos33

From what I was told, our budget is very average, at best. The irritating facts about that are doubly stark - firstly - we can’t compete to sign the best (or most expensive) players at this level, and that’s disappointing given our fan base, recent cup success revenue and the relative income we generate, but worse, there are plenty of clubs in L2 with smaller budgets and income streams that have found better players than ours. Found them, coached them, used them to greater effect. If you’re way behind Barrow, and Morecambe, and Harrogate, and Crawley etc…consistently and decisively behind that is, as in, not competitive with….then you’re getting very few things right.