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442 today?

Pretty much our best 11 minus max wright

That looks a bit better.

Has there been any indication as to how long Edwards is out for?

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Pretty much our best 11 minus max wright

Green?!?!

What is Bennetts likely position?

Thought he a had a few good early touches in his previous brief appearance but tired very quickly.

Max fit enough to be a simple sub.  Good news.

Nice to see more experience in the middle, might help us push forward and create more

I'm expecting 433 with Tilley in midfield for some extra creativity and imagination.
Windsor and Bennett either side of Green.

Though I do like having plenty of players that can fit into different positions and in different systems. It must keep the opposition guessing. Should be 433 today I'd have thought but could easily be 4231, 442 or a 4312/diamond.

Looks stronger on paper ,

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Pretty much our best 11 minus max wright

What has Max Wright done other than one run against Macclesfield that puts him in out best 11? I doubt he's in the top 5 for the positions he can play in if everybody is fit and on form. Tilley, Edwards, Scannell, Bennett and Windsor can all play that same role.

Clifton still a big miss for me. Taylor needs to step up.

We need Edwards back too.

Max scored a nice goal away to Morcambe first game of the season, he's good at counter attacking and gets stuck in well enough for a small lad. Nice pace to be able to bring on IMO.

Quoted from pen penfras

What has Max Wright done other than one run against Macclesfield that puts him in out best 11?

Be born in Grimsby.

Clifton a glaring omission for me - Taylor needs to step up to the plate as a direct replacement and do rose's running for him. Edwards a big miss. Surprised at Bennett starting so soon. If he was unfit 2 weeks ago how come he is now ready to start and mohsni is still nowhere to be seen - seems odd.

At least we have max and Hanson to come on to change things round. Max's pace and ability put wide might dovetail nicely with Hanson, however max is only just coming back so is likely to be a bit rusty and need some time to get up to speed.

Can we do a 'Beat the Clock' on how soon Gomis will come on for Bennett?

Anyone else got the Stevenage commentary on iFollow? Had this midweek in the FGR game too. Is it an away game thing? Swear it wasn't the case in the Cheltenham and Orient away games though?

Only away today, Humberside issues

Great save should be 1-0 down

Terrible picture today. Feels like Ive had 10 pints.

Quoted from lee65

Only away today, Humberside issues

Stick the radio on and listen to that and watch the moving pictures

Great save that

These commentators are rubbish, like two sad boring blokes chatting in a pub 😔

Spectacularly annoyed we've been deprived of Martin Gritton's co-commentary (by far the best analyst Humberside manage to get on) and are stuck listening to a pair of Stevenage wide-boys because Tondeur can't work the radio link up properly.

Come on Town Stevenage are poor.

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Stick the radio on and listen to that and watch the moving pictures

Good idea, is it in sync?

Love a bit of football with my £10s worth of lens flare.

We got away with that Carter should of scored then

Kicking into wind and sun. Keeping possession but they win corner far too easily.

Any ideas how to listen to commentary on my phone? Can't use BBC 3 Counties online and GTFC iFollow app not working!

We’ve had all the possession they’ve had all the chances

Quoted from grimps

We’ve had all the possession they’ve had all the chances

No change there then We are top of the possession league, just don't do anything with it

Commentary today from the two rats off Chicken Run.

We have looked excrement in the the first 15 mins
So flipping negative.
Free kick in there half and it goes back to our keeper wtf

Quoted from LH

Commentary today from the two rats off Chicken Run.

Hahahahahaha, thanks that comment makes it a lot more entertaining.

Bennett has looked much sharper in the opening 15 than in his previous appearance.

Has Tilley ever headed a ball before?

Should have chested that one down, panicked header when he had loads of space.

Poor header that. These 2 on Comms dear me

Stevenage tactic when it looks like you'll lose the ball. Fall on it.

We've got a whistle happy ref. Its going to be a long game

This is offing ridiculous. Keeps freezing.

Preston and Tilley repeatedly giving stupid fouls away

68% possession

Refs should have “nobody wants to watch you” painted on the back of their changing room door. Absolute clown in charge today.

Commentators typical Stevenage. "Not a foul but I like it" when their player takes a dive

Shite  ref again

Funniest commentary I've ever heard..."just clipped off the top of the crossbar"....the bloody ball went about 2 yards wide of the post!...🤣🤣

I think Windsor will need to come deeper to get the ball at all, very quiet so far

Gomis on for Tilley, like for like swap

Seem to be getting a lot of enforced first half subs this season. Tilley now.

Stevenage get a throw in


Commentators "oohh yesss"


W@nkers

Nothing through the middle or down our right....zero penetration.

Green is up front think he's had one touch and that was on the half way line the poor fornicator.

What is it about Gomis? Holloway seems very keen on him, don't see it myself

"OH MY DAYS" shut up you daft southern male masturbators it was a massive dive

Book the diving twit

Penalty my bottom

Stevenage players fall over the second any Grimsby player comes near them.

Never thought I’d hear a BBC commentator say “Oh my days” in a commentary but here we are. Didn’t look anything like a pen either.

Should have been brought back for a foul on Preston

This referee is absolutely flipping dire

At least the ref didn't fall for that one.

They foul us worst than anything the ref has blown for and we got nothing.

How was that not a foul? Even those southern chimps think it was.

Preston is the weak link. Keeps passing it back into danger all the flipping time

flipping hell this ref stevenage fall over a free kick all the time

Oh in a new twist he throws it into danger

Are these commentators for real.

Never thought I would miss Tondeur so much.

More promising now. Bennet is worth the entrance fee

Shite iFollow as usual. Why doesn’t the club f.uck this useless platform off once and for all ?

Dreadful commentary.

Dreadful game.

I’m starting to appreciate John Tondeur a lot more

Stevenage away....awful game....did we expect anything else?

Quoted from promotion plaice

Are these commentators for real.

Never thought I would miss Tondeur so much.

Yep, they're the annoying Tigger to Tondeur's Eeyore

Listening to the two clowns commentators those on I-Follow with just the spinning circle are the lucky ones.

What’s the point of paying £10 for fook all ?!  

They can't give us commentary but they'll damn well make sure they give us updates about Hull. urine off Radio Humberside.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

What’s the point of paying £10 for fook all ?!  

You know you’ll receive a barrage of folk telling you iFollow works perfectly for them and it’s a consistent platform?

In truth it’s flipping terrible, much like this game.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Shite iFollow as usual. Why doesn’t the club f.uck this useless platform off once and for all ?

First I really don't get everyones issues with ifollow I've had maybe two or three times since it started when theres been issues and one of them was cause by the weather and there was nothing they could do about that the others have been missing commentary.

The contract was with the efl not Grimsby we don't have an option as we were in league when it was signed that why none league clubs who come up have the option not to opt in.

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

What’s the point of paying £10 for fook all ?!  

I paid double that to watch Slade's team   :B

Quoted from Kris2

They can't give us commentary but they'll damn well make sure they give us updates about Hull. urine off Radio Humberside.

Well obviously as we're either already watching the game and or they are providing the commentary through Stevenage

A woeful first half. And they hit the post

Quoted from aldi_01

You know you’ll receive a barrage of folk telling you iFollow works perfectly for them and it’s a consistent platform?

In truth it’s flipping terrible, much like this game.

It does though. If it's not working for you then it's probably something on your own end that you're incapable of understanding from a technical point of view. In either case you're not forced to pay for it and can choose to spend and not spend your money as you wish.

Gomis  looks very average 😳

HT...0-0

We're toothless

Horrendous first half. No doubt Ollie will come out and say how great we’ve been. Our players are poor, and even poorer at playing out from the back.

Be lucky if this is a one goal thriller.


Looks like a basement battle, the exact opposite of a great advert for the league!

Shite first half that. At least we are still level. Bennett showed some classy touches barring a wild pass they nearly scored from.

Gomis is as weak as chippy vinegar

Not often I’ll say this, but that was dreadful. Too many unnecessary passes going backwards. We get a free kick in a position to put the ball in the box and 5 seconds later it’s back with McKeown.

Toothless is the word I keep coming up with, there were fans on here convinced we didn’t need a to sign an experienced striker!

I’m struggling to think of a Town side that were worse going forward than this one.

Why is our midfield not taking a pass from our back four? Need higher tempo to get Stevenage turned and giving fouls again. Prefer Bennet on the ball to either Pollock or Preston.

1 shot all half? Tilleys header? That was dull, ref doesn't help this blowing his whistle every 30 seconds and not letting either side create any sort of flow, but by god its dull.

Too much side ways passing and a complete inability to pass the ball in their half of the pitch.

Midifeld is either too deep with the CBs or too high up with the strikers not where we actually want them in the middle, nothings happening down the right not much better down the left.

Strikers feeding off scraps and when they attack they always seem to have a man free suggesting we're not marking and tracking players today.

I'm off outside to watch the grass grow 😌

Shocking and boring. Where's that paint brush?

I think we’ve been in their 18 yard box about 3 times in that half despite having 65% possession

Too much playing at the back weve gave the ball away 4 times in dangerous positions doing it, its alright playing a system if pur players can play it which they seem to be struggling with at the moment. Stevenage had like 30 percent of the ball yet had 4 more shots on target to our 0 plus they hit the post. We just need to get it up the pitch quicker sometimes and stop pissing about with it.

The game is all a bit boring really, not much to say about it except this whole play from the back all the time isn't working out. We don't have much at the back with pace capable of taking the ball out so we end up with the midfield dropping deep all the time to get the ball so they go missing too often. Just wish we'd have more movement and pick out a decent pass instead of always passing to the player standing next to them.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

First I really don't get everyones issues with ifollow I've had maybe two or three times since it started when theres been issues and one of them was cause by the weather and there was nothing they could do about that the others have been missing commentary.

The contract was with the efl not Grimsby we don't have an option as we were in league when it was signed that why none league clubs who come up have the option not to opt in.

Forest Green Rovers have their own streaming service, very similar to iFollow in everything but name

https://www.fgr.co.uk/news/august-2019/news-fgr-goes-global-with-new-fgr-live-streaming-service

Kill me now

Both central midfielders are sitting incredibly deep so there's hardly any options in the middle.

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Too much playing at the back weve gave the ball away 4 times in dangerous positions doing it, its alright playing a system if pur players can play it which they seem to be struggling with at the moment. Stevenage had like 30 percent of the ball yet had 4 more shots on target to our 0 plus they hit the post. We just need to get it up the pitch quicker sometimes and stop pissing about with it.

Spot on its just a repeat of Tuesdays game but worse.

Quoted from tashee69

Not often I’ll say this, but that was dreadful. Too many unnecessary passes going backwards. We get a free kick in a position to put the ball in the box and 5 seconds later it’s back with McKeown.

Totally agree. Makes my blood boil. There's an unwillingness to take the ball forward. They think they're doing the unrisky thing and retaining possession but it just puts the next player back in a tricky position. Much better to take a risk and lose it near their box than lose it near ours.

Quoted from Kris2

It does though. If it's not working for you then it's probably something on your own end that you're incapable of understanding from a technical point of view. In either case you're not forced to pay for it and can choose to spend and not spend your money as you wish.

Funny how it's the only 'service' I have problems with. Can view other online content without problems like this.

Toothless and pedestrian. No movement off the ball, no speed of thought or foot. Loads of possession but that’s largely been directly in front of Mckeown so what’s the point.

System doesn’t work for me, too much space between players. Four in midfield with two strikers playing alongside each other please. Won’t happen unfortunately.

Makes hoofball look exciting and more importantly safer at least we wouldn't be giving them the ball until its in their half

Moaning bunch of barstewards !!!...you complained when we got sladeball, you complained when we got bignot bingo, clueless Jolley, pragmatic Hurst...now we are at least trying to play football, passing, possession based football...it's a complete change in the style and needs time to bed in!... personally, I'll take this style of not getting battered and aimless balls to huddle on the left of the half way line from macca... Rome wasn't built in a day, give it time, Christ it took Guardiola 2 seasons to get city firing and Klopp 5 seasons!..

Still wondering how Tilley’s header could’ve been so shite.

I've watched all our games and I see NO improvement, Gomis comes on ahead of Max why? This team is not as good as the conference team that got us promoted. I'm losing faith rapidly something has to change.

Lucky not to go in one down, or worse. We are utterly without penetration up top this half and have no drive in the middle. We get a free kick inside their half, and to the commentators amusement choose to pass it back to Macca. Sums us up at the moment. We are also suckers for attempting quick short free kicks from positions that could be used to force it Into the box. This so rarely works now as teams can stand in front of the taker with no penalty, if its quick, meaning the ball has to go backwards, so it's usually pointless when your as weak a penetrating team as we are at the mo.

Bennett has made some good touches and looks promising. Gomis control looks suspect but at least he has tried to make things happen.

We've looked very suspect all over the pitch to be honest, against a team that's dire which is really worrying. Need to change the formation I think.

[quote=140299.it's a complete change in the style and needs time to bed in!... [/quote]

It's going to take a hell of a long time to 'bed in'

We haven't got the players capable of doing it FFS

Why do we constantly go back to mckeown from the defence, always backwards.

Get it forward for god sake, these aint scored a goal and we are making them look half decent.

So frustrating

I always thought Holloway was supposed to be attack minded, what happened?

Quoted from nightrider

Kill me now

I just tried to help you out but your pesky fking car blocked my shot

I don't think it's anything to do with formations. It's more about mindset and intelligence for me. Too often they make the wrong choices. You'd expect them to get it right 50% of the time if they just guessed.

This is as bad as Tuesday if not worse. If there was a stat for the most passes backward, we would be top. Just shoot for goodness sake

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Moaning bunch of barstewards !!!...you complained when we got sladeball, you complained when we got bignot bingo, clueless Jolley, pragmatic Hurst...now we are at least trying to play football, passing, possession based football...it's a complete change in the style and needs time to bed in!... personally, I'll take this style of not getting battered and aimless balls to huddle on the left of the half way line from macca... Rome wasn't built in a day, give it time, Christ it took Guardiola 2 seasons to get city firing and Klopp 5 seasons!..

You missed Buckley ball

What the fooook was that  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Quoted from Ruston AT

Gomis comes on ahead of Max why?

Max is only just back from his injury, obviously Olly and probably Dave Moore don't believe he should be playing 60+ minutes of football

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Moaning bunch of barstewards !!!...you complained when we got sladeball, you complained when we got bignot bingo, clueless Jolley, pragmatic Hurst...now we are at least trying to play football, passing, possession based football...it's a complete change in the style and needs time to bed in!... personally, I'll take this style of not getting battered and aimless balls to huddle on the left of the half way line from macca... Rome wasn't built in a day, give it time, Christ it took Guardiola 2 seasons to get city firing and Klopp 5 seasons!..

Agree. As much as that wasn’t good enough. We haven’t had any time to work on things on the pitch.

When Holloway started his ‘football’ approach with Blackpool. Even thompson his number two questioned him whether he had the players to do it. They went on to play entertaining football in the premier league.

Holloway needs time to actually coach our players.

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Max is only just back from his injury, obviously Olly and probably Dave Moore don't believe he should be playing 60+ minutes of football

And Gomis is ? He might last 60 minutes but calling it football is pushing it

Quoted from Kris2

It does though. If it's not working for you then it's probably something on your own end that you're incapable of understanding from a technical point of view. In either case you're not forced to pay for it and can choose to spend and not spend your money as you wish.

It doesn't though.  Maybe it works for you ,  I have tried multiple browsers and  cleared history and cookies as they always suggest. Try and get any service and it's terrible.  

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Funny how it's the only 'service' I have problems with. Can view other online content without problems like this.

Used to do tech support and would often hear this sort of thing.  Want to know how many times the problems were the fault of the service?  ;D

Quoted from 3610

Holloway needs time to actually coach our players.

But are the players he's got 'coachable'?

The problem you have if you’re a player under Holloway if you have a half decent game you’ll be on the bench for the next game.

Brilliant start to the second half.......

I think we can all see what's coming

Why was that a yellow?! Not even a foul

A clean sheet for Mckeown would be the absolute best case scenario here. We’re dreadful so far.

Their keeper may as well go and have a cup of tea.

Stevenage look like scoring

They are all over us ffs

Who was that off for a corner?!!

They are all over us ffs

Quoted from moosey_club

I think we can all see what's coming

Smash and grab 1-0 Town.

Covid or not, this side is woeful at times. Can’t help but think if we had any other manager in charge they’d be getting pelters for this...now we have a ‘named’ manager, not so much...

Makes you wonder what happened at Cheltenham and orient?

Stevenage are getting closer.    I can't see us getting anything.

Were excrement

Worst commentary ever!

This is like listening to 2 half pished blokes in a pub talking about a game that’s on the telly on the other side of the room!

Quoted from Kris2

Used to do tech support and would often hear this sort of thing.  Want to know how many times the problems were the fault of the service?  ;D

I don't give a excrement what you did for a job you patronising twerp. You clearly know nothing about customer service. Just excuses

How the intercourse were not at least 4 down I don't know.
We are absolutely excrement

Quoted from PoutonStepover

Worst commentary ever!

This is like listening to 2 half pished blokes in a pub talking about a game that’s on the telly on the other side of the room!

Feel sorry for them trying to commentate on this heap of shite

Hanson coming on thank. God

Is 'Boycie' their only twitter correspondent?

Quoted from Ipswin

But are the players he's got 'coachable'?

Million percent yes.

Anyone else wanting to call Stevenage's midfielder Sir Vincelot?  >:(

This is horrendous ollie.

Wont hear any other.

Taylor so casual. Offers nothing.

Quoted from Ipswin

But are the players he's got 'coachable'?

I’d suggest for their level of ability they’re probably a bit over coached. This looks like when Jolley was here trying to get the players to play to a system rather than finding a system to suit their level.

Come on Town, I predicted a 6-1 away win for us, there's still time.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

I don't give a excrement what you did for a job you patronising twerp. You clearly know nothing about customer service. Just excuses

I don't work for them and have no reason to give a excrement about customer service. Unfortunately people like you think it means that you're always right even when you're wrong and won't do simple things to fix the problem you're having because you don't understand how to do it.

In most cases I'm going to guess it's either a hardware issue being that most of you are trying to watch on something about as powerful as a tonka toy, a software issue because it's full of bloatware and other crap you put on there and on your browser or some sort of routing issue because of however you're trying to connect.

Personally I'd start with turning off whatever browser add ons you use like ad blockers or seeing if turning off the vpn and proxy settings makes a difference. Maybe even google a list of crap you have installed that you don't actually need. Then I would do a clean install of your OS and reinstall the browser and finally throw the tonka toy in the rubbish and buy something useful.

I’ve watched more exciting games on teletext

Quoted from Kris2

I don't work for them and have no reason to give a excrement about customer service. Unfortunately people like you think it means that you're always right even when you're wrong and won't do simple things to fix the problem you're having because you don't understand how to do it.

In most cases I'm going to guess it's either a hardware issue being that most of you are trying to watch on something about as powerful as a tonka toy, a software issue because it's full of bloatware and other crap you put on there and on your browser or some sort of routing issue because of however you're trying to connect.

Personally I'd start with turning off whatever browser add ons you use like ad blockers or seeing if turning off the vpn and proxy settings makes a difference. Maybe even google a list of crap you have installed that you don't actually need. Then I would do a clean install of your OS and reinstall the browser and finally throw the tonka toy in the rubbish and buy something useful.

Alternatively you could do nowt and think yourself lucky that you don't have to watch this load of total shite masquerading as GTFC

I can’t see where a goal is coming from despite the idiot commentators saying we’re putting pressure On?!?

I think the fact people spend more time discussing how excrement iFollow is every game probably  says a lot about how poor we really are...it’s as if we’re finding every excuse to discuss anything except our abject displays...

Hanson looks as if he’s trying to jump in quicksand.

We forced a save!!!

That was close.....

We are on top (ish)

Come on Montel!

Thats flipping awful terry taylor

Great, taking off Bennett who's been the only player looking to make any kind of forward pass today for Gibson, who is clueless with the ball at his feet and hasn't looked capable of finishing his dinner this season. It'd be nice if he can prove me wrong and bang one in but i'm not exactly hopeful.

Why Bennet?

Despite having lots of mid fielders on the books we have no mid field 🤬

Quoted from Hagrid

Thats flipping awful terry taylor

How he gets picked even with Holloway's crazy selection system I don't know, he's shite

Quoted from Croxton

Why Bennet?

And why Gibson? Nothing against him but Max would have provided a better outlet.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

And why Gibson? Nothing against him but Max would have provided a better outlet.

Holloway's weird interpretation of 'fitness'. He seems to think professional athletes are incapable of playing first team football unless you rest them every other match or until they've played about 3 reserve matches if they're coming back from injury.

Absolutely fuckin terrible.

How can a team go from that performance at Cheltenham to this, honestly baffling that we have been this bad but lucky Stevenage are just shite at finishing.

If Taylor’s at a Prem club, there’s hope for us all.

BBC live text
Foul by.....
Foul by.....
Foul by....
Repeat

Some of these lads we’ve brought in must think they’ve won a prize...

Two or three times we’ve had opportunity to break and the simple ball hasn’t been executed properly...

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Despite having lots of mid fielders on the books we have no mid field 🤬

Nail on ed mate

Morton should of switched it quicker were tok slow with everthing were doing

What exactly do our lads do during the week?  They can't do throw-ins (something Ollie has alluded to), the corners are rubbish and the passing is dismal.  When we try to go square it goes behind the player.  By the time the recipient has adjusted his feet, he's under pressure.

Gibson there had Gomis steaming through the middle and he could have put him clean through with a simple sideways pass, but he's got no awareness and ends up holding the ball up and getting fouled. Then of course from the set piece we can't even beat the first man with it. Properly inept sunday league stuff this.

There have been some stinking performances but I would put Preston top of that pile of excrement.

For the supposed football ian holloway says he wants to play and is renowned for i have never seen so many aimless hoofs up.

Making jolley and slade look like pep.

I'll not be watching I follow again this is just above relegation stuff for me. Really really disappointed with what we're producing not what I hoped for at all. I bought a season ticket as I love the club and I will next season, we need new money or we'll be left behind. Those that think it's the next stage of our developement you need to realise div 2 is not much better than top of the conference.

What a save Macca

Well saved Macca

Good save by Macca

Well thats 90 minutes of my life ill never get back

Macca keeping us in this, Weve been so poor.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

For the supposed football ian holloway says he wants to play and is renowned for i have never seen so many aimless hoofs up.

Making jolley and slade look like pep.

Agree after Hanson came on but before that all we did was tap it about and go backwards

Gibson is dreadful

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

What a save Macca

Shoulda caught it 😁

Waterfall. MOM.

Quoted from Ruston AT

I'll not be watching I follow again this is just above relegation stuff for me. Really really disappointed with what we're producing not what I hoped for at all. I bought a season ticket as I love the club and I will next season, we need new money or we'll be left behind. Those that think it's the next stage of our developement you need to realise div 2 is not much better than top of the conference.

With displays like these there would be no social distancing problems with admitting fans to BP again, absolute garbage

Would the current team led (I use the word loosely) by Holloway be anywhere near the top of the Conference? Lets pray we don't find out

Best move of the game for us there

Quoted from grimps

Best Only move of the game for us there

Corrected that for you

A point away from home is always a good point.

Utter dross!

Well one of the worst football matches i have ever seen.


Happy Halloween everyone, stay safe.

Utterly awful

Well at least we didn't lose.

Shite game really , we looked a bit better in the second half .
Hopefully things will improve a bit for us but we need to find a settled team

Quoted from Ipswin

With displays like these there would be no social distancing problems with admitting fans to BP again, absolute garbage

Would the current team led (I use the word loosely) by Holloway be anywhere near the top of the Conference? Lets pray we don't find out

😴

It could be worse everyone. We’ll find out just how much worse in five minutes!

Great point! Stopped the rot , the only way is up .well done lads .proud to be a mariner.









Tongue is wedged so far into my cheek that it may be stuck there

Rubbish game, rubbish ref,rubbish day. If we’re going to play a possession game maybe we should learn how to pass.

Regardless of how poor both teams were, we kept a clean sheet and earned a point.

Well we stopped them scoring just :P

I've seen worse games. Mostly at Stevenage.

Garbage, players don’t look like they’re getting the gospel according to Holloway.

Absolute garbage, should have lost it, no threat up front....... Barrow will do a number on us on Tuesday.

A point but in all the years I have supported the Mariners, that was the least enjoyable.

How many times have we worked our way back to Macca, from well into their half?

Well.....anything other than "yes, that was sh1t wasnt it" from Holloway and I will be disappointed.

No positives at all that I can take from that.


And dont say clean sheet...they hadn't scored in the last 6 league games so that was a given

Slightly better in the 2nd half but a shocking game. We missed Clifton and Tilley when he went off.
Taylor and Rose in midfield both sat and neither have the legs to press the opposition. They’ll be disappointed they didn’t win so probably a point gained and some really great defending at times.

Sh!t game, clean sheet, one point.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Well we stopped them scoring just :P

I think that was a lot to do with them having excrement strikers.

Ollie, please please please give us something to excite us that was poor oh so poor, there must be someone that can make us sit up and watch. Jeff stelling showed macca's OG earlier I want him to show us rattling in goals not OG's others are laughing at us please make it stop.

Pttf rubbish again. Please bring the season to a close. Garbage without fans. Just been around top town which was equally depressing. Lockdown here we come. Fed up with shite from all directions

Ollie, please please please give us something to excite us that was poor oh so poor, there must be someone that can make us sit up and watch. Jeff stelling showed macca's OG earlier I want him to show us rattling in goals not OG's others are laughing at us please make it stop.

First ever point at Stevenage, but we could have easily lost! Got to turn the possession into goals!

Frustrating is the best word i can use to describe the game. every time the ball went up our attacking players had their backs to the Stevenage goal. We looked more dangerous when Hanson came on.

Special mention for the officiating which was absolutely awful. Stevenages tactic seemed to be touch the ball then fall on it and the ref bought it every time. He also appeared very reluctant to give us anything in any meaningful position.

Poor, midfield non existent. Point is better than non. We go again on Tuesday. 😎
UTMM

If we got a penalty we’d probably play it back to waterfall/McKeown/pollock

The point is though, we are missing a few of our best players. I'll take the point with what we have at the moment but yes it was awful. As Ollie alluded in his prematch he'll take any points he can at the moment. UTMM!

Nearly a smash and grab in last 15 mins but not, Macca has made up for the other week without him we would have lost 2 or 3 nil. Taylor totally underwhelming again, neither good at protecting the back 4 or driving us forward (how he gets in Wales U21 ahead of Clifton I have no idea) Hanson helped at set pieces but that was it. Needs to get fit. Too many small nippy players in our team who if they dont get the ball to use their pace with may as well not be on the pitch. A bit more going forward than Tuesday but got away with it at the back.

Kyle Bennet unlucky to be subbed so soon. His dead ball kicks and forward play better than Williams. Windsor and Tilley trying to beat players in the wrong areas and giving free kicks away. There is potential in so many players but in the framework of a settled team singing to the same hymn sheet. Looked like schools footy at times in the attacking half and over 70's walking football in defence.

Edit:-  Did anyone else see Hendrie lose the ball near the opposition penalty area and stop to pull up his socks before bothering to chase back?  

The only things i can say that is positive is.

I did not have to travel to watch that rubbish.

There will be a national lockdown next week so we do not have to watch this rubbish for another month.

I hope the players use the time to get fit and get over their injuries.

Finally we do not have Trump running our country.

What am I saying we have Boris !!!!!!!!

Quoted from Croxton

. Looked like schools footy at times in the attacking half and over 70's walking football in defence.

  Don't compare us over 70's with this shite, most of us could do a lot better.

The aim of the game is to score not to have high possession numbers

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Nearly a smash and grab in last 15 mins but not, Macca has made up for the other week without him we would have lost 2 or 3 nil. Taylor totally underwhelming again, neither good at protecting the back 4 or driving us forward (how he gets in Wales U21 ahead of Clifton I have no idea) Hanson helped at set pieces but that was it. Needs to get fit. Too many small nippy players in our team who if they dont get the ball to use their pace with may as well not be on the pitch. A bit more going forward than Tuesday but got away with it at the back.

Good to see we watched the same game😉.Taylor unfortunately is neither a defensive or attacking midfielder at the moment and looked out of his depth today. Good shift by Rose though.

How many times do u hear from professional mangers that u need to build a strong defender to be successful.
Despite all the usual rubbish following a disappointing performance we do seem to have a decent defence

We also have quite a few promising midfielder and forwards once fitness and injury is under control
Just cut the lads some slack please. We are comfortably ahead of the stunts and sorfend

I reckon we missed the perfect midfield of Taylor and Morton. PS  men in white coats are knocking.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Despite having lots of mid fielders on the books we have no mid field 🤬

Totally agree.
How we miss Hess.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

How many times do u hear from professional mangers that u need to build a strong defender to be successful.
Despite all the usual rubbish following a disappointing performance we do seem to have a decent defence

We also have quite a few promising midfielder and forwards once fitness and injury is under control
Just cut the lads some slack please. We are comfortably ahead of the stunts and sorfend

Preston has been shite the last few games, but we have no option out there. Hendrie hasn't been much better. Centre backs have done well, but theyy should have scored 3 today so they aren't getting any credit from me today.

Quoted from grimsby pete

The only things i can say that is positive is.

I did not have to travel to watch that rubbish.

There will be a national lockdown next week so we do not have to watch this rubbish for another month.

I hope the players use the time to get fit and get over their injuries.

Finally we do not have Trump running our country.

What am I saying we have Boris !!!!!!!!

And you might find that football will continue.
The PL certainly will.

Quoted from Stadium

And you might find that football will continue.
The PL certainly will.

I hope it does things can only get better.

The biggest worry today was how little we worked their keeper but a point away I suppose isn't to be sniffed at albeit against a struggling team.

Edwards is a big miss for me, he makes things happen.

Quoted from horsforthmariner

Rubbish game, rubbish ref,rubbish day. If we’re going to play a possession game maybe we should learn how to pass.

Far too many passes to go no where or backwards
It really pisses me off when we get a free kick with a chance of getting the ball in the area, defenders go up for it, we take it short and it ends up back with McKeown.

If performaces carry on like to that we will be in a relegation battle of we aren't in one already.

Quoted from Flying Mariner

Totally agree.
How we miss Hess.

To think we could’ve kept Hess, Whitehouse & Vernam if we’d wanted to. Respect the club for cutting their cloth accordingly, but add Edwards and a couple of others to those 3 and the midfield would be so much better.

Having now watching all but one of our games,I think I am in the position to state too many of our side ae really not up to the standard of league football. There is a shocking inability to read situations and the total lack of any ability to string passes together  unless they are going backwards.Their is very little ball control inability to run at players and some are shockingly lightweight in the tackle,except for that we are average.

Really disappointed with Taylor so far, considering his supposed pedigree. I’m not sure what role he’s meant to be fulfilling, but if it’s the ball playing midfielder he’s a miles off. He doesn’t seem to have the awareness to move the ball quickly through the middle of the park, the strength to protect it, or the ability to pick someone out and switch the play. Dead balls are junk and I’ve seen more life in a tramp’s vest. When you compare him with the likes of Embleton and Robson who we’ve had previously, they were streets ahead.

Quoted from grimsby pete

I hope it does things can only get better.

PL confirmed to continue.

Quoted from ska face

Really disappointed with Taylor so far, considering his supposed pedigree. I’m not sure what role he’s meant to be fulfilling, but if it’s the ball playing midfielder he’s a miles off. He doesn’t seem to have the awareness to move the ball quickly through the middle of the park, the strength to protect it, or the ability to pick someone out and switch the play. Dead balls are junk and I’ve seen more life in a tramp’s vest. When you compare him with the likes of Embleton and Robson who we’ve had previously, they were streets ahead.

Can't believe he is ahead of Clifton for Wales u21. Clifton is a clearly better player overall. We missed him again today

Quoted from ska face

Really disappointed with Taylor so far, considering his supposed pedigree. I’m not sure what role he’s meant to be fulfilling, but if it’s the ball playing midfielder he’s a miles off. He doesn’t seem to have the awareness to move the ball quickly through the middle of the park, the strength to protect it, or the ability to pick someone out and switch the play. Dead balls are junk and I’ve seen more life in a tramp’s vest. When you compare him with the likes of Embleton and Robson who we’ve had previously, they were streets ahead.

Taylor is comfortable when we are in square and backwards mode but when the game gets stretched he soon looks tired and starts to misplace passes. Hess had the gears to switch quickly from defence to attack and back again. Like Windsor and Tilley, he tries to beat a man unnecessarily at times. One player like that is enough. With three or four squandering possession, too many attacks fizzle out. Every other team seems to get something, corner, throw in, free kick or a cross from their attacks. Our final third stats must be terrible. Stevenage worked so many opportunities and could have won 4-0.

League continues.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/54765522

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

How many times do u hear from professional mangers that u need to build a strong defender to be successful.
Despite all the usual rubbish following a disappointing performance we do seem to have a decent defence

We also have quite a few promising midfielder and forwards once fitness and injury is under control
Just cut the lads some slack please. We are comfortably ahead of the stunts and sorfend

Really? I thought Stevenage weren't much better than us but for some woeful finishing we could have been well beaten.

Quoted from Mayaman

What exactly do our lads do during the week?  They can't do throw-ins (something Ollie has alluded to), the corners are rubbish and the passing is dismal.  When we try to go square it goes behind the player.  By the time the recipient has adjusted his feet, he's under pressure.

This is the point. They don’t have enough time. They can’t work on things. There isn’t time. The season is a joke. Sky and the prem have screwed us on the promise of funding. We only started cos they said they would help our funding.

We maybe locking down soon. Our club has set a budget that has survival as the primary purpose. We have therefore scraped a new squad together. This is the most important thing. Survival. To say our players and Holloway aren’t trying, or wasting time in training is out of order.

We get back late tonight. Recovery session tomorrow. Then one day of training on Monday before barrow on Tuesday.

You have one day ..... What do you do? Work on your team philosophy. Focus on the opposition. Work on set pieces like you say. Fitness ???? Whilst also Not over working the players as they are playing the next day?

You then play Tuesday.  You finish late Tuesday. Wednesday recovery day. You then have Thursday to train. A lighter session Friday. Game Saturday.  REPEAT. what the intercourse do you expect our lads to do.

This is ontop of us having 2 weeks less development than every other team due to covid.

Serious question. What do you want them to do. What do you want them to do in their one day of training before the next match.  ????  

If we have so little training time, then why do we make such mass changes so often? Have we ever played remotely the same team in two games?

A really poor Stevenage side could have won that 3/4-0. Too many players look out of place in league 2, our subs bar Hanson changed nothing. Worrying

The lack of pre season was the club's choice tho so it's not all out of our hands. Some of it is self inflicted.

Every other team is also dealing with the 2 matches a week scenario so we are not special in that regard. Is the constant chopping and changing happening at other clubs - I don't know

The shortened pre season was self inflicted and we can moan about training all we want but everyone else is managing...I guess it works for us though, blame someone or something else to detract from the real concerns...

I think half the problem is that, injuries apart, Holloway is making needless changes as he tries to select a team every week to suit/counter the opposition.

He's getting it wrong too many times, perhaps he doesn't know as much as he thinks he does (the ball doesn't have laces anymore Ollie) or he is not reading the opposition correctly (possibly he doesn't have the time he needs to devote to watching them) but he should stick as closely as he can to the same team every week especially after two cracking results v Cheltenham and the Orient.  

Remember when Jolley and Hurst were criticised for matching up against the opposition and worrying about stopping them rather than playing our own way?

I guess we’ll never know but I wonder if the crowd would be restless as would be expected in our current form?

Does not matter how he changes it . in reality we have a team that is not much better than an average lg2 reserve team .
This will not alter because money is short  , and  what we have got in is too many either far too young or has no experiance of league football, So all we have got is a weak team . What we have so far is relagation form what ever way you look at it points wise . fortunatly there are teams that are worse than us up to now ......

Quoted from Ipswin

I think half the problem is that, injuries apart, Holloway is making needless changes as he tries to select a team every week to suit/counter the opposition.

He's getting it wrong too many times, perhaps he doesn't know as much as he thinks he does (the ball doesn't have laces anymore Ollie) or he is not reading the opposition correctly (possibly he doesn't have the time he needs to devote to watching them) but he should stick as closely as he can to the same team every week especially after two cracking results v Cheltenham and the Orient.  

Didn't know you was a professional football manager Swin!

Quite often but not always things that Ipswin says do make sense.

Quoted from 123614

Didn't know you was a professional football manager Swin!

I don't go on about it as much as Holloway

I think Ollie signed too many of the players who he had not seen play for a long time or ever and relied on his contacts or even players themselves . Yes I am fit and ready to go was probably the response he got from most of them.

Ollie did not have much experience of this division so had to rely on others but he is getting to know more every game and he will sort of out sooner or later.

Write this season off as a learning curve and we go again stronger and wiser next season.

Ollie should know who he can rely on by now  so I expect a settle team going forward so we should see a few better results.

Keep the faith.

Quoted from grimsby pete

I think Ollie signed too many of the players who he had not seen play for a long time or ever and relied on his contacts or even players themselves . Yes I am fit and ready to go was probably the response he got from most of them.

Ollie did not have much experience of this division so had to rely on others but he is getting to know more every game and he will sort of out sooner or later.

Write this season off as a learning curve and we go again stronger and wiser next season.

Ollie should know who he can rely on by now  so I expect a settle team going forward so we should see a few better results.

Keep the faith.

This

Anyone know if the match highlights are out yet   8)

Quoted from 3610

This is the point. They don’t have enough time. They can’t work on things. There isn’t time. The season is a joke. Sky and the prem have screwed us on the promise of funding. We only started cos they said they would help our funding.

We maybe locking down soon. Our club has set a budget that has survival as the primary purpose. We have therefore scraped a new squad together. This is the most important thing. Survival. To say our players and Holloway aren’t trying, or wasting time in training is out of order.

We get back late tonight. Recovery session tomorrow. Then one day of training on Monday before barrow on Tuesday.

You have one day ..... What do you do? Work on your team philosophy. Focus on the opposition. Work on set pieces like you say. Fitness ???? Whilst also Not over working the players as they are playing the next day?

You then play Tuesday.  You finish late Tuesday. Wednesday recovery day. You then have Thursday to train. A lighter session Friday. Game Saturday.  REPEAT. what the intercourse do you expect our lads to do.

This is ontop of us having 2 weeks less development than every other team due to covid.

Serious question. What do you want them to do. What do you want them to do in their one day of training before the next match.  ????  

All the other teams play to the same programme, they manage, apart from the old brigade and a couple of exceptions the new lads are embarrassing wanting

Quoted from promotion plaice

Anyone know if the match highlights are out yet   8)

Which pass back to McKeown would be your pick for our highlight?

Quoted from pen penfras

Which pass back to McKeown would be your pick for our highlight?

Probably the one which started with a free kick well into their half, and through slick passing and teamwork the ball ended up ‘safely’ at the feet of Macca. It had me up on my feet shouting “England! It’s just like watching England.”

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Probably the one which started with a free kick well into their half, and through slick passing and teamwork the ball ended up ‘safely’ at the feet of Macca. It had me up on my feet shouting “England! It’s just like watching England.”

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Enjoy

https://youtu.be/MYiYEcabshg

Quoted from Garth

All the other teams play to the same programme, they manage, apart from the old brigade and a couple of exceptions the new lads are embarrassing wanting

but we have a complete new squad, with a lot of these signings happening very late on. we also didn't have a pre season due to the uncertainty of when the season was going to begin. A lot of clubs have gambled their financial futures and got a squad together earlier than us. A lot of these teams will also start to struggle paying wages in the coming clubs.

Our football has been affected by our sensible off season decisions.

Quoted from 3610

but we have a complete new squad, with a lot of these signings happening very late on. we also didn't have a pre season due to the uncertainty of when the season was going to begin. A lot of clubs have gambled their financial futures and got a squad together earlier than us. A lot of these teams will also start to struggle paying wages in the coming clubs.

Our football has been affected by our sensible off season decisions.

We wont know if those decisions were sensible until we know where we are come the end of the season whether it finishes or is curtailed.