No team news yet????

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No team news yet????

Just thinking that 🤔

Strange times.  ??)

can't get ifollow yet - just a circle going round

Club still haven't bothered telling us who's playing so here's James Findlater:

https://twitter.com/JamieFin_/status/1314919986763386881

How do I get the game on my pad

Come on Town, surprise me and get a result today.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Come on Town, surprise me and get a result today.

That would suprise most of us tbh. but i feel better about us seeing the line up than i did during the first part of the week.. Fitness will play a big part tho

Trying to figure out the formation. 4-2-3-1?

Thought Bennett, would be in the squad, maybe he's not fit 🤔

At least that  looks like a first choice back 4

Quoted from gytone

Thought Bennett, would be in the squad, maybe he's not fit 🤔

He’s apparently not trained at all with Bristol Rovers this season

Quoted from Garth

How do I get the game on my pad

Download the EFL iFollow app from the App Store, login and away you go. It should be fairly straightforward.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Is there no Radio Humberside there today. Got the Bolton commentary on iFollow.

Humberside commentary for me Les.

Cue the racists...

Quoted from promotion plaice

Humberside commentary for me Les.

Sussed it now mate. Default commentary was "home". Now changed it to "away"

This ref is soft as excrement

Quoted from Stockport Mariner

Download the EFL iFollow app from the App Store, login and away you go. It should be fairly straightforward.

Thanks

Bolton don't look anything special so far, decent start by us.

Much brighter !

When we keep it on the deck we look half decent. :)

23 minutes in and only one shot between both teams. Rivetting stuff!

Town started pretty well for me, like somebody already said, when we play short on the deck passes we make progress

That's 2 challenges Williams has pulled out of, not good for a midfielder.

Cowardly

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

23 minutes in and only one shot between both teams. Rivetting stuff!

Don't knock it, Salford looked like they would score every time they crossed the half-way line last time we played.

Good opening 25mins, starting to flag a bit now and drop back in...
Williams and Taylor for my money our weak links

Scunny losing at home, where's that troll   :)

Were hoofing it up to knowone up front get scannell and edwards on half-time for taylor amd Williams for me.

We’ve reverted to hopeless left-footed punts upfield by Pollock, losing the ball and then inviting pressure

Quoted from gytone

Thought Bennett, would be in the squad, maybe he's not fit 🤔

None of our new signings ever are, Ollie only signs the unfit ones

That Hickman knows his job, stay wide, cross the ball

Phew.  

Thought the ref had given them a penalty there 😯

Half time, bolton came into it but are very beatable.
Need to pass it around more and stop the hoofing to a 7 foot giant center back.

Phew, I thought the ref had blown for a pen there.

HT....Bolton 0-0 Town.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Phew, I thought the ref had blown for a pen there.

HT....Bolton 0-0 Town.

Yeah same,  decent half they probably shaded it, will definitely settle for a draw.
Why is football nowadays when you fall over it's a foul and a free kick ?

Could really do with scoring first, but that requires somebody shooting , as the longer the game goes the more we will be on the back foot due to fitness levels.

Half time and

"Were not bottom of the league, I say, were not bottom of the league"

Quoted from gytone

Yeah same,  decent half they probably shaded it, will definitely settle for a draw.
Why is football nowadays when you fall over it's a foul and a free kick ?

It’s because the authorities have directed the game towards being contactless.... touch someone and it’s a free kick. Drives me crazy....football was always a physical game but less and less the case nowadays

A half of two halves. First 25 or so we looked good, passing the balkl well on the deck looked to move the ball quick, just wasn't happeneing in the final third. Around 25 or so they seemed to start pressing us higher, forced us into hoofing the ball to their back 3 with an average hight of 9ft 7 and since then they've taken control of the game and pinned us back. We need to start doing the same to them, press them higher, force them to hoof the ball at Pollock and Waterfall.

Our midifeld seems to of gone flat when we're defending , we're not picking up the Bolton midfield as well as we did at the start of the game and they're passing it round us now. Someone like Scannell coming on would giuve us a bit more of an outlet as well, as we saw in the first game he's a class above this league and we need him on the pitch.

In other news Sissy has scored for Cleethorpes

We need a couple of subs on soon before our lads get too tired.

Think we look tired already!! Not looking forward to the last 20 mins!


Encouraging start. Better than I thought. Looking forward to seeing us in 6 games time.

Rose is a class.

None of the new players look fit nor effective. We tired badly after half an hour which will only get worse. We were slightly better till Bolton found their feet but we are just hanging on. The stats just came up - 0 shots 0 crosses and zero attacking ideas.

Thats the biggest issue, cant see where a goal for us would come from.

Clifton the hardest worker on the pitch but Williams is so disappointing given his experience. If we are to advance up the pitch in numbers, he has to retain possession. Rose has improved but he may fade again.
Scannel on please so we can get behind and expose their weakness on crosses. Preston's first priority is to mark Hickman.

This fitness problem is expected. Even lance Armstrong would look unfit with the preparation we have had last 6 weeks.

We Will be a different animal in 6 weeks.

Shocking lack of quality
Final ball awful
Hoping it's cos it's a new team that is getting used to playing with each other

awful free kick

Quoted from 3610

This fitness problem is expected. Even lance Armstrong would look unfit with the preparation we have had last 6 weeks.

We Will be a different animal in 6 weeks.

Fitnesswise maybe that is if no one else gets a positive test and Day postpones all our matches until Christmas, league positionwise I'm not so confident

Quoted from devs

Shocking lack of quality
Final ball awful
Hoping it's cos it's a new team that is getting used to playing with each other

and not simply that we are crap you mean

With this new ref Green may as well be subbed now or play him on the right.

Fergal Sharkey providing some commentary

Feargal Sharkey doing the commentary now.  :)

Why was that not a yellow card on Clifton.

I mean in our defence, both sides are poor.

We don’t seem to have much of a plan though. Really can’t see where a goal will come from. We’ve battled harder this game which I guess is a positive but it’s still not very good.

Green and Williams off, Edwards and Gibson on

Offside from a corner. Makes me want to put a brick through the screen

This is poor

Quoted from horsforthmariner

This is poor

What do you expect?  The team hasn't been together to train for the last two weeks!

We would have got a red there FFS.

don't know why but i think we might nick this. :P

Get Scannell on for Windsor the lads knackered

Let’s of intention and every player working hard but we don’t look like scoring, a point will do though.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Get Scannell on for Windsor the lads knackered

Ha, Ollys listening to me 😂

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Get Scannell on for Windsor the lads knackered

Your wish....Ollie’s command 😉

Thought that was heading in from Taylor

GIBSON NOOOOOOOO!!!

That was a massive opportunity!

we are getting deeper and DEEper and DEEPER.

5 minutes to go.come on town! Hang on in there

Gibson and Edwards do some really good stuff apart from the most important bit at the end.

Our lack of experience is really evident but our attitude is great.

Latest....Scunny 1-3 FGR

F**k off 6 mins extra time!

We're just lacking that sharpness in the final 3rd

Where  has the ref got 6 additional minutes from?

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

We're just lacking that sharpness in the final 3rd

Exactly this. It will come good.

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

Where  has the ref got 6 additional minutes from?

Santos was down injured for at least 4, Rose was down for 2 or 3. 6 minutes easily off those 2 alone..

Scunny losing 4-1 now

FT...Bolton 0-0 Town....I'll take that after our lay-off.

Don't forget Mr Day is coming up on Humberside   :)

Excellent away point for Town, well pleased!

98 minutes up

0-0

Happy enough with the point tbh

UTM

0.0 f.t. first point of the season ,and we are off the bottom.happy days.
Well done ollie and the club for engineering that 2 week break!

If you’d offered me a clean sheet and a point at 3pm id have snapped your hand off

Would have taken that at the start

When the subs came on it looked better but alot to. Improve on.

A good hardworking performance lacking clinical last pass or finish.  :)

It'll come I think
Need to be much sharper
Like a ring rusty boxer
Great shift
Pressed really well
Back four very solid
Rose class
5/6 weeks we will be doing well IMO

Point is a good one especially after taking everything in to account.. Lets kick on from here

Tough watch but would have took that before the game. Back four were very good and great to see Hendrie back. Taylor had a much better game but Rose was my pick of the bunch. We could be playing all week and never look like scoring. However with all the players we have got/signed I think there is a good team in there we just havent seen it yet. Need Hanson fit.

Great effort, good industry throughout, just a lack of composure quality towards the end otherwise we could have nicked it.

Great effort and application Ollie has a lot to do with the youngsters and the lads stepping up from a lower level but when we get some more experience starting I’d expect us to start picking up some wins.

Well done Town!!

Thought that was half decent and they looked as tired as us, our subs made a difference, maybe with a better final ball we'd have won the game. Not sure if we'll score many though, can we draw 0-0 every week and stay up ?😉

Off the bottom too.....Morecombe top?

Gimps & Scunts go down which is an added bonus😊

Hard-earned point. We’re up and running.

Big improvement today with a better defence on the pitch. First job to stop the rot is stop conceding, then build from there. Think we'll have to grind out a few results, then start to get more involved at the business end of the pitch.

Any away point is a good point.

Edwards will be a hell of a player once he’s got a bit of confidence which was obviously lacking today on a couple of occasions.

Gibson didn’t really impress me but didn’t get much chance to to be fair.

Rose MOM for me but the defence were solid too.

A great team effort all considered

Pollock and Waterfall should stay as our no 1 CB pairing
Hendrie brought some experience, shape, and calmness
Taylor looked far better today, showed glimmers of why Ollie got him in
Rose far better, breaking play up and giving good passes too

Just need to be a bit more clinical in the last third, we had 9 shots to their 8 with neither team on target!

I'll take a 0-0 after our last appearance. We looked better when we changed shape to 433 we're more used to. Our back 4 looked more solid, I think Pollock and Waterfall make a good partnership. Clifton and Rose were everywhere, still not impressed by Taylor he seems to jog everywhere and always looks out of position. I said at half time the Midfield needed to stop dropping so deep and it made more of a difference in the second half. Our strikers didn't really have much of a chance, every time we got the ball near the box Bolton got back in numbers . I did think the 3 changes up front made a difference, Bolton looked a little more exposed once they came on.

Rose or Clifton MoM for me

If we can get our best 11 on the pitch I don't have a worry about how the season will go. Like we said right at the start of the season lack of fitness is killing us.

Thought the left back ,Preston was mom .

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Off the bottom too.....Morecombe top?

Gimps & Scunts go down which is an added bonus😊

Morcambe top! but with a minus goal difference   ??)

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Let’s of intention and every player working hard but we don’t look like scoring, a point will do though.

No real threat up front. Green was very poor.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Morcambe top! but with a minus goal difference   ??)

So maybe our result n performance against them wasnt too bad in the greatest scheme of things?

Thought Taylor put a shift in especially after several knocks and Windsor had a thankless task against giants. Both will look much better in a settled team. Oddly, even though the ref gave a foul each time a player fell over, he possibly missed a sending off for each team.

Quoted from Henryscat

Edwards will be a hell of a player once he’s got a bit of confidence which was obviously lacking today on a couple of occasions.

Gibson didn’t really impress me but didn’t get much chance to to be fair.

Rose MOM for me but the defence were solid too.

Gibson seemed to do everything except make the final pass , I’m sure that’ll be drilled into him soon enough

Better than the Salford game. Looked more cohesive as a unit and at times played some decent stuff.  

Thought Rose done well. Looked good on the ball and was hungry and showed good movement .

Edwards done well when he came on.

Quoted from arryarryarry

No real threat up front. Green was very poor.

But the service was horrendous. Rooney would look crap with the way we played today. Annoyingly, when Gibson came on we actually played a couple of balls on the floor which is when Green looks decent. He's certainly not going to win headers against the man mountains they had in defence

We exceeded expectations for me. Solid at the back, Rose much more with the pace, looked increasingly dangerous on the break. Didn't look like a team mostly made up of kids for the first time this season. I reckon we'll do alright once we've got a few more games under our belts.

Quoted from arryarryarry

No real threat up front. Green was very poor.

with zero service............not a single ball slipped through to him, not a single cross from out wide for him to attack .....thought him and Windsor at least looked like linking up/ looking for each other early on when they looked more like a front two , after that Green became isolated, fed high looping balls with a huge centre half on his back and eventually resigned himself to go looking for the ball in wider / deeper areas.

Listening to Ollie on RH re the fitness situation I think we all need to be appreciative of the team’s effort and the point gained. When you consider that we have three away games in such a short period of time without proper training we will do very well to get another two points this coming week.

The running of the game by the EFL seems more chaotic as each day passes and the fact that Tranmere have played when 3 of their staff have tested positive for Covid demonstrates a total failure to put in place consistent protocols that all clubs must adhere to, incredulous really.

Poor game all round.
Forget & move on.

Quoted from Stadium

Poor game all round.
Forget & move on.

I quite enjoyed the second half , goes to show how people can see a game different .
Maybe I’m just easily pleased after the last game

Quoted from grimps

I quite enjoyed the second half , goes to show how people can see a game different .
Maybe I’m just easily pleased after the last game

Fair point.

Defensively we were good.  Too many sloppy passes. The subs improved us. Scannell is better than the other midfielders we’ve got.

Quoted from moosey_club

with zero service............not a single ball slipped through to him, not a single cross from out wide for him to attack .....thought him and Windsor at least looked like linking up/ looking for each other early on when they looked more like a front two , after that Green became isolated, fed high looping balls with a huge centre half on his back and eventually resigned himself to go looking for the ball in wider / deeper areas.

I disagree quite a few balls played up to them when we looked on top in the first half but his control was poor as well as his passing.

Quoted from Stadium

Poor game all round.
Forget & move on.

I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would especially the second half

I just don’t get all the negativity.  Bolton are a huge club, we went into the game on the back of two defeats and another two weeks of virtually no training.

I’m happy with a point and would have been equally happy irrespective of the start to the season.

One of the best results of IH's career.

Ian Holloway described Grimsby Town’s goalless draw at Bolton as ‘one of the most fantastic points’ of his career as his side finally got off the mark in League Two.

The Mariners earned their first point of the season after a game of few chances at the University of Bolton Stadium.

The visitors did have their chances to walk away with all three, although indecision at opportune moments cost them dearly.

Nevertheless, having trained for just three days after being in self-isolation, Town can be more than happy with their efforts in earning their first point of the campaign.

“I think that’s one of the most fantastic points my team has ever got for me,” Holloway said.

“Coming to a wonderful place like this after being asked to stay at home, what can I say?

“I’ve got a new group, three of them came this week while we were in lockdown, I didn’t even meet them. It’s just so surreal.

“I didn’t know how best we could play, who was fit, I had to run them on Thursday, I couldn’t run them on Wednesday, but luckily for me we were locked down the right day so we could prepare for three days, instead of poor old Leyton Orient who could only prepare for two hours last Saturday!

“I am so proud of them. In the end, we could have nicked it.

“Just at half-time, I thought our legs were coming off, but I had to change the shape and get five across midfield because they were stretching us wide.

“I’ve seen a few games in my life, made a few bad decisions, some good ones, and luckily that change helped us, and we almost nicked it at the end.”

Holloway also bemoaned his side’s hectic schedule, with the Mariners set to be back on the road on Tuesday in their rearranged game at Cheltenham, before travelling again next Saturday to Leyton Orient.

“Now we’ve also got to play this Tuesday away to Cheltenham, and then on Saturday away to Leyton Orient, and I worry that this wonderful competition, for all our wonderful supporters who aren’t allowed in a beautiful ground like this. Why can’t we get people in a ground as beautiful as this?

“Home supporters only, I’ve got no problem with that, because the atmosphere is awful.

“I’m very, very worried about football, but as a performance, that’s as good as I’ve ever had. Maybe as good as my first three points away to Mansfield last season when we went down to 10 men really early in the game.”

First time posting for a while.

Watched on follow today and found quality of that pretty good.

Home commentators were clearly expecting a home win (ha), yet despite quite a bit of pressure, I don't recall McKeown being seriously troubled all game. So a really solid performance from Town, in difficult circumstances.

Good to see Hendrie back in there and the back four overall looked solid.

Some good bits of play in midfield, but we really need Hanson up top give us some presence / goal threat.

UTM.

Much more of a collective performance today and a great point gained. I don’t think many were optimistic about our chances beforehand. Our back four had good games, Preston did spurn a good opportunity but that will come with experience.

Harry and Rose covered a lot of ground today. I recall Harry crossing from the right byline one minute then making a block at our byline about 30 seconds later. Rose just edges MoM for me.

Williams and Taylor had better games but still hoping there’s more to come from them. The arrival of Bennett will help. Green put in a faint less shift against some very big centre backs. Don’t think he see the sun all afternoon. Windsor played well considering he’s still remembering names.

Subs made a decent impact. Only thing I would have done differently - I’d have included Mohsni up top for the last 20, just to see if we could get the ball to stick and stretch them with Edwards and Scannell.

Happy with a clean sheet and a point to get us off the mark. Hanson hasn’t had any football for a while so whilst I know he will bring a different dynamic to our attack, he might need a few weeks just like the rest of the lads.

UTM

Pleasantly surprised by the opening 10 minutes - were well on top, looking to play to feet through midfield. Bolton got into the game after that , their guy who was up against Preston the main threat. Only danger was the free kick that went just past the post with McKeown rooted to the spot. Saw out first half well - despite giving possession away/poor clearances at times.

Tactical change second half helped, grew into the game again as it went on - no dangers - finished on top- draw a fair result. Expected more from them - they took their main threat off, Santos looks a decent centre back- but overall disappointing. For us - hard to judge given the circs - best and tidy in some areas- Rose,Taylor for eg - though def looked ‘leggy’ all over and the lack of physicality and pace is a concern for me - on an off day can see us getting exploited/hurt in that area. Thought Clifton had a very good game, worked hard. Preston did ok against their threat out wide, the two centre backs did ok- again an area in which on a given day against a diff style we could suffer. Fair play to Windsor - never stopped, despite being isolated at times/chasing shadows - good attitude, will fit in well when Hanson returns. Green worked hard but (sorry) might be the guy who comes off the bench last 10/15 rather than start.

Overall it was a good, unexpected point. Yes plenty of ways to improve in time - but couldn’t fault or question the effort and application by everyone.

Quoted from Stadium

One of the best results of IH's career.

Ian Holloway described Grimsby Town’s goalless draw at Bolton as ‘one of the most fantastic points’ of his career


“I think that’s one of the most fantastic points my team has ever got for me,” Holloway said.


as a performance, that’s as good as I’ve ever had. ”

Obviously easily satisfied, lets hope he's going to set higher targets than that

Quoted from Ipswin

Obviously easily satisfied, lets hope he's going to set higher targets than that

Or maybe he's trying to build confidence in a team that is clearly lacking it and had some adverse situations to go through.

Just read Holloways remarks in the GET

What the intercourse does this mean 'not everybody is a chicken nugget with double barbecue sauce who’s going to get it all wrong.'

Mad as a box of frogs!

Quoted from Ipswin

Just read Holloways remarks in the GET

What the intercourse does this mean 'not everybody is a chicken nugget with double barbecue sauce who’s going to get it all wrong.'

Mad as a box of frogs!

You missed out the bit about seagulls following the trawler! ;D

You have to laugh at the PR.

"We are a magnificently well-run football club"

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ian-holloway-warning-grimsby-efl-4596150

Quoted from Stadium

You have to laugh at the PR.

"We are a magnificently well-run football club"

https://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ian-holloway-warning-grimsby-efl-4596150

Told you, the man's mad!

I don’t think he’s mad, I think he’s well intentioned but talks absolute waffle...

I think being easily please is symptomatic of the feeling around the club, a feeling that’s been there a while.

In hindsight, the point was well earned we move on. We never look like scoring, that’s obvious but yesterday we were solid at the back, albeit against a woeful Bolton,

Quoted from Stadium

Poor game all round.
Forget & move on.

The first sentence was subjective.
The second sentence should read " Learn and move on ".

Quoted from rancido

The first sentence was subjective.
The second sentence should read " Learn and move on ".

It's only subjective in your opinion!

Quoted from aldi_01

I don’t think he’s mad, I think he’s well intentioned but talks absolute waffle...

I think being easily please is symptomatic of the feeling around the club, a feeling that’s been there a while.

In hindsight, the point was well earned we move on. We never look like scoring, that’s obvious but yesterday we were solid at the back, albeit against a woeful Bolton,

A fair summary.
You can analyse it to death but it was a substandard game lacking in any real quality.

Make your judgements at the end of the season. People were on here when Ollie came and were singing his praises, give one or two. Give the bloke a chance.

I too am baffled by some of Ollies pearls of wisdom. However he does know his football & has livened up this forum. I like the guy & believe he will turn us round before the end of this season. Rock on.