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Quoted from Yoda

What worries me is once the first goal went in everyone in the stadium knew it was game over.

Everyone knew what we were up against and what we have against that, an exceptionally poor side that's bottom 3 team. We have a support base that's two leagues above the level of the team which is national league.

We've got some excrement for certain. A very, very poor Grimsby Town team. (66 yes young and following Town since I was 11-12)

I left at 90 min with a guy who had driven from Plymouth and was about to start his journey back.  
Reckon he put more effort into the game than our front two.

Subs too late. Vernam must be still unfit if Ubikwu gets to stay on. The lad has no clue how to find space, challenge for a header or drop into midfield to offer an option in transition. Wood and Gnouha  need to get way more game time in the next few games.

Quoted from Norseman

Thought Thompson ,Tharme and Mullarkey were the only players who came out of today with some credit .Wilson was feeding on scraps .Obikwu looked lost and the rest were just very poor when they needed to step up against a decent side .Not great but decent

Mullarky was good going forward.  Had the balls to take them on.  Others should be doing that job more.

Thompson didn't give in after the first goal was let in as a gift.
We need sort out the goalkeeper though as he's making the rest of the team nervous wrecks.
They were far better than us and our players recognised this from 10 minutes in.
Hate to state the obvious but if you don't spend decent money on the squad and are obsessed with wokery and gourmet sausage rolls instead this will be the outcome.

Quoted from Phil the cod

Thompson didn't give in after the first goal was let in as a gift.
We need sort out the goalkeeper though as he's making the rest of the team nervous wrecks.
They were far better than us and our players recognised this from 10 minutes in.
Hate to state the obvious but if you don't spend decent money on the squad and are obsessed with wokery and gourmet sausage rolls instead this will be the outcome.

And there I was sat thinking for once you where making sense until I read the cobblers you’d written at the end, you have sausage rolls living rent free in your head clearly 🙄

Having slept on it , I am not too worried about relegation as I think we will survive .

But , I'm certainly more worried long term about us being nothing more than lower league 2 cloggers and that being about our limit in the current climate , with our current circumstances and ideal of doing it in a sustainable way .

There are anomalies who do well on limited budgets but even those (look at the bottom of league 1) , Sutton in league 2 and Rotherham in The Champ ; their time runs out and they revert to their natural level or worse .

It doesn't matter how  many 7 or 8k attendances you get as it only touches the sides of what investors/owners are willing to throw at these bankrolled clubs .

I feel we need more investment badly both on and off the pitch if we are going to go on any sort of consistent upward trajectory ; if we keep trying to do things the ethical and sustainable way in terms of not raising any investment and running at break even /a small loss I get the feeling we will just kick around the lower reaches until more well funded clubs bypass us and we end up back in nl once more in a few years .

I'm hoping Stockwood & Pettit have irons in the fire and recognise a lot of fans only care for what happens on a Saturday rather than all the small gains .

Quoted from Plankton

Everyone knew what we were up against and what we have against that, an exceptionally poor side that's bottom 3 team. We have a support base that's two leagues above the level of the team which is national league.

This, the home fan base has been great a real cross section of die hards, frequent visitors & kids. Feels like once again we’re missing an opportunity to capitalise on great engagement.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

And there I was sat thinking for once you where making sense until I read the cobblers you’d written at the end, you have sausage rolls living rent free in your head clearly 🙄

Sausage rolls live rent free in my head but mainly because I’m a bit of a fat illegitimate

Quoted from Mappers

Having slept on it , I am not too worried about relegation as I think we will survive .

But , I'm certainly more worried long term about us being nothing more than lower league 2 cloggers and that being about our limit in the current climate , with our current circumstances and ideal of doing it in a sustainable way .

There are anomalies who do well on limited budgets but even those (look at the bottom of league 1) , Sutton in league 2 and Rotherham in The Champ ; their time runs out and they revert to their natural level or worse .

It doesn't matter how  many 7 or 8k attendances you get as it only touches the sides of what investors/owners are willing to throw at these bankrolled clubs .

I feel we need more investment badly both on and off the pitch if we are going to go on any sort of consistent upward trajectory ; if we keep trying to do things the ethical and sustainable way in terms of not raising any investment and running at break even /a small loss I get the feeling we will just kick around the lower reaches until more well funded clubs bypass us and we end up back in nl once more in a few years .

I'm hoping Stockwood & Pettit have irons in the fire and recognise a lot of fans only care for what happens on a Saturday rather than all the small gains .

In terms of actual league placings we are no better off than with Fenty, which is not something I thought I would write. Doing nothing substantial but keeping the costs down has been equally successful as doing lots but not spending substantially more on top players is giving us similar outcomes.

I was member a hoop when the new owners came in, but unless we are going to make really substantial improvements to BP, or actually get a new training facility then everything should be focused on getting better players in during the summer.

If long term plans are just that, then bobbing along in the lower reaches of league 2 or worse won't keep the fans enthused enough.