#GTFC XI: McKeown, Hendrie, Davis, Whitmore, Fox, Pringle, Hessenthaler, Clifton, Embleton, Thomas, Vernam.

Subs: Russell, Welsh, M. Rose, Cook, Woolford, Cardwell, A. Rose.


Macca is captain tonight.

The team I expected although I feel sorry for Mitch Rose having to miss out again on a starting place, thought he was solid before his injury but Hess hasn’t done anything wrong since he came in.

Six of the starting eleven are aged 24 or under. Three more on the bench too.

We might not be a great side at this moment in time, and we’re certainly inconsistent, but at least it feels like we’re building towards something. I never felt that during the reigns of Bignot and Slade.

No defenders on the bench :(

Tells a tale. We haven't got any spare. One more injury and we will be in trouble.
I thought he might manage Pringle's fitness by swapping him, but glad he's fit enough to continue as he's a good player in form.

Looks like the rain is blowing into the Pontoon ...just saying from the dry Upper.

1 -0 them Norwood

Awful defending

Balls! Macca shouldn't of come out Whitmore was going to be pushing him wide if he'd stayed.

wind blowing torwards maccas goal not helping

0-1  too easy for them, simple ball

WHy have we started the game with hoof balls again? Especially against their 2 giant CBs and against the wind?

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Balls! Macca shouldn't of come out Whitmore was going to be pushing him wide if he'd stayed.

Blollocks

Shouting at my TV every time we hoof it forward to no effect.

McKeown saves us again

Vernam should have buried that. Instead he scuffs his unmarked shot from 8 yards out to an offside Thomas. Massive chance missed.

Great save Macca

Quoted from Chrisblor

Shouting at my TV every time we hoof it forward to no effect.

Shouting at the TV to no effect?  :)

HARRRRY YES

get in Clifton great cross good header

Get in

Town playing some nice stuff but they've got the wind & a lucky goal & Tondeur doesn't help with some of his comments but Harry's goal changes everything

Which one? We have 12 of them.

HE'S ONE OF OUR OWN!
HE'S ONE OF OUR OWNNNNNNNN!
HARRY CLIFTON HE'S ONE OF OUR OWN!

What a header! No one was saving that!

Jamille Matt and podge scores again as Newport go 3-1 up v cobblers.

Get in Harry me boy  (100)(100)

Referees another bald coot with thin legs

Listening to JT it sounds like the boys owe Macca a large drink for keeping us in it

Shading this half for me, all they've done is got a lucky goal

And they ain't seen our 2nd half yet lol

2-1

Quoted from buckstown

Listening to JT it sounds like the boys owe Macca a large drink for keeping us in it

He'd be an alcaholic if thats how we repaid him

YESSSSSSSSSSSSS

THOMAS!!! Bundled diving header after Vernams cross wasn't cleared properly

Better team by far come on Town

Quoted from buckstown

Listening to JT it sounds like the boys owe Macca a large drink for keeping us in it

What frequency??

2:1

Who scored.

Absolutely gutted I can't go to this. ST holder and sat here doing me Nebosh practical exam (book2)(book2)

They’ve just pushed the ref. How is that not a red

Quoted from Civvy at last

What frequency??

Every 5 minutes

we've scored a quarter of this seasons goals in the last 2 games as it stands

Another team of moaners, Connor Jennings chief culprit

Quoted from Spatchcock

Who scored.

Absolutely gutted I can't go to this. ST holder and sat here doing me Nebosh practical exam (book2)(book2)

Thomas

That looked a definite handball.

The hand of Wes apparently

Quoted from essexexile

Better team by far come on Town

You must be watching a different game to me

No accident either. Knew he couldn’t reach it with his head so stuck an arm out. Reminiscent of one Coulson scored against Bournemouth many moons ago (before they joined the Premier League massive).

Great hands at both end of the pitch tonight. Lovely stuff town.

and the  good news just continues.yeovil 2 down, that's only 1 win in 11 for them. Cheltenham (Clements scores for them) and Cambridge are also losing as are Chesterfield. That's at home to the mighty Bromley ( no snigggering please  8))

Ps those Newport goals means that podge is already into double figures for the season whilst Matt has scored an unbelievable 11 and we are still in november

Town won that half, let's hope they can win the second

There's no doubting Thomas handled it..

Hand of cod?

https://twitter.com/chris_kirk01/status/1067517582499037184

On first viewing, I thought Thomas's disallowed goal was tight for offside and for his goal, that sounds like it should have been disallowed, there didn't seem to be a "need" to handball it, looked easy to nod in. Could be wrong.

Clifton's header is not a good header, it is an incredible header. Looked a full 15 yards out, leaning back and stuck it in off the far post. Mint.

Town definitely the better side in the last 25 minutes of that half. Macca made 2 decentish saves but you'd expect him to save both. If the Tranmere player had managed to lob him with that pop shot, it would have been an amazing goal.

Who cares if it was hand ball for 2nd goal, we've had loads go against us

looks like his knee to me!

We're turning into a goal machine. Long may it continue

C'mon Oldham

Quoted from Southwark Mariner

looks like his knee to me!

Definately his knee , perfectly legit goal

Quoted from Southwark Mariner

looks like his knee to me!

We've had heads and knees. We now need a toe poke, and a deflection of a shoulder.

WEVE SCORED 3 GOALS IN A LEAGUE FOOTBALL MATCH

Harry Davis! Bundled through a douzen legs after it wasn't cleared the first, second, third or fourth time! Where have we heard that one before  ::)  ;D ;D ;D

Get in!

I'm actually enjoying watching Town  😂

Incredible! Just the 40 minutes to hang on ??)


Lincoln 1 down, Yeovil 3 down ar home and Macclesfield continue their mini revival as they go 1 up at exeter

Chesterfield losing at home to Bromley.... just saying

This is much more like it!

So Oldham are beating Lincoln. Chelts, FGR, Stevenage all losing  ;D

Looks like we're shading this half as well

we want 4 we want 4

I like JT but watching the game & listening to his commentary, he's very negative
Town playing some lovely stuff but JT doesn't recognise it

Under 3300 there.

3-2 cracking goal for them to be fair

Booooooooo. Could see it coming straight away after Pringle was passed that poor ball from Vernam

Quoted from WHYWONTYOULETMESIGNUP

we want 4 we want 4

now we really want 4

Lincoln drawing but morecambe now losing , more good news

Quoted from essexexile

I like JT but watching the game & listening to his commentary, he's very negative
Town playing some lovely stuff but JT doesn't recognise it

Which is why I don't listen to him.   His commentary is different to watch actually happens in a match.  

Sounded a good finish according to JT

ALso the goals for our Harry’s tonight where they their first’s for the club??

Two poor individual errors there. Pringle lost the ball after dallying with it in the middle of Tranmere's half. Hendrie for some reason let his man cut inside. Then their lad has hammered a rocket into the top corner. So so preventable.

3-2 miullen 20 mins to hang on

Quoted from Mariner Timsky

Sounded a good finish according to JT

ALso the goals for our Harry’s tonight where they their first’s for the club??

Yeah no keeper was saving their 2nd, and yes it was his first

First for both Clifton and Davis??

Notts County winning - this is a massive 3 points if we can hang on

Quoted from Mariner Timsky

First for both Clifton and Davis??

Think Davis got one earlier in the season but I could be wrong

First for both.

PENALTY!

Come on Town

M ROSE!

Get the fcuk in 4-2  8)

Mitch Rose the ultimate penalty taker

No saving that! Smashed into the roof

YES!!

When was the last time we scored 4 goals?

I'm so happy 😭

Quoted from forza ivano

When was the last time we scored 4 goals?

Feels like 1997

Can we get Monthe in their no.6 he's just been their best player today

Carlisle equalise at county.what a night!

Any chance of getting 5??

Oh what a night!

5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Embeleton!

(groupwave)(groupwave)

we want 6!

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE

F'ckin ace!

Quoted from Spatchcock

Any chance of getting 5??

Of course

Wow. Just wow.

UTFM

What a night

FFS there must be some mistake, what a great game!

To stuff the team that were 7th is a good sign.

Any chance of 6  8)

I fancy us to nick this now

Earlier on I said we'd scored a quarter of our goals in the last two games

now weve scored MORE than a quarter of our goals in just THIS game!

Quoted from Spatchcock

Any chance of getting 5??

Yes.

Wow, just Wow!

Genuinely couldn’t see this coming after the first half an hour, in which we were dreadful in truth. It’s amazing how different this team looks with a bit of confidence in the tank.

To be honest some of our performances haven't been rewarded... And the past few games we was going to hammer someone if we could have 2 decent halfs.

Look what happens when you play younger players and not the old guard. What a result and I think 2 goals flatters them as well. I'm looking forward to Sunday even more now.

Well done to MJ and the lads. Looks like were starting to come together now.

The past few results will make a few teams realise we aren't a push over now.

Just need to get  a good win on Sunday then a lucrative draw for the 3rd round.

UTM  

Only 9 points off the play offs  ;)

'Click click click click click.'

What's that sound we can hear? Could it be the sounds a a team clicking?

Seven goals, seven different players in the last two games.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

'Click click click click click.'

What's that sound we can hear? Could it be the sounds a a team clicking?

Seven goals, seven different players in the last two games.

This. Even in the rough patch I said it will come good, hopefully it has sooner than I and I'm sure many others expected.

Great result and excellent performance. Hilarious mistake from the officials for our 2nd, but we looked a threat all night against a decent Tranmere.

Quietly putting together a bit of home form and look pretty decent. Can’t help but think out unorthadox preseason led to our slow start.

Well that was absolutely spectacular. The two Tranmere goals aside we basically dominated the entire game. Amazingly we could have had even more than 5. Let's hope we can keep finding the net with this kind of regularity - might start troubling the top end of the table if so!

I couldn't make it tonight, so i am gutted and thrilled in equal measure. After years of sticking at it through all the dross, i have missed two games this season, and we have won both, scoring 8 goals. The other being the cup win against MK Dongs. I've sat through periods where we didn't score eight goals in a dozen games at various stages over the seasons. Effing buzzing that we have now seemed to click. It's been a long wait.

2nd half was superb. I really think fox and pringle have made the world of difference to us

I see the four bus loads of pedeofiles who went to watch Man Utd tonght are asking for their money back!

WOW WHAT A WIN CONFIDENCE BUILDING MOMENT!

Holy shite. I saw us go 0-1 down after a few minutes and thought "damn" and got stuck into some work for the evening. Then got an excited text from my mate saying that he really enjoyed the commentary tonight so I realised we must have turned it around... talk about doing so in style.

Absolutely phenomenal result.. can't remember the last time we had a genuine goal-fest. Fighting back to get a great result on Saturday and now this must be doing the confidence of the players wonders.

Bring on Chesterfield this weekend. UTM!!

Amazing, so proud to be a town fan tonight well done to everyone  :)

Refreshing to see a group of lads go a goal down and have the fight and desire to recover!

UTM :)

I'm chuffed for MJ because despite the appalling start I'm sure the majority of town fans really want him to succeed. Not just because we want town to do well, because he seems like a good guy

Quoted from Teesknees

I see the four bus loads of pedeofiles who went to watch Man Utd tonght are asking for their money back!

Hoping to see Young Boys spanked were they?

Blimey! 7 goals in 2 games and 4 points from being behind 3 times! Hopefully this is a sign of a corner being turned.

What a great game and result. That second half must be our best half of the season. Even their goal came from us trying to be positive and move the ball about. Great to see Embleton, Vernam, Pringle and Clifton all looking to get on the ball and in the box and make things happen. Thought Hess did his job well too.

Quoted from buckstown

I'm chuffed for MJ because despite the appalling start I'm sure the majority of town fans really want him to succeed. Not just because we want town to do well, because he seems like a good guy

I desperately wanted him to come good and genuinely had every faith he would start to get us results. Feel vindicated now in defending him earlier in the season. I hope this is just the start of what he can bring to the club!

Excluding the tin pot game against Newcastle kids (which was basically a reserve game) that’s four straight home wins and five wins in six - the other game being a respectable 0-0 against Exeter.

That has to be the best home form we’ve had over six games since returning to the league and probably even quite far back into our non-league days.

Great win for Town versus a strong Tranmere team and once again a good result by a team sitting in contention.

I could not go or watch the £10 show but am delighted all the same. As well as scoring 5 .... yes  5!!! Big thing for me .... coming from behind again, shows real character. Three Harry's getting their first goals in the last few days and 7 different goal scorers in two games.

Like I say gutted I could not go but delighted with the result.

Well done MJ and the lads UTM!!!

  

Glad to see the team taking it very easy before a big cup game.   ;) ;)

5th goal, lovely stuff:

https://twitter.com/pganderson/status/1067533836110766081?s=19

Absolutely superb,  :) Tranmere are no mugs but we looked like the team chasing promotion once we took the lead. Superb finish by Clifton and midfield pretty much controlled by us for long spells. Hard to pick man of the match but Clifton/Hessenthaler have to go head to head for that.

Fantastic performance in the 2nd half. Finally found the perfect line up when Embleton moved inside with Clifton and with Hess holding. Embleton is the classiest player I've seen play for town for years and we have a real player on our hands in Clifton.

[url=https://ibb.co/fk2L8t3][img]https://i.ibb.co/PcN0T42/grimsby.png[/img][/url]

4th in the form table!

Quoted from Roast Em Bobby

Fantastic performance in the 2nd half. Finally found the perfect line up when Embleton moved inside with Clifton and with Hess holding. Embleton is the classiest player I've seen play for town for years and we have a real player on our hands in Clifton.

I'd echo what you say about Embleton. Oozes class.

Quoted from Abdul19

5th goal, lovely stuff:

https://twitter.com/pganderson/status/1067533836110766081?s=19

I just hope we can keep Embleton until the end of the season.

Quoted from Abdul19

5th goal, lovely stuff:

https://twitter.com/pganderson/status/1067533836110766081?s=19

Nice to see the ref going to celebrate the goal with him. Where's everyone else?

Quoted from WHYWONTYOULETMESIGNUP

[url=https://ibb.co/fk2L8t3][img]https://i.ibb.co/PcN0T42/grimsby.png[/img][/url]

4th in the form table!

Perhaps even more impressive and surprising is that we're also 4th over 10 games:

https://www.transfermarkt.com/league-two/formtabelle/wettbewerb/GB4?saison_id=2018&min=11&max=20

Quoted from Abdul19

5th goal, lovely stuff:

https://twitter.com/pganderson/status/1067533836110766081?s=19

Needs to learn the knee slide or risk injury!

Quoted from WHYWONTYOULETMESIGNUP

[url=https://ibb.co/fk2L8t3][img]https://i.ibb.co/PcN0T42/grimsby.png[/img][/url]

4th in the form table!

Bizarre, someone posted that we were 2nd bottom before the game, that’s an amazing jump

Quoted from HertsGTFC

I just hope we can keep Embleton until the end of the season.

Another few wins and a good cup draw in R3 and its in the bag. :)

Quoted from grimsby pete

Another few wins and a good cup draw in R3 and its in the bag. :)

Lets just get Sunday sorted, would love a cup run with a big side included.

Quoted from Poojah

Perhaps even more impressive and surprising is that we're also 4th over 10 games:

https://www.transfermarkt.com/league-two/formtabelle/wettbewerb/GB4?saison_id=2018&min=11&max=20

that is surprising - doesn't seem like it somehow!

Quoted from HertsGTFC

I just hope we can keep Embleton until the end of the season.

When does his loan run out???

5 points from the first 10 games, then 17 from the next 10. Think that constitutes an improvement in form, and just proves again that it's futile judging a side for the first dozen or so games of the season. Seems a long time ago that people were calling for MJ's head on a platter.

Quoted from ginnywings

5 points from the first 10 games, then 17 from the next 10. Think that constitutes an improvement in form, and just proves again that it's futile judging a side for the first dozen or so games of the season. Seems a long time ago that people were calling for MJ's head on a platter.

Without factoring in the points we would have taken off others but had our first 10 games been as good as our second 10 games, we would currently be 5th in the table, a point away from 3rd spot!

Quoted from ginnywings

5 points from the first 10 games, then 17 from the next 10. Think that constitutes an improvement in form, and just proves again that it's futile judging a side for the first dozen or so games of the season. Seems a long time ago that people were calling for MJ's head on a platter.

1.7 points per game is play off form! Seriously good turnaround. Jolley isn't getting ahead of himself. Always worth listening to him post match.always very measured and dispassionate as he was tonight after such a good win

My ‘top half’ bet is looking better today

Little mention of Pringle on here, for me he stood out, but great to see the whole of the midfield really gelling. And just having the likes of Embleton and Pringle playing alongside him must bring Clifton on and has shown to be doing this. Really pleased with how the whole team and subs performed last night.

With the lads we have in Hess, Embleton, our Harry, Pringle and Vernam it shouldnt work , , , its all youth and quite lightweight and very inexperienced but its working and its exciting and it goes to show you don't always need an old head in the middle or a mean hard man , , , its footballing brains which these lads have and the talent to match of course

Quoted from Mariner Timsky

With the lads we have in Hess, Embleton, our Harry, Pringle and Vernam it shouldnt work , , , its all youth and quite lightweight and very inexperienced but its working and its exciting and it goes to show you don't always need an old head in the middle or a mean hard man , , , its footballing brains which these lads have and the talent to match of course

Weird similarities with the England cricket team with no established number 3, someone traditional with a sound defence to dig in and build an innings? No fu8k it, lets go with a team of attacking batsmen to try and break the mould-improvise and challenge the established ways

Quoted from supertown

My ‘top half’ bet is looking better today

Mine too.

Oh, and it's a good job midweek goals don't count in the buster eh?  ;)

Quoted from NorthseaMariner

Little mention of Pringle on here, for me he stood out, but great to see the whole of the midfield really gelling. And just having the likes of Embleton and Pringle playing alongside him must bring Clifton on and has shown to be doing this. Really pleased with how the whole team and subs performed last night.

I thought Pringle looked good on Saturday too against Northampton.. he just always seemed to be in the thick of it, and whilst he doesn't have the pace, he was always making runs and challenges. Think he's got some great potential.

Quoted from ginnywings

5 points from the first 10 games, then 17 from the next 10. Think that constitutes an improvement in form, and just proves again that it's futile judging a side for the first dozen or so games of the season. Seems a long time ago that people were calling for MJ's head on a platter.

Very true. And there lots more that press the panic button during a bad run. Steady progress I say peppered with nice moments like Akheems/Cardwells first goal. Worth hanging in there for moments like them and last night.

Typical. Missed three League home games within a year and we win all of them.  Maybe I should keep staying away on Tuesdays! (unsure) I've never really been the superstitious type lol.

Grimsby Town 5–2 Tranmere Rovers
Grimsby Town 2–0 Colchester United
Grimsby Town 3–2 Swindon Town (Nov 2017)

Quoted from Nelly GTFC

Typical. Missed three League home games within a year and we win all of them.  Maybe I should keep staying away on Tuesdays! (unsure) I've never really been the superstitious type lol.

Grimsby Town 5–2 Tranmere Rovers
Grimsby Town 2 1–0 Colchester United
Grimsby Town 3–2 Swindon Town (Nov 2017)