Any team news yet?

Is it on humberside fm?

Quoted from Neilo83

Is it on humberside fm?

Yes, I'm listening to it now.

News: The chippy outside the ground is superb. Not too many here just yet - sounds like the traffic around Manchester isn't great.

Same starting 11 and subs.

Quoted from Chrisblor

News: The chippy outside the ground is superb. Not too many here just yet - sounds like the traffic around Manchester isn't great.

Same starting 11 and subs.

Is the team bus there yet ? ;)

4-1 we only win 4-1...  ;D

Hope you all have a good night and Town get the win.

Had a hunch that Pearson would be brought back in but obviously not. I know that Gowling & Toto have done nothing wrong but I still think Pearson is our best defender.

Quoted from MeanwoodMariner

Had a hunch that Pearson would be brought back in but obviously not. I know the Gowling & Toto have done nothing wrong but I still think Pearson is our best defender.

I'm sure the first one to make a big mistake, Pearson will replace them, more of an incentive to not doing anything wrong, very clever from Hurst I think.

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GTFC fans today!

Come on Town!!!

Many Town fans there?

Oh how I wish I was in Altrincham now! Come on Town!

Lincoln 1-0 down

Lincoln 2-0 down!

McKeown; Tait, Gowling, Nsiala, East; Arnold, Clay, Disley, Monkhouse; Amond, Bogle

Subs: Robertson, Pearson, Mackreth, Clifton, Venney.

Right we've had 2 warnings now about Rankine or Wankine as Big Chris called him.

Wake up call ignored.

3rd game 3rd sloppy goal conceded :-/

Sounds a disputable goal but we've conceded again

Quoted from RoboCod

3rd game 3rd sloppy goal conceded :-/

Think you mean 4th game / 4th sloppy goal

Still plenty of time to make amends though

First bl****  goal they've scored this season.

Well now we find out what these boys are made of.

Give corners away, will concede from one of them.  Don't give the poor officials a chance to "do us".

And some ppl wonder why we are worried about our defence conceding, Big test for us now, but we can do it!  Come on Town!

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

Think you mean 4th game / 4th sloppy goal

Still plenty of time to make amends though

Indeed I did. Worrying that we are still making slow starts, still not defending corners.

Sorry Big Chris..... I've tried , there's just something about Tondeur... I've had to turn him off...

C,Mon Town!

Not really in this one at all are we?  :-/

Lincoln with 2 back, both Hearn

That man Hearn with a brace for Lincoln bringing them level 😐
C'mon town

intercourse hearn. He's history. Focus on GTFC

Linesman an Altrincham supporter?

Lincoln make it 3 with Rhead. We're still labouring...

This sounds terrible

Jokes about Ted Moult. Ga'rn. Everest JT.

Quoted from RoboCod

Lincoln 2-0 down!

Now they're 3-2 up  :-/

A goals coming, I can feel it in my bones.  ;)

Sound like we're trying and things are just not clicking/falling into place for us.

Town fans very quiet.

Bogle sounds busy but the rest of the forward line don't sound in it. Don't know what's happened to Arnolds pre-season form.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

A goals coming, I can feel it in my bones.  ;)

Keeping my fingers crossed....

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Town fans very quiet.

Must be all STH's......  ;)

That was close for Town.

I guess its occasions like this when the strength on the bench tells and the injuries come home to roost

Need at least a point tonight

Get in !!!!!!!
Bogle

There it is! Bogle

Yes!

Bogle you star!!

Come on

♫♪ Omar, Omar Omar, Omar Omar BOGLE!♫♪ Get in there!!!!

Omarrrrr   :) :)

Goooooal 1-1 UTM BOGLE

Now we've started!

UTM

Omar Omar Omar Omar Omar Bogle

These officials decisions sound bizarre!

Omar, Omar Omar!!!!

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

♫♪ Omar, Omar Omar, Omar Omar BOGLE!♫♪ Get in there!!!!

What he said!

Quoted from MidnightMariner

Get in !!!!!!!
Bogle

This post appeared fully a minute before he scored on my commentary. I thought you'd gone mad!!!

There's only one winner now and that's the mighty Mariners! ;)

Praise the Lord!

Sounds like we've jumped in to life, just before half time unfortunately :(

Sounds like we finished the half well on top, let's get an early goal in the second half and go on and get the 3 points.

I don't get the panick, we only win 4-1  right?

Character is a new test for us this season.  

The usual very bad decision from the officials as well. The officials were NOT equally inept to both teams for their goal.

Linesman should have gone to Specsavers!

Quoted from buckstown

This post appeared fully a minute before he scored on my commentary. I thought you'd gone mad!!!

There is a delay on the commentary, i was still listening to the match commentary but on Flashscores it said half-time.

Quoted from speedy

I don't get the panick, we only win 4-1  right?

Can we get 3 more 2nd half 😃
I would happily settle for 1 more if it means 3pts 👍🏼

UTM

Can I remind the more reactionary fans that a game is 90 minutes long (at least).  We will not go through the season scoring two in the first ten minutes then showboating until the final whistle.  Alty are a bogey team, beat them tonight and we exorcise a demon.

Have faith, chill and enjoy the ride. x

Quoted from cmackenzie4

There's only one winner now and that's the mighty Mariners! ;)

Pleas don't say that mate! #Jinxed haha!

Get in, know we are good enough but always worry that we will be frustrated, now lets go on and take this game over!

Brother in law says we were pathetic for 40 minutes, made Alty look quite good.
Suppose the test is how well PH can sort it out

Quoted from promotion plaice

There is a delay on the commentary, i was still listening to the match commentary but on Flashscores it said half-time.

Yeah, but he's at the match!

Have noticed a delay on the games last season, guess its in case somone says something on air that they shouldn't.

Are Altrincham full time?

John Tondeur ‏@JohnTondeur 4m4 minutes ago

Video crew say Altrincham goal not over line but Disley pulled back their player as he went to shoot and should have been a pen. #gtfc

post sodomist

That was close,

35 yard shot hit the post!  Much better!

All Town at the minute.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

That was close,

What was close?????

Quoted from Teesknees

What was close?????

52: OFF THE WOODWORK! Bogle with a brilliant 35-yard free kick is so unlucky to see it rebound off the frame of the goal

Mckeown FFS

FFS

Massive work on defense needed

intercourse sake macca

What happened

What !!!!!! 2-1 another sloppy mistake.

Come on Town, this is still here for the taking.

UTM

McKeown with the simple things again. 1 chance in the game, basically, and we are 2-1 down.

McKeown, rapidly turning into Dracula!!!

McKeown Has been excrement since we blew the money on a goalkeeping coach, about time he had some competition.

Was just thinking how we could go top with a win,  bollox

I'm not superstitious but i sometimes think we are jinxed somehow.

AnotherTown keeper-related "own-goal".

They have not scored before this game this season.

We are scoring more goals this season but are not as tight at the back.

Sort it Town!!!

John akin de puts Barnet 1 up.youll be amazed to learn it was a penalty!

This team getting found out tonight and we haven't even played a team you could call good one yet.

This forum is hilarious, we will be world beaters in 10 minutes!!

Sound like Macca is emptying his good will account week after week at the moment!

If only he had to fight for his place.........

Quoted from GyMariner

This forum is hilarious, we will be world beaters in 10 minutes!!

Just frustration - but it's a long season

Jesus lads steady on,  not at the game and sounds a poor goal to concede but seems like we are more than just in this game. Come on Town

Lets get Shaun on see if he can sort Rankine

Bet Sean Pearson must think he'll be back in the side on Saturday given the defence seem to be under-performing tonight

Sounds like they're on top to be honest

The part timers are all over us, time to bring on Pearson and steady the defence before number 3 goes in, at least salvage our goal difference,

Att:1680 with 825 traveling Mariners.

Fantastic support, well done

UTM

Hearn hat trick. 5-2 now to Lincoln

Agree Pearson should be on but Macca seems to have lost confidence maybe it's me but it could be the illness, struggling to get his head right I dunno. He has said he loved having a coach to help him but it ain't showing he looks a shadow of the keeper last season.

That 2nd goal has given them the momentum now. Can see them putting this game to bed.  Against the more primitive teams you need to get your foot it, dominate and boss it.  

God knows what'll happen when we play a decent side  :-/

Whatever happens over the next 20 mins, we have been very poor as a team.  We have set high standards this season.

Fix it Hurst and maybe bring in a couple of new faces. (For striker and midfield options).

(Their supporter who forecast a 5-0 home defeat was somewhat wide of the mark!).  That is football.

Forest Green score....

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Agree Pearson should be on but Macca seems to have lost confidence maybe it's me but it could be the illness, struggling to get his head right I dunno. He has said he loved having a coach to help him but it ain't showing he looks a shadow of the keeper last season.

Won a good portion of the friendlies with the coach in goal. I thought Macca was a bit shaky last season and cost us 2 or 3 goals. Perhaps he needs to be out of the firing line for a while. Better goalies than him have lost their confidence before now.

Hearn looks like he is hitting form at just the right time Lincoln away should be interesting. I thought he may be spent but obviously not. Ross Hannah too excrement knew we would regret that one.

What's going on?

80: Altrincham player has gone down heavily. The Town players' reactions close to the incident suggests it is serious. Stretcher coming on

=\

Tranmere winning.calvin andrew pulls one back for rochdale

Sounds like someone is very badly injured and they cant work out who it is

Quoted from RoboCod

Forest Green score....

With their only shot on target and opposition have a player sent off again

Quoted from speedy

80: Altrincham player has gone down heavily. The Town players' reactions close to the incident suggests it is serious. Stretcher coming on

=\

Grimsby Town FC ‏@officialgtfc now

81: Tom Marshall is the player down. Looks like he has twisted something as he turned. This will be a lengthy stoppage #Alty #GTFC

Bet we don't get the full injury time out of this ref

We need to back up to the mark on Sat!

Tondeur is a gibbering idiot, really painful to listen to him, does he actually get paid for this shite?

Expect a couple of signings next week lol we have had 14 shots 4 on target

Quoted from Madeleymariner

With their only shot on target and opposition have a player sent off again

Must be nice...

10 added minutes ;D

10 mins added time

Just takes a second to score

could be 5 points behind already by the end of tonight

Glad i was wrong

Disappointing night - maybe good to get an early kick up the backside

10 mins injury time    hope

And?  intercourse you're negative

Don't panic Captain Mainwaring!

Quoted from LondonMariner43

Disappointing night - maybe good to get an early kick up the backside

Some said that after Kiddy.  :-/

It's so disappointing that this Town team, so packed with pace and power still haven't got some extra gear to step up to in situations like this.
'Too many players under par' say the commentators! Not good enough, same old season shaping up.

Ollie Palmer scores for orient. Woking score a late winner at Torquay.turning out to be a v bad night

Quoted from RoboCod

It's so disappointing that this Town team, so packed with pace and power still haven't got some extra gear to step up to in situations like this.
'Too many players under par' say the commentators! Not good enough, same old season shaping up.

Bad night by all accounts.Hopefully the last

Quoted from RoboCod

It's so disappointing that this Town team, so packed with pace and power still haven't got some extra gear to step up to in situations like this.
'Too many players under par' say the commentators! Not good enough, same old season shaping up.

Red crosses for that ?? Bollox...

Who had money on town going unbeaten all season!!!

Why can't we beat Alty or Southport? It's baffling.

Why do Town nearly always disappoint me, very frustrated :-\

Quoted from LondonMariner43

Disappointing night - maybe good to get an early kick up the backside

2nd. First was at Kiddy

Quoted from gytone

Why do Town nearly always disappoint me, very frustrated :-\

Because..... :)

At least Pearson is not picking up bookings early this season (by not playing much).  Got to take the small positives where you can.

I've not listened but just looked at the BBC stats at half-time.

Have we actually managed to have a shot on target in the second half?

Don't know, but there's no hiding place with expectations as they are. Not good enough. In fact, pretty p1$$ poor in many respects.

Gap to FGR at the top is a worry.

Losing 2-1 to the bottom team is a poor result at any time. PH needs to give out some tough words.

Gutted

Think someone killed a unicorn or summat.

Quoted from RoboCod

Red crosses for that ?? Bollox...

Agree Robo .Sooner the forum is changed the better.Eg ticks and crosses for one post and not cumulative.Think ours is the only club forum that works like this

See you all in a few days

Nothing has changed title contenders my bottom, another Hurst team with playoff hopefuls written all over them.

Mckeown is keen to get the point

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

At least Pearson is not picking up bookings early this season (by not playing much).  Got to take the small positives where you can.

He was only booked 9 times last season. That's less than Gowling and a lot less than Toto!

I was quite impressed as to how he improved his discipline last year.

Quoted from chaos33

Don't know, but there's no hiding place with expectations as they are. Not good enough. In fact, pretty p1$$ poor in many respects.

Gap to FGR at the top is a worry.

Aye, we let Barnet get away last season and couldn't catch them despite beating them twice.

We need to get out and sign a couple of players. Nowt on the bench for games like this when too many are under par.

First away defeat in the league since Lincoln last year I think?

In all honesty its not good enough. Need to win on Saturday

And as we've been saying (as well as Hurst, to be fair), we need to sort out the frigging defence!  :(

Prepare yourselves for the return of Bruce....

Pants, typical Town

Hope the players get a flipping roasting losing to bottom of the league who haven't won or scored a goal before playing us.

No excuses tonight.

Ah well, it's Town, i stopped getting my hopes up a while back. Que sera sera.

Quoted from Doctor Sanchez

First away defeat in the league since Lincoln last year I think?

No mate. Lost 2-1 at FGR

Bromley never came at us so it shows the players were probably still in slow mode plus its a long drive for a tuesday.  Anyway bad result but we go again.  I hope we see some new signings as its always Mackreth on for Monkhouse lol no bloody options.  C'mon Hurst we need more personnel.  

Mentality needs sorting and possibly more strength in depth needed in the squad

He seriously needs to be kicking some arses tonight in that dressing room !!
You just knew when they hasn't even scored all season that they'd stuff us

Quoted from ginnywings

Aye, we let Barnet get away last season and couldn't catch them despite beating them twice.

We need to get out and sign a couple of players. Nowt on the bench for games like this when too many are under par.

I agree. The signings should have been made by now though. It was a big gamble to go this far into the season with little cover or options from the bench and tonight that aspect has kicked us in the balls. That and too many below par performances. Everyone knows its early days but it really doean't bode well to lose in this way at the bottom club.

You've got to be able to get a result in these games. Luck has gone against us clearly, but we have come up short in the battle.

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

No mate. Lost 2-1 at FGR

Cheers, forgot about that one.  

Quoted from Grim74

Nothing has changed title contenders my bottom, another Hurst team with playoff hopefuls written all over them.

same old,same old

we all get too hopefull pre season,i don't like to say it but were a poor team and were no better than last season,altrincham are a terrible side and if we can't beat them we have no chance,play off hopefully----not in my opinion

Quoted from Meza

Bromley never came at us so it shows the players were probably still in slow mode plus its a long drive for a tuesday.  Anyway bad result but we go again.  I hope we see some new signings as its always Mackreth on for Monkhouse lol no bloody options.  C'mon Hurst we need more personnel.  

2 1/2 hours? As a passenger?

Quoted from Grim74

Nothing has changed title contenders my bottom, another Hurst team with playoff hopefuls written all over them.

same old,same old

we all get too hopefull pre season,i don't like to say it but were a poor team and were no better than last season,altrincham are a terrible side and if we can't beat them we have no chance,play off hopefully----not in my opinion

The only positive I can think of is that its shown us very early doors that we are lacking at least a couple of players, midfield and striker. We can't cope with a couple of injuries as we have nothing on the bench to change games that aren't going the way we want them too. The same could have been said of last season and Hurst did nothing until it was far too late. He's got no excuses this one but I'm sure he knows that already.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

2 1/2 hours? As a passenger?

It was raining too.  ;D

After saturday i was quite sure we could be champions after tonights showing i dont know what to believe.

Champions arent made in august but the majority of champions wouldnt lose at altrincham.

Quoted from ginnywings

It was raining too.  ;D

I knew they shouldn't try to save money on transport. That horse and cart were past it on Cleethorpes beach in 1970.

Very good point that Jonny- just seems like at the moment, we are gifting teams goals and we arent always going to score 4 and ultimately its cost us tonight

was this our statement of mediocrity to Tranmere, Forest Green, Eastleigh, Wrexham, Lincoln,?

It was inevitable that a lack of options on the bench would come to the fore sooner or later. Poor planning in my book and it was the same last season with not getting a goalscorer in quicker than we did. If you stand still you are going backwards.

Quoted from Hagrid

Very good point that Jonny- just seems like at the moment, we are gifting teams goals and we arent always going to score 4 and ultimately its cost us tonight

Mentality for me Hagrid is where the prob needs working on

It's the same every season , the other front runners always seem to continue going about their business beating the bottom half teams while we always seem to blow it.
We're now 5 points behind already which will be hard to make up against the likes of FGR and Tranmere.

Apart from Mansfield a few years ago most of the Champions have run away with this league from the start.
We are already chasing and have not even played anyone good yet

Quoted from grimps

It's the same every season , the other front runners always seem to continue going about their business beating the bottom half teams while we always seem to blow it.
We're now 5 points behind already which will be hard to make up against the likes of FGR and Tranmere.

Apart from Mansfield a few years ago most of the Champions have run away with this league from the start.
We are already chasing and have not even played anyone good yet

Iam still hopeful though grimps and will reserve judgement given more games of where we really stand

I've been supporting Town for nearly 30 years. I've felt like we can do something this year more than I have in a long time.
Yes we were excrement, but it's one game. In August.
They need a rocket up the bottom and Hurst needs to increase his  options.

Quoted from ginnywings

It was inevitable that a lack of options on the bench would come to the fore sooner or later. Poor planning in my book and it was the same last season with not getting a goalscorer in quicker than we did. If you stand still you are going backwards.

I suppose, on paper, Hurst has reckoned he's got enough to beat Altrincham, and its hard to disagree. Then the players went and showed him up.
Been saying for weeks and weeks that we needed another CM and another striker. We haven't signed them, and, in the first three games, we haven't really needed them evidently. Tonight, with few options for changing things, Hurst has left himself unable to react to lots of poor individual performances. We really have come unstuck.

Time to spend some of the war chest on a keeper, a replace not for Brown and a spare striker. Every team loses a game they should win now and again, move on and go again

Quoted from grimps

It's the same every season , the other front runners always seem to continue going about their business beating the bottom half teams while we always seem to blow it.
We're now 5 points behind already which will be hard to make up against the likes of FGR and Tranmere.

Apart from Mansfield a few years ago most of the Champions have run away with this league from the start.
We are already chasing and have not even played anyone good yet

Bet you n grim74 have got half a lob on with this defeat.just need to see Bruce Springsteen making a re appearance. Amazing how you hardly ever post after our victories

Quoted from ginnywings

It was inevitable that a lack of options on the bench would come to the fore sooner or later. Poor planning in my book and it was the same last season with not getting a goalscorer in quicker than we did. If you stand still you are going backwards.

Agreed, Hurst should give himself a telling off in the dressing room. The money is there i believe so use it.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Time to spend some of the war chest on a keeper, a replace not for Brown and a spare striker. Every team loses a game they should win now and again, move on and go again

I agree think Macca needs competition, and we are short of players, why this is the case after 4 games I don't know.

The young lads, Venney and Clifton, who are supposed to be very good prospects, are in danger of rigor mortice, if they don't get a chance soon.

After they apparently played really well in pre-season, the manager appears to be frightened of bringing them on.

We've been found out, that if we don't blitz a team first half, there's not a lot left in the tank for the second half.

There goes all the good will built up over the last few months :(

Would hardly say we've been found out??! We lost a game of football, yeah we shouldnt be losing to the likes of altrincham admittedly but i strongly disageee that we've been " found out"!

Yep time to spend some more of that 110 grand (100)

It is quite obvious we are a couple of players light with the injuries we have at the minute.This is where Hurst flaws show up,he should have brought two players in last week to give him options.Instead he froze,he needs to get on the telephone first thing tomorrow.

Yep time to spend some more of that 110 grand  :K)

Quoted from chaos33

I suppose, on paper, Hurst has reckoned he's got enough to beat Altrincham, and its hard to disagree. Then the players went and showed him up.
Been saying for weeks and weeks that we needed another CM and another striker. We haven't signed them, and, in the first three games, we haven't really needed them evidently. Tonight, with few options for changing things, Hurst has left himself unable to react to lots of poor individual performances. We really have come unstuck.

Yep, been saying the same about lack of options but hey ho, it's Hurst's job to sort it quickly. Still plenty of time.

Quoted from chicaneuk

There goes all the good will built up over the last few months :(

Tragically I think that will be the case to some extent, and that's a real shame.

Quoted from ginnywings

Yep, been saying the same about lack of options but hey ho, it's Hurst's job to sort it quickly. Still plenty of time.

We have if Hurst learns from this.

Bright side may mean some more tickets for Lincoln are avliable.

Down side, everything else, it is so frustrating to lose these games.  Just hope we learn and don't have this feeling again for a while.  Massive respect to the Town fans who went today, just gutted for them as they deserved better!

He did say the players he has seen are not good enough and struggling to find them.  I think thats piggy pooh.  Sometimes you can sign a player who had a shite season and go on to have the opposite and vice versa.

Very disappointed but i wasn't there so i don't know why we lost.  It could be that we didn't play that badly and deserved a draw so I'll wait for the just back thread as i dont trust Tondeurs commentary.

Quoted from friskneymariner

We have if Hurst learns from this.

Should have learnt from previous seasons but i think he is a bit pig headed to be honest.

He never learns that's why we have seen the same mistakes and the same result for the last four seasons

Putting Pearson up front demonstrates the lack of fit forward options.

Maybe get that big target bloke from Bristol Rovers?

Still need a CM.  The player from Oxford United?  (Ex Scunny so he knows this part of the country).

Personally, I'm just surprised how quickly the blame game has swung around so that everything is Hurst's fault all of a sudden. OK, the buck stops with the manager, but in the same way the players were mostly responsible for the decent performances this season, they also bear most of the blame for the poor performance tonight.

We could certainly do with another midfielder and striker available on the bench (when is Pittman due back?) but the fact remains that we've again lost points due to poor defending and individual errors of the sort which we rarely made during the second half of last season.

Sort out this problem and we'll start winning the points again.

Personally, I think our new more-expansive game has perhaps been a bit too open in the two home games I've seen when we've been lucky not to concede a couple more goals. We might get away with it at home, but 4 goals conceded in two games against weak opponents away from BP shows something needs to change.

I agree with a lot of the points made but it is depressing how the match thread after conecutive wins are half as long as the one after our defeat, particularly when on the whole we are agreeing.  

There is still plenty of time to turn this round but it is gutting to see our rivals pick up the points while we drop them to teams who are struggling again.  I think we can sort it out as clearly we have a lot more pace power and ability going forward this year, and our defence is strong personnel wise, we just need to translate that into solidity on the pitch.

I think the problems at the back will ease when Gregor is fully fit. Experienced head.

Very disappointing tonight but get back to winning on Saturday. Just hope we don't lose too much ground on FGR. Anyone but those fornicators.

Quoted from Meza

He did say the players he has seen are not good enough and struggling to find them.  I think thats piggy pooh.  Sometimes you can sign a player who had a shite season and go on to have the opposite and vice versa.

Very disappointed but i wasn't there so i don't know why we lost.  It could be that we didn't play that badly and deserved a draw so I'll wait for the just back thread as i dont trust Tondeurs commentary.

Big Chris agreed with him. He's not exactly an Eeyore like Tondeur.

Quoted from Maringer

Personally, I'm just surprised how quickly the blame game has swung around so that everything is Hurst's fault all of a sudden. OK, the buck stops with the manager, but in the same way the players were mostly responsible for the decent performances this season, they also bear most of the blame for the poor performance tonight.

We could certainly do with another midfielder and striker available on the bench (when is Pittman due back?) but the fact remains that we've again lost points due to poor defending and individual errors of the sort which we rarely made during the second half of last season.

Sort out this problem and we'll start winning the points again.

Personally, I think our new more-expansive game has perhaps been a bit too open in the two home games I've seen when we've been lucky not to concede a couple more goals. We might get away with it at home, but 4 goals conceded in two games against weak opponents away from BP shows something needs to change.

I don't personally think it's Hurst's fault per se - too many poor individual performances/errors and some questionable officiating have killed us tonight, but our need for another player or two, to enable us to provide competition, or impetus, or change from the bench is really something he carries the can for. His post match interview was fair enough. He didn't duck any issues - admits he's searching for a player or two, and mentioned that he hopes to have Marshall and JPP in contention for Saturday. He knows his players have let him down and he has clearly told them so!

Those criticising Hurst for a lack of signings need to remember his excellent track record with recruitment. One of the reasons for that is not panic buying. Imagine the reaction on here if he spent the op cash on a brodie type flop flop. Keep the faith

FFS from 2nd to 7th in a stroke............. And 7 points behind the leaders.

Sounds like 2 daft goals one the lino and the other Macca (again) and we had most of the possession.

What was that stat the losing play off finalists usually finish 8th?.

Obviously a flop flop is twice as bad as a flop

I've been out so don't know the full story...why was so much time added on?  I don't expect us to win every game but let's be honest, we will not get out of this league by losing to teams like Altrincham, feel free to x me

Quoted from HertsGTFC

FFS from 2nd to 7th in a stroke............. And 7 points behind the leaders.

Sounds like 2 daft goals one the lino and the other Macca (again) and we had most of the possession.

What was that stat the losing play off finalists usually finish 8th?.

5 points but otherwise yeah, FFS.

Just listened to the interview on audioboo and thought Hurst actually sounded relatively positive about the attacking, if not the goals conceded!

Will be interesting to hear what the 'Just Back' folks say about the performance.

For me, I thought we looked so much better at the back once Robertson arrived last season that I think he'll help tighten things up when he returns to the team. Then it will be up to Hurst to decide whether East or Tait gets the right-back role.

If Brown is going to be out for another month or two as seems probable, we'll certainly need to get a midfielder in either on loan or permanently. I think the young lads on the bench are decent enough footballers but are lacking the physique to deal with tough away games at the moment so a more experienced of physically bigger player will be required.

For all the same old Town and Hurst comments Hurst's interviews are much improved.  He was clearly furious and where as last year I think he would of just blamed the refs decision he hasn't done that but he has critcised our team for letting those fans down which is good to hear, less of the defeatism that he could be a bit open to last year.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

FFS from 2nd to 7th in a stroke............. And 7 points behind the leaders.

Sounds like 2 daft goals one the lino and the other Macca (again) and we had most of the possession.

What was that stat the losing play off finalists usually finish 8th?.

5 points off top.

And it's 9th.

Quoted from Caesar

For all the same old Town and Hurst comments Hurst's interviews are much improved.  He was clearly furious and where as last year I think he would of just blamed the refs decision he hasn't done that but he has critcised our team for letting those fans down which is good to hear, less of the defeatism that he could be a bit open to last year.

At times I thought Hurst was to bland and soft in his time here.May realize now the weight of expectation this season brings to our fans this season (eg operation promotion) and maybe getting tough as wants a team that befits the passion that town fans have for their club

Thought his interview (what I heard of it) was fair and balanced.

After all the excitement and optimism / expectation that's been flying around the fans and players , to have a result like this so early in the season may be just what we need . It makes it clear we need a couple more players in and might just focus the teams brains that we aren't going to walk it and  there's other teams who are clearly going to be scrapping for the title over 46 games

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I've been out so don't know the full story...why was so much time added on?  I don't expect us to win every game but let's be honest, we will not get out of this league by losing to teams like Altrincham, feel free to x me

it was an injury to an Altrincham player. Reported as being quite a nasty one and possibly studs sticking in the ground whilst turning.

Thanks for replying...sounds really hope the player is ok ... Makes the result unimportant if it's as bad as it sounds

I am still optimistic even after tonights result, what it will do is show Paul that we are light and need another 2 players in asap. I would also get Pearson back in the team for Saturday.

Anyone would think we were certs for an undefeated season. These things happen, teams have poor games we weren't beaten 4-1 we lost by one goal and it wasn't even a proper goal.

Hopefully we'll win our next 2 and all we be forgotten.

We are the might Grimsby, Saturday we go again.