Cartwright, Efete, Rodgers, Maher, Amos, Clifton, Andrews, Conteh, Wilson, Rose, Eisa


Eastwood, Waterfall, Pyke, Hunt, Glennon , Green, Khan, Gnahoua

4-3-3???

Same set up as last week, save Gav whom I assume is injured.

Glennon in from the cold

Hopefully Hunt gets and takes his chance

Quoted from Geordie Mariner 66

4-3-3???

Or 4 4 2 with Clifton on right?

Good luck mariners I will be rooting for you 🏆

Quoted from toontown

Glennon in from the cold

Only because there’s nine on the bench 🤔

Quoted from AdamHaddock

Hopefully Hunt gets and takes his chance

Looks like the same team we were fielding a week ago. #HurstonSpeeddial

Sure Hurst said Glennon was out injured in one of his last interviews, so maybe just a case of coming back from injury, rather than coming in from the cold?

Not that it matters. Fresh start today.

8 on the bench, as shown above.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

8 on the bench, as shown above.

You'd have thought that the young striker (Cameron?) Might have got a place in the bench just for the experience for him

Quoted from toontown

You'd have thought that the young striker (Cameron?) Might have got a place in the bench just for the experience for him

The youth team played Mansfield yesterday and drew 2-2 so presumably (and correctly imo) the caretaker managers probably viewed him playing that was more beneficial than travelling down to Slough to maybe if he's lucky get a very short cameo appearance at best.

Anyone seen Danny Cowley at the game  ;)

I think the Chairman’s remarks on RH earlier can put to bed the notion that Cowley is done and dusted and to be announced next week.

Pitch looks like it's going to take a bit of getting used to - some of the bounces off it are taking them by surprise.

We look quicker, we look like we're moving the ball quicker, moving quicker, making decisions quicker.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Pitch looks like it's going to take a bit of getting used to - some of the bounces off it are taking them by surprise.

Slough have the advantage on this pitch.

12 minutes in and we've played more successful passes already than we do for 90mins in previous games. Admittedly most 5-10 yard passes but it's good to see.

Quoted from lukeo

12 minutes in and we've played more successful passes already than we do for 90mins in previous games. Admittedly most 5-10 yard passes but it's good to see.

Against a part time team.

We still look bang average.

Quoted from lukeo

12 minutes in and we've played more successful passes already than we do for 90mins in previous games. Admittedly most 5-10 yard passes but it's good to see.

We’ve looked poor too me . Midfield looks non existent in quality again

Good save by Cartwright

Wow almost like clock work 20ish minutes in and we've gone from on top to 2nd place

Who blocked that goal bound Slough shot the move before Cartwright?

Rodgers?

It was more acrobatic than some of Lukeo’s best sëx moves

Quoted from 123614

Against a part time team.

We're playing away against a team two leagues below us. Portsmouth have just played away at Chesterfield, a team two leagues below them, and lost 1-0. Last season we knocked 5 teams from one, two and three leagues above us out of this competition. There's absolutely no way we should be taking this match for granted and viewing the opposition as beneath us simply because they're semi-pro.

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

Who blocked that goal bound Slough shot the move before Cartwright?

Rodgers?

It was more acrobatic than some of Lukeo’s best sëx moves

She told me she wasn't selling the videos!!

Ps what a save by the way.

Keeper doing well. We need to build on his confidence :) :)

Quoted from It Bites

We’ve looked poor too me . Midfield looks non existent in quality again

Was hoping Hurst leaving would have mixed the midfield up. Instead we're persisting with a midfield trio (Clifton, Andrews and Conteh) we already know doesn't work because aside from Conteh, who is still sitting deep, there's no quality on the ball from Clifton or Andrews, they're both just effort players who can't pick a pass.

Quoted from Chrisblor

We're playing away against a team two leagues below us. Portsmouth have just played away at Chesterfield, a team two leagues below them, and lost 1-0. Last season we knocked 5 teams from one, two and three leagues above us out of this competition. There's absolutely no way we should be taking this match for granted and viewing the opposition as beneath us simply because they're semi-pro.

The reason this looks like a repeat is because it's a Hurst style team picked by two Hurst employees. All our technical players are warming the bench.

flipping hell

Oh FFS. Cartwright wasn't saving that good freekick.

1-0 down, nothings changed

1-0 Slough. Still excrement then

Losing, and we look sh1t

Junk from Cartwright. That was chest height and should have been saved.

Well that has been coming....we have been awful.....

Ffs

1  0 down enough said

Awful keeping

Pick the same team and get the same results. Not rocket science, is it?

Was thinking Cartwright was way too far over to the left, and yep, he was.

We look fooking shocking again.

Our midfield looks turd.What’s happened to Conteh? And Clifton. They’ve both dropped their standards criminally.

May as well have had a bunch of pygmies in the wall

Quoted from Chrisblor

Junk from Cartwright. That was chest height and should have been saved.

FFS

I’d rather a keeper got beaten the side the wall is than the other. His feet movement looked a bit Eastwood-esque though. Need to send our keepers to salsa class.  

I’ve seen more spring in one of Lukeo’s old, well-used mattresses.

Quoted from chaos33

Our midfield looks turd.What’s happened to Conteh? And Clifton. They’ve both dropped their standards criminally.

Hurst did his usual and coached the football out of Conteh. We don't help the lad by playing him deep instead of higher up the pitch

Quoted from chaos33

Our midfield looks turd.What’s happened to Conteh? And Clifton. They’ve both dropped their standards criminally.

Teams have figured out Conteh is the only player in our midfield who actually does anything so opposition managers have caught wind of this and he's now regularly pressured by multiple opponents. Why would you worry about Andrews or Clifton - neither of them are any good in central midfield and I have absolutely no idea why we still try to persist with the idea that Clifton can play centrally. He's only any good as a wide midfielder.

Toothless, Clueless, Aimless, Pointless.

The new management, whoever that might be, have a huge job ahead of them with this shower of sh!t !!!!!!!

Missed the first 20; minutes but what I have seen so far has been absolute garbage.

This is the sort of team scunny are stuffing in their league . Slough are 4th bottom ffs

Pearson and Davies OUT

For those of you moaning about me criticising Cartwright, he literally takes a step in the wrong direction and doesn't even start his dive until the ball's over the wall:



A decent goalkeeper saves that.

The wall didn’t jump bizarrely and why’s Ben Davies covering his mouth when he speaks , I doubt the lip readers are watching this sh1te

Oxford away for Slough after this

Green and Hunt on for Andrews and Clifton and everything changes..

Quoted from lukeo

Oxford away for Slough after this

Local derby for slough

Watched Chesterfield earlier and they are a world ahead of us now.

As bad as it gets

On this look and the last few weeks we are looking more and more drained of confidence and  need the new man in asap to galvanise a sinking ship .

Come on BD and SP, go 442. Get Clifton out wide. Get our top goalscorer off the wing and in the middle and let Conteh get up the pitch.

getting ripped to shreds in midfield, get Greeny on and get Andrews off, go 4-4-2.

Our main problem. Hoof. Hoof. Keep it on the f**king floor

Quoted from Chrisblor

For those of you moaning about me criticising Cartwright, he literally takes a step in the wrong direction and doesn't even start his dive until the ball's over the wall:

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A decent goalkeeper saves that.

What a load of balderdash

Hoof ball it is then

Quoted from Bigdog

Green and Hunt on for Andrews and Clifton and everything changes..

Agree … as for harry he shouldn’t be allowed near the central role ever again , he’s had plenty of chances

Nearly 2-0 then.

Getting absolutely torn to bits here, this is embarrassing.

Here’s a tip. Stop trying to play it out from the back. We’re not good enough.

Nearly a second for them, the ball hitting the post. We very poor.

What formation we playing? Genuinely haven't a clue.

Even at this level our players look slower than one of Lukeo’s mood starting love jams.

This is absolutely disgusting

Quoted from lukeo

What formation we playing? Genuinely haven't a clue.

4231 or 451

Quoted from Mappers

As bad as it gets

On this look and the last few weeks we are looking more and more drained of confidence and  need the new man in asap to galvanise a sinking ship .

We look like we are heading back to the National League.

Andrews will have to be replaced by Green as soon as possible.

Pathetic attempt to stop that cross. Nowhere near the winger and just hung his leg out. Not acceptable.

We are toilet.  No idea. Blaming Cartwright but shouldn't have conceded that free kick.  They were going nowhere. How many chances have we had?  A high head er from Rose.

Quoted from TAGG

What a load of balderdash

It’s not though . It was awful from the keeper . You could of put the ball anywhere 2 yards inside that post and he wasn’t getting there . Dreadful

Efete is like Bambi on ice today !

Where is the pride and quality today ??

Wake up and speed up - don't use the pitch or the sun as an excuse !!

Getting beaten man for man. We need someone who can beat a man.  Oh for the days of Souza.

Quoted from Mayaman

Getting beaten man for man. We need someone who can beat a man.  Oh for the days of Souza.

Khan and Gnahoua are actually capable of occasionally doing it but they're sat warming the bench.

Lack of movement is desperate. Looks like nobody wants the ball.

How the hell has it come to this ? Investment off the pitch and on it and this is what we get .

Chaos33 can i ask what your chairman said pre match re Cowleys?

Clueless. We are utterly clueless. We have nothing. Slough deserve to be further ahead.

FFS put them under pressure there. Ball watching illegitimates.

One question.

If all these 'people' representing GTFC on the pitch today are supposedly Professional footballers, why cant they perforn the absolute basics that they will have been taught to do in junior school.

The blatant lack of ability to simply pass a ball to feet seems to be completely alien to them

I think our only hope is that they run out of steam in the second half.

Quoted from Chrisblor

For those of you moaning about me criticising Cartwright, he literally takes a step in the wrong direction and doesn't even start his dive until the ball's over the wall:

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A decent goalkeeper saves that.

That’s a bit harsh.

Professionals against part timers and we look absolutely dogsh1t. I’d be ok about swapping any or all 3 of our midfielders, all of whom should hang their heads.

Every free kick is excrement

A truly awful half of football from us. Worryingly reminiscent of the years we went down.

Absolutely devoid of confidence, a plan, shape, quality and desire.

Well that was absolute male masturbation.

Quoted from cardiffmariner

A truly awful half of football from us. Worryingly reminiscent of the years we went down.

We truly look like a relagation team.

Forget today, town are in big trouble

Still, it could be worse. It could be Scunny that are thrashing us. And by the sound if it, they certainly could do right now.

We are absolutely f’kin garbage

Criminal that we look in real danger of being in a relegation battle AGAIN.

Whoever the new manager is has a massive job on his hands

that was shocking. Subs needed although hard to know who to keep on. Best team are winning, we are so slow in moving the ball

35 year old manager scores one end and clears off the line the other without a Grimsby player nowhere near him to challenge him.

Whoever is in the middle is offering nothing off the ball. We need 2 people offering support for the ball.
I'd be tempted to go 532. Bring off efete and eisa. Efete for glennon and Eisa for Hunt. Hunt and conteh behind clifton in midfield.

Just astonishing how poor these professional people have been this first half. Just appalling and should be deemed completely unacceptable. The standard in even basic techniques is palpably dreadful.

For those not watching I can’t put into words quite how extraordinarily shite that was

6th tier Slough show 4th tier EFL team Grimsby Town how to play football...
Nothing has changed, not one thing...
Pearson said they has their own ideas, where?..I'm seeing nothing different, can't defend, can't score..
Awful, truly awful.

DISGRACEFUL !!!!!

Quoted from It Bites

How the hell has it come to this ? Investment off the pitch and on it and this is what we get .

Investment off the pitch my backside. Players make managers and coaches, not the other way round.

They are not good enough so forget a manager bounce??) ??) long season ahead.

Still think we will win today but its there for all to see whats wrong.

They should be able to do the basics, but it is obvious we are not coached in any aspect of the game. You are supposed to use the week to tune and fine tune your approach to the game and the way of playing and tactics.  We look like we have just been pushed on to the pitch hoping for the best.

By the way... they cannot blame the pitch. 3g pitches are lovely to play football on. The only people that can complain are the Roy Keanes who love a good slide tackle / snap of a player.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Khan and Gnahoua are actually capable of occasionally doing it but they're sat warming the bench.

Khans been utter excrement this season so lets not pretend he’s the messiah. But intercourse me I’m embarrassed to be here watching that display

Start confidently, concede, heads go down and do nothing for the rest of the game. Every bloody week.

Make no mistake, we look every bit as bad as our relegation season performances, at times, worse.

The team were playing to a plan. Go out there and control the ball. Pass to someone in a red shirt.

It needs to get out of bottom gear and move faster.

Use the superior skill to go past a man.

Once near Slough box they have no idea what to do.

Not sure I’d blame Cartwright for the goal. The player manager struck it well and moved the ball. Defensive wall at fault. The goalscorer hardly ever scores, but h has been saving that one up for us….


Still 45/to go, I predicted 1-1 draw and might still be right…..

The Ben and Shaun 'interview' has 45 minute to run I recon.

Slough will be in the dressing room completely unafraid of anything we have to offer and totally confident they can get one or two more. We haven't caused them one problem at all.

Fed up of watching this bunch of bottlers and excuses for footballers.

Ffs no shots on target hope our messiah is in the crowd

Clifton needs dropping out the squad asap . Get green in their and hunt

Conteh, Clifton, Eisa, Wilson, Andrews……terrible. Just terrible.
As for there being sufficient quality in the squad and us having better players than last season - palpably utter boll0cks.

Quoted from ginnywings

Slough will be in the dressing room completely unafraid of anything we have to offer and totally confident they can get one or two more. We haven't caused them one problem at all.

Fed up of watching this bunch of bottlers and excuses for footballers.

  

Better late than never 8) off now then. :)

My brother in law who lives in stoke and supports Stoke went to crewe away last March with us and then went to Stockport a couple of weeks ago. He couldn't believe the difference in us in the space of a few months . He said your going to be lucky to stay up. Worrying thing was the Stockport performance was alot better than the previous games. He also said what a difference it made not having mcatee, emanual and Smith. I know he only has seen us twice but watching this I truly agree avoiding relagation will be a success.

Ben and Shaun have been on to Wernham Hogg at half time but have been told they don't have the production capacity to paper over the cracks in this extremely shite Town squad.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

The team were playing to a plan. Go out there and control the ball. Pass to someone in a red shirt.

It needs to get out of bottom gear and move faster.

Use the superior skill to go past a man.

Once near Slough box they have no idea what to do.

Not sure I’d blame Cartwright for the goal. The player manager struck it well and moved the ball. Defensive wall at fault. The goalscorer hardly ever scores, but h has been saving that one up for us….


Still 45/to go, I predicted 1-1 draw and might still be right…..

Not sure superior skill is true. That level is basically the top level of semi pro and many of those players are capable of being professional but don't want to give up their other careers.

Not that tier 4 losing to tier 6 is ok.

This slow build up playing out from the back is not working. Again we lose possession in our defensive third , concede a throw and soft free kick and they have a free shot at goal.

Quoted from Hagrid

Khans been utter excrement this season so lets not pretend he’s the messiah. But intercourse me I’m embarrassed to be here watching that display

He showed last season he was a good player and has played 231 minutes so far this season (starting just 2 matches, one of which we won and the other we were drawing when he was subbed off and went on to then lose) while dealing with injuries and trying to get back to match fitness. Nonsense to suggest he's now utter excrement because he's not had a proper run in the team this season yet.

I think we can win it in the second half, hopefully our fitness should give us the edge.   But a win does not justify this first half performance.  UTM.

I said last week that we were in a relegation battle, that 22nd was acceptable and anyone thinking a play off charge needed their heads examined. We’ve got national league North level goalkeepers and nobody who can actually put the ball in the net. But 12 midfielders who all do the same thing. Recruitment has been a shambles. We’re 50/50 to stay up at best.

It’s not easy playing on artificial grass.

Most of your game changes. Your first touch, your passing, your movement.

What doesn’t or shouldn’t change is not giving a töss about your colleagues, fans or managers. You should still be capable of marking opponents whether you’re playing on grass, astroturf or those fückin plastic ball pits they had at Wacky Warehouse.

Just seen the Aldershot highlights.  Some of their goals were quality.  They had runners finding space, defence splitting passes and half chances converted.  Town need someone to take responsibility.   At the very least we need someone on for set pieces. And a Mani character who just flipping throws himself at it.

Quoted from 123614

I think we can win it in the second half, hopefully our fitness should give us the edge.   But a win does not justify this first half performance.  UTM.

I think so to, but this will kick the owners up the backside.

Pyke on for Eisa, errrrrrrr.......

Green on for Conteh, guess he's injured.

Absolutely incredible Clifton remains on the pitch.

Quoted from 123614

I think we can win it in the second half, hopefully our fitness should give us the edge.   But a win does not justify this first half performance.  UTM.

Dunno - Efete in particular has looked like he’s needed his batteries changing from about ten mins in!

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

It’s not easy playing on artificial grass.

Most of your game changes. Your first touch, your passing, your movement.

What doesn’t or shouldn’t change is not giving a töss about your colleagues, fans or managers. You should still be capable of marking opponents whether you’re playing on grass, astroturf or those fückin plastic ball pits they had at Wacky Warehouse.

But we started well so fathom that one.

Oi grimsby we're in red

Effete has been booked now so good excuse to substitute him.
He's been shitter than the rest of the excrement.

Harsh yellow that.  Is Efete not supposed to go to it?  Still, his control was shocking.  What do we do in training? Is it all conditioning work?  

Demoralising when you rightfully replace Eisa - who’s done nothing since September and replace him with Pyke, who is just gash in my view.
How Clifton hasn’t been subbed I don’t know.

Clifton and Andrews need to come off , Greeny and Hunt on for me .

The ref’s intercepted more of their passes than some of our players.

Slough in full control

wow , a shot.

You can't even say this is a spirited performance by Slough.  They look like they're playing a friendly.

Alex hunt has got that bored he’s now linesman

Hoof! God I think the 2nd half has got worse

I think there is just one word to describe this shower of shite.

UN-flipping-BELIEVABLE

Lets hope come January, that whoever is crazy enough to take over the Managers job signs 22 players in January who can actually play football and WANT to play floorball rather than hoofball

Hope the new manager brings their own coaching staff in. Very clear after an hour of this dreadful aimless football that Pearson and Davies haven't got a clue what they're doing.

The only way we can score is to bring Waterfall on as centre forward and aim every ball towards his head

Quoted from Chrisblor

Hope the new manager brings their own coaching staff in. Very clear after an hour of this dreadful aimless football that Pearson and Davies haven't got a clue what they're doing.

Agree. They are doing exactly the same as the previous incumbents, because thats all they know.

Glennon on for Amos

Looks like Glennon is coming on.

Pearson and Davies seem to have learned the inanimate, arms folded, passionless approach of the previous incumbent. If this was a good week in training, I’d hate to see us after a difficult week.

Slough fans are a bit quiet.

Who ever took that free kick should be made to walk home . Fuckin awful

Are we closer to B corp status yet?

It’s been end to end this half but still pretty unwatchable.

A bit like The Human Centipede but with 44 legs

Surely there must be someone in the squad who can deliver a dead ball, delivery has been shocking all season.

Quoted from It Bites

Who ever took that free kick should be made to walk home . Fuckin awful

It was possibly the worst free kick this season

Quoted from Dave Gilberts Left Peg

Are we closer to B corp status yet?

What a rubbish comment.

Absolute disgrace. Get rid of those two and put Dave Moore in charge.

Sloppy first touch, sloppy second touch, where's the passion!

Good flick and Rose bottles it .  Attack that ball n the box.

Absolutely hideous performance this. Is the pitch a factor? Well, Slough have played 7 league home games this season and have only won 1 (losing 4).

These results always crop up in the FA Cup; we did it ourselves loads of times last season. But taken in the wider context, this is unforgivably bad.

Efete gives the ball away every time he touches it. Why are we playing him essentially as a right winger when we've got actual wingers on the bench? Infuriating.

Quoted from It Bites

Who ever took that free kick should be made to walk home . Fuckin awful

No matter who takes the free kicks we are excrement at them.

1-1 Rose

We are going up

Better movement and passing

I’ll take that

Thank god for Danny Rose

Good goal from Rose to save our embarrassment.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Efete gives the ball away every time he touches it. Why are we playing him essentially as a right winger when we've got actual wingers on the bench? Infuriating.

Gave it away to Rose that time

Fair play to Efete. He’s carried what’s been of the fight this half.

Just hit that penalty spot every time. Don’t think about, just do it. It’s Rose’s job to be there

Quoted from bedders78

Gave it away to Rose that time

First decent thing he's done all match, well done to him.

Awful clearance from Cartwright!!

Quoted from Chrisblor

Efete gives the ball away every time he touches it. Why are we playing him essentially as a right winger when we've got actual wingers on the bench? Infuriating.

You were saying?

Ben Davies looks like he should be at a freestyle rap battle in a Bushwick dive bar.

Quoted from MaccasBoots

You were saying?

We're drawing 1-1 against a semi-professional team and aside from the assist Efete has been dreadful, don't get carried away.

lmao 20 seconds after typing this he just kicks it off the pitch under zero pressure ffs

Is it possible to play our next match without a keeper? I think we would stand a better chance of getting a result.

Is it still illegal to put crap goalkeepers out of their misery?

Efete is a liability, such a poor player

Hunt on for Clifton

Looks like Hunts coming on. Who's going to replace him as Lino?

Town on the attack and on a good position and Efete puts it out for a throw.
Ffs get him off

Quoted from Chrisblor

We're drawing 1-1 against a semi-professional team and aside from the assist Efete has been dreadful, don't get carried away.

lmao 20 seconds after typing this he just kicks it off the pitch under zero pressure ffs

Least he’s shown a bit of fight which is more than can be said for the rest of the useless girl privates

Quoted from Hagrid

Great Ball from Michee.

He’s had plenty of chances to get it right.

Get Ben Davies on

Quoted from MuddyWaters

He’s had plenty of chances to get it right.

Hes been by far the shitty of the the excrement

Quoted from MuddyWaters

He’s had plenty of chances to get it right.

Indeed. But shows what a shitshow we are when he’s our best attacking outlet

Ogbonna vs Glennon already has a whiff of Curtly Ambrose vs Phil Tufnell about it.

Andrews has got some neat touches about him but plays like he doesn’t know there are opposing players on the pitch.

Regarding their goal our wall was completely useless. There was a gap and they didn’t jump. Ridiculous.

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Its taken 85 minutes for someone to get the huge turd off the pitch

You utter idiot

Looks like we’ve settled for a draw but Slough haven’t!!

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Its taken 85 minutes for someone to get the huge turd off the pitch

Yeah, that’s really not a great comment on so many levels.

8 mins Injury time

Freefall. Been here so many times. An underwhelming managerial appointment should just about seal it. Especially when no one wants to come here in January.

The extra overnights ain’t working are they. Terrible we haven’t won an away game since April.

Still think we will win :)

terrible officiating, clear red, deliberate elbow from the slough defender on Rose

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Its taken 85 minutes for someone to get the huge turd off the pitch

Hey well done . Twa.t of the season award already

Glennon not had a bad game.

Stop blaming the keeper every time the ball goes in the net. The wall parted and the ball went through it. Keeper wouldn't have seen it until it was throught the wall. The players in the wall are to blame, they are there to stop the bloody  thing not step aside and watch it go past

Quoted from Mayaman

Glennon not had a bad game.

Hunt's been good since he came on too (wonderful set-piece delivery from him just a minute ago where the ref penalised Green for doing absolutely nothing). Crazy what happens when you put some players with technical ability on the pitch.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Hunt's been good since he came on too (wonderful set-piece delivery from him just a minute ago where the ref penalised Green for doing absolutely nothing). Crazy what happens when you put some players with technical ability on the pitch.

He has given away as many as he found a player.

Rubbish performance let’s hope we get a manager in quickly

Very poor

Unfortunately, Maher doesn't have abrain cell.  Stupid fouls.

I didn't hear Wilson's name this half

Safe journey home to all our fans. You deserved a far better performance than what you got.

Abysmal, new manager ASAP. team just looks very poor. Got away with that and I could not see us equalising.

Nice little replay for town, boosting the coffers for the new managers war chest. 😞

Quoted from 123614

He has given away as many as he found a player.

absolute nonsense, and even if it was true actually finding a teammate half the time is still a marked improvement on what Clifton and Andrews offer in central midfield

That equaliser doesn't hide the fact that Hurst has left us with a shower of shite.

Quoted from Mayaman

I didn't hear Wilson's name this half

He's a goalscoring poacher who for some reason we've decided needs to play out wide rather than through the middle where he actually offers a threat. If we had some technically adept players (*cough* Hunt & Glennon *cough*) sat there feeding balls into the box from the start he may have had more impact.

Green made a difference.. got away with poor 1st half

Let's face it we are not very good did their keeper even make 1 save

Had to double check Wilson was still on and I didn't miss him being subbed.

Played out of position would have been better havkng Otis on!

Glennon and Hunt both had decent games.

Got a tiny bit better in a couple of aspects. The goal showed how, if you can manage to do simple, positive things well, you cause problems. Overall though - absolutely fu**ing awful IMO.

Movement
Crossing
Hoofing
Decision making
Giving away stupid free kicks
Not putting pressure on the ball
Hitting hopeful diagonal cross field punts
Zero creativity
Poor passing
Making nothing of a fitness advantage
Minimal impact from the subs
No passion or urgency on show on the pitch/sidelines

I could go on…

Terrible. Just f***ing terrible. We look at least half a dozen players short of holding our own in the league. At least.
I wouldn’t be persevering with this caretaker set up any longer than is absolutely necessary.

Quoted from Chrisblor

He's a goalscoring poacher who for some reason we've decided needs to play out wide rather than through the middle where he actually offers a threat. If we had some technically adept players (*cough* Hunt & Glennon *cough*) sat there feeding balls into the box from the start he may have had more impact.

You cannot play Glennon- Not if he’s at Left Back. Teams know he cannot defend and target him.

Quoted from Mayaman

I didn't hear Wilson's name this half

What do we expect when we play one of oyr best strikers out on the wing, instead of in the middle where he belongs

Replay must be a fiver a ticket or there will be 2k there

Quoted from TwoLeftFeet

Green made a difference.. got away with poor 1st half

Surprised he didn’t start. The sort of game I would expect him to do well in - he is an exceptionally good NL player…

One thing for certain, Ben and Shaun definitely not the answer. We need somebody new with fresh ideas  to shake the place up. What's worrying is that something has gone seriously wrong in the last few months but nobody is saying what. Will the new guy/s be able to pick up the pieces and reassemble a team to fight with passion and hopefully with some sadly lacking skill? 🤔

Quoted from Hagrid

You cannot play Glennon- Not if he’s at Left Back. Teams know he cannot defend and target him.

The sample size for this is a handful of games at the start of this season where he was admittedly absolute junk. Last season shows that he can defend at a decent enough level to play in league two (and potentially higher based on some of his FA cup performances against better placed sides), he just needs coaching back up to that level and played on the same side as a winger who'll do their job tracking back (i.e. not Eisa).

Confidence is huge in football.. we've got zero at this point in time..

Hmm.

I know it wasn't hard to be better in the second half, but we were much better. We didn't have any scares at the back, kept them largely at arms length, and scored a decent goal to get an equaliser and another shot at winning.

A cliche I know, but that was a massive banana skin game on an artificial pitch after a pretty tumultuous week.

I expected Slough to carry on as they did in the first half, but we negated them mostly and actually strung one or two moves together.

We are still in the cup, and that is all that matters right now.

Quoted from BrMarin

Absolute disgrace. Get rid of those two and put Dave Moore in charge.

Don't have a manager and let the players natural skills come through. Surely they must have some.

One team played like professionals and one team like amateurs. The team that played like amateurs are professional footballers in League 2. Enough said.

I'm no less concerned after this second half

I'm more worried about Conteh than Michee ,(we know his limitations)  Conteh looks a completely different player than early season -- he's not looking after the ball ,confidence shot ?

Cartwright did well , think he deserves a run now and I believe  we should put that shakey start to one side . Seems a good keeper to me .

Big game on Saturday now , we really need to back the lads -- I'm starting to think we are relegation candidates and the only way to avoid it is by backing them and getting lots of points at home .

Concerned , very concerned -- let's hope for news on the new gaffer soon

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Its taken 85 minutes for someone to get the huge turd off the pitch

What an appalling comment.

Quoted from Dave Gilberts Left Peg

Replay must be a fiver a ticket or there will be 2k there

You can't really expect them to give everybody a fiver to watch this shite performing. Ought to be a tenner at least.

Quoted from Dave Gilberts Left Peg

Replay must be a fiver a ticket or there will be 2k there

I think fans need to be paid more than a fiver.

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Its taken 85 minutes for someone to get the huge turd off the pitch

You've made yourself look a proper male private there

Quoted from DB

One team played like professionals and one team like amateurs. The team that played like amateurs are professional footballers in League 2. Enough said.

The amateurs expected to lose but tried to win. The professionals expected to lose and didn't give a fck if they did.

Quoted from toontown

You've made yourself look a proper male private there

So are you, and all the others who quoted me, saying that Efete had a good game then? He was shite from start to finish

Quoted from Chrisblor

terrible officiating, clear red, deliberate elbow from the slough defender on Rose

Correct straight red…..would not have changed the result

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

So are you, and all the others who quoted me, saying that Efete had a good game then? He was shite from start to finish

Think he put in the cross for Rose to score the equaliser. He did seem to struggle with finding his feet. Probably wrong footwear.

But we are still in the cup…..

Quoted from golfer

The amateurs expected to lose but tried to win. The professionals expected to lose and didn't give a fck if they did.

Rubbish, and they were not amateurs, just semi professional

Quoted from Chrisblor

The sample size for this is a handful of games at the start of this season where he was admittedly absolute junk. Last season shows that he can defend at a decent enough level to play in league two (and potentially higher based on some of his FA cup performances against better placed sides), he just needs coaching back up to that level and played on the same side as a winger who'll do their job tracking back (i.e. not Eisa).

Thought Glennon looked lively when he came on. Don’t know what the problem has been with him but last 20 minutes or so he was ok

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

So are you, and all the others who quoted me, saying that Efete had a good game then? He was shite from start to finish

Did I say that? No I didn't.

And anyway you didn't say he was playing shite, you said he, the individual, was a massive shite.

If you can't see the difference I can't help you

Quoted from It Bites

It’s not though . It was awful from the keeper . You could haput the ball anywhere 2 yards inside that post and he wasn’t getting there . Dreadful

A hole

I'm baffled people are blaming Cartwright in any way for their goal ,  on here/other SM

He organised the wall - it's debatable whether they jumped well enough

Job done

He covered 'his side'

Job done

It would have been a worldy save with extremely good foot movement to get that far over . Not many keepers would have got there .

If he stood in the middle of the goal , Davies would just have used the space to probably score in the corner Cartwright was in -- and he would have got slated for that ; Davies was/is a very good free kick taker .

Harvey Cartwright has done really well the last 2 games it's probably the only positive .

This may be really left field, but why give the free kick taker a massive hole to aim at, especially now as it seems every Tom, male private and Harry can hit a top corner fairly regularly.  Give yourself a better chance to save the kick by standing in the centre of the goal.

Quoted from 123614

This may be really left field, but why give the free kick taker a massive hole to aim at, especially now as it seems every Tom, male private and Harry can hit a top corner fairly regularly.  Give yourself a better chance to save the kick by standing in the centre of the goal.

I always thought when I played (i was a keeper at a decentish level  ) to not bother with a wall if it was over 30 yards (ish) out and just to stand relatively central , like you say so I don't completely disagree as you have the time the ball is travelling vs the benefits/negative of having a wall (the obvious visual impairment of the wall /bodies ) interestingly most the times I did it the oppo didn't score , sometimes they would put a wall in themselves, not sure if teams still do that ?

But that wall here didn't really jump for us did it , was pretty poor for me -- would Cartwright have saved it without a wall , stood in the middle ?

Maybe ,but it was what 25 yards out ? If he didn't have one and Davies top bagged it , he would have got absolutely battered for not having a wall wouldn't he .

Quoted from Mappers

I always thought when I played (i was a keeper at a decentish level  ) to not bother with a wall if it was over 30 yards (ish) out and just to stand relatively central , like you say so I don't completely disagree as you have the time the ball is travelling vs the benefits/negative of having a wall (the obvious visual impairment of the wall /bodies ) interestingly most the times I did it the oppo didn't score , sometimes they would put a wall in themselves, not sure if teams still do that ?

But that wall here didn't really jump for us did it , was pretty poor for me -- would Cartwright have saved it without a wall , stood in the middle ?

Maybe ,but it was what 25 yards out ? If he didn't have one and Davies top bagged it , he would have got absolutely battered for not having a wall wouldn't he .

You are probably right, however my point is that if he had been stood in the middle of the goal, he would have had a lesser distance to cover to make the save.  It's just an observation that to me, makes a little sense.

Quoted from 123614

You are probably right, however my point is that if he had been stood in the middle of the goal, he would have had a lesser distance to cover to make the save.  It's just an observation that to me, makes a little sense.

Fair mate .

I do think Cartwright has done really well the last 2 games in general though -- he looks the polar opposite in style to Eastwood who has a somewhat unorthodox technique .

Hoping he can keep it up on Saturday , a good characteristic to come back from a dodgy start - he's almost a complete contrast to the rest of our team .

Quoted from Mappers

Fair mate .

I do think Cartwright has done really well the last 2 games in general though -- he looks the polar opposite in style to Eastwood who has a somewhat unorthodox technique .

Hoping he can keep it up on Saturday , a good characteristic to come back from a dodgy start - he's almost a complete contrast to the rest of our team .

Not criticising Cartwright at all, it's just an general observation on the use of walls.  Another thought was if the wall is central, it will probably have 4 or 5 players in it, reducing the number of players we have available to mark the opposition players.