No changes made for today's game.

Thought he would have mixed it up a but to be honest.

McKeown,
Davies
Collins
Clarke
Dixon
Summerfield
Berrett
Dembele
Woolford
Jones
Vernon

Subs: Killip, Mills, Osborne, Cardwell, Jaiyesimi, Hopper, Matt

Give DJ a flipping chance.

I agree Hagrid.... Don't know what the lad has to do to get a start. But I guess we don't see how he performs day to day in training etc.

What’s happened to Mitch Rose?

Rose is injured apparently, should be starting with DJ instead of Woolford for this one IMHO, another long trip next weekend should have resulted in some rotation

I imagine we are persisting with Woolford to get him match fit and that's why DJ can't get in.

I can't see the sense in just starting the same line up week after week, regardless of opposition, or venue, or form and fitness of individuals, and given that we really aren't scoring any goals I would've thought it a good idea to make one or two changes amongst attacking players.

I thought Slade said there would be a couple of changes,

Maybe he meant after half time.

Slade is too afraid to make changes ,

Quoted from denni266

Slade is too afraid to make changes ,

Why would you make changes when we are playing amazing, free-flowing football and banging in loads of goals...

...oh!

Lincoln already losing at Wimbledon   :)

Consistency of selection gives them a chance to gel

Just about to say we had started well :(

Good start from us then dixon felicitations about like he always does and it's 1-0 Them.

I was just thinking that it looked like we’d started well according to twitter updates....

All over them but a moment of Carey magic puts us 1-0 down...

We are having a go!

That's the fa cup done for another year then 😔

Quoted from jaygy

That's the fa cup done for another year then 😔

Someone wake me up in August.

Quoted from LH

Someone wake me up in August.

To tell you we've been promoted and won the FA Cup   ;)

Ffs there’s 75 mins left .

Mckeown keeping us in this..

Seeing the benefit of an unchallenged side then?

Did i hear a town player mentioned just then

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Seeing the benefit of an unchallenged side then?

Sounds like we're playing well.

Unlucky not to equalise.

Getting on top again now.

Quoted from LH

Someone wake me up in August.

Sarcasm not easy to detect through text sometimes is it...

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Good start from us then dixon felicitations about like he always does and it's 1-0 Them.

Like I said last week Dixon is our most consistent player at the moment.
A mistake with every touch.
That lefthand side of ours with him and the Slug must frighten the opposition to death 😵

Would be nice to have Humberside commentary though.

Would be nice to have Humberside commentary though.

Chris Hargreaves talking some sense.....Plymouth sounding like a 1 man side who are ripping our left side to bits....need to give the danger man a couple of stiff tackles.

Quoted from TAGG

Like I said last week Dixon is our most consistent player at the moment.
A mistake with every touch.
That lefthand side of ours with him and the Slug must frighten the opposition to death 😵

It always comes from his side it's boring now.

HT....  Plymouth  1-0  Town   :-/

Still in it but we still need more firepower

Nice to see Cheltenham getting dicked at home by non league Maidstone.  :)

Need some changes striker wise

Quoted from ginnywings

Nice to see Cheltenham getting dicked at home by non league Maidstone.  :)

Aye. And Pellend booked too.

Starting to sound like we are having no luck in front of goal , and if you cant score you cant win

Dembele almost scored!

Sounds a really good game down in Plymouth.

4-1 now to Maidstone. Hope they don't crumble late on.

Missed the first five minutes.
Don’t know who the commentator is but he’s a tw@t.
Every forward ball is a ‘GOAL’. oh no, what a save etc etc.

It's Radio Humberside 'legend' Dave Gibbins

Needs a change soon

....and there it is!
With plenty of time to go as well for a change.

DJ on for woolford, Matt on for vernon

This commentary is awful! I feel sorry for Chris Hargreaves having to put up with this guy

DJ on for Woolford...only 3 games too late  ;)

Just cant score can we

Its got 1-1 all over it 😉

Dreadful attendance.

intercourse me, Dembele off? Slade, you really are a male masturbator.

Jaisyemi, needs to get on the ball if he wants to keep a team place

What is the attendance Badger ?

Quoted from Badger57

intercourse me, Dembele off? Slade, you really are a male masturbator.

Sounded like he picked up a slight injury.

Its all going wrong at Cheltenham and good horrible fk club.

URGHHH this commentator😡😡😡

Quoted from mariner tommy

What is the attendance Badger ?

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This commentator is atrocious. Shouting his head off like every half-chance has gone in. Awful

dont matter how well we play we just cannot put the ball in the net .... need a striker mr slade

Quoted from promotion plaice

Sounded like he picked up a slight injury.

Fair enough then. Can't stand Slade though. Never could.

Quoted from Chrisblor

This commentator is atrocious. Shouting his head off like every half-chance has gone in. Awful

It's times like this you have to appreciate John Tondur.

More frustration in the final third.

Same old same old I’m afraid. No one prepared to gamble.
Too defensively minded. Sitting too deep.
We need a goal Podge/Bogle type. I would quite happily ship out Hooper and Matt to get in one half decent striker.

Quoted from denni266

dont matter how well we play we just cannot put the ball in the net .... need a striker mr slade

Considering the ones he has signed already do you trust him to get the next one right?

Quoted from Meza

Its got 1-1 all over it 😉

Can't see Plymouth scoring an OG

Utter rubbish again. Losing to a team with 2 wins all season isn't good enough.

Out of the first round, like last year.. (ermm)

Gibbons contradicts himself in the same breath as saying the Plymouth substitution eats up another 30 seconds, he says that a lot of people think that subs eat up time but they just add it on at the end.

Quoted from Civvy at last

Same old same old I’m afraid. No one prepared to gamble.
Too defensively minded. Sitting too deep.
We need a goal Podge/Bogle type. I would quite happily ship out Hooper and Matt to get in one half decent striker.

The way we play even if you had Vardy up there it would make no odds.
I fuckin hate Slades football.
Hes a male masturbator

Quoted from arryarryarry

Considering the ones he has signed already do you trust him to get the next one right?

personally  i wouldnt trust him to make the half time drinks

How many cup games without a win is it now?

Lol......atleast we havent been shite and gace them a game.

Get rid of Vernon, Matt, hooper, dixon and sign a decent striker and left back ffs slade.

Chris Hargreaves didnt take long to identify where we are lacking.....the strikers dont trouble the defence, we dont get behind the opposition, we dont have any pace to stretch the opposition....
Yet we keep the same team.
At least second half we tried a couple of things to change it and sounded like we maybe deserved something.

At least we are hard to beat..

#sladeball.  Those of us that saw this first time round did tell you.

We need a goalscoring striker alongside Jones, and a attacker midfielder to support the attack

The season gets more boring as it goes along. Worst cup draw ever and out already, yet again. We didn't even have the decency to get properly beat- just a slow agonising 1-0, all the time hoping we could get an equaliser, but knowing deep down that it would never happen.

I'm having some prolonged dental work done next week and it will probably be more enjoyable than a Russel Slade football team.

Just sack Slade, he is a clown and is slowly killing off our great support with his crap awful no style of football.  How many more flipping nils are we going to get under this tosspot.................  Gamble now and get rid, we have a few points in the bag, so not a massive gamble in many ways.  Do it to save the support if nothing else............  Lookinf forward to a another nil at Exeter next week............... :( :( :(

We've need a striker from the begining of the seasons but Slade is too obdurate to admit it.

Quoted from Skrill

We need a goalscoring striker alongside Jones, and a attacker midfielder to support the attack

Ideal - but not this side of Christmas - (I suspect).

Just need to try keeping the 'clean sheets' and accumulating the odd point.

Chris Hargreaves said we needed to be a bit braver and more positive from the off. I think that's our problem at the minute, we are so conservative.

Quoted from Skrill

We need a goalscoring striker alongside Jones, and a attacker midfielder to support the attack

Its okay everyone getting on the backs of our forwards but its not their fault.
You have to blame the way Slade wants his football played.
It is so negative.
I think we have got goals in the front line if Slade lets his midfielders push forward to support them.
Slade will not change our left hand side. Its so slow going forward with the slug out there it unbelievable.
Watch how our MFs have a defensive mind set throughout the game.

I was filled with dread when Slade was named manager again. The only thing that buoyed me up again was when Wilko was named assistant.  Unfortunately it seems Wilko has nothing to add or Slade just doesn't listen. Hmmmm, which is it?

It's interesting, the Gimps I know here in Lincoln are getting rather bored of the football and lack of cutting edge up front, if it wasn't for the nauseating Cowley love-in the management would be getting it in the neck as bad as Slade.

So who will grab the much coveted goal scorer first, us or them? Because it's no coincidence that when we played Lincoln a few weeks back it was a rather turgid 0-0 draw and no coincidence we both went out of the cup 1-0 today.

A goal-grabber for either club could see their team into the play-off positions...so who's out there ???

We probably don't need another striker, we need a change of mindset. Plymouth are struggling big time this season and we needed to go there and pressure them from the off. They will be severely lacking in confidence, but if nothing else, we are a team that are good at getting no-hopers back to winning ways. At least we are consistent at that.

Quoted from ginnywings

We probably don't need another striker, we need a change of mindset. Plymouth are struggling big time this season and we needed to go there and pressure them from the off. They will be severely lacking in confidence, but if nothing else, we are a team that are good at getting no-hopers back to winning ways. At least we are consistent at that.

Agree with this and that "mind set" is generated by the manager, today was a day to start DJ and then get Bolarinwa running at them for a bit in the 2nd half. I actually feel for our strikers sometime as the supply has often been sh1te.

I refuse to believe that we could not have gone more attacking today with Jones in mid field alongside Summers and Berret and a front 3 just to offer something different.    

Our season is over IMHO if he does not go more adventurous in some games, especially at BP.  

No Tombola on the bench even don't think Slade rates him at all too unpredictable.

Quoted from friskneymariner

We've need a striker from the begining of the seasons but Slade is too obdurate to admit it.

He's already signed three mehs and loaned a decent one out for three months..

Sounded like the Graham Carey show ran Dixon ragged.

Quoted from ginnywings

We probably don't need another striker, we need a change of mindset. Plymouth are struggling big time this season and we needed to go there and pressure them from the off. They will be severely lacking in confidence, but if nothing else, we are a team that are good at getting no-hopers back to winning ways. At least we are consistent at that.

Definitely, but that would mean dropping his mate Clarke and playing Osbourne to give us more pace at the back so we didn't have to drop so deep, retrospectively signing another left back that he could trust so we didn't have to play a more defensively minded Woolford, retrospectively signing a bit more quality in central midfield to drive us forward and retrospectively investing Hooper and Matt's wages into one striker..

Serious question now.....how much would it cost to buy Amond from Newport? Plenty of clubs have admitted and rectified transfer/contract mistakes in the past. I think he would come back here in a heartbeat and it would only take Fenty to admit we made a mistake and get his cheque book out for us to have to firepower to make a serious playoff push

where is mccallister? plays reserves but cant get on subs bench. tombola not getting a fair go either

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Sounded like the Graham Carey show ran Dixon ragged.

My nana could run dixon ragged.

Quoted from jaygy

Serious question now.....how much would it cost to buy Amond from Newport? Plenty of clubs have admitted and rectified transfer/contract mistakes in the past. I think he would come back here in a heartbeat and it would only take Fenty to admit we made a mistake and get his cheque book out for us to have to firepower to make a serious playoff push

If only.....

Quoted from jaygy

Serious question now.....how much would it cost to buy Amond from Newport? Plenty of clubs have admitted and rectified transfer/contract mistakes in the past. I think he would come back here in a heartbeat and it would only take Fenty to admit we made a mistake and get his cheque book out for us to have to firepower to make a serious playoff push

There going well compared to recent seasons so the answer to your question is "silly money" at this level. This issue for me was when he first came to GTFC.

I know he didn't have a great record the season before he came to but that might be as he didn't start that much but surely we should have given Podge 2 years when we first sold him? If he had scored all those goals and we failed to get up we could have just sold him either way.    

Think that question needs to be directed at Paul Hurst.

Match highlights          http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41872919

Quoted from promotion plaice

Match highlights          http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41872919

Even in these short highlights DIXON looks excrement.

Is Dixon the new scapegoat now that Summerfield is having a good run?

Quoted from ginnywings

Is Dixon the new scapegoat now that Summerfield is having a good run?

He's not the new scapegoat, he's been useless all season.

Quoted from ginnywings

Is Dixon the new scapegoat now that Summerfield is having a good run?

He comes in for quite a bit of unfair flack for me. I actually think he'll get better as the season goes on. He hasn't played a lot last couple of years.

I thought Dixon was our MOM in the first game of the season at Chesterfield.
He's a steady enough League Two defender for me.

The stick him and Woolford get is way OTT and maybe stems from the "FIFA generation" were some believe you have to have pace to be any good. I said after last week him or Woolford would be ok on that left side with a more athletic player with them (think Townsend overlapping Monkhouse) but both of them together doesn't do then any favours.

For the goal today, Dixon dives in and commits himself but where is the next man applying pressure? Woolford and Berrett both stand and watch him waltz into the box and shoot. I don't get from those highlights that Dixon had a shocker, couple of errors but also looked like he was left on his own 1v1 with Carey far too often with no cover, which shouldn't be happening.

Aye. It's a grand old Grimsby tradition, scapegoating. We must be one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.

The other players looked leaden when Carey waltzed past them.

Scapegoat ?
Is it coincidence that when the away side causes us issues its usually down our left side ?
This has been the case for most of the season.

He really isnt good enough, far too one footed,  distribution is poor, gets caught square too often making it easy for players to drift past him and is too slow to offer anything going forward ( not that this is my main requirement of a full back ) and gets stripped by any pacey winger.

Not scapegoating..just pointing out his shortcomings. He does have the benefit by having left sided Danny Collins to cover across which he regularly has to do.

However...its not his fault we havnt any cover for left back.

Maybe Collins could drop there with K Osbourn coming into the centre berth.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Aye. It's a grand old Grimsby tradition, scapegoating. We must be one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.

The other players looked leaden when Carey waltzed past them.

Yup. Purely Grimsby. No other player at any other team has had stick.  Fans of every other team in the country are always 100% behind all their players and management whatever happens !!


Whether or not the criticism is justified (personally I think he is the weak link) is one thing.  But calling it a ‘Grimsby’ or a ‘fishy’ trait is total bollox.  It happens at nearly every team worldwide.

He is weak, and for some reason, management have decided that we shall have no other left back in the squad, so we are stuck with his limitations and he has no pressure on him for his place.

I am puzzled by Dixon, he's got a decent pedigree, only a few seasons ago he was a regular in the championship in a decent Huddersfield team, got 4 international caps for Scotland but yet he comes here and he looks extremely poor in my opinion, considering he is supposed to have a wand of a left foot I don't think he has, why is his career in a big downward spiral at 30.

Quoted from Tommy

I thought Dixon was our MOM in the first game of the season at Chesterfield.
He's a steady enough League Two defender for me.

The stick him and Woolford get is way OTT and maybe stems from the "FIFA generation" were some believe you have to have pace to be any good. I said after last week him or Woolford would be ok on that left side with a more athletic player with them (think Townsend overlapping Monkhouse) but both of them together doesn't do then any favours.

For the goal today, Dixon dives in and commits himself but where is the next man applying pressure? Woolford and Berrett both stand and watch him waltz into the box and shoot. I don't get from those highlights that Dixon had a shocker, couple of errors but also looked like he was left on his own 1v1 with Carey far too often with no cover, which shouldn't be happening.

Im to old to be in the FIFA generation.
Our left side is as bad as we have had in the last 10 seasons.
Dixon is a bad defender and hopeless going forward.
Woolford has a good football brain but not the body to go with it thats why I call him the slug.
These two get in the side because they drop into the manager negative footballing ethos.
Im not scapegoating them its just that they are not good enough, we seem to be getting hammed defensively and have no threat offensively down that side.

Match highlights          http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41872919


Don't know about Dixon but WTF was Berret? (no.7) doing just stood there and let him waltz into the box ffs he should have at least made a challenge even a foul from outside the box at that angle they would have to do something special to score.

No.7 to blame all day long for me.   >:( ??) ??)

Quoted from TAGG

Im to old to be in the FIFA generation.
Our left side is as bad as we have had in the last 10 seasons.
Dixon is a bad defender and hopeless going forward.
Woolford has a good football brain but not the body to go with it thats why I call him the slug.
These two get in the side because they drop into the manager negative footballing ethos.
Im not scapegoating them its just that they are not good enough, we seem to be getting hammed defensively and have no threat offensively down that side.

Whilst I agree with the comments about our left side, you aren't going to win many games if you fail to score on such a regular basis. When you look at Slade's 5 attacking signings (Hooper, Matt, DJ, Dembele and Cardwell), the latter three have not played in the league before coming here and the other 2 have got a scoring record of approximately 1 goal in every 5 games. I'm not saying we should break the bank but it's no good making a million quid and then losing it again because no-one wants to watch 'Grimsby nil' every week.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Whilst I agree with the comments about our left side, you aren't going to win many games if you fail to score on such a regular basis. When you look at Slade's 5 attacking signings (Hooper, Matt, DJ, Dembele and Cardwell), the latter three have not played in the league before coming here and the other 2 have got a scoring record of approximately 1 goal in every 5 games. I'm not saying we should break the bank but it's no good making a million quid and then losing it again because no-one wants to watch 'Grimsby nil' every week.

Its like im always saying on here that if the front men dont get any service or support the strikers will never never have a chance to prove themselves.
As for not playing before Dembelis doing okay👍

Quoted from TAGG

Its like im always saying on here that if the front men dont get any service or support the strikers will never never have a chance to prove themselves.
As for not playing before Dembelis doing okay👍

I know Dembele is doing OK but how much better would he be doing with a decent striker who moves into threatening areas to play with?

Quoted from TAGG

Im to old to be in the FIFA generation.
Our left side is as bad as we have had in the last 10 seasons.
Dixon is a bad defender and hopeless going forward.
Woolford has a good football brain but not the body to go with it thats why I call him the slug.
These two get in the side because they drop into the manager negative footballing ethos.
Im not scapegoating them its just that they are not good enough, we seem to be getting hammed defensively and have no threat offensively down that side.

Do we? 3 goals conceded in the last 6 league games and they were in away victories.

Not scoring is the problem but somehow that seems to be Dixon's fault. He's not nearly as bad as people are claiming.

Quoted from ginnywings

Do we? 3 goals conceded in the last 6 league games and they were in away victories.

Not scoring is the problem but somehow that seems to be Dixon's fault. He's not nearly as bad as people are claiming.

Problem is that he's not Danny Andrew.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Problem is that he's not Danny Andrew.

'Tis true, but i seem to recall Andrew got better as the season wore on, after he had been out of the game for a while.

If we got the ball down and worked harder at moving into space to receive it I reckon that most of our players would look better.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

If we got the ball down and worked harder at moving into space to receive it I reckon that most of our players would look better.

Very true - it's hard to make passes to players who are marked and don't try to lose their markers.

Quoted from Civvy at last

Yup. Purely Grimsby. No other player at any other team has had stick.  Fans of every other team in the country are always 100% behind all their players and management whatever happens !!


Whether or not the criticism is justified (personally I think he is the weak link) is one thing.  But calling it a ‘Grimsby’ or a ‘fishy’ trait is total bollox.  It happens at nearly every team worldwide.

That's a bit like saying celebrating Christmas isn't a British tradition because they do it worldwide.

I don't know if fans of other clubs do it (I tend not to be that interested) but we do have a habit of over-criticising one individual at a time. Bit of a mob mentality.

Quoted from TAGG

Im to old to be in the FIFA generation.
Our left side is as bad as we have had in the last 10 seasons.
Dixon is a bad defender and hopeless going forward.
Woolford has a good football brain but not the body to go with it thats why I call him the slug.
These two get in the side because they drop into the manager negative footballing ethos.
Im not scapegoating them its just that they are not good enough, we seem to be getting hammed defensively and have no threat offensively down that side.

Slugs being renowned for their football brains. "Oh yes, I taught Franz Beckenbauer all he knew. It was me who came up with the concept of the libero. I would have been in the World Cup squad but for an unfortunate incident with salt."