Here is your #GTFC XI for this evening, sponsored by Mercedes Benz of Grimsby: McKeown, Hendrie, Pollock, Waterfall, Preston, Clifton, Morton, Spokes, Tilley, Gibson, Edwards.

Subs: Battersby, Mohsni, Starbuck, Bennett, Jackson Jr, Gomis, Hanson

Quoted from Les Brechin

Here is your #GTFC XI for this evening, sponsored by Mercedes Benz of Grimsby: McKeown, Hendrie, Pollock, Waterfall, Preston, Clifton, Morton, Spokes, Tilley, Gibson, Edwards.

Subs: Battersby, Mohsni, Starbuck, Bennett, Jackson Jr, Gomis, Hanson

Youth in the middle might be a worry, Harrogate my try to bully them but I'm quite happy with that line up

Strongish looking bench as well but I wonder what’s happened to Scannell? He looked the goods in his brief appearances.

come on Town.

excited for this one! UTM

Who's tonight thread sponsor?Demestos?..other virus killers are available...🤫🤔

Solid start needed, so as not to gift an early goal away.

Hoof ball into Row Z, rather than any dodgy back passes or weak clearances.

More players getting a great chance to impress I H.

I hope they all.play well and give Ollie a massive selection headache !!

UTM !!

Quoted from AussieMariner

Strongish looking bench as well but I wonder what’s happened to Scannell? He looked the goods in his brief appearances.

No idea. Last time I recall seeing him it seemed like nobody wanted to pass to him at all and he just sort of existed in the game feeding on scraps. Sure he was on the bench as an unused sub in another game but feel like a Vose situation is coming along where he looked good at the start then slowly gets phased out with a few anonymous performances where he may or may not have upset a few people and/or the manager.

Come on Town

Let's carry on the good form from the past week

UTM

Minutes silence for who?

Is Owen Windsor being rested?

Quoted from Les Brechin

Is Owen Windsor being rested?

Probably, only 5 loans in a matchday squad.

Quoted from Meza

Probably, only 5 loans in a matchday squad.

Yeah, but you'd have thought from recent performances he'd be the first loanee in the squad!

Could do without an injury to Edwards

Let’s hope it’s not serious......

Lucky escape

We had a bit of a downpour just before kick-off here in Cleethorpes, the players look like they are struggling with the slippy conditions.

Good start by them   :-/

Hartogate hitting some good veritcal passes.....  they look lively.

Slow start by us but still 0-0

FT....Cheltenham 1-0 Scunny   8)

Scuny lose in the bottom 2

I see what people were saying this week about playing out from the back.   It shouldnt be that hard given they are pro footballers they should be able to retain possesion

Quoted from promotion plaice

Minutes silence for who?

Keith Jobling

What a pity about sunny scunny
Can they dig themselves out of this?
Does anyone care?

Quoted from oochiad

Let’s hope it’s not serious......

I don’t think he immediately went down the tunnel which is encouraging

poor judgement. Slow thinking and slow reactions.

Wtf is macca doing

What the hell was Macca doing!

Dumb mistake or not they were probably going to score eventually.

After the Lord Mayor's Show so far, come on Town get a grip.

Macca pulled a Macca, well thats number 1 of 2 for the season out the way, but what was he doing

Disagree with JT I don’t think a goal was coming but a Macca made sure he’d move the situation on, poor from a keeper his experience

OH TILLEY with a bit of magic!

Cracking Tilley

Just been for a píss. Have I missed anything?

🔥🔥🔥🔥 oooof what a bloody finish

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Disagree with JT I don’t think a goal was coming but a Macca made sure he’d move the situation on, poor from a keeper his experience

And Tilley levels it 😂

Well we’ve been flipping awful but 1-1

Get in   ;D

Well done Macca. Put a blue shirt on!

Poor by Preston, worse by McKeown.

Lets hope we react similarly to Saturd...GOAL!

FFS!  I just put the kids to bed and I miss 2 goals!

Quoted from Poojah

Just been for a píss. Have I missed anything?

FT....1-1    ;D

Garbage by McKeown -but Town score as well 1-1

Good save by macca on a 1-1 situation

Macca redeems himself with a great save.

And Mckeown makes amends

Quoted from promotion plaice

Macca redeems himself with a great save.

That's the thing, he'll make a great save in the same game but because he made an absolute howler of a situation nobody will think about it  ;D

Fair play to McKeown (it needed saving but it was in no way a 'great' save!) but that was a really weak finish by Muldoon there

Well done McKeown (for balance)

I’m going off JT more and more.....

I was worried when the lineup came out about that midifeld and so far this half I think its been justified. Morton and Spokes are doing alright going forward but they're nit in the game defensively at all, its causing us all sorts of problems

Harrogate look a decent side, watched them play against Bradford and they fully deserved the win.

Come on Town.

1-2 now. Not at the races tonight

Macca poor again.

P1ss poor that by Town really unprofessional

Keep shooting ourselves in the foot

Unlucky Macca. We were no where near them while tracking back then

Every single second ball seems to gravitate to one of their players. Apart from the goal we have not been able to string anything together as they always win the ball.

They’re good for their lead in all fairness. This needs changing up at half time.

You cant blame macca there ffs😂 we’ve been excrement all over. They are quick strong and fully deserve to be in front

Hendrie in the wrong position, Spokes and Morton just isn't working!...

Quoted from 123614

Macca poor again.

Was a good first save nothing he could do.

WE need another goalie. Macca poor attempt to save it again!

We’ve been terrible tonight

Missing Rose tonight

The past two games we’ve been brilliant to a man.

Tonight we’ve been crap from back to front. Dreadful first half.

Looks like our b team

Clifton into centre midfield please.

Macca is having a shocker.  That 2nd was goalkeeping 101.

HT....Town 1-2 Harrogate

A fair reflection of the first-half unfortunately

Come on Ollie sort it

Second best all over, one or two looking out of there depth I’m afraid.  ;)

Easy peasy goal for Harrogate

Quoted from BenBB

Was a good first save nothing he could do.

He pushed the ball out right to the feet of the incoming player!  Either get two hands to it or push it out wide of the goal. I don't know what it is with keepers these days, none of them want to get two hands to the ball!

Spokes is out of his depth that's for sure and Edwards going off didn't help. Macca is not as good as he thinks he is I'm afraid but he's probably the only one in Holloway's huge squad who is not at all worried about his place

No doubt about it.... Harrogate deserve their lead

Ollie needs to pull something out of the hat if we are to avoid a defeat

It is 1-2, we are not out of it but Ollie needs to shuffle the pack and change formation for the second half, they are getting through at will down the flanks. May be a case of getting Hanson on early and start going more direct, play Gibson off him..
Missing Williams and Rose tonight...

Poor first half. Middle of the park nonexistant. Lets go 442, get Hanson on for Spokes, get clifton in the middle with Morton, Tilley and Bennett wide. With Hanson on we can go more route 1 when Harrogate push up and stop us playing out the back. Tilley and Bennett will help cover our two wingbacks and getting Clifton in the middle will give us some much needed energy and drive there.

First time i've seen us play and it's only half time but I think we look OK. Harrogate are by far the better side and their movement and passing is brilliant. For me i agree with the commentators. I love a 433 as i've said on here before. Personally, i think we need to switch to that and continue to get the ball down but this time we'll have that extra man in the middle of the park to create space and an option.

A poor first half from us....  second to everything....  pressured all over the pitch...
Dont look anything like , if things don't change we could be in for a bit of a slapping here.....  

Not enough tracking back and not enough sticking to men and folkowing the runners

Got to revert to 4-4-2  this system not working tonight.

Good goal by Tilley the only bright spot for us apart from the grass.

Well done to the groundsman he has improved the playing surface 100% since the start of the season.

Quoted from 123614

He pushed the ball out right to the feet of the incoming player!  Either get two hands to it or push it out wide of the goal. I don't know what it is with keepers these days, none of them want to get two hands to the ball!

I’ve noticed that , I’m sure what was bread and butter saves years ago are now all punched or parried rather than caught , it’s the same from crosses and corners , keepers used to jump up and pluck the ball no problems from a corner and nine time’s out of ten if they dropped it the ref would give a free kick

Gibson not doing enough to hold the ball up and keep possession in attacking areas and the ball just keeps coming back into our final third.

He’s not making those runs into the channels either in order to turn their centre backs.

Good prospect IMO but not a lone striker - he looks a bit lost.

Getting a job done on us by a very organised, fit and lively team, very impressed with them.
Having said that our shape and selection isnt helping, Spokes and Morton running in treacle in the middle,  Clifton isnt a wing back.
Harrogate clearly know we want to play from the back and have pinned us down exposing our lack of centre half ball ability.

Lucky to be still in it, a good half time shake up needed here.

Quoted from 123614

He pushed the ball out right to the feet of the incoming player!  Either get two hands to it or push it out wide of the goal. I don't know what it is with keepers these days, none of them want to get two hands to the ball!

Agree, he pushed it back out into the danger area.

I thought Maccas position on the second goal was suspect which meant that he struggling straight away.

We’re missing Williams and Rose. Would prefer Green to Gibson (he’s won nothing all night). Hopefully, Hanson’s got 45 minutes in him. Tilley, Pollock, Waterfall and Clifton have done okay - the rest rubbish.

He showed too much goal to his left, so looked at full stretch but that was due to iffy positioning

That was awful let's make no mistake.

Clifton needs moving into the centre as Morton and Spokes can not play together, Spokes in particular looks way way way out of his depth both on the ball and off the ball (yes I know it is his first game) Morton  looks tidy technically but he needs the right partner alongside him, nothing is sticking up top, we need Hanson on to hold the ball up, improvement needed

Think too many changes being made . These are pro footballers and should be able to play twice a week .. I know some are young , but if your not fit when you are young you will never be, We are not out of it but changes in shape are needed for the second half without a doubt

Get hanson on

As others have said, lucky to still be in it, need big first 15 to get them doubting

They are simply stronger and quicker than us, Their players also seem to be able to turn easily and run off ours, while we seem to be sliding around on our ahses all the time. Spokes/Morton not strong enough as a pair, get Clifton in there,

We are just shocking tonight, alas I can see them scoring more unless something changes and quickly

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Poor first half. Middle of the park nonexistant. Lets go 442, get Hanson on for Spokes, get clifton in the middle with Morton, Tilley and Bennett wide. With Hanson on we can go more route 1 when Harrogate push up and stop us playing out the back. Tilley and Bennett will help cover our two wingbacks and getting Clifton in the middle will give us some much needed energy and drive there.

Agree with that - best chance with available personnel - play to Hanson (if he is fit enough) and hope he can can hold up the ball to enable us to push up

My...Town 4-2 Harrogate prediction is still on   ;)

I know It shouldn't matter because everyone in the league has the right to be there, but it just feels all wrong being outplayed by Harrogate.  :B

Quoted from promotion plaice

My...Town 4-2 Harrogate prediction is still on   ;)

unfortunately its not as i didnt include yours hahahaha

Bennett and Morton are short of miles Spokes looking a bit rusty 😉

I'm not sure Holloway has got whats needed on the bench to win this, the match winners are being 'rested', the sooner he sorts a first team out and sticks to it the better. If they are fit they shoud be able to play twice a week surely

Sub sub

If you want a laugh listen to the Harrogate commentary 🤣

Gomis on for Bennett

Feel a bit for Bennet he was nowhere near ready to play tonight by the looks of it.

Lucky there again, come on Town.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Gomis on for Bennett

Holloway introduces a goal machine

Fookin hell that Harrogate player rolled some way when he got fouled by Preston. Must be a stunt man

We'll be down to 10 shortly at this rate.

Morton and Spokes have been absolutely dreadful

Spokes and Morton not looking good enough. Too soft in midfield and they keep giving the ball away.

Great save by Macca,

One of those games when it seems like nobody in a black and white shirt can control the ball properly or pass it accurately or make the correct decision. Below par all round so far tonight.

Harrogate players doing their best Neymar impressions now

More playacting

Don't even see how that was a foul. Their player kicked ours

Quoted from promotion plaice

We'll be down to 10 shortly at this rate.

Phew

Quoted from KingstonMariner

More playacting

They’re actually quite petulant to be honest.

Not a very inspiring start to the second half

30 minutes or so to try and rescue something but it’s looking like we haven’t got what it takes 😐

I think it's 50/50 that we can't seem to be able control the play and Harrogate aren't giving us time or space to get some composure

whats the pitch conditions like is it greasy \ wet?  if it is it makes it harder to run onto through balls.

And some people still cling to the myth that the cheating is only done by the 'Premiershite' foreigns.

Someone gonna get sent off here

Quoted from Chrisblor

One of those games when it seems like nobody in a black and white shirt can control the ball properly or pass it accurately or make the correct decision. Below par all round so far tonight.

Too many players out of their depth and simply not up to it. He can't afford to mix it up so much that too many players like Spokes, Morton and Bennett play in place of those who did the business in the last couple of games. Pick 14 or 15 and stick with them please!

More promising

Gomis looks lively. Like the look of him.

Gomi looks like he knows what hes doing

Don't teams get fined if they get 5 yellow cards in one match?

Hanson coming on for Spokes.

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Don't teams get fined if they get 5 yellow cards in one match?

Thoght it was 6

C'mon Town! Let's get Hanson on for the last half hr and get some momentum behind us. We can still win this.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Hanson coming on for Spokes.

At last should have been switched at half time

Fucjing hell never seem a team roll around as much as these

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Fucjing hell never seem a team roll around as much as these

I agree, they are the better side but really trying to get our players sent off.

6 rolls there, echoes of Klinsmann at Italia 90.

Their players certainly know how to roll around, had a bit of admiration for how they are doing back in the league but gone right off them tonight.

So so so sloppy everywhere. It's not like they're doing anything other than closing down quickly but we don't have anyone on the pitch with the composure to turn away from the pressure and make them pay. Windsor, Edwards and Williams are all capable of it but they're all either being rested or injured.

Oh just as I wrote this Tilley just turned his man and got the defender booked for hacking him down. More of that please!

Quoted from Chrisblor

Windsor, Edwards and Williams are all capable of it but they're all either being rested or injured.

Those 3 are absolutely must plays for me Should be first 3 on the team sheet

Gomis does look better and sharper than the other midfield players

Quoted from Chrisblor

So so so sloppy everywhere. It's not like they're doing anything other than closing down quickly but we don't have anyone on the pitch with the composure to turn away from the pressure and make them pay. Windsor, Edwards and Williams are all capable of it but they're all either being rested or injured.

Oh just as I wrote this Tilley just turned his man and got the defender booked for hacking him down. More of that please!

Edwards was playing tonight but went off injured

Quoted from Teestogreen

Gomis does look better and sharper than the other midfield players

That's faint praise (on tonight's performance anyway)

God this is awful.. what the hell is this clown thinking.

True

Plus ca change....plus c'est la meme chose..... as they say

I’ll be disappointed if Hanson doesn’t start on Saturday.

Quoted from Yossarian

Plus ca change....plus c'est la meme chose..... as they say

Absolument Delboy

Quoted from Boris Johnson

God this is awful.. what the hell is this clown thinking.

Here we go....one poor performance and the idiots are out early!!

At least we’ve had nobody booked for 13 mins

Quoted from HertsGTFC

I’ll be disappointed if Hanson doesn’t start on Saturday.

I can't understand why he didn't start tonight

Don't see the point in keeping him for Saturday any more than tonight That said looking at tonights joke set up I wonder if Holloway still (wrongly) underestimates Harrogate and looks at them as a little non-league team

Quoted from chipsandgravy

Here we go....one poor performance and the idiots are out early!!

Few people spent their time salivating in their dinky council flat as us losing and winding people up is the best part of their week

Wtf is macca doing honestly, so hesitant it gives the strikers a chance everytime.

Mckeown has had an absolute stinker.

Hope someone posts those individual passing charts for all our players again for this match. Would be very interesting to see cos I've got the feeling some of them are struggling to compete even half their attempted passes tonight...!

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Wtf is macca doing honestly, so hesitant it gives the strikers a chance everytime.

Shame there's no Henderson in the wings to shake Macca up a bit, he's too comfy

Even I’m not so sure about Macca now , I think they call it the halo effect ?
Yes he’s been a good servant but he’s making mistakes in every game now .
If we had someone pushing him we might know if all keepers make as many mistakes

We are awful.....  shocking....

I like macca but his been at fault fpr both goals imo and gave there strikers 3 other chances from being hesitant.

Are we seriously blaming this on Macca? Scapegoat much? We've been second best all over the pitch, Harrogate a good strong and direct side, pressing well and we can't string two passes together or create anything. We give the ball away constantly.

Lots of young skinny whippets getting frustrated easily and fouling them, nobody getting hold of the ball and creating chances. Losing Edwards early has killed us because he usually is the one who runs with the ball.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Mckeown has had an absolute stinker.

I’d file his performance tonight under ‘weird’. Not quite sure what’s the matter with him, he’s looked like he’s never played in goal before at times.

Very strange.

Absolute stinking performance this

Quoted from Kris2

Are we seriously blaming this on Macca? Scapegoat much? We've been second best all over the pitch, Harrogate a good strong and direct side, pressing well and we can't string two passes together or create anything. We give the ball away constantly.

Lots of young skinny whippets getting frustrated easily and fouling them, nobody getting hold of the ball and creating chances. Losing Edwards early has killed us because he usually is the one who runs with the ball.

Thankyou Kris beat me to it. OK Macca made a mistake for the first maybe could of done better for the 2nd but he hardly had any support from the 10 infront of him. The midfield pairing of Spokes and Morton is whats hurt us today.

At least we are starting to see what our best team is. And this wasnt it!

Quoted from Kris2

Are we seriously blaming this on Macca? Scapegoat much? We've been second best all over the pitch, Harrogate a good strong and direct side, pressing well and we can't string two passes together or create anything. We give the ball away constantly.

Lots of young skinny whippets getting frustrated easily and fouling them, nobody getting hold of the ball and creating chances. Losing Edwards early has killed us because he usually is the one who runs with the ball.

Well first goal he kept the ball in when he should of just left it and gave the striker an open goal and second his positioning was shite, so yes am nlamong macca tonight dont get me wrong weve been shite all round but his defaintly at fault for the goals

Why is the i Follow about 10 minutes behind real time? Listened to some scunthorpe scunt on Humberside while the second half was 5 minutes old! I don't want to listen to Humberside while we're playing and I'm paying!!
I'm getting upto date reaction on here and losing interest in watchin the game, mainly because it's so poor!

I hope Holloway has a few excuses ready that he didn't have to use on Saturday, EFLs fault, Covid, Premier league poaching youngsters, he's used all those up already surely

Quoted from chipsandgravy

Here we go....one poor performance and the idiots are out early!!

Well he was right about the awful bit.

We don't deserve anything out of this game.

Quoted from Kris2

Are we seriously blaming this on Macca? Scapegoat much? We've been second best all over the pitch, Harrogate a good strong and direct side, pressing well and we can't string two passes together or create anything. We give the ball away constantly.

Lots of young skinny whippets getting frustrated easily and fouling them, nobody getting hold of the ball and creating chances. Losing Edwards early has killed us because he usually is the one who runs with the ball.

I’m not excusing what was a pretty odd team selection but I expect better of an experienced League 2 keeper who also happens to be club captain.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Thankyou Kris beat me to it. OK Macca made a mistake for the first maybe could of done better for the 2nd but he hardly had any support from the 10 infront of him. The midfield pairing of Spokes and Morton is whats hurt us today.

The first one sure, he should have let that go out. Need to look at how many chances they are getting from mistakes and us losing the ball or fouling them in bad positions where they can do a set piece.

Off night and nothing more but one where we just contributed to our own downfall.

Selection didn’t work and losing Edwards didn’t help but the way Ollie is having to play his deck at the moment it’s going to be like this at times for a bit.

They’ve been together for a while, had a short break and well organised and we helped make them look better than what they are at times poor ball retention.

Mentions in despatches for Tilley, Clifton and the CB’s the rest looked off it.

Response required on Saturday which I’m sure we’ll see.

Still laughing at the Scunts who have helped cushion the blow of defeat tonight.

UTM!!

Most of Towns passes seem to become 50 - 50 balls

Quoted from Ipswin

I hope Holloway has a few excuses ready that he didn't have to use on Saturday, EFLs fault, Covid, Premier league poaching youngsters, he's used all those up already surely

Nah he's still got another 40 games to use Covid as an excuse.

Holloways very unhapoy with something

Rubbish performance, deserved win for Harrogate. Hope we don't see anything like that team selection again this season. Passengers all over the pitch

Disappointing.

Absolute disgrace of a performance. Pub Team and ash
Shocking team selection.

Holloway must apologise for that, his fault and his fault alone.

Better players on Bradley pitches

Got what we deserved tonight.

Back to the drawing board

Onwards & upwards hopefully

UTM

We can’t go play great one week then totally change the team the next , if we have to rest players then rest them to the bench where they can make some difference

We were shite throughout and deserved to lose. Macca made a couple of mistakes but also made a fantastic save.

Where you been for the last week boris you flipping idiot?

What is truly Disappointing after 2  great displays from the previous games is we had 1 shot on target  At Home V  poor

Harrogate were very impressive.  Good movement....good passing.

Well beaten. Shite. Write that one off.

Hopefully back to winning ways on Saturday.

It happens. We just didnt turn up. Anywhere. A frustrating evening but best team won and we move on

FT....Town 1-2 Harrogate

What was that all about at the end with Ollie?

Town played like they had been sat in a bus driving up and down the country all week.I

Let's put it down to that and hope we pick up again on Saturday.

Tilley Waterfall and Pollock the only ones who played well.

Quoted from Ipswin

I hope Holloway has a few excuses ready that he didn't have to use on Saturday, EFLs fault, Covid, Premier league poaching youngsters, he's used all those up already surely

Surely you meant in the last three unbeaten away games?

Let's give Harrogate some credit - we'll drilled and organised they'll give most teams in this league a tough time! Onwards and upwards UTM

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Well first goal he kept the ball in when he should of just left it and gave the striker an open goal and second his positioning was shite, so yes am nlamong macca tonight dont get me wrong weve been shite all round but his defaintly at fault for the goals

And what led to those situations happening? Should have let it run out for the first but how was the ball there in the first place? Not much he could do with the second one so I don't know what all these armchair goalkeepers are going on about. Please do correct me if wrong with evidence but afaik none of you have ever been a professional goalkeeper. School team maybe, Sunday league kick about at best but really you're just giving the opinion of somebody who has never done this. Outfield has put him in the excrement and under pressure all game due to poor passing, fouling and our defenders constantly being done by them and letting them through.

We still take an hour to do a throw in because of the lack of movement and it's affected the passing all evening too. Just feels like typical Town through the years, couple of good away performances then excrement the bed for the home game.  ;D

It is so infuriating being a town fan. Just when you think it’s all coming together the  devil farts in your face again

Quoted from Boris Johnson

Absolute disgrace of a performance. Pub Team and ash
Shocking team selection.

Holloway must apologise for that, his fault and his fault alone.

Better players on Bradley pitches

Nothing like overreacting.
What about a refund of your ifollow payment too?
Ever heard of an off night?

With many many home and away match results turning on their heads across all leagues this season, maybe we should expect more results from the away games than from the home games.

Well beaten. Harrogate well organised and won at a canter. Edwards early injury didn't help. For all the squad we have the bench was poor. Only positive point is we were numerically in it until the end.

Is it just me or does anyone else this Holloway over complicates things? Arguably our two best players from Saturday, Windsor and Williams weren’t even on the bench, and Williams had only played 70 minutes. Still I’m sure he knows what he’s doing and is still learning about his squad, and finding out what works and what doesn’t.

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

With many many home and away match results turning on their heads across all leagues this season, maybe we should expect more results from the away games than from the home games.

That's like most seasons though, feels more fun to go to away days and see better performances than the drab affairs at home.

Best team won and by a mile. Half of town team nowhere near ready for league football. Where was Williams, Rose and Windsor ?

Very disjointed performance tonight. Just didn’t get going.
Don’t know if it was poor team selection or a good display from Harrogate. Or both.

Quoted from grimsby pete

Town played like they had been sat in a bus driving up and down the country all week.I

Let's put it down to that and hope we pick up again on Saturday.

Tilley Waterfall and Pollock the only ones who played well.

Defensively you're right about Waterfall and Pollock Pete but their aimless / inaccurate long balls just gave Harrogate possession which was no good as we can all see they're good at keeping the ball

If they'd taken their chances they could have had 5 or 6.... we just got the one from a Tilley pot-shot. Not much else on show from us going forward

Might have been a different game if Edwards hadn't had to go off but I'm clutching at straws maybe.... Harrogate out-thought us and out-played us. Well done to them - they deserved the win

We aren’t going to win them all. Goalkeeper error for the first for me, but we move on. UTM

Really hope fans don't get on their backs after that.

Yes it was poor from start to finish, but after the last three weeks, and the last three games, who can blame them for having an off day
We looked tired almost from kick-off, and Edwards seemed to take the very little wind we had, out of our sails.

Amazed that Clifton can still move let alone run for 90 minutes again.
Tilley looked good in flashes, and took his goal very well.
Pollock & Waterfall looked solid again.
Yes, Macca at fault for first goal, but how many times has he quite literally saved us before?

Chin up lads, you're still doing us proud. We all have bad days at the office.

Wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in that dressing room though.

I feel like I've just watched our reserve side there tonight with a couple of first team players mixed in, hopefully Ollie sees that too

At least the first team will all be fit fot Saturday  :-/

Quoted from Boris Johnson

Absolute disgrace of a performance. Pub Team and ash
Shocking team selection.

Holloway must apologise for that, his fault and his fault alone.

Better players on Bradley pitches

Welcome back BoJo
Where on earth have you been?
You always seem to miss the good games - why are you so unlucky?
Actually maybe just p1ss off cause we seem to do so much better when you’re not around
🤔

Beaten by a better team with a fair bit of help from us.. But Olly should know better than to send a team out that is full of not ready players ,, and also Clifton plays in the middle

‪They’ve been together for ages and had a short off season. A month ago many of tonight’s Town starters looked heading for a season off.‬

Beaten by a better team with a fair bit of help from us.. But Olly should know better than to send a team out that is full of not ready players ,, and also Clifton plays in the middle

When you turn the place into a crèche... don’t be
Surprised that babies turn up.

We had no chance of winning with that midfield - not one decent forward pass all match - can't control the ball  -  can't even run very fast.  Time Olly picked his first team and stuck with it for a few games

Quoted from Teesknees

Why is the i Follow about 10 minutes behind real time? Listened to some scunthorpe scunt on Humberside while the second half was 5 minutes old! I don't want to listen to Humberside while we're playing and I'm paying!!
I'm getting upto date reaction on here and losing interest in watchin the game, mainly because it's so poor!

Me too - just watching Ollie being unhappy at the end, 10 minutes after the Fishy people saw it and I'm watching it 'Live'!!

2 steps forward, 1 step back. Typical Town, but very much a work
in progress, whereas Harrogate are well drilled and confident. Feels shoite losing to them though in our first league meeting.

Think I read somewhere that there has been a lot more away wins in this strange season, with no fans.

Clearly, some of our young players are not up to speed for League 2 football yet. Lot of inexperience out there.

Quoted from Boris Johnson

Absolute disgrace of a performance. Pub Team and ash
Shocking team selection.

Holloway must apologise for that, his fault and his fault alone.

Better players on Bradley pitches

Glad you’ve recovered from whatever kept you off here after the Cheltenham and Orient games.

sharp object

This season Macca looks an accident waiting to happen every game but redeems himself with his reaction saves .Dies he need some competition in January ?

Absolutely the wrong time to have a look at Spokes. Morton not a centre mid. Ludicrous playing out from the back at goal kicks when Harrogate were pressing so well. Too early to sub Bennet when Spokes was looking lost. Bad decisions all around the pitch and in the dug out! Gibson has promise but he has to retain possession better. Hendrie sluggish and dithery. Did Harrogate have longer studs or simply play the conditions so much better? Still lacking leaders especially in midfield. Losing Edwards was a real blow.

Shocking performance. Spokes no where near ready for league football, Morton a little better but needs some experience alongside. Think that was a game too far for Preston/Clifton and especially Hendrie just weren't on their game. Gibson needs balls he has a chance of chasing but always too long. Gomis looked ok when he came on. Waterfall/Pollock did a decent job, Tilley looked bright. We were too lightweight (literally) and inexperienced. Ollie must get a core of 7 experienced players and pick the kids to play around them. Harrogate didn't need to make 5/6 changes and they just played Tues/Sat/Tues

Got the bench wrong didn't he? No centre mid on there where we most needed to change it. Surely Rose, Williams or Taylor were fit enough to be a sub. I know Bennett has a good pedigree and I'm sure he will be a decent player for us in time but he looked like a competition winner tonight.

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Absolutely the wrong time to have a look at Spokes. Morton not a centre mid. Ludicrous playing out from the back at goal kicks when Harrogate were pressing so well. Too early to sub Bennet when Spokes was looking lost. Bad decisions all around the pitch and in the dug out! Gibson has promise but he has to retain possession better. Hendrie sluggish and dithery. Did Harrogate have longer studs or simply play the conditions so much better? Still lacking leaders especially in midfield. Losing Edwards was a real blow.

Some really good points there. Spokes looked really  out of his depth in his only previous start and I had assumed he would be a 'body' - making up the numbers on the sub bench when required and only used if necessary or  when a game was effectively over to get some experience. At least for the first few months anyway. Poor decision to start him in a midfield 2, with another at best ordinary player, against a clearly very well drilled team that's going well. Bad decision that backfired badly. But worryingly a really obviously bad decision.

Thought the major problem with our team was the spine. Macca had a mare, don't see why Pollock is getting a pass, he was garbage tonight (got the wrong side of the defender too many times) Spokes, Morton and Bennett were dire and Gibson looks like a National League North striker. Hendrie had a stinker too.

I actually can't remember a pass that wasn't misplaced. Waterfall and Tilley were good and Gomis looked fairly lively when he came on.

Anyone know what's happened to Scannell?

Hear a lot about our fitness levels but our back 5 plus Clifton played pretty much the last 4 games, whilst Scannell and Moshni who have now been with us for best part of two months are still not fit enough to start, or appear on the bench in Scannell’s case, which I find a bit mystifying.

Agree that this midfield was out of its depth and should have been tried in the Cup game v Hull not a L2 game v a side Holloway spoke of in glowing terms pre match. Gibson should play alongside either Hanson or Windsor to get the best out of him and not having either Williams or Windsor on the bench was strange and a bit naive for a Manager of Holloway’s experience.

Stated before I don’t expect the “real town” to be sorted until mid November but thought tonight’s selections didn’t help our cause but maybe IH just needed to see how some of the young players performed without having their hands held, well he knows now so onward to Saturday and maybe a much better performance and result.

Well just listened to the post match interview and whilst the team was selected yesterday it was pretty evident because of the personal tragedy that IH had suffered, through his best mate’s suicide, he was probably not at the races during the game. Suicide is always such a shock and even more so when it’s a close mate so Ollie may need a bit of leeway from us all this week.

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Some really good points there. Spokes looked really  out of his depth in his only previous start and I had assumed he would be a 'body' - making up the numbers on the sub bench when required and only used if necessary or  when a game was effectively over to get some experience. At least for the first few months anyway. Poor decision to start him in a midfield 2, with another at best ordinary player, against a clearly very well drilled team that's going well. Bad decision that backfired badly. But worryingly a really obviously bad decision.

Agreed and it was against the same opposition!

Just listened to Ollie's interview after the game... sounds like he needs a few days off, poor bloke.

Everyone needs time to grieve. He may want to keep going, and focus on football to get him through this difficult time, knowing the sort of bloke he is.

I'm sure the club would offer him a bit of time to deal with his awful news.