Come on Town, let's get a win tonight.

Hessentahler gone off injured.
Benson on.

Grimsby

    1 McKeown
    2 Hendrie
    5 Öhman
    25 Pollock
    33 Driscoll-Glennon
    8 Hessenthaler
    15 Clifton
    10 Whitehouse
    16 Clarke
    9 Hanson
    18 Vernam

Substitutes

    6 Waterfall
    7 Green
    19 Wright
    20 Benson
    21 Tilley
    22 Hewitt
    23 Russell

Benson on for Hess, why didn't their player get booked.

This ref is already  looking shite.

Should have been a sending off. Strangely Town players didn't complain at all. Replay on TV shows he could have easily pulled out.

Why has the ref not booked him for that.

Ref is a coward and the town players should have made a massive fuss over that challenge instead of just all shrugging their shoulders

Yeah, it really fecks me off that we don't surround the ref like others do to us.

If it was us away we'd probably be down to ten.

Anyway we've scored, golfers favourite player.

Oi oi!

Great cross by Hendrie for the goal, headed back by Hanson, then in by Whitehouse.
edit Goal credited to Nugent og

Stick that in your bra and smoke it!

Nice ball out wide by Vernam, decent cross by Hendrie. Good save by the keeper but I think it was the defender* that poked it in, not Whitehouse. Anyway, who cares?!

*maybe not, actually

Fabulous move for the goal. Lovely little touch and pass from Benson, great play twice from Vernam. Great cross from Hendrie. Hanson should ld have scored with header but hit target. Tap in from inches for Whitehouse.

We were second best in the game until that move. And still are it seems

BBC says it was an oggy

Lovely goal and exactly the way we should be playing with someone like Hanson leading the line. Good stuff.

Christ, great chance missed by Jackson for them

Stevenage really dirty side. Getting away with it.
They should have a goal or two though. We are giving them good chances.

Very scrappy good goal Benson looks good ref shite BBC hullberside commentary iffy sorry JT time to go

Ref is shite absolute coward.

Van  Veen’s a w@nker everywhere he goes
Van Veen’s a w@nker everywhere he goes
Everywhere he goes

sent off 😂😂😂

Benson is having a very good half, looks steady on the ball and has picked out some really good passes..

Very disjointed display.
Two poor sides tonight.

Very disjointed display.
Two poor sides tonight.

When I saw someone called Nugent had scored for us I thought we’d signed another player.

Quoted from 123614

Benson is having a very good half, looks steady on the ball and has picked out some really good passes..

Would agree .
The only light in a dull game.

AB going on about not getting booked for kicking ball away - nobody does now nor do refs pick em up for pinching yards on throw ins
Stevenage more like a rugby league side very physical bruisy yet JT/AB not said a word about this just that Town not moved on since goal, do me a favour

The ambulance has just left.
Is it Hess???

Was ambulance for hess?

bit worried about chucking this lead away, hope we get an early second in next half

Very poor game so far, we are lucky to be in the lead.

How on earth are they below us -they are far superior in just about every department. We don't know how to centre a ball

We are playing the easy ball badly How we are winning is a miracle

Have faith

Good talking to at half time will remind the boys that the match lasts 45 mins.

Otherwise could be a long 3 months

I reckon the ambulance must have been for Hessenthaler. My guess is collarbone. I didn't think it was a particularly malicious challenge but it was dangerous play. He could easily have minimised the impact and the referee was a coward for not booking him at the very least.

Other than the goal, have to say we've been pretty poor tonight. They've pressed us and we haven't dealt with it. Good, accurate kicking from their keeper and a well-worked long throw has proved enough to cause our defence problems. Luckily they've not made anything of the chances which have come their way.

With their height advantage across the pitch, we need to either play into feet or put it over the top into corners. I'd be happy with a slightly streaky win, but it would be nice to put them away despite the adversity of losing a player in the first few seconds.

Half time stats we had 55% possession they had 45%

Poor first half overall, but agree that Benson has looked quite classy

Seen it back on video, very bad challenge

I thought we just edged it but I know nothing.

Teams have a tendency to sit back when they are winning.

There are good refs and bad refs, and apparently the absolute weak gutless idiot we have tonight.

Very poor game let's hope we improve in the second half.

Poor performance so far can't tell if we're being lazy with our marking or its just heavy legs from Saturday. Benson has looked good, his control and passing is great. Whitehouse is habing another good game and Hanson looks to be putting a shift in again

A poor ref probably should of sent Jackson off right at the start but I see why he didn't, it wasn't till the replay you could see he could of pulled out instead choosing to dive in.

But it doesn't matter we are winning and hopefully that continues and hopefully our performance picks up as well.

Come on Town get a grip.

Fucking hell, you can tell that cunt Westley is back there.

This referee should not be doing this at a league level.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Poor performance so far can't tell if we're being lazy with our marking or its just heavy legs from Saturday.

Stevenage have the day off?

Penalty Town

Carlisle 4-1 up away to the Village People. Where did that come from?

Village have been on a bit of poor form along with Mansfield and Newport who have struggled to win since the Cup exit.

Above Scunny now

Get in 2-0

Get in

Not a penalty. But take it.

The ref has been truly terrible,against both sides.

Get in!!

Town now above Scunts with a 4 goal difference swing. Come on the Mariners!

Get in! I'm still not sure it actually was a penno looked a good tackle on the replay took the ball first, but I'm not going to moan 2-0 and we're back above Scunny  ;D

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Get in! I'm still not sure it actually was a penno looked a good tackle on the replay took the ball first, but I'm not going to moan 2-0 and we're back above Scunny  ;D

Not such a shite ref now then eh?

JT just said Town LUCKY to be 2 up
Whose sides he on?
It's Stevenage FGS

He's still shite, but to our advantage!

Quoted from Ipswin

Not such a shite ref now then eh?

Oh he's still shite, just nice when BS goes our way for once.

Clarke takes his shirt off in respect of fellow footballer who has passed away and THAT IDIOT OF A REF BOOKS HIM. (fuyou_2)(fuyou_2)(fuyou_2)

Billy Clarke ripped of his Town shirt and revealed 'Sonnet 25'

That player who died from fractured skull after a scrap on night out, don't know if they were mates or what... But still...

Class.

Quoted from Ipswin

Not such a shite ref now then eh?

Oh he's still shite, theres no question there

Criminal the ref had to book him under the letter of the law but rules iz rules

But to be fair, it was the linesman who made the decision.

Quoted from Ipswin

Not such a shite ref now then eh?

It was the assistant who gave it.

Quoted from essexexile

JT just said Town LUCKY to be 2 up
Whose sides he on?
It's Stevenage FGS

Is he wrong tho? 🤔

Quoted from Grantham_Mariner

Clarke takes his shirt off in respect of fellow footballer who has passed away and THAT IDIOT OF A REF BOOKS HIM. (fuyou_2)(fuyou_2)(fuyou_2)

Ref has to book him by the letter of the law unfortunately. This one isn't on the ref its on the FA or FIFA who brought in the stupid rule

Yes. They not peppered our goal, we not fully at the races but they not all over us

Quoted from grimsby pete

Very poor game let's hope we improve in the second half.

Not a game for improving against typical league 2 side very very physical
Only one team trying to play guess who?

Two mediocre looking sides going toe to toe it looks like, but we've taken our chances

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

What a run!

Great goal Vernam!

Yes, we do deserve it motherfuckers!

Brilliant solo run from Vernam to score, 3-0

Get in 3 is the magic number

Cracking goal from Vernham.

Well he's got us scoring!

Gerrin! Charlie!!

Quoted from essexexile

Not a game for improving against typical league 2 side very very physical
Only one team trying to play guess who?

See what I mean, great goal Chas

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Great goal Vernam!

He’s been threatening to do something like that for a while now. Much improved player under the new regime.

Was that Vernham or was that Messi?? 🤔

Much improved after his loan, did him the world of good

Just had a look through the Stevenage forum and they're going mental about the ref. It's hilarious when everyone says he's rubbish!!

Quoted from Meza

Is he wrong tho? 🤔

Yeh goals when games, the score is 3-0 by the way, lucky?

Quoted from Rik e B

Was that Vernham or was that Messi?? 🤔

Neither mate, it was Vernam 😉 classy goal though!

Att. 4,175. (21)

3 points in the bag...Let's get Tilley and Wright on last 15 and rest Clifton and Charlie

Can see where Stevenage get their thuggish ways from with that manager

21! Fuckinghalfarsed effort. I bet more than 21 Town fans have traveled further

Quoted from promotion plaice

Att. 4,175. (21)

21 ;D - I hope they all had a full search!

They are a bunch of dirty gits.

Stevenage great advert for League 2 don't think really hope they go down and Morecambe stay up

Quoted from Withnail

3 points in the bag...Let's get Tilley and Wright on last 15 and rest Clifton and Charlie

Fair enough Ollie...makes more sense to rest the older legs!

Brilliant photos, these:

https://twitter.com/joncorkenphoto/status/1222268751711756289?s=19

Quoted from essexexile

Stevenage great advert for League 2 don't think really hope they go down and Morecambe stay up

Well the gods are smiling on you as morecambe are 1 up

Clean sheet would have been nice, but three points the main thing.

Quoted from forza ivano

Well the gods are smiling on you as morecambe are 1 up

2 now

Good goal but seems like everyone fell asleep for that one so no clean sheet

Nice turn by their lad but all too easy. Ah well.

Quoted from WesternMariner

21 ;D - I hope they all had a full search!

Third best of the night - home fans that is...!

Much needed win, Stevenage weren't the worst team we have seen at BP but I think we were worth the win in the end, some well taken goals and 3 points puts us above the Scunts as they lose  3 -0 to Northampton  ;D

Wow, really not sure how we won that, never mind comfortably.

We scored 2 great goals but did nothing else creative for most of the game. Didn't even look solid at the back. Stevenages lack of confidence was so obvious - they never looked like taking any of the very good chances they had.

Not complaining though. Good points, good for confidence. Things for the boss to work on with them all.

Their goal was a great individual goal too.

Good result slightly better second  half pity about thier goal which was a bit like the one Rose scored the other week.

A lot of work needed Ollie but you can do it.

UTMM

Glad we’ve beaten them horrible tin pot club all being well going back to where they belong.

Good home win anyway and a cracker from Chas, to top it all Scunts get beat and that tool Von Veen off with a straight red.

Well done,Town worked hard for that got the rub of the green a bit for a change, but what an awful ref, and our pitch is getting worse game by game.  Be great if we can make it 2 wins in a row again on Saturday UTMM.

Well a poor win is still a win, we certainly weren't at our best today, but came away clear winners. The first half was really poor and we were lucky to lead, second half we improved as and they started to unravel. I'm still not convinced it was a peno, watched it again and I'm sure he gets the ball not Clifton again I'm not going to moan at a freebee like that, its not often we get a bit of luck like that. Vernams individual effort for the third was fantastic, he's been trying to pull that off for weeks now its about time he got it off  ;D ;D

The Ref for bothsides was shocking for bothsides, I'm not sure we would of gotten anything off him if it wasn't for the linesman. I can't wait for Holloways view on him.

Special mention to Benson today I thought he did a great job, covered the pitch well, his control and passing was fantastic at times as well, Whitehouse impressed again as did Glennon. Thought we missed Hanson when he came off and we were starting to lose the grip on the game we had gained when we scored number three.

Finally its nice to see the League table has been resumed to normality  ;D ;D

FGR lost 4_1 at home to Carlisle tonight.

Let's hope they are as bad on Saturday.

Macca never even moved for there goal. rooted to the spot

Quoted from Rik e B

Clean sheet would have been nice, but three points the main thing.

Would have been great.
Had a fiver at 16/1  for 3-0  ;D  ;D