Any team news yet?

no change from last week I think but Scott Brown on the bench

Same team

Tune in number any one?

bbc live event 17

Live event 17 apparently

Thank you Beijing, typed at the same time  ;)

:-) i doubt it, it's 22:55 here :-)

Disley sounds a good lad, giving a good interview here.

C,Mon Town let's make it 6 wins on the trot in the league!

have we scored yet?

Three smoke bombs in the opening couple of minutes... stupidity.

not in this....need to step it up

Some of our fans should be banned for them smoke bombs, just a disgrace.

John Tondeur reckons 500-600 Town fans. WOW!

barnet 1 up
torquay 1 up

a shot

sounds like we need to calm the game down a bit

14: Arnold latches onto a loose header and fires towards goal but it is gather by Coburn

On BBC news, large explosion at Lincoln City, game been called off.

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

On BBC news, large explosion at Lincoln City, game been called off.

It was in the sauna at lincolns hotel.

Is Kerr our Albatross

Well done you bellends with your smoke bombs, actually stopped one of our attacks. Ban the fecking idiots.

stewards piling in..trouble

What idiots are throwing smoke bombs on the pitch? unbelievable!!

For contractual reasons, BBC Radio Humberside won't play in Australia.  Miserable so and sos.  Listened 100s times before :-(

FFS, if anyone can find the imbecile who threw a smoke bomb onto the pitch, can we put them in stocks?

Barnet now 2 up  :(

Humberside back on.  Woohoo!

wrexham 1 down at Braintree, maybe this is the season they implode

Quoted from CairnsMariner

Humberside back on.  Woohoo!

:-) feels good, eh? are you sing a vpn, Cairns?

sounds more like it, SCotty fighting for his place

Sounds a bit scrappy but town coming back into it, be nice to Nick a goal before half time!

need to step this up, and take it by the scruff of the neck....a must win game

How difficult can it be to identify the people who chuck these smoke bombs and point them out to the police?

These morons are going to end up costing us points and money.  Ban them for life.  They can't say they haven't been warned.

I think we will, I think it will be Shop

George Kerr:"you'll have to slap my face to keep me awake"
JT:"It will be my pleasure George" :-)

Quote from George Kerr "It's one of those games John were you will have to slap my face to keep me awake".  ;D

Telford pull 1 back shocker!

Quoted from BeijingMariner

:-) feels good, eh? are you sing a vpn, Cairns?

Don't know if it's the time (1.40am) here, or that that message didn't actually make sense, but I've no idea what you're talking about  :)

Quoted from BeijingMariner

George Kerr:"you'll have to slap my face to keep me awake"
JT:"It will be my pleasure George" :-)

I was brought up under the success of Newman and Kerr. My first thought was that if he doesn't like it why doesnt he sodomist off and let somebody with half an interest in their old club have a go. He was so pro Scunny in the cup matches last year I lost respect for him as a co-commentator/expert summariser then.

We need Clay or Brown on second half for Pell and Disley

Quoted from CairnsMariner

Don't know if it's the time (1.40am) here, or that that message didn't actually make sense, but I've no idea what you're talking about  :)

feels good to get the commentary back, I was asking if you are using a VPN (virtual private network) to allow you to get BBC ....i live in Beijing and cannot get the bbc normally because the bbc dont allow you to access it overseas

Clay and Brown both been really energetic all year up to now. I can't understand leaving them out when they're both fit.

not good enough..not nearly good enough

Half time 0.0

Quoted from tashee69

I was brought up under the success of Neman and Kerr. My first thought was that if he doesn't like it why doesnt he sodomist off and let somebody with half an interest in their old club have a go. He was so pro Scunny in the cup matches last year I lost respect for him as a co-commentator/expert summariser then.

plus he sounds either bored or dunk or both, usually. still prefer him to Alan Bloody Buckley though :-)

Not sure about Pell and Disiey needs a break

Quoted from Garth

We need Clay or Brown on second half for Pell and Disley

You want to take two men off and bring one on?

I'd get Disley off at half time for Brown, partly because the game is passing him by and partly because he's on a yellow. I'd consider giving Pell another ten minutes and if he doesn't step it up, introduce Brown. I'd also be tempted to go at these. Possibly sacrifice Arnold for Pittman, two up top with Neilson behind them and get the width from the full backs pushing up. A midfield three of Clay, Brown and Parslow is more than enough men in the middle against this lot.

Quoted from BeijingMariner

feels good to get the commentary back, I was asking if you are using a VPN (virtual private network) to allow you to get BBC ....i live in Beijing and cannot get the bbc normally because the bbc dont allow you to access it overseas

Aha.  Now I understand. Actually, I'm just on bbc.com/sport. Wouldn't play directly through radio Humberside, but did on the main site.  Don't understand but not complaining.

George Kerr is unintelligible.  Is he drunk?

I don't get this obsession with having ex-players and managers as summarisers.  I'd rather listen to Henry Winter, Guillen Balague and Gabriel Marcotti over Clarke Carlisle and Garth Crooks any day.

come on town

Steven Gillespie made 3 fouls in 10 mins  Disley makes 1 and is booked pefft.


HT: GTFC 0 AFC 0 - Town have had the better of the first half with Arnold and Neilson both testing home keeper Coburn


3:45 PM

1 min add on

3:41 PM

41: Another long period of GTFC possession ends with a cross being cleared as far as Pell, who fires over from 20 yards

3:38 PM

38: Another Magnay cross is cleared, this time as far as Parslow. His 25 yard effort is over the bar 

3:32 PM

32: Magnay cross is cleared as far as Neilson, his left foot half volley is well gathered by Coburn

3:31 PM

30: Extended period of GTFC possession ends with Neilson working an opening but his shot is straight at Coburn

3:23 PM

22: Arnold receives a corner back, his cross is met by Arnold but Pearson's header is easy for Coburn

3:20 PM

19: Flare from the #GTFC end causes a halt in play

Why does Kerr commentate - he doesn't learn or know many of our team player names and just sounds disinterested, or still drunk !!

Bring back Bill Brewster - excellent commentary alongside John Tondeur last time out !

Quoted from acko338

Why does Kerr commentate - he doesn't learn or know many of our team player names and just sounds disinterested, or still drunk !!

Bring back Bill Brewster - excellent commentary alongside John Tondeur last time out !

Brewster,definitely, good call

Glad I never went by the sounds of this....

Brewster could be playing some decent tunes while the match is not prime listening material :-)

Toto really hasn't been as wildly good as the hype before the signing, has he? or is it just me? never sounds consistently good and quite often makes some dodgy calls....?

Need a change in midfield by the hour mark - don't want Disley sent off and not really dominating the game for Town.

Speed up the approach play with Brown , perhaps ?

C,Mon Town let's create something and get something out of this, wonder how long before Paul makes a change.

Quoted from BeijingMariner

Toto really hasn't been as wildly good as the hype before the signing, has he? or is it just me? never sounds consistently good and quite often makes some dodgy calls....?

Have you seen our clean sheet record? What else would you have the defence's performance measured by?

Quoted from acko338

Need a change in midfield by the hour mark - don't want Disley sent off and not really dominating the game for Town.

Speed up the approach play with Brown , perhaps ?

agreed

Quoted from BeijingMariner

Toto really hasn't been as wildly good as the hype before the signing, has he? or is it just me? never sounds consistently good and quite often makes some dodgy calls....?

he is rubbish

Neilson failing to impress again...............

Brown on for Pell
Clay on for Disley

new middle.....still waiting to see this change in gear

fluff me...first to make a positive substitution

Hopefully that will spear us on now, C,Mon Town we want 3 points.

Glad to see the changes, we have the quality on the bench use them

lets see if Hurst sticks to his own words and uses Hannah to give us a goal from the bench when we need one.....

George Kerr must have had a few sherbets before the game!  ;D

Good save by their keeper from Arnold.

64: AFC Subs: Reeves and Williams for Lawrie and Gillespie GTFC

4:18 PM

60: GOAL DISALLOWED! John-Lewis plants a header home from Parslow's cross but the striker is offside

4:17 PM

59: GTFC Subs: Brown and Clay for Disley and Pell

4:14 PM

56: The first home effort of note comes from Lawrie who li

This is better!

get in from 30 yards

lovely, cant wait to see that one!

flipping get in

Get in! Arnold

Arnold screamer!

A stonker.

Get in there.

Brilliant!

now all we need is Telford to pull another one out of the bag at Barnet :-)

WHOOP WHOOP !!! now let's put it to bed... properly !!!

Heed and Brizzle still drawing their games

Different game now.

Chester 1-0 Gateshead

That puts us five points clear of 3rd

Chester beating heed!

Quoted from AdamHaddock

Chester 1-0 Gateshead

That puts us five points clear of 3rd

Great news!

come on Town, let's not be silly

A telford equaliser is what we need now and it would be an overall great day for us

Bristol Rovers losing

19 minutes left, another one please chaps

1181

1881

C,Mon Town! Hold on for the win.  :o

Here we go again last 10 minutes of panic listening to JT

Torquay 3 - FGR 3 L

all altrincham now big last few minutes

Is George Kerr drunk ? Cos he talks shite like me when I am

Come on Town lets get the points

Booo
Barnet 3 - Telford 1 L

ffs Town get it sorted

on the cards....absolutely shokcing

Why oh why oh why

God damn

poor defending!

How frustrating (anger3)

no

that is poor, PH was saying how we were defending too deep 2nd half against Halifax, poor, this is exactly when we need to capitolise

to allow that to happen against a part time team.....totally unnaceptable

FFS

Quoted from BeijingMariner

that is poor, PH was saying how we were defending too deep 2nd half against Halifax, poor, this is exactly when we need to capitolise

we defend too deep because of the lack of confidence in Nsiala...a total weak link

2 points dropped through Poor defending, really frustrating!

Bristol Rovers 1 Kiddy 1 L

Nsiala again....for christ sake get flipping rid

If you allow that sort of pressure instead of finishing the game off then you're eventually pay the price. So preventable and even more frustrating. :-(

Toto needs benching for the foreseeable future, awful game

Thanks George Kerr and By By

absolute disgrace, yet again an inability to beat a side in the lower reaches of the division.

Nsiala is a disgrace of a footballer. not good enough for Sunday League, the priority has to be a centre half to allow the midfiled to play with confidence.

Well at least we stay unbeaten, feel frustrated though because we had a chance to pull away.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/R4hux.gif[/img]

Not the end of the world.  Win at home and draw away = champions.

We lost 2 points because of Parslow's pathetic clearance. He was garbage in midfield today. Should only play as a back up defender. If he could kick a ball into space instead of right back to their player we'd be on a 6 game winning streak now.

Not enough firepower in the side. Two draws with Altrincham says it all, not to mention all the other poor sides who have taken points from us.

Very disappointing.

Oh well, at least I've got the England game to watch to cheer me up following failure in the rugby and the Mariners dropping their points.  :o

Get Nsiala out of this club and do it Now...a total liability

intercourse off Bruce.

Quoted from Bruce Springsteen

Get Nsiala out of this club and do it Now...a total liability

Oh pipe down you idiot you weren't even there today. Nsiala was excellent - as were all the back 4. Parslow is the only player who cost us a goal today.

Quoted from Bruce Springsteen

Get Nsiala out of this club and do it Now...a total liability

Do you go to any games?  

Nsiala has been good in some games lets not take our frustration out on town.  We've beaten teams down below, ok its frustrating but we should have extended our lead with the chances we had.   We are still unbeaten and in a good position.  We go again.

bloody daft... two points dropped... feel like we've lost tbh! should be pickin up 3 against altrincham

on a lighter note, if you read the bbc text commentary it'd appear john-lewis has been taking some specialist training sessions from Hannah:

"86:15: Offside, Grimsby Town. Lenell John-Lewis tries a through ball, but Lenell John-Lewis is caught offside."

Quoted from Bruce Springsteen

Get Nsiala out of this club and do it Now...a total liability

He's a Conference defender, not Bobby Moore FFS.

Quoted from ginnywings

He's a Conference defender, not Bobby Moore FFS.

wrong he isnt even that good

Amazing comments on here - we are the league's in form team and have dropped our first points in weeks and conceded first goal for weeks and people going on a rant!  Get some perspective people.  Gutting to concede late on but it's not a crisis.

Quoted from Bruce Springsteen

wrong he isnt even that good

Did you even read my post? He was EXCELLENT today. I was actually there watching with my eyes making a judgement first hand you total nonsense

You can not win every when it's only 1-0,

We are still that striker away from being a promotion side.

Somebody who will finish off sides when it's tight.

Steady on fishes, we have just come off the back of 5 straight wins. Yes it is disappointing to concede a late goal, but we have the best defensive record in the league. No team is going to win every game. Instead of pointing fingers we need to  regroup and go again next Sat and get behind the team.

The fans have so far blamed the defence, the midfield and the attackers. Disappointing result but we are still on a fantastic run.

Quoted from LondonMariner43

Amazing comments on here - we are the league's in form team and have dropped our first points in weeks and conceded first goal for weeks and people going on a rant!  Get some perspective people.  Gutting to concede late on but it's not a crisis.

This

Cheesed off to have dropped two points like that but I still think we'll catch Barnet. Kiddy next week, bring it on

Quoted from LondonMariner43

Amazing comments on here - we are the league's in form team and have dropped our first points in weeks and conceded first goal for weeks and people going on a rant!  Get some perspective people.  Gutting to concede late on but it's not a crisis.

Football for you.Ups and downs make it the game it is

You can always rely on some fishy folk to throw in the towel  or rant when we don't win..

nothing new going on here tonight at all...   :(

Quoted from Bruce Springsteen

wrong he isnt even that good

CAN EVERYONE PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THIS POSTER.

SORRY, STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND PAY ATTENTION TO HIM.

LOOK AT HIS POSTS PLEASE.

GIVE ATTENTION.

ISN'T HE OUTRAGOUS!?

Quoted from Bruce Springsteen

wrong he isnt even that good

I think you fancy Toto and you're being overly mean to him as a way of hiding it.

I know it's disapointing & frustrating to drop points against lower teams but we can't win every game and I'd rather we drop the points against lower teams & beat the teams up there with us. If we had let in a late equaliser against Halifax & beaten Altrincham there would be less complaints but we would still have the same number of points as we have tonight & Halifax would be a point closer to us.

Quoted from Bruce Springsteen

absolute disgrace, yet again an inability to beat a side in the lower reaches of the division.

Nsiala is a disgrace of a footballer. not good enough for Sunday League, the priority has to be a centre half to allow the midfiled to play with confidence.

And i thought i posted some excrement!

Do not worry Barnet will have a poor run sooner or later,

We are 3 points clear in 2nd place so nothing to be too disappointed about,

Back to winning ways next Saturday when I shall be in attendance.

Only caught very last bit of Hurst's interview but heard Kerr say he agreed with Hurst saying we dropped too deep.

To be fair you can't win them all but obviously the manner of it is frustrating for everyone.

I threw a note of caution in myself before the game...
http://www.thefishy.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1415777868/s-15/#num20

But to be fair these things happen too.
So disappointing on the day yes (partly due to Barnet not our fault), but not the end of the world.

3 points in front of Gateshead
8 league games unbeaten
To be fair it was a whisker to extending a fantastic winning league run !  :)

Let's just start learning a little, working at it (cutting them some slack may help !) and move on at home.
UTM

Positives we remain unbeaten, chasing teams haven't taken advantage. Slight negative decent away following and the buzz returning for a lot of people just slightly tarnished

UTM

Morons.. 15 goals conceded in 21 games.. Least in the division and we want to get rid of a first choice centre back. Jokers. Nsiala must have been portrayed badly on radio because he was alright from where I was standing.  Poor goal
In the respect Mckeown was screaming block the cross block the cross... And Leather was unmarked at the time.. But general deep defending cost us as a team not Nsiala.  Still second and 3 clear of 3rd with Barnet to play twice :) we go again... UTM

Quoted from Fcukthescunts

Positives we remain unbeaten, chasing teams haven't taken advantage. Slight negative decent away following and the buzz returning for a lot of people just slightly tarnished

UTM

Yes they must be disappointed - they're only human !
Hope Arnold's wonder goal helps ease their frustration.

Quoted from springstomind

Morons.. 15 goals conceded in 21 games.. Least in the division and we want to get rid of a first choice centre back. Jokers. Nsiala must have been portrayed badly on radio because he was alright from where I was standing.  Poor goal
In the respect Mckeown was screaming block the cross block the cross... And Leather was unmarked at the time.. But general deep defending cost us as a team not Nsiala.  Still second and 3 clear of 3rd with Barnet to play twice :) we go again... UTM

Well said,

We have always got to find a scapegoat,

Toto is a really good player at this level.

Horrible listrning to it when you just know whats going to happen . Repeat of the Halifax game , holding on , just . Didn't work today , seen it all before , very frustrating when we know we're better than this . Tough games coming up , think by Christmas we will know where we stand .

Quoted from grimsby pete

Well said,

We have always got to find a scapegoat,

Toto is a really good player at this level.

The scapegoat is Parslow since his inability to clear a ball when he had all day to do so cost us.

Quoted from Chrisblor

The scapegoat is Parslow since his inability to clear a ball when he had all day to do so cost us.

Still wouldn't want to see him scapegoated for an error. We all make mistakes. Was it reflective of his overall performance?

You could just as easily say that we should have finished one of our numerous chacnes and been 2-0 up, and therefore a mistake at the back would not have cost us the win.

Quoted from Chrisblor

The scapegoat is Parslow since his inability to clear a ball when he had all day to do so cost us.

I have yet to see a player who has not made a mistake in 60 years of watching football.

Quoted from MarinerWY

Still wouldn't want to see him scapegoated for an error. We all make mistakes. Was it reflective of his overall performance?

You could just as easily say that we should have finished one of our numerous chacnes and been 2-0 up, and therefore a mistake at the back would not have cost us the win.

I'm just annoyed about it because it was such a poor pass and easily preventable if he'd just put some effort into his clearance and punted it towards the corner flag so we could clear our lines. I didn't think he played particularly well, but then again I don't think he's a midfielder and would have started Clay instead if Hurst was insistent on playing a holding midfielder. He's solid enough defensively but poor with the ball at his feet and it cost us today.

Quoted from springstomind

Nsiala must have been portrayed badly on radio because he was alright from where I was standing.

I think JT said he left his man.

But whether it's true or not, agree with JT it's utterly ridiculous for callers to say "Worse ever player in a Town shirt" and concur with his general feeling of "shakes head in disbelief".

That said (leaving today aside), don't think Toto's necessarily shown he's been "100% rock solid" (tbf who is in any 1 game?) in every game this season either.

However whether Parslow or Magnay at CB would improve things long term is up for debate.
Because Oxford aside (won 1-0 today BTW ! (thumbup)) Toto must have doing something right during this long winning league run.
He's certainly been pushing for MOM in some games (IMO)

Defend from the front, stay tight in midfield, harass and challenge for the ball, keep up a high tempo.

All great cliches until a team packing midfield stifles the field.

Still hoping that Scott Brown regains full fitness to start games and boss the midfield soon - a piece that is missing at present, although 7 games unbeaten is still good going.

Onward !

Quoted from grimsby pete

Well said,

We have always got to find a scapegoat,

Toto is a really good player at this level.

Like the sentiments Pete

Quoted from grimsby pete

I have yet to see a player who has not made a mistake in 60 years of watching football.

Yeah fair enough. I've calmed down now anyway after watching the police herd 100 town fans onto the wrong platform at Stockport station when they were on the right one in the first place. A very loud chant of " YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING " towards the police has just started up ;D

Ridiculous assassination of Toto
I have to say I don't think he looks totally solid at times and he always looks like he wants 'to get a toe in' in the penalty area but he must be doing something right most weeks with our defensive record.
On this basis, no player is ever allowed to make a mistake and we should win every single game.

Altrincham sounded poor so perhaps it's more frustrating we didn't score a second, then the one bad mistake which is made does not cost us so much.
The result is everything - similar performance (from radio comm) to Braintree it seems, but we won that and everything is rosy

16pts from last 18 is excellent

Need to get a grip of reality - won home game and drew away; continue that and we won;t be far away

On the topic of Toto Nsiala, I've noticed he's picked up his 10th yellow card of this season, does this mean he's suspended for the next game (Confused)

I hope not.  (sad)

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

On the topic of Toto Nsiala, I've noticed he's picked up his 10th yellow card of this season, does this mean he's suspended for the next game (Confused)  I hope not.  (sad)

Two matches I think???

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

On the topic of Toto Nsiala, I've noticed he's picked up his 10th yellow card of this season, does this mean he's suspended for the next game (Confused)

I hope not.  (sad)

Quoted from BIGChris

Two matches I think???

Just looking here 10th yellow, arghh!  :o >> [url=http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=53085&season_id=144]http://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=53085&season_id=144[/url]

Quoted from BIGChris

Two matches I think???

Two games is correct.

I would be over the moon if we were in second place at Christmas, the fact we are now is a bonus IMO

This thread has some embarrassing shite on it, Nsiala had a decent game. We weren't at our best today but it's not the end of the world. I agree it was Parslow's poor clearance that kept us on the back foot. To be fair to Altrincham they deserved a point.  

Quoted from headingly_mariner

This thread has some embarrassing shite on it, Nsiala had a decent game. We weren't at our best today but it's not the end of the world. I agree it was Parslow's poor clearance that kept us on the back foot. To be fair to Altrincham they deserved a point.  

Only really from one poster, who I can't work out whether is a genuine poster or a troll.

Quoted from Chrisblor

I'm just annoyed about it because it was such a poor pass and easily preventable if he'd just put some effort into his clearance and punted it towards the corner flag so we could clear our lines. I didn't think he played particularly well, but then again I don't think he's a midfielder and would have started Clay instead if Hurst was insistent on playing a holding midfielder. He's solid enough defensively but poor with the ball at his feet and it cost us today.

Appreciate your support today and share some of your disappointment and frustration.

But tbh, it feels a little late to object about "who should've started" now. (IMO !)

Perhaps you should have posted your fears BEFORE on "Team for Altrincham" ?

I noticed you posted your preference for Neilson on "Team for Halifax".
Maybe Hurst heard you before but didn't this time and might have done again if you had ? Who can really say for sure...
Same as Big Chris seemed to get things fairly spot on in HIS selection v Halifax, credit to many others (including yourself) for guessing correctly saying Neilson should have started too.

But all this "if Hurst was insistent on" well, I'm afraid you pick your own XI.
You don't wait for Hurst to pick his team before deciding on yours ?

That said, there's AMPLE opportunity to state fears + preferences for certain positions and formations (and let's be fair "holding midfielder" is hardly new) in same thread before the game kicks off too.

FWIW I think Clay could fit into the "holding midfielder" position in the future too !

I'd seriously encourage you to post (preferably your full XI) because I honestly believe it's possible the club could genuinely benefit from these suggestions. (perhaps some won't agree however !)

And same way players make mistakes, surely no-one is ever expecting anyone to be Alex Ferguson (or Hurst) and get it right every time either.
Not that many people's ever get picked anyway with 11 players but there's always room to share preferences, fears and ideas.

Now whether Hurst should or shouldn't listen to fans (assuming he reads the fishy anyway !) is another question.
But facts are, you've every opportunity to post your team and preferences beforehand.
So there's no need to necessarily object or complain after.
  
While posting all these painful (but seemingly necessary) long posts to point out the bleedin' obvious might good enough reason to just stop, I continue to be very grateful to the fishy and to Rob (thankyou BTW !) for all his continual hard work (does such a great job !) and the opportunity to read and contribute as a mere fan looking on from the outside.

I honestly think it's quite a privilege really !

Hurst holds numerous coaching licences and manages a professional football club.  

Quoted from MarinerWY

Only really from one poster, who I can't work out whether is a genuine poster or a troll.

is that me? I ask because I said I thought he should be benched....I wasnt there so I don't know but going by JT's commentary he had a poor game, plenty of mistakes to choose from and to be honest, listening to all the matches I didnt pick up that he had lived up to the hype, that's all. Does that make me a troll?

Oh, I just re-read, you mean Bruce Spingsteen. Hm, no idea.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

And i thought i posted some excrement!

Well said ;)