Fook knows.

We get some back from injury and lose others. It's never ending.

Not having Waterfall, Morais and Bennett available yesterday was another blow. Bennett sounds like he's out for the forseeable, and we don't really have a natural left sided midfielder.

Hard to pick a formation with what we have available. Hope we can get one or two in for Tuesday.

Battersby

Menayese
Matete

13 youth team, highly enthusiastic, motivated, passionate players who care for the club. Want the shirt and a future; as for the rest of a first squad drop em off at the job centre.

I'd rather a team lose with passion and effort than trot around like headless chickens, saving their energy to sprint for their pay cheques.

Russell

Hendrie
Waterfall
Menayese
Habergham

Wright
Spokes
Matete
Morais (if available)

Hanson
Gibson

Quoted from AdamHaddock

Russell

Hendrie
Waterfall
Menayese
Habergham

Wright
Spokes
Matete
Morais (if available)

Hanson
Gibson

This. Hope Hendrie and Morais could combine down the right to create some decent crossing opportunities.

Without knowing who's available to start, I'll hold off. Absolutely not prudent to start with Hanson though, as tempting as it would be. The next game against Stevenage is as important, as are all other games. No need to risk him so shortly after his return.

                       Macca
Hendrie Menayese Waterfall Preston
Wright Matete Spokes Morais
                  Scannell
                   Hanson

Habergham isn't capable of so many games after so long off IMO

Matete is a league 1 level player, you could tell instantly.
Use to lad as much as possible.

Wright needs to up his game now, I rate the lad a lot, but nows the time to stand up and be noticed.

'Rest' Pollock, the transfer rumours have clearly had an impact on the lad

Hanson is good with his feet just as much as in the air, so avoid the hoof ball

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

                       Macca
Hendrie Menayese Waterfall Preston
Wright Matete Spokes Morais
                  Scannell
                   Hanson

Habergham isn't capable of so many games after so long off IMO

Matete is a league 1 level player, you could tell instantly.
Use to lad as much as possible.

Wright needs to up his game now, I rate the lad a lot, but nows the time to stand up and be noticed.

'Rest' Pollock, the transfer rumours have clearly had an impact on the lad

Hanson is good with his feet just as much as in the air, so avoid the hoof ball

Avoid the hoofball unless it is from out wide. The Lincoln philosophy of throwing as many balls into the box as possible could reap some rewards with Hanson up there. He desperately needs something to attack if we are to get the best out of him. Get in as many crosses as we possibly can and back him up.

Quoted from ginnywings

Avoid the hoofball unless it is from out wide. The Lincoln philosophy of throwing as many balls into the box as possible could reap some rewards with Hanson up there. He desperately needs something to attack if we are to get the best out of him. Get in as many crosses as we possibly can and back him up.

100%, get the ball in the box from Morias and Wright, just not from Pollock and Macca

There’d be some irony if we played 5-3-2 against Jolley.

Quoted from marinerdazza

There’d be some irony if we played 5-3-2 against Jolley.

If Waterfall is fit, I wouldn't be surprised to see us go with three centre halves.

Maybe Matt Dean can interview Jolley afterwards

As much as I’ve been supporting Green of late as he has done better I would feel more optimistic about scoring if he was on the bench for Tuesday........

Injuries again.. Morais, Bennett, Williams and Scannell are all clever footballers who are good on the ball, see a pass and can beat a man, and beating a man opens up so many more options than passing from side to side or backwards and then hoofing it. Two of the four out injured again. At some time I'd like to see at least three of these or even four in the same team to see what they can do together with Matete and a ball winner behind them, even if it means Scannell playing as a false nine like Firmino at Liverpool or Kane latterly at Spurs..

I’d go 4-5-1, defend for our lives and hope we can nick a set piece

Just give them the points .. saves our blushes  

Having not seen him play, and hardly know anything about him, how come sisay doesn’t get a look in and for that matter Joseph Starbuck too.

                                    Macca

Hendrie Menayese, Waterfall, Habergham

                      Spokes, Rose, Matete

                      Williams Scannell

                               Hanson

* If Waterfall's not fit then Mattie

Wright and Morais (if fit) as impact subs for Scannell and Williams

No width admittedly so I'd switch to 442 with Wright and Morais on flanks 2nd half if formation shows no signs of fruition, with Williams or Gibson slightly deeper than Hanson

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Having not seen him play, and hardly know anything about him, how come sisay doesn’t get a look in and for that matter Joseph Starbuck too.

Apparently he looked clueless for Clee. Someone who plays for them apparently described him as a bad Matt Green.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Apparently he looked clueless for Clee. Someone who plays for them apparently described him as a bad Matt Green.

Is that even possible?

                          McKeown
Hendrie   Menayesa   Waterfall   Habergham
                              Rose
Jackson       Matete        Spokes      Williams
                             Hanson

Subs: Russell, Preston, Pollock, Hewitt, Wright, Green & Gibson.

Hopefully the weather forecast is wrong and it gets called off though.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

                          McKeown
Hendrie   Menayesa   Waterfall   Habergham
                              Rose
Jackson       Matete        Spokes      Williams
                             Hanson

Subs: Russell, Preston, Pollock, Hewitt, Wright, Green & Gibson.

Hopefully the weather forecast is wrong and it gets called off though.

Well.. today I've seen that the BBC are teaching (indoctrinating) nine year olds that there are over 100 different genders and a respected GTFC supporter picking an unproven out of depth centre forward at right midfield instead of Max Wright or Scannell.

Currently wondering if the world has indeed gone completely mad..

Russell
Hendrie Waterfall Menayesa Habergham
Wright Matete Spokes Scannell
Williams Gibson
(Hanson to come off the bench 2nd half, don't want to ask too much too soon)

Russell or Battersby

Hewitt
Menayese
Waterfall
Habergham

Wright
Williams
Matete
Rose
Scannell

Hanson

Think we need to put in a more experienced team and more energy up front. Id go with this....

                              McKeown


Hendrie     Menayese     Pollock     Habergham


   Morais       Matete       Rose        Scannell


                  Hanson      Gibson / new striker


Think 2 natural wingers with experience, sure up with Rose in the centre and ask Gibson to run the channels and his socks off up top and hopefully we can get a result. The team have so much to prove

                                           McKeown

Hewitt              Menayese            Wat/Pol              Hendrie

                                            Rose

                          Spokes                  Matete            

Wright                               Williams                      Scannell

Taking it that Clifton and Morais are unfit, Hanson and Habergham need a rest, loathed to play a forward for the sake of playing a forward, they don't score or contribute to teamplay anyway. Use Williams as a floating false nine and play Scannell and Wright more advanced when we've got the ball. Get our best available players in the starting eleven..

Quoted from Bigdog

                                           McKeown

Hewitt              Menayese            Wat/Pol              Hendrie

                                            Rose

                          Spokes                  Matete            

Wright                               Williams                      Scannell

Taking it that Clifton and Morais are unfit, Hanson and Habergham need a rest, loathed to play a forward for the sake of playing a forward, they don't score or contribute to teamplay anyway. Use Williams as a floating false nine and play Scannell and Wright more advanced when we've got the ball. Get our best available players in the starting eleven..

Green has been playing as a false striker all season! Oh, and last season too.

Whatever team is played I would expect zero points.
However I continue to pray for a miracle.

Quoted from oochiad

As much as I’ve been supporting Green of late as he has done better I would feel more optimistic about scoring if he was on the bench for Tuesday........

I think he’d have more chance of scoring from there as well

Back four pretty much picks itself, if Waterfall is fit he plays.  If not, Pollock.

Ahead of that it's just lobbing a load of darts at the board and hoping a few land the right way up.  Rose added some composure when he came on but he also slows things down for me.  He looks far better in that holding role but then he doesn't really offer any protection in that position, players just ghost past him.   Without wingers, your full backs are under more pressure which means your centre-backs are often dragged a bit further wide.  As the holding midfielder you, at times, become the only central barrier between the opposition and the goal.  Rose doesn't offer that.  However I wouldn't know what else to suggest.  

Matete is a shoe-in, to partner him probably Spokes.

In attack I think there's only 3 players who look capable of offering anything, especially who are fit (or something like fit).  That's Hanson, Wright and Scannell.  Problem is all 3 are made of glass and coming back from lay-offs.   Maybe give all three 60 minutes, hope we've had enough of an impact and then bring on Williams, Jackson and Gibson to be fresh legs.  

Actually, thinking about it.  If we're playing Hanson we need to play to strengths.  He looked his best when he first signed because we had quality deliveries into him, namely from Hewitt at right-back.  Hewitt had a stinker on Saturday but in all honesty Hendrie wasn't much better and gave Devarn Green far too much freedom.    Hewitt at right-back, Habergham at left-back and just pepper the box with deliveries from deep for Hanson.  Wright and Scannell following up for the balls behind or the knock-downs.  A high press from Matete and Spokes for anything else that falls loose.

In goal, not impressed with either McKeown or Russell at the minute.  McKeown looks a shadow of himself whereas whenever Russell plays he looks like what he is, a goalkeeping coach who has kept his hand in by playing in the tin-pot trophy against Under 23 sides.  Could be a flip of the coin but I'd probably got McKeown.

                  Mckeown
Hewitt Menayse Waterfall Habergham
                    Rose
           Matete Spokes
   Scannell Hanson Wright

Quoted from Bigdog

Well.. today I've seen that the BBC are teaching (indoctrinating) nine year olds that there are over 100 different genders and a respected GTFC supporter picking an unproven out of depth centre forward at right midfield instead of Max Wright or Scannell.

Currently wondering if the world has indeed gone completely mad..

That's Ira Jackson jr who scored 24 goals in 36 matches during 2019/20 season for Folkestone Invicta where he played Right Wing.

Basic research mate. Try it sometime.

Quoted Text

Ira Jackson jr. said...

“Neil Cugley gave me a chance at Folkestone and I scored 33 in 50 from the right wing and now the gaffer here has got two in two out of me."
[url]https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/sport/jackson-on-life-at-grimsby-town-239464/[/url]

I'd go for
                                                          Macca
Hendrie                  Meneyese                            Waterfall             Habergham

Morais                     Matete                                Rose                   Scanlon

                               Jackson Jr                         Hanson


Subs: Russell, Pollock, Williams, Wright, Spokes, Preston, Green.

I don't think we'll see 4-4-2 again anytime soon. Whenever we play that formation with the current crop we get overloaded in midfield. I think 4-1-4-1 with 2 fast wide players is the way Hurst will go.

Coincidentally that's the formation he used to great success at Shrewsbury.

Quoted from Bigdog

Injuries again.. Morais, Bennett, Williams and Scannell are all clever footballers who are good on the ball, see a pass and can beat a man, and beating a man opens up so many more options than passing from side to side or backwards and then hoofing it. Two of the four out injured again. At some time I'd like to see at least three of these or even four in the same team to see what they can do together with Matete and a ball winner behind them, even if it means Scannell playing as a false nine like Firmino at Liverpool or Kane latterly at Spurs..

Scannell
Bennett Williams Morais
Matete Clifton
Habergham Meyenese Waterfall Hendrie
Macc

Might as well go with it

On a serious note, I agree with whats said - Matete looks very good.

Wouldn't be surprised to see a team set up to get a point, which wouldn't be a bad thing at all.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

That's Ira Jackson jr who scored 24 goals in 36 matches during 2019/20 season for Folkestone Invicta where he played Right Wing.

Basic research mate. Try it sometime.

Fair play..

My basic research still tells me that Scannell and Wright are much better options than Jackson at right wing though..

Quoted from diehardmariner

Back four pretty much picks itself, if Waterfall is fit he plays.  If not, Pollock.

Ahead of that it's just lobbing a load of darts at the board and hoping a few land the right way up.  Rose added some composure when he came on but he also slows things down for me.  He looks far better in that holding role but then he doesn't really offer any protection in that position, players just ghost past him.   Without wingers, your full backs are under more pressure which means your centre-backs are often dragged a bit further wide.  As the holding midfielder you, at times, become the only central barrier between the opposition and the goal.  Rose doesn't offer that.  However I wouldn't know what else to suggest.  

Matete is a shoe-in, to partner him probably Spokes.

In attack I think there's only 3 players who look capable of offering anything, especially who are fit (or something like fit).  That's Hanson, Wright and Scannell.  Problem is all 3 are made of glass and coming back from lay-offs.   Maybe give all three 60 minutes, hope we've had enough of an impact and then bring on Williams, Jackson and Gibson to be fresh legs.  

Actually, thinking about it.  If we're playing Hanson we need to play to strengths.  He looked his best when he first signed because we had quality deliveries into him, namely from Hewitt at right-back.  Hewitt had a stinker on Saturday but in all honesty Hendrie wasn't much better and gave Devarn Green far too much freedom.    Hewitt at right-back, Habergham at left-back and just pepper the box with deliveries from deep for Hanson.  Wright and Scannell following up for the balls behind or the knock-downs.  A high press from Matete and Spokes for anything else that falls loose.

In goal, not impressed with either McKeown or Russell at the minute.  McKeown looks a shadow of himself whereas whenever Russell plays he looks like what he is, a goalkeeping coach who has kept his hand in by playing in the tin-pot trophy against Under 23 sides.  Could be a flip of the coin but I'd probably got McKeown.

                  Mckeown
Hewitt Menayse Waterfall Habergham
                    Rose
           Matete Spokes
   Scannell Hanson Wright

That team looks good but how can you say the back 4 picks itself and then put Elliot Hewitt in there? He's awful. Hendrie hasn't had the best few games but he's miles better than Hewitt.

Russel

Hewitt
Menyanse
Waterfall or pollock
Harbeghan

Wright
Spokes
Matete
Williams

Hanson
Jackson JR or Gibson or new signing

Quoted from pontoonlew

That team looks good but how can you say the back 4 picks itself and then put Elliot Hewitt in there? He's awful. Hendrie hasn't had the best few games but he's miles better than Hewitt.

Because I later said we need to play to the strengths of Hanson, which is balls into the box.  Personally, I think Hewitt delivers a better ball than Hendrie.  

All about opinions.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

That’s interesting, so Jackson Jr played as a winger last season? Surely if he can score that many off the wing we should play him out there? Or is that too obvius?

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Quoted Text

Ira Jackson jr. said...

“Neil Cugley gave me a chance at Folkestone and I scored 33 in 50 from the right wing and now the gaffer here has got two in two out of me."
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/folkestone/sport/jackson-on-life-at-grimsby-town-239464/

Woooooaaahh there (that's English for stop a horse)! I also did not do any basic research and I tend to pride myself on my (very) basic research. So why has he come to us as an assumed centre forward and nothing else? This is brand new information.

Is it time to crack open the 4-5-1/4-3-3 Jolley used to such good effect to keep us in League 2?*

                                Macca

Hendrie    Menayese   Waterfall   Habergham

                    Matete     Rose    Clifton

Jackson/Morais                           Scannell/Wright

                             Hanson/Payne

*Hypothetical, not necessarily endorsing.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Apparently he looked clueless for Clee. Someone who plays for them apparently described him as a bad Matt Green.

Didn't he play one game and they sent him back because he was crap?

Quoted from Nutsy

Scannell
Bennett Williams Morais
Matete Clifton
Habergham Meyenese Waterfall Hendrie
Macc

Might as well go with it

On a serious note, I agree with whats said - Matete looks very good.

Bennett's out for up to 6 weeks according to PH, Morais is also suffering a hamstring problem.

Apart from us being generally cr@p, the injury situation is very concerning. We get some back and others break down. One has to wonder what is going on when we can't field the same team for a run of games at any time in the season.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Didn't he play one game and they sent him back because he was crap?

There was a bit of that, but he looked worse because he couldn't understand instructions he was being given, but didn't say so, just replied with ok boss and proceeded to do his own thing!

Russell

Hendrie - Hewitt - Pollock - Preston

Morais - Machete - Spokes - Wright

Hanson - Williams

                              Macca


Hendrie    Menayese     Pollock      Habergham


   Scannell       Matete      Rose         Wright


                   Hanson          Payne

If fit enough got to give Payne a start so he can get 60mins under his belt, even lacking match fitness he has to offer more than Green