Town
Mckeown, Hendrie, Davis, Gibson, Hewitt, Pollock, Hess, Whitehouse, Clifton, Hanson, Green

Its either 442 with no wingers or the dreaded 532

What was wrong with mine ! With both teams listed 😛

Quoted from supertown

What was wrong with mine ! With both teams listed 😛

Bucks appeared first for me, you're just too slow  ;D

Hendrie playing the 'mopper up ' role ? See his tactics v malmo n palace

GRIMSBY TEAM NEWS

Starting XI: McKeown, Hewitt, Hendrie, Pollock, Davis, Gibson, Hessenthaler, Clifton, Whitehouse, Green, Hanson.

Subs: Russell, Cook, Robson, Wright, Vernam, Ogbu, Rose
18:46
CHELSEA TEAM NEWS

Starting XI: Caballero, James, Guehi, Zouma, Alonso, Gilmour, Barkley, Pulisic, Pedro, Hudson-Odoi, Batshuayi

Subs: Cumming, Tomori, Maatsen, Jorginho, Mount, Anjorin, Abraham

Probably 5 at the back with a free man marker. Think we'll need to park 2 buses!

Quoted from forza ivano

Hendrie playing the 'mopper up ' role ? See his tactics v malmo n palace

Well he beat Malmo

That Chelsea team is bloody strong isn’t it!!
Black and white all over the district line heading to the ground.

Sky sports says it a back 5
So disappointed I couldn't get a ticket but hope all those that did enjoy themselves. Remember you're representing our great town.

Reminds me of our game against Arsenal at Highbury. They played a weakened team but I seem to recall that all their team were full internationals!

Pleased for Pollock whatever the line up is

Well if you want to try and stop the opposition, you dont get much more defensive and lacking exciting players than this line up. Still in Jolly we trust, COME ON TOWN

I’m in the east stand with the home fans Town army sounding awesome and only half full!

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Well if you want to try and stop the opposition, you dont get much more defensive and lacking exciting players than this line up. Still in Jolly we trust, COME ON TOWN

Wright Ogbu and Rose to come on at 0-0 with 15 to go ......

come on town

Quoted from AussieMariner

Wright Ogbu and Rose to come on at 0-0 with 15 to go ......

Like your thinking

thats got our usual freebie over with early as usual

1-0 carved open

🙄

Oh well thats that. Poor defending midfield sat deep and all three CBs stood in a clump giving Barkley all the room in the world to run into

Errrr... 2-0 already!

Is this going to be embarrassing

Quoted from buckstown

1-0 carved open

And again, just standing off them giving them too much space and time.
Not sure that is the tactics but if they are it needs changing now or they will get double figures.

For the first Clifton doing his usual..... tracking the player but doesn't attempt a tackle. Bang 1-0!

Trouble is we're man marking but theyre too good and slipping away. That's leaving big spaces

Quoted from AussieMariner

Wright Ogbu and Rose to come on at 0-0 with 15 to go ......

Looks like 0-0 out of the window - these guys need to come on now - cricket score looms sadly :-/

Have we touched the ball yet ?

Clifton getting shown up again and again. They are just toying with him now.

This is going to be embarrassing isn't it? Even as a town fan I'm laughing at the whole concept of us playing Chelsea but it's a good laugh!

Cliftons utter excrement

B

Both goals were down to Hess not going for the man with the ball but being drawn out of position due to man marking


Watching on Stream Hunter

Town fans scrapping with stewards and plod in the lower level

My 2-5 score prediction is beginning to look astute...

Quoted from golfer

B

Both goals were down to Hess not going for the man with the ball but being drawn out of position due to man marking


Watching on Stream Hunter

Clifton was man marking the goal scorer and had plenty of time to put a challenge in!

Quoted from arryarryarry

Town fans scrapping with stewards and plod in the lower level

Let's hope they put up a better show than the team

Looks like a few town fans dragged out. >:(

Bit early for a scapegoat chaps even by The Fishy's standards...

Quoted from Hagrid

Cliftons utter excrement

Or there is just a huge gulf in ability and fitness between us and them? Our young lads just can't keep up with theirs. Pollock was looking blown up after 8 minutes, Clifton struggling to keep pace.

Quoted from 137

My 2-5 score prediction is beginning to look astute...

I went 5-0 and I think I might be well out

A lesson for Jolley and the players tonight

Quoted from arryarryarry

Looks like a few town fans dragged out. >:(

Dragged out or did they volunteer to go?

OHHHH GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!!! GOAL OF THE SEASON RIGHT THERE!!!!

Beautiful!

My god that was a fantastic strike

Get in!

at least we have scored

Looks like Green is a quick learner!!

That's better! Some pride restored

Well a goal - that's a bonus  :)

Great goal that!

Great stuff, come on town

For Matt Green's strike ..

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Result immaterial. A great learning opportunity. Fantastic to get a goal.

Quoted from chaos33

Result immaterial. A great learning opportunity. Fantastic to get a goal.

Really good team bonding exercise too. None of the players will forget this.

Remember Chelsea Bradford . Come on town

Green you idiot right in front of the ref 3-1

Really unnecessary penalty to give away. Had no reason to drag him to the floor.

He's on a yellow card already, lucky not to be sent off.

3 minutes before half time what a knob up

Hero to villain so quickly. That was really, really dumb.

Get Ogbu, Rose or Wright on and lets go 433 2nd half and attack them nothing to lose now and we won't get a 2nd unless we taie a risk and go for it.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Get Ogbu, Rose or Wright on and lets go 433 2nd half and attack them nothing to lose now and we won't get a 2nd unless we taie a risk and go for it.

Good shout that.

Yes I would too

Interesting to see all of their stewards come running out when we scored. I suspect they weren't expecting it

Green & Clifton off - Rose and Wright on?? Let's run at 'em!  (Hanson winning plenty in the air  :) )

They are simply quicker and better man for man than us, We look laboured the odd times we get possesion and after our goal they have sussed to only challenge Hanson with one player for goal kicks and stand the other defender off behind for the 2nd ball, WE need some pace bringing on, Cracking finish from Green then blows it with the stupid penalty. Hes supposed to be one of the senior players!
But who knows what thje 2nd half will bring, might get mullered or might cause a shock, UTM

Well a terrible start to the game, just sat back and watched them do their stuff and we only reacted when they was on our penalty area! Same for the 2nd goal! It's almost we was star struck and couldn't move! Since then we've started to close down more and attempt to put pressure on the ball that and Hanson winning plenty of headers has allowed us to create some chances, terrific goal by Green but he let himself down with a needless challenge! I feel if we can close down and put pressure on the ball and get men around Hanson we can cause them more problems! I would certainly make a couple of subs at half time.

Does anyone else think it looks like we've gone 442 with Hewitt and Whitehouse on the wings?

Sh1t defending for the 4th and Maxi should have started

Commentator overly referring to town fans as being from Cleethorpes

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Sh1t defending for the 4th

Sure was

Thank you and goodnight Grimsby. Time to set off for home.
;D ;D ;D ;D

Quoted from Fishy clapper

Commentator overly referring to town fans as being from Cleethorpes

5000 there and he thinks the town was closed. I'm not sure how small he thinks Grimsby is

4-1 Davis ball watching instead of going up for the header he would of won easily if he had. Whatever Jolley did at half tine it hasn't worked and we've looked poor again. Wright on for Clifton. Hopefully he makes a difference.

Absolutely barmy decision to bring back Davis what the intercourse he was doing for their 4th.

He completely switched off. You can’t do that at any level!

4820 town

4820 Town fans. What happened to the other 300 tickets sold!

Ogbu on for Green

39,674 - hope the money finds its way to some player improvements - (no disrespect to current personnel)

UTM

Whitehouse looks copulated

When was the last time we played against a team containing a World Cup winner?

Quoted from arryarryarry

Whitehouse looks copulated

He's looked slow and out of place most of the game except for when he was throwing his body in the way of shots.

Quoted from Maringer

When was the last time we played against a team containing a World Cup winner?

5/11/2011

Quoted from Fishy clapper

Commentator overly referring to town fans as being from Cleethorpes

Time for us to get a new stadium within Grimsby then!

Davis does his best to give them a 5th

For felicitations same just clear the flipping ball

Macca putting on a show and being let down by the 10 in front of him gifting Chelsea 5 goals

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Macca putting on a show and being let down by the 10 in front of him gifting Chelsea 5 goals

To be fair, when does Macca not put on a show?

Don't forget there's a gulf in class and we've been chasing shadows for a long time. Think some people on here should be cutting the boys some slack ffs

Don't bother marking them then.

Quoted from buckstown

Don't forget there's a gulf in class and we've been chasing shadows for a long time. Think some people on here should be cutting the boys some slack ffs

Exactly. I would imagine every single player on the pitch for Chelsea is worth more than our entire squad.

Quoted from buckstown

Don't forget there's a gulf in class and we've been chasing shadows for a long time. Think some people on here should be cutting the boys some slack ffs

I appreciate that but you don't stand off them and give them so much space.

There is s gulf but basic defending is lacking

7-1 is a bit humiliating

Oh dear, an absolute thrashing!   Poor defending yet again.

Oh well, we've got a great goal to remember..... 😁

Last thing I wanted was for us to be embarrassed, head in my hands as I have just lost a bet and have to wear a Chelsea shirt at work tomorrow...feel for the lads, the fans, the club and Macca...didn't deserve to get 7 put last him tonight...

Shame , didnt really expect to get hammered

Massive gulf in class underlining how shocking the financial state of football is. Sky have massively skewed how difficult it is for clubs like us to compete.

Great show by our fans but the reality is that we can’t bat above our weight like we used to.

Class told-they were far far better all round-but we tried our best and that's all you can expect. Get it out of our system as soon as possible with a win at Exeter

Can’t deny that’s very disappointing. Regardless of the difference in class I didn’t expect to let in 7

I couldn't go but in my head had a sneaky suspicion that against a Chelsea second team we might give them a game. Then the team comes through - a World Cup winner,  England internationals, a £60m winger, a Belgian international. Disappointing but we have to be realistic!

Let's be honest nobody thought we could win the gulf between the premier and the rest of the EFL is great and getting bigger each year.

Bring on Exeter  ;D

Honestly don't think it's bad marking as much as exhaustion against class opposition who move beautifully. It was noticeable at palace in January that premier league players are so physically strong which makes it doubly difficult

The reason they had so much space?
Great pace, movement, passing, fitness levels, confidence, intelligence
We are L2 and very hard to keep clearing ball and not expect for it to come back
Gulf in class is massive these days

FFS - get real!

our defence panicked, we lost us shape, Macca  was awesome, a few  good performances, a stupid penalty gaff and  the best goal of the  game....worth a tenner? wish I had been there

Macca putting on a show and being let down by the 10 in front of him gifting Chelsea 5 goals

What the f*ck??

7-1 is massively disappointing but we were done after 60. The fitness levels were worlds apart, it seemed  Chelsea had two men in every position where we had one.

As a town fan it was a bit shite to watch but as a football fan you have to sit back and admire the football that they played.

Totally agree
Often overlooked is the fantastic fitness levels PL players have
Allied with superb skills

Pity it was a big score in the end but soon as we went 2 down the Jolly plan of just camp out in our own area was out of the window, then couldn't make subs after 10 mins really so left with 10 chuggers for the next 40 mins. Unfortuneately 90 mins of hard work and endeavour not enough against prem league players, whereas in league 2 thats going to get you points.
Exeter next lets hope we're smarting from tonight and ready to show the world what we're really capable of.

Disappointing but I didn't really expect anything less from Chelsea. Hopefully the experience of playing against world-class players can be brought back to our level. Onwards and upwards!

I wonder how many of their players earn more each week than all of our players combined? Most of them, probably.

Not a good result, but it wasn't exactly a settled defence so perhaps not too surprising we apparently let some soft goals in. For comparison, I went to the game at Hillsborough where we lost 7-1 and the gulf in league placings between those two teams wasn't nearly as large.

Or, on the other hand, 6 of their goals came from experienced full internationals with the other coming from a youngster who is in the England Under-20s.

How many international caps in our team, again?

Thought we did as well as we could.. they where far far better than us in all departments. 7 was no where near what they could have had. some of there players earn more a week than out squad is worth every week. the lads gave what they had , but the gulf is far beyond us to overcome.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Massive gulf in class underlining how shocking the financial state of football is. Sky have massively skewed how difficult it is for clubs like us to compete.

Great show by our fans but the reality is that we can’t bat above our weight like we used to.

Rochdale have held man spew to a draw

Great first half after 2 early goals .. never a pen which totally changes the teams confidence and half time talk . They were all over us second half after being told to go for the throat after the cushion of 3-1 which they did . That’s why they’re prem players and we’re L2 away from home .
No disgrace tonight lads , you did your best and we’re proud of you .

Well our supporters were at least as good as theirs

Tad disappointing it had to be a 7 and not a 3 or 4 but great effort from the boys right until the final whistle. Chelsea, currently reigning champions of a European competition, winners of the premier European competition within the last decade... no shame in tonight whatsoever. I hope the players enjoyed the experience as much as they could. Who cares about the result. On to Saturday now, big game!

Proud of all players and supporters.

UTM

Shame a tiny minority from both sides insist on going to a game for a punch up

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Great first half after 2 early goals .. never a pen which totally changes the teams confidence and half time talk . They were all over us second half after being told to go for the throat after the cushion of 3-1 which they did . That’s why they’re prem players and we’re L2 away from home .
No disgrace tonight lads , you did your best and we’re proud of you .

Seriously? Penalty all day long.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Great first half after 2 early goals .. never a pen which totally changes the teams confidence and half time talk . They were all over us second half after being told to go for the throat after the cushion of 3-1 which they did . That’s why they’re prem players and we’re L2 away from home .
No disgrace tonight lads , you did your best and we’re proud of you .

Fraid it was, almost as blatant as got us the penalty at Braintree and 3 yards away from the ref

is it Green that has cost us  two goals just recently one way or another ?

No one cost us
We were outclassed

Chelsea have drawn Man U at home

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Great first half after 2 early goals .. never a pen which totally changes the teams confidence and half time talk . They were all over us second half after being told to go for the throat after the cushion of 3-1 which they did . That’s why they’re prem players and we’re L2 away from home .
No disgrace tonight lads , you did your best and we’re proud of you .

Absolutely a penalty.
Great effort but lacking basic defending.

When I saw the team sheet I really did think we would do well to keep it down to single figures. Trying to be too clever and just close them down and frustrate them for 90 minutes was the plan no doubt and it was always 5 at the back not 3 and a midfield with runners but little attacking threat. Shame, I think the manager badly overthought and misjudged his game plan and did his players no favours. They gave everything and deserved better for their efforts.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Massive gulf in class underlining how shocking the financial state of football is. Sky have massively skewed how difficult it is for clubs like us to compete.

Great show by our fans but the reality is that we can’t bat above our weight like we used to.

I don't think so.
Other side's such as Colchester,Burton & Oxford have produced shocks tonight.
Even Rochdale took Utd to penalties.
Great effort on and off the field but some of the defending was naive to say the least.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Great first half after 2 early goals .. never a pen which totally changes the teams confidence and half time talk . They were all over us second half after being told to go for the throat after the cushion of 3-1 which they did . That’s why they’re prem players and we’re L2 away from home .
No disgrace tonight lads , you did your best and we’re proud of you .

In what universe was that not a penalty? Green had hold of the guy for several seconds before dragging him to the floor, very silly. He's also the one who cost us a goal after running into the wall for no reason at Salford. Had to watch that again to figure out why that happened and then was annoyed at him doing that for no reason like how he dragged somebody down in the box who wasn't even a threat just because.  ;D

Fook off he’s a 6’ 2 lump and fell ova like a daisy in the wind ffs !!

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Fook off he’s a 6’ 2 lump and fell ova like a daisy in the wind ffs !!

He's a premiership player, their taught how to fall over when someone touches them.

Unlucky lads, felt for Macca who pulled off some cracking saves, and Town fans as ever were fantastic.

It seems really hard for the Chelsea fans to get behind their multi million pound squad, must be filling their faces with prawn sandwiches.

We are 3 divisions below them that's like us playing someone from the Northern Premier League such as Nantwich Town who are 9th in that league.... maybe we'd beat them 7-1!!  They scored 3 in the last 10 minutes when our defence would be totally bolloxed!  
Big difference in class, one of their players might earn more in a month than our entire squad earn in a year!

I don't mind being outclassed, but our defending was shocking, Hewitt was very poor, and was out of position nearly every time they attacked. Fitness levels shouldn't be an excuse either, Colchester,  Oxford and Burton competed well enougj against prem teams, and whilst I didn't expect us to win I thought we'd put up a good fight,. The person I feel sorry for is Macca, who was outstanding....anyway we move on, UTM.

Penalty all day long! That can’t be questioned!

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

just close them down

A plan that was forgotten after about 3 minutes and 40 seconds!

We where outclassed as they have so much talent in such depth. I know you can’t compare but Chelsea’s 2bd string tonight looked like they would have given the Palace side we played in January a right spanking too.

Thought Town worked hard but they where chasing shadows, proud of the players and proud of the fantastic support.

Quoted from Maringer

When was the last time we played against a team containing a World Cup winner?

January 2000

Quoted from Abdul19

January 2000

Who?

Quoted from Mikoo

Who?

Karl Heinz Riedle

(Educated guess)

Very disappointing and embarrassing in the end. I thought at 2-1 we were still in it and if we could have gone in at HT at 2-1 who knows. Green is turning out to be a bit of a liability I'm afraid overshadowing a great goal , silly man

A lot of people on here think you are" a silly stute " but I think you are" astute " Ipswin  :K)