A thread to follow the other games/scores including League 2 matches that concern us.

FA Cup tonight:
Harry Cardwell starts for Chorley against Wolves.

19:45....BT SPORT 1

Salford 1 Harrogate 1 68 mins

Quoted from Hagrid

Salford 1 Harrogate 1 68 mins

Now....Salford 2-1 Harrogate.

93rd minute equaliser for Harrogate

Latest.....Southend 0-1 Mansfield

Southend and Stevenage both lost, so as you were this morning.

Still some hope.

Its not tho ginny. Its another game gone by

Stevenage have 3 in hand. Southend have 1. We arent moving anywhere

Looks like 2 from 4

Barrow
Stevenage
Grimsby
Southend

Or
Grimsby plus 1 from 3 unless we start to get something and improve dramatically

Quoted from Hagrid

Its not tho ginny. Its another game gone by

Stevenage have 3 in hand. Southend have 1. We arent moving anywhere

Course there's still hope. There are still over 20 games to go and we only need to finish 1 point above the bottom 2.

Cheltenham putting up more of a fight against a strong Man City team than we did against Scunny. Chris Clements in midfield for Chelts.

Quoted from ginnywings

Cheltenham putting up more of a fight against a strong Man City team than we did against Scunny. Chris Clements in midfield for Chelts.

Play stopped due to fireworks going off and landing on the pitch, can't ever remember that happening before?

And to think we battered Cheltenham only about 3 months ago

Cheltenham 1-0 Man City.

Commentator said it was a poor pitch, now I don’t do IFollow but how does our pitch compare to Cheltenham’s.

There’s is like a snooker table compared to ours

I know we don’t like Cheltenham and we are all a bit sore at the moment but they have been magnificent so far

Quoted from ginnywings

Cheltenham putting up more of a fight against a strong Man City team than we did against Scunny. Chris Clements in midfield for Chelts.

Makes me sick as a parrot to think we replaced him with a shower of excrement in midfield we have now.

We're about 3 showers of shit on since then.

Latest score....Brentford 1-0 Leicester.

Not sure about the multi-coloured seats though   ??)

Man Utd v Liverpool

As usual Henderson starts for United in the cup.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Play stopped due to fireworks going off and landing on the pitch, [/b]can't ever remember that happening before[b]?

Stockport v West Ham two weeks ago. ;)

We have very little chance of any fireworks on the pitch. Apart from damp squids, duds, no sparks and mis-firings.  

FA Cup (BT Sport 1)

Latest....Wycombe 1-0 Spurs

Can't see Wycombe beating Spurs but you never know.

Tonight's games that concern us (all 19:00 kick-off)

Scunthorpe v Port Vale
Southend v Bradford
Stevenage Colchester

Here's hoping for three away wins.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Looks like 2 from 4

Barrow
Stevenage
Grimsby
Southend

Scunny are still well in it - I don't think their victory over us should be used as a barometer for their season.  Lose tonight and they'll have missed the chance to build momentum.  If we could put two wins together - a dream right now, I know - we'd be ahead of all the relegation candidates.  

Hull's getting stuffed at Stanley 2 - 0 down minutes to go

Bradford winning at Southend   :)

Scunny winning   :-/

scunny 2-0


southend equalize

Southend Equalise Scunny 2-0

Scunny are safe. The gap will only get wider unfortunately

We are bottom of league say we at the bottom :o

Quoted from Madeleymariner

We are bottom of league say we at the bottom :o

No we're not

Just need a Colchester goal and it won’t be a bad night

Southend 1-3 Bradford

Cracking result for Morecambe.

At least we didn't fall to the bottom of the league tonight

Stevenage gained a point on us but other than that guess results went in our favour

We need to make sure though that they don't gain any more points on us come Saturday

Stevenage get a point  but not a bad night for us in all.

Scunny look to have turned a corner and will be a lot more confident after 2 wins and 2 clean sheets.

Quoted from ginnywings

Stevenage get a point  but not a bad night for us in all.

Scunny look to have turned a corner and will be a lot more confident after 2 wins and 2 clean sheets.

On the other hand Port Vale, despite tonking us, are still struggling to put together any consistent form. In truth thinks between the current bottom four but there is normally one side that slides down the league.

Presently though it’s mainly just us & Stevenage & Southend who struggle to score goals so put that right and we have a shout.

Quoted from ginnywings

Stevenage get a point  but not a bad night for us in all.

Scunny look to have turned a corner and will be a lot more confident after 2 wins and 2 clean sheets.

And they've boosted their goal difference too which could be well  worth the equivalent of another point if they get sucked back in to mix between now and May

Looks like a mini-league of 4 we need to concentrate on in the short term (Harrogate are on 27 points)
Assuming we can get a bit of momentum with our new signings and PH gets “us” shape etc. then I’m still trying to look on the positive side (a bit!)
Shows how big the Barrow game potentially is, so probably good to have a bit more time to prepare and gel

21     Barrow             23                23     

22     Stevenage     23                22

23     Grimsby             25                21

24     Southend             25                20

I think Harrogate will get sucked in to the dogfight

Listened to the Scunny game tonight, Port Vale offered very little.
First half Scunny sounded decent, 2-0 up, took the foot off the gas and just defended the 18 yd line against a very one dimensional sounding Vale.

Scunny have won 2 of their winnable games in a week but have to play again Friday.
We have lost our "winnable" games.

Hopefully Payne will give plus a bit of a boost in what is now a must win game on Saturday

Strange that we had a break for covid and had a game postponed, yet have played more games than most.

Said about ten days ago that we won’t be out of the mire until late March. Apart from Sarfend, the others have games in hand so we could still fall further behind while that plays itself out. We’ve got a few new players in, but nothing like the quantity we need and not great quality either, then there’ll be bedding in time while a bed team takes its shape.

Several more dark weeks ahead of us. In WWII terms we’re still in Winter 1940-41. Alamein is a long way off. We need Scunny to go off and open up a new front 😆.

Absolutely vital that we beat Stevenage at the weekend. Even so we would still only be two point ahead of them having played two games more.

It's a funny old game....

Latest score....Man Utd 0-1 Sheff Utd

Scunny winning again, away to Colchester.

Quoted from ginnywings

Scunny winning again, away to Colchester.

Colchester could be a side that suddenly finds itself in trouble as I believe they moved on most of their best players, because of COVID income reduction, & if they lose tonight a big loss in confidence, hopefully.

Third win on the trot for Scunny then.

It pains me to say it but it looks like they are going to be safe, Van Veen coming back as well.

It's crazy what a few good results can do, I'd say some scunny fans will be looking up the table rather than down now. We need to get winning so.e games soon to avoid being one of 4 or 5 teams that will be cut adrift at some point very soon

Suddenly they are comfortable mid table. It can happen that quickly.

Scunny now 11 points clear of the drop zone, and only 6 points off a play off place.

That is sickening, but does demonstrate how you can climb the table if you string together a few wins.

With the new players bedded in and others returning to fitness we could just as easily go on a run.

But we do need a string of wins. The odd win and draw here and there won't do it for us.

Liverpool v Man City

Jeez what a penalty miss by Gundogan,  Guardiola didn't look happy.

Why don’t we get 2 appalling goalkeeping errors (in 5 minutes) As City got against Liverpool today?

Blimey, Foden's ruddy good.

Quoted from Abdul19

Blimey, Foden's ruddy good.

What a talent that kid is.

Looks like Barrow's game at home to Exeter tonight is in doubt:

https://www.barrowafc.com/news/2021/february/090221-work-continues-to-try-and-ensure-barrow-v-exeter-goes-ahead-in-sky-bet-league-two/

Quoted from promotion plaice

Looks like Barrow's game at home to Exeter tonight is in doubt:

https://www.barrowafc.com/news/2021/february/090221-work-continues-to-try-and-ensure-barrow-v-exeter-goes-ahead-in-sky-bet-league-two/

Given the distance that Exeter have to travel, would have callled this off early morning if any doubt

Any reason why we aren't playing tonight?

Looks like an almost full schedule in Leagues One and Two.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Any reason why we aren't playing tonight?

Looks like an almost full schedule in Leagues One and Two.

No one likes us

Quoted from promotion plaice

Looks like Barrow's game at home to Exeter tonight is in doubt:

https://www.barrowafc.com/news/2021/february/090221-work-continues-to-try-and-ensure-barrow-v-exeter-goes-ahead-in-sky-bet-league-two/

If Barrow have many more games postponed they will face a bit of a fixture pile up, which won't be good for them.

Grasping at straws here, but I am desperate.

Tonight:-

Barrow v Exeter
Tranmere v Stevenage
Newport v Southend

Some tough games there for our rivals. In recent times the only time our relative position has improved is when we don't play.

Glennon and Benson both playing for Burnley.

Barrow off!

Possibly no game for us as teams want to avoid Hurst’s resurgent team?

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Barrow off!

They have form for this. Poor Exeter.

Come on Newport, Tranmere, Bradford & dare I say it...Hull.

Scunny abandoned. 😎
UTMM

Quoted from gobby

Scunny abandoned. 😎
UTMM

Well, I don’t blame them for leaving, but where are those 70,000 people going to live?

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Well, I don’t blame them for leaving, but where are those 70,000 people going to live?

Moving them to Bransholme!😎
UTMM

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Well, I don’t blame them for leaving, but where are those 70,000 people going to live?

Plenty of room at the Sands Venue in Blackpool. 😂😂😂

Harrogate lost. Probably out of our reach now but you never know.

Bottom now!

BOTTOM !

Newport 0-1 Southend....FFS

Typical, a deflected goal for Southend.

Newport were male masturbation saturday. Unlucky town. Nah. They were there for the taking and southend are proving it

Cant get any lower  . Thanks fenty and hollowhead you a**holes

Just had a quick look through our relegation mini league opponents matches for the rest of the month and they aren’t easy for them . A couple of wins are vital

Stevenage winning ....FFS

Can it get worse
Both Southend and Stevenage winning

Newport and Tranmere, you excrement cnuts!

Nah. Town are the excrement girl privates. I said stevenage picked up points and would pull away. Newport were cack. And we couldnt even get a point. We’re doomed.

Table doesn't lie. We're exactly where we deserve to be.

Not yet ffs

And fenty is walking away with 2.5 million. illegitimate

Stevenage are in way better form than we are, so no surprise they are beating Newport, but it's really fooking galling that teams always beat us no matter how poorly they are playing.

Also, Tranmere struggling against Southend tonight, but you can almost guarantee they won't struggle on Saturday against us.

We need snookers

Still only 3 points from safety, clutching at straws.

We need to pick up points and fast, none of this 'give them 10 games to gel" we can't afford to drop points especially to teams who are losing to Southend!

Were doomed Mr Mannering!!

Quoted from Hagrid

Nah. Town are the excrement girl privates. I said stevenage picked up points and would pull away. Newport were cack. And we couldnt even get a point. We’re doomed.

Shame Newport didn't get a man sent off in the first half, they would have won then. Wouldn't they? Wasnt that the excuse Saturday?

Stevenage are out of reach now. It's any two from the bottom 3.

Quoted from Hagrid

Nah. Town are the excrement girl privates. I said stevenage picked up points and would pull away. Newport were cack. And we couldnt even get a point. We’re doomed.

Shame Newport didn't get a man sent off in the first half, they would have won then. Wouldn't they? Wasnt that the excuse Saturday?

Stevenage are out of reach now. It's any two from the bottom 3.

we are bottom because we are shiite, and we continue to be pretty shiite , because the negatives are the same as they have been for the last few months.
we don't create, we don't take our chances, too many players are a disaster waiting to happen and we always concede ,no matter how few chances the opposition have.
all the other teams pick up points here and there.
we have won 2 games in 21. there is nothing else to say

Think these results coupled with the fans delight at the loss at Newport on Saturday and how ‘well we played’ just goes to show the shite that our fans will gladly lap up.

We’re shite and we’re copulated

Spot on Forza.

It is sickening to think that whilst one man sits in his new home going about life and his media work without a care in the world after supposedly leaving the club in a better place.  The other despite years of sickening mis- management pockets 2.5 million.
Yet again it the fans who always suffer the most.  Neither the charlatan or the narcissus will feel it like the fans do. Angry doesn't come close.

But we’ve got Hurst, nothing to worry about!

It’s not over till it’s over.

19 games left of which we need to win 8 which is do-able with a draw or 2. starting saturday

Quoted from Humbercod

But we’ve got Hurst, nothing to worry about!

Sounds like a certain chant

We’ve got Paul Hurst, Super Paul Hurst! I just don’t think you understand.

Quoted from RonMariner

Tonight:-

Barrow v Exeter
Tranmere v Stevenage
Newport v Southend

Some tough games there for our rivals. In recent times the only time our relative position has improved is when we don't play.

Well, I was wrong about that.

Quoted from chipsandgravy

It is sickening to think that whilst one man sits in his new home going about life and his media work without a care in the world after supposedly leaving the club in a better place.  The other despite years of sickening mis- management pockets 2.5 million.
Yet again it the fans who always suffer the most.  Neither the charlatan or the narcissus will feel it like the fans do. Angry doesn't come close.

And I get a red cross!

In boxing terms we had a very bad round tonight.  Not a KO though.  We are very poor, bottom but have a good manager and a new team.  

Take your successes where you can:  Barrow did not win and Hull v Lincoln had 23 shots (only 1 on target).

The past this season is truly dreadful. With Runaway we were absolutely doomed.  The current is also poor.  

We are a different Club from top to bottom.  

We have new owners, a new (proven) manager, a new team and hope for the remainder of the season. A win or two will bring confidence.

Be positive.  

Barrow didnt play... and i dint give a intercourse about hull. Lincoln.

Barrow are not playing tomorrow, so wont win then either.  That's good is it? That's the best we can come up with. Our opponent not playing??  Holy Shite.

i said Stevenage are in good form and seem to have some fight
As i said it’s us barrow and southend

Desperate for 3 points Saturday now

Barrow are not playing tomorrow, so wont win then either.  That's good is it? That's the best we can come up with. Our opponent not playing??  Holy Shite.

Quoted from Yoda

i said Stevenage are in good form and seem to have some fight
As i said it’s us barrow and southend

Desperate for 3 points Saturday now

Barrow two points ahead, two games in hand and a goal diff that is 21 goals better than ours. I know who my money is on.

Newport are shocking and still beat us with 10 they must be bad they made us look like Brazil in the first 45 mins

All tonight showed was how tight the league is and how anyone can beat anyone.

If we are still in this position with 9 games to go, then yeah, start to panic.

Quoted from ginnywings

All tonight showed was how tight the league is and how anyone can beat anyone.

If we are still in this position with 9 games to go, then yeah, start to panic.

Except us. Who cant beat anyone and dont look like doing so, just being realistic. Ive got no hope, yeah we cpuld win saturday Barrow/ Southend may lose and we be out the bottom 2. But i just cant feel it. Even in my heart

As I said Barrow not playing ( and not winning) is a small mercy.  

What I did not see is Salford beating Cambridge ( who are top) 4-1.  Salford are 20 points ahead of us with a game in hand and a vastly superior goal difference.  How did they ever get so far ahead??

Quoted from ginnywings

All tonight showed was how tight the league is and how anyone can beat anyone.

If we are still in this position with 9 games to go, then yeah, start to panic.

Said something similar in a post at the weekend. In reality there is nothing much between any of the teams in this league but the one factor we haven’t had all season is any confidence, get a couple of wins and things may change dramatically. On the other hand.........

Still some hope but need those two wins in February.

Quoted from Hagrid

Except us. Who cant beat anyone and dont look like doing so, just being realistic. Ive got no hope, yeah we cpuld win saturday Barrow/ Southend may lose and we be out the bottom 2. But i just cant feel it. Even in my heart

Southend's win tonight put our dismal failure to dispatch Newport's 10 men on Saturday into perspective.

Sorry, but I just don't see us turning this round. A few weeks ago we could have gone above Scunny by beating them. Weekend before last we could have gone above Stevenage by beating them.  On Saturday. They are both now waiving at us from the back of car as it races away.

We have had  so many crunch games recently and haven't won any of them. I think we have used up our nine lives and must start beating decent teams now, lots of them. I don't see it happening.  

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

As I said Barrow not playing ( and not winning) is a small mercy.  

What I did not see is Salford beating Cambridge ( who are top) 4-1.  Salford are 20 points ahead of us with a game in hand and a vastly superior goal difference.  How did they ever get so far ahead??

Maybe the fact that we have 2 wins in the last 21 games has something to do with it?

Quoted from Hagrid

Except us. Who cant beat anyone and dont look like doing so, just being realistic. Ive got no hope, yeah we cpuld win saturday Barrow/ Southend may lose and we be out the bottom 2. But i just cant feel it. Even in my heart

I can guarantee with absolute certainty that you were saying the same thing when Jolley came in with 11 games left and no transfer window to change much.

Save your sanity mate and just stay philosophical until it's mathematically certain one way or t'other.

Quoted from ginnywings

I can guarantee with absolute certainty that you were saying the same thing when Jolley came in with 11 games left and no transfer window to change much.

Save your sanity mate and just stay philosophical until it's mathematically certain one way or t'other.

We were not bottom or even in the drop zone with 11 games to go were we? We still had a small, though diminishing, points cushion.

Today we are rock bottom, with no games in hand over anyone, and no goal diff advantage, and all of our rivals are in in better form than us. That is a very different scenario.

Quoted from RonMariner

We were not bottom or even in the drop zone with 11 games to go were we? We still had a small, though diminishing, points cushion.

Today we are rock bottom, with no games in hand over anyone, and no goal diff advantage, and all of our rivals are in in better form than us. That is a very different scenario.

But we hadn't won a game for was it 23 or 24 matches or so? We couldn't bring in any new players and we had 8 less games to make a difference.

Thing is, we see things differently, and we are not down until or unless it happens, which is a long way off yet.

15 league games IIRC (we reached 20 before beating Chesterfield).

Quoted from Abdul19

15 league games IIRC (we reached 20 before beating Chesterfield).

Yes, 12 under Slade and 3 under the interim manager I think.

But we never dropped into the relegation spots at any time in the season, so our destiny was always in our own hands and it was the likes of Barnet and Chesterfield that needed to make up ground.  As we now increasingly need to do.

Look, I get it. There are 19 games left. That is a great deal of points to play for. My problem is that hoping we start winning is just that . A hope. The reality of the results we have seen since the start of the year do not support an optimistic view.

We played well for 45 minutes on Saturday, but lost against 10 men, 10 men in a chronically out of form side that lost to Southend a few days later.

So I have seen nothing to suggest the much desired winning run is around the corner.

Now Saturday is another day. Let's see.  If we win that one, then that might be grounds for more optimism.

I am simply basing my view on what has happened, rather than what I hope will happen. Until I see a change in fortune I must stick with my current view which is, I am gutted to say, that we are going down.    

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

As I said Barrow not playing ( and not winning) is a small mercy.  

What I did not see is Salford beating Cambridge ( who are top) 4-1.  Salford are 20 points ahead of us with a game in hand and a vastly superior goal difference.  How did they ever get so far ahead??

Because their owners sacked a reasonably successful manager. Fenty backed hopeless oloway all the way down the league

Quoted from RonMariner

Southend's win tonight put our dismal failure to dispatch Newport's 10 men on Saturday into perspective.

Sorry, but I just don't see us turning this round. A few weeks ago we could have gone above Scunny by beating them. Weekend before last we could have gone above Stevenage by beating them.  On Saturday. They are both now waiving at us from the back of car as it races away.

We have had  so many crunch games recently and haven't won any of them. I think we have used up our nine lives and must start beating decent teams now, lots of them. I don't see it happening.  

That started when oloway got the job, we just didn't see. Specsavers ran out of a certain shade of glasses.

Man City win at Swansea tonight in the Cup and become the first English top flight side to win 15 games on the trot in all competitions.

Let's hope Bolton & Cambridge do us a favour today:

Bolton v Stevenage

Cambridge v Southend

Cambridge started very well  :)

Latest....Bolton 1-0 Stevenage

Southend on top

Latest

Bolton 1 Stevenage 0

Cambridge 0 Southend 0

Ffs cmon cambridge

Omar Bogle's Donny are 4-1 down at Sunderland. All four goals scored by Charlie Wyke. All four goals insisted by Aiden McGeady.

Sounds like Southend are well on top😩

We need some luck!

Have to give credit to southend. After their start to the season

Bolton have a player sent-off against Stevenage.

Quoted from Hagrid

Its not tho ginny. Its another game gone by

Stevenage have 3 in hand. Southend have 1. We arent moving anywhere

We can't move if we don't play.  That's one of the a game in hand gone for them.  

Erm. They’re 8 clear?! And southend now 3 clear of us.

Another point further from Safety.

Full Time...

Bolton 1-0 Stevenage
Cambridge 0-0 Southend

Could have been worse I suppose.

Second best outcome we could have hoped for today. Southend and Stevenage took a combined total of one point.

Southend have just taken 4 points and had two clean sheets away to Newport and Cambridge. That is pretty good form. Catching them will not be easy. Stevenage are 8 points clear if us. Barrow are above us with 2 games in hand.

Our task is huge s and seems to get bigger every week.

Southend are definitely improving again.  Their next four fixtures look quite difficult but it doesn't matter who you play, it's about hitting form at the right time.  

Barrow's fixtures are also difficult, but they have two games in hand.

If we lose the next 2 games we'll be cut off from the pack and I worry about our team's ability to overcome the mental challenge.

Quoted from Withnail

Second best outcome we could have hoped for today. Southend and Stevenage took a combined total of one point.

That is a very very good point for Southend away to the league leaders. Ominous. Hard to take any comfort from that.

The BBC stats show:

Southend:
13 shots at goal (none on target)
10 corners

Stevenage:
17 shots at goal (3 on target)
7 corners

Between them they only got 1 point away from home, but they are both trying hard based on the above stats.

Quoted from RonMariner

That is a very very good point for Southend away to the league leaders. Ominous. Hard to take any comfort from that.

Agreed. If, and it's a big if, we start winning, we may see a few teams below both us and Southend come the end of the season.

It doesn't make for pretty viewing right now though.

Quoted from Withnail

Agreed. If, and it's a big if, we start winning, we may see a few teams below both us and Southend come the end of the season.

It doesn't make for pretty viewing right now though.

Agreed. We must start winning very soon.

Our next three games are against Exeter, Crawley and Harrogate. I don't expect much from the trip to Exeter, but both Crawley and Harrogate are in only moderate form. I think we need to look to winning both of those to start the comeback.

Six points from the next three games would I think give us real momentum.  Even that might not get us out for the bottom two though.   If we come away with less than 3 points from these three games we will be well adrift at the bottom.  

It’s Crawley v Stevenage and Salford v Barrow tonight.

A couple of home wins would help,

Think Stevenage could well win that one. Hopefully Barrow lose if they do.

I agree Ginny. Even we beat crawley...

The big mental challenge will be when/if we get to the stage where a win wouldn't get us out of the relegation places, fortunately we're not there yet but it could happen tonight.

Come on Salford.

Quoted from MarinerDevil

Southend are definitely improving again.  Their next four fixtures look quite difficult but it doesn't matter who you play, it's about hitting form at the right time.  

Barrow's fixtures are also difficult, but they have two games in hand.

If we lose the next 2 games we'll be cut off from the pack and I worry about our team's ability to overcome the mental challenge.

With virtually a new starting eleven assembled, I still think it's too early to make assumptions on the new players' mental fortitude, and assume we'll lose the next two games too. This extended break due to the recent postponement has come at a good time for us. Time for one or two to recover from injury, time for new players to bed in, time enough for Hurst to draw a line under the first part of the season and treat the remaining games as a completely separate second part of the season. Win one, lose one until the end of the season seems a tall order having experienced what we have since September, but these players haven't been through that and are definitely an upgrade on what went on before this welcome break..

Quoted from promotion plaice

The big mental challenge will be when/if we get to the stage where a win wouldn't get us out of the relegation places, fortunately we're not there yet but it could happen tonight.

Come on Salford.

And Crawley

Sad state of affairs when we're relying on other teams losing to stop them getting clear from us at the bottom of the table.

Come on Salford and Crawley tonight.

Stevenage 1-0.

Crawley miss penalty

Think we can say stevenage are safe now especially if they Continue in the form they are in. 2 of 3 now.

Fair play to Stevenage. Much as I dislike them  they have done exactly what we need to do and their form is really good. Looks like they will escape comfortably. Harrogate also climbing away from trouble.

Looking like 2 from 3 at this stage.

Nah intercourse stevenage. Horrible little club.
But yep 2 from 3. And credit to southend for them even being in the position they are after their start to the season

What ever Southend and Barrow do we have to better or match them. A win at Barrow is vital.

Quoted from ginnywings

Fair play to Stevenage. Much as I dislike them  they have done exactly what we need to do and their form is really good.

Yep, 18 points from 11 games (1.64 ppg) after 14 points from the first 18 (0.78 ).

Sunderland v Lincoln City,  EFL Trophy Semi-Final.

(18:00 Sky Sports Football / Sky Sports Ultra HD)

Think I'll give it a watch tonight to see what can be achieved when you've got a forward looking board.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Sunderland v Lincoln City,  EFL Trophy Semi-Final.

(18:00 Sky Sports Football / Sky Sports Ultra HD)

Think I'll give it a watch tonight to see what can be achieved when you've got a forward looking board.

Gone to penalties after the adverts, come on Sunderland.

Sunderland won 5-3 on penalties.

Hopefully we will be now be spared a gloating post from the Gimp troll.

Bolton beat the Stags 3-2 with three late goals.

Hull won 5-0 at Wigan to keep the pressure on Lincoln.

13 goal swing in 7 months

Think Paul we be looking for 9 points from next 3 games.....why not?

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Think Paul we be looking for 9 points from next 3 games.....why not?

Don’t know why but personally think the revival will start after the Exeter game with 2 wins the following week.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Don’t know why but personally think the revival will start after the Exeter game with 2 wins the following week.

They certainly look more winnable than beating Exeter, but then we have had about 10 'winnable' games in the last two months or so and won just one.

We both deleted friskney   ;D

Stevenage 0-1 Walsall

It was me actually.   ;D

The live scores are your gig, I should have known better.   :)

Stevenage are past us no point posting their scores

All about barrow and southend

Quoted from MarinerDevil

It was me actually.   ;D

The live scores are your gig, I should have known better.   :)

Sorry mate just wanted to bump the thread so we can keep tabs on Barrow and Southend   :)

Scunny winning again FFS.

Barrow losing 1-0 get in !!!!

Lincoln losing n harrogate draw level at the scunts.
Ex town players scoring today are ANDY cook, Malik wilks with 2 for Dull Shitty and the legendary Gavin Gunning put Chesterfield 1 up

Lincoln nonlonger losing


Cmon bolton stick one in before HT

Before kick-off I made sure both Barrow & Southend are guaranteed to lose...

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Barrow equalise

Barrow equalized !! 🙈

And then concede again!

They sound like us.

Just as I finished morecambe score again 2-1 !!! 🤣🤣🤣

get in!

Come on Bolton.

Barrow all too busy kissing each other as Morecambe go back up the other end 🤣

FFS bolton come on

Stevenage equalise...

Stevenage 1.1 .omar scores a pen for donny.now 2.3 down to Ull

Bolton score!

flipping come on!!

Get in   :)

Thats what we need !!! Both of them too lose

Dream day if it stays like this

Bolton 1-0

SUPER JOHN McGINLAY

Yessss

Quoted from Abdul19

SUPER JOHN McGINLAY

Mixu Patelainen!

Barrow lose   :)

Colchester have also seemingly lost in the last minute.  They seem out of reach but are in dreadful form and could be sucked in.

James Tilley has scored for crawley !!

We have crawley tuesday dont we?

Barrow lose.the useless james Tilley gets a 93rd minute winner for Creepy.no doubt he will quickly get his 2nd on tuesday night....

Great result for Town today
Get in

Bolton just taken the lead!!!😄😄😄

Full time!!! For once it went for us. Now we have to take advantage!!

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Bolton just taken the lead!!!😄😄😄

About 15 minutes ago. Just finished 0-1.

FT....Barrow 1-2 Morecambe

FT....Southend 0-1 Bolton

(thumbup)

Great day all round for Town

Let's have a win on Tuesday

Southend commentator just said, its been a great day for Grimsby

A win on Tuesday will be brilliant, take us out of the bottom2

Quite like this feeling when we don't play and other results go for us! Better Saturday night in store.

Quoted from Hagrid

We have crawley tuesday dont we?

Yes

In my defence, BBC TV only reported the Bolton goal “live” but 5 mins plus after it happened.  Talk about anxiety and torture.

Omar Bogle scored a pen today which helped to stop Hull getting 3 points.

Quoted from MarinerDevil

Colchester have also seemingly lost in the last minute.  They seem out of reach but are in dreadful form and could be sucked in.

Been keeping my eye on Colchester for a while. There's always one team that drop like a stone toward the end of the season and they seem to be it at the moment, although there are plenty of games to go yet. Port Vale have hit another sticky patch too.

Some of the teams around the bottom end 2 months ago, are now in good form and have moved well up the table. Things can change quickly with 2 or 3 wins.

3 points at Crawley would be most welcome.

Back in our hands now guys.

Quoted from ginnywings

Been keeping my eye on Colchester for a while. There's always one team that drop like a stone toward the end of the season and they seem to be it at the moment, although there are plenty of games to go yet. Port Vale have hit another sticky patch too.

Some of the teams around the bottom end 2 months ago, are now in good form and have moved well up the table. Things can change quickly with 2 or 3 wins.

3 points at Crawley would be most welcome.

Me too Ginny and I mentioned Colchester a few weeks back in a post as a team who may struggle. Not scoring many goals and I think their win against us is the only one they’ve had in a while but not certain on that. Seem to recall at the start of the season Colchester’s Chairman was speaking from the same viewpoint as Day and they released most of their better players. Be good to get another team down in the mix.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Me too Ginny and I mentioned Colchester a few weeks back in a post as a team who may struggle. Not scoring many goals and I think their win against us is the only one they’ve had in a while but not certain on that. Seem to recall at the start of the season Colchester’s Chairman was speaking from the same viewpoint as Day and they released most of their better players. Be good to get another team down in the mix.

Every struggling teams last win was against us.  ;)

Feels like it anyway.

A good saturday for once.... think a curry with beer , a few gins later...
UTM   :)

We also have 6 pointers against any team within reach of us.  As long as we win them!  (thumbup)

Quoted from DB

A win on Tuesday will be brilliant, take us out of the bottom2

Barrow are playing too. And Southend play again on Wednesday.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Before kick-off I made sure both Barrow & Southend are guaranteed to lose...

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It worked! Well worth the £5.

Still think it’s 2 from the bottom 3 to go down, even if someone else goes on a very poor run the bottom  3 are not going to win more then 1 out of every 3 games.

Barrow supporters are a very unhappy bunch this evening. There aren't many confident in Mr Jolley's ability to steer them to safety.

Well we can’t complain if we don’t get out of this.

Plenty of time for our new players and injured to get to know each other.
Probably the best manager out of any of the bottom three.
Nearly out of February and still well in the hunt.

Think we’ll bo ok 😀

Though there’s still a fair way to go I think in terms of building confidence a result on Tuesday is really important.

Quoted from ROKERITE

Barrow supporters are a very unhappy bunch this evening. There aren't many confident in Mr Jolley's ability to steer them to safety.

Yeah, makes interesting reading:

https://www.barrowafc.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28359

Blimey, that’s an unpleasant read over at Barrows forum......

Jolley has escaped the drop before though.

Confidence is rightly seen as a key quality in football.  Look at Liverpool in the Prem recently.

However, hope is also critical.  Seeing your 2 rivals lose at home gives you a massive boost.  Christ, I hope so!!

Feel for their fans after reading that. To finally get promoted to the league and then face the prospect of going back down without seeing your team play is harsh to say the least. Having said that I’d rather it was then than us and I begrudge my taxes being used to put their players on furlough.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Yeah, makes interesting reading:

https://www.barrowafc.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28359

They must all be closet Grimsby fans as some on here think it is only Town fans that make those sort of comments.

Incredible really that our best Saturday in 2021 follows an abandoned 2 day tip for our boys.
Let’s hope the tide has really turned and Paul and the boys win on Tuesday and start on a proper recovery.

I think they will.....

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Jolley has escaped the drop before though.

Confidence is rightly seen as a key quality in football.  Look at Liverpool in the Prem recently.

However, hope is also critical.  Seeing your 2 rivals lose at home gives you a massive boost.  Christ, I hope so!!

Jolley didn't get us out the excrement, we we're lucky with penalties, let's be honest, I thought he was clueless and couldn't handle the pressure at all, thus his stupid out burst..

Quoted Text

we we're lucky with penalties

We did get those penalties but the main reason we were getting them is that we were getting men into the box. Something which did not happen with Slade.

Quoted from MarinerRob

We did get those penalties but the main reason we were getting them is that we were getting men into the box. Something which did not happen with Slade.

You say that, but Harry Cardwell wasn't even in the box when he tripped himself up and fell into the penalty area and was given a penalty at Swindon.

I have to agree with that one - it was very strange - but at least he was near to the box.

And the way Town played in those 10 games, thanks to Jolley, they deserved some luck

Quoted from Northbank Mariner

Jolley didn't get us out the excrement, we we're lucky with penalties

We got one lucky pen, the other 2 were nailed on.

Quoted from Abdul19

We got one lucky pen, the other 2 were nailed on.

Nailed on or not Abdul, it wasn't his tactical genius that saved us, Chesterfield copulated and we got lucky.

Chesterfield were 1 of 6 clubs we finished in front of, as we took 13 points from the last 15. But yeah, nowt to do with the manager  ;D


(I don't even think he was that great or anything, but credit where it's due)

Exactly.  I did not like Jolley as a manager or person.  The latter from what I saw of him.

Like Runaway he was a BS merchant.  I wonder why we have had so many managers in recent years like this?  😀😀😀😀😀

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Exactly.  I did not like Jolley as a manager or person.  The latter from what I saw of him.

Like Runaway he was a BS merchant.  I wonder why we have had so many managers in recent years like this?  😀😀😀😀😀

Because we ask for them.

I don’t think we got lucky with Jolley that season. We might have got a break go our way for a change. Deserved to stay up on merit.

Quoted from Garth

Southend commentator just said, its been a great day for Grimsby

How did you manage to listen to it?

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

Exactly.  I did not like Jolley as a manager or person.  The latter from what I saw of him.

Like Runaway he was a BS merchant.  I wonder why we have had so many managers in recent years like this?  😀😀😀😀😀

And Hursty is definitely not one of them.  He may not be all that exciting but he talks straight.

Colchester are looking like they’re going to be in the mix . Definite parallels between the clubs in terms of incompetent decisions last summer coming home to roost

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Colchester are looking like they’re going to be in the mix . Definite parallels between the clubs in terms of incompetent decisions last summer coming home to roost

I can’t see Colchester being in the mix. Whilst I believe we’ll stay up they’d have to be taken over by three of the four sides below them (Stevenage will probably pass them, I admit) and that doesn’t look likely even with their dismal run of form.

Well it appears that MJ's star is on the wane even at this early stage. Barrow fans want him furloughed!!
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A great day of results for us yesterday. Loads of games left and loads of points to play for. Just need to ignite our season now with this new team, and start stringing some results together.

No way is this season over, we’ve got a very exciting time ahead of us, and we need to realise that there’s enjoyment to be had from clawing out of this mess that Holloway got us into.

Hold on tight and keep believing

Quoted from promotion plaice

Yeah, makes interesting reading:

https://www.barrowafc.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=28359

Change a couple of names and it could have been our board 18 months ago.

What's interesting is that he made no impact at all in his first few games here, then suddenly turned it round. Hope he doesn't do the same at Barrow

Quoted from buckstown

What's interesting is that he made no impact at all in his first few games here, then suddenly turned it round. Hope he doesn't do the same at Barrow

Let's hope he doesn't sign Mich Rose to take penalties!

Quoted from buckstown

What's interesting is that he made no impact at all in his first few games here, then suddenly turned it round. Hope he doesn't do the same at Barrow

Well he certainly won't now!

Quoted from forza ivano

Barrow lose.the useless james Tilley gets a 93rd minute winner for Creepy.no doubt he will quickly get his 2nd on tuesday night....

I hope that comment doesn't come back and bite you in the bum tomorrow.

I always thought he had something about him, sadly now he and Edwards have left I'm not sure we have that type of player that can run at defenders.

Quoted from arryarryarry

I hope that comment doesn't come back and bite you in the bum tomorrow.

I always thought he had something about him, sadly now he and Edwards have left I'm not sure we have that type of player that can run at defenders.

First game in two weeks so hopefully they should be able to break into a sprint.

We now have proper centre forwards though, the shop, fit again Hanson, and Payne. Now that's a novelty! At least their defenders will have something to do.

Let's not forget Oldham v Barrow tonight!

A couple of home wins for us and Oldham would be fabulous.

Friggin  Barrow spoil it by winning.

As usual every team except us gets a new manager bounce.

Forest Green v Southend tonight at 18.00.

Come on you veggies!

Quoted from RonMariner

Forest Green v Southend tonight at 18.00.

Come on you veggies!

Then Saturday FGR v Colchester

Quoted from Mariner Timsky

Then Saturday FGR v Colchester

Let's hope they have plenty of protein in their diet this week!

Southend one up

I swear to god we’re cursed

And it was Elliot Whitehouse who gave the free kick away they scored from!

I want southend to lose, of course, but if we win 4 or 5 on the bounce I really don’t care. It’s too early to obsess over others or we’d never sleep! Let’s just hope we’re hitting some form (although I’m sure we’re all doubting that’s actually the case).....

Think we will escape but it’s choppy waters

FGR have had majority of possession.   The only plus point bar 45 mins to go.

After last nights showing I’d prefer Southend to lose as I see nothing but a bumpy ride at the moment and we need all the help we can get. Come onFGR!!

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

Think we will escape but it’s choppy waters

I’ll have what you’re drinking.

FGR 0 - Southend 2

Quoted from Heisenberg

I’ll have what you’re drinking.

Guiness in calm waters
Red wine if it's bumpy
Whisky for choppy waters or worse

we are definitely, definitely, 100% cursed!

only Town could win, and then find themselves in a worse position than before we started

Quoted from Heisenberg

I’ll have what you’re drinking.

Kronenbourg but sarfend get another, so going onto the top shelf

Cant flipping believe it.

Just makes you wonder if it aint meant to be

Oh well , imagine if we had lost . 😨

Southend fairly comfortably outplaying FGR. Very little sign of a comeback being on the cards

Quoted from supertown

Oh well , imagine if we had lost . 😨

We could’ve furloughed the first team and saved money.

0-3

Quoted from psgmariner

We could’ve furloughed the first team and saved money.

Fenty's ways!!!!!!!

Aside from another slight blip after playing us, Southend have been very good for a while now...

Quoted from Hagrid

Cant flipping believe it.

Just makes you wonder if it aint meant to be

So before last night you thought we were doomed, after last night thought we had a chance, now we’re back to being doomed again? 😂

Long way to go mate!

FFS!!!!!!!

Quoted from jimgtfc

So before last night you thought we were doomed, after last night thought we had a chance, now we’re back to being doomed again? 😂

Long way to go mate!

Not saying we’re doomed. But 3-0 at FGR. Noone saw that coming

Quoted from Grimal

FGR 0 - Southend 2

Well, that's unexpected. Typical, we finally win a game and so do Barrow and it looks like Southend too.

Just goes to show there’s nothing to fear in this absolute junk division & last night’s win was even more important than it seemed at the time.

It's a bloody good job we did win last night wasn't it with Barrow and Southend both winning, imagine if we lost

Got to hand it to them - they have steadily been improving for a while now
Hope we can emulate that now the monkey is off our back but we certainly don't look like we have a 3-0 in us. However several 1-0's will do us!

i suppose the only tiny chink of a silver lining is that it helps to drag colchester and the clubs on 34 points a little bit more into the mire

FGR 0-3

Southend result tonight is bottom but just shows the importance of our result last night...lose last night and we’d be bollocksed a damn site worse than we are now...

Rubbish result for us but we do have 2 games in hand (rather have the points though)

0-3 Fair play Southend

1-3 now.

Quoted from Hagrid

Cant flipping believe it.

Just makes you wonder if it aint meant to be

Somehow it seems fitting that the Fenty era should end with us in 92nd place,

Only way is up after that...

Bottom team with 6 wins all season beat team in second with only 6 losses all season. This league is full of average to poor teams. No one to fear.

Quoted from grimsbybrown

Somehow it seems fitting that the Fenty era should end with us in 92nd place,

Only way is up after that...

Not really. If by some miracle we top the conference first season back we’ll be 93rd.

we can guarantee  that FG won't be as rubbish in 2 weeks shocking result

Southend made some good signings. Although this result is a surprise it wouldn't surprise me looking at their squad if they escape. Last night's win hasn't changed my mind that we are poor and will be relegated

FGR made several changes tonight, bet full strength when we play them. :-/

That's football, innit.

Quoted from Norseman

Southend made some good signings. Although this result is a surprise it wouldn't surprise me looking at their squad if they escape. Last night's win hasn't changed my mind that we are poor and will be relegated

Sadly I have the same opinion, a win on Saturday may go someway to change my mind but even with last night's win I didn't think we played that well.

How did FGR manage to concede a Southend goal from the centre circle?  Otherwise 1-1 FT.

Not going to be easy to overtake Southend. They have been picking up points regularly since they beat us in December.

I think I will go crazy fretting over every game Barrow and Southend play, in addition to our own.

I am assuming that to stay up we need 50 points. Not guaranteed but teams with 50 points very rarely go down.

We need another 26 points. That's 8 wins 2 draws and 8 defeats from our remaining 18 games.  

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

How did FGR manage to concede a Southend goal from the centre circle?  Otherwise 1-1 FT.

It was actually 3-1 in the end.

Personally I don't see Southend going down.

We need to close the gap to Colchester and Stevenage.

9 points adrift of Colchester, but I can't see FGR slipping up twice in a week. I would expect them to beat Colchester at the weekend. So a win for us would leave us 6 points adrift with a game in hand. Not impossible by any means. Stevenage are a point further away, but we do have 3 games in hand over them.  Again, not impossible to close that gap.

But all of this is pie in the sky unless we start winning consistently. We need to do what Scunts did. Win 4 on the bounce. Then the entire picture changes dramatically.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Sadly I have the same opinion, a win on Saturday may go someway to change my mind but even with last night's win I didn't think we played that well.

If we win on Saturday, I'd say any team that needs around a point or more per game to get to 50 points will be looking over their shoulder. That's nine teams including us right up to Scunny in 16th. Any team in the bottom half can easily have a horrendous run. Oldham and Port Vale, no win in three, Mansfield and Colchester no win in five and thirteen respectively..

Our "new" team that is just starting to get to know each other has won one lost one. That's 1.5 points per game. Replicating that would take us to 51 points..

Today

Bolton v Barrow
Southend v Salford

Can't see Barrow getting anything at in form Bolton, let's hope Salford turn up at Southend.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Today

Bolton v Barrow
Southend v Salford


Can't see Barrow getting anything at in form Bolton, let's hope Salford turn up at Southend.

Which one is the really Alliterative Derby?

Lets also keep an eye on

Newport v Stevenage
FGR v Colchester.

Let's hope Newport pull their heads out of their arses and prove they can beat someone other than us for a change.

FGR bottled it against Southend so need to get back to form against Colchester.

If results go our way today, given the games in hand situation, the maths might well change from  any 2 from 3, to any 2 from 5 to go down.  

Of course it all means intercourse all if we lose.

Win today 22nd place chasing Colchester, staying up

In February Southend won at both Newport and FGR and drew at Cambridge. They are on their way to safety and already show the kind of form and consistency that we are nowhere close to.

For me, Southend are not looking like they are going down. They have turned the corner.

Which leaves us and Barrow in the mire, and then a nine point gap for us to bridge to Colchester.

I just don't see it happening.

Quoted from Bigdog

If we win on Saturday, I'd say any team that needs around a point or more per game to get to 50 points will be looking over their shoulder. That's nine teams including us right up to Scunny in 16th. Any team in the bottom half can easily have a horrendous run. Oldham and Port Vale, no win in three, Mansfield and Colchester no win in five and thirteen respectively..

Our "new" team that is just starting to get to know each other has won one lost one. That's 1.5 points per game. Replicating that would take us to 51 points..

I had the same thought about the £180 million euro lottery, sadly I didn't win that either. I think they must have been about the same odds.

To get our predicament into perspective. We made Orient look like Barca, and Orient are 2 down in 15 minutes at Exeter!

3-0 HT.  Exeter are a good side but it does show how easily beaten we are when a badly out of form Orient stroll to victory over us.  Hopefully that changes today.  (arrowu1)

I don’t think it will😩

Half-time... Liverpool 0-1 Fulham  

WOW

Quoted from promotion plaice

Half-time... Liverpool 0-1 Fulham  

WOW

Liverpool have lost their last five games at home this could be six.

Great to see Gerrard's Rangers win the Scottish Premiership title today and end Celtic's domination up there.

First title for the club, incredible achievement  ;)

I know they've had really bad luck with a spate of injuries to key players - but the wheels have really come off at Liverpool.

Dean Henderson starts again for Man Utd in the Manchester derby.

A big test against probably the best team in Europe/World at the moment.