Subs  Eastwood, Rodgers, Conteh, Braithewaite, Gardner, Khan, Vernam

Several out injured then.

Salford starting 11

Or left out. Pyke, Wilson, Amos, Hunt, Khan, Gnahoua….

Id love to see Gardner come on and get a goal. He makes it look too easy for the youth team

Quoted from chaos33

Or left out. Pyke, Wilson, Amos, Hunt, Khan, Gnahoua….

Khan is on the bench

Quoted from chaos33

Or left out. Pyke, Wilson, Amos, Hunt, Khan, Gnahoua….

It could a shake up time for some of them, but to be fair Pyke, Wilson and Amos I believe are injured ( allegedly).

Not a team that gets the juices flowing. Nice to see Gardner on the bench but I am not optimistic seeing our starting eleven, that said I remember walking to the ground last year after hearing the starting eleven v Plymouth in the cup and saying who the hell is going to score for us.

Lets hope my pessimism is as equally misplaced tonight.

Conteh also left out, or injured.  Although he is a sub.  Clifton preferred as a starter.

Nobody has mentioned the revelation - Vernham!!!

Clifton will be out wide which I think is his best position. Just not effective enough centrally. Love to see Charles back on the bench and Gardner given a chance. Think he's ready for mens football already and been a bit suprised it's taken this long with our injuries.

Maybe a signal for those leaving whilst giving hope to the younger ones.
I’m a big Clifton fan, but surprised he is in the starting lineup

We must get at least a point tonight…..

Not starting Conteh is brave. Not sure he did a lot wrong to be dropped to the bench compared to others but maybe Green preferred to deal with their style of play.

Quoted from chaos33

Or left out. Pyke, Wilson, Amos, Hunt, Khan, Gnahoua….

Pyke, Hunt and Gnahoua went off injured on Tuesday. No Khouri either.

Looks a side of grafters, with not much in the way of flair. Down to the bare bones. Quite alarming given our current position.

Having a youth striker on the bench shows where one of our weak spots is.

seems to be like we are down to the bare bones.
Not a starting XI that gets the hairs on the back of your neck terribly excited. I'm hoping for a draw at best

Hmm, mostly the team that finished the game at Mansfield after the “not good enough” half
plus Waterfall and Efete goes from starter to not in the squad. And two of our best players from the “should have been 4-1 up” half are injured then Pyke and Gnahoua. Assume Hunt injured as well as he went off. Is Ainley injured? Can’t say I’m optimistic…
Great to see Cam there though. I think avoid relegation and seeing the Youth progress further in the cup and some of them break through to first team will do me for the second half of the season. Certainly not expecting much better than that…

Awful, Looks like our pitch did this time last year. :-/

come on !

Quoted from WayneBurnettsJockstrap

Khan is on the bench

Yup. No Ainley either.

The ref is usually a NL ref apparently 🙄

Mighty close to them scoring there

Nice to hear our brilliant away support acknowledged. Hats off to all those in the stadium tonight.

An awful first 10 minutes.both teams showing why they amongst the bottom feeders

Clifton has started well

Quoted from Kris2

Not starting Conteh is brave. Not sure he did a lot wrong to be dropped to the bench compared to others but maybe Green preferred to deal with their style of play.

Probably because he made no attempt to stop Mansfield's 2nd goal.

It doesn't look like it's going to be a classic

Quoted from forza ivano

An awful first 10 minutes.both teams showing why they amongst the bottom feeders

Clifton has started well

Thought Town doing well so far.

Mullarkey with his usual rubbish cross from a promising position

Happy with how we’ve started

Eisa is having a poor game

20 mins gone and were looking ok so far.

Quoted from TAGG

Thought Town doing well so far.

Much better last 15. All midfield have started well, looking more solid n enthusiastic than on boxing day

Nearly, off the post, looked good

These are awful, happy with how we're playing. Clifton looks much better out wide already, Eisa has been terrible. Passing is all over the place but then shows what he can do by beating his man and creating our best chance. Only way they're scoring is a worldie or Bolton gets in behind Glennon on the break.

Don't say that!

Not going to get a better chance to win an away game then this

My god Salford are crap

Town fans sound in good voice, keep it up.

Salford do look to be the worst side we've played. Town doing alright, a bit of luck and we'd be winning

Iplayer working OK for everyone?

Quoted from lukeo

Iplayer working OK for everyone?

I think the sound is actually like a second or so behind but not too noticeable

Quoted from Plankton

Eisa is having a poor game

He scores incredible goals……yet does nothing else.

Quoted from lukeo

Iplayer working OK for everyone?

Much better than the last game.
Haven't detected any sound delay

I've got their commentary and can't get it off. He's so dull and boring

Get in! Clifton

Looked so much better out wide, and that's the rewards. Clifton 1-0

YES CLIFTON 1 0 up

Great goal !!

He’s one of our own .....

Well worked goal that, 1.0 to Town (Clifton)

Great cross by Eisa.

Great goal

Quoted from lukeo

I've got their commentary and can't get it off. He's so dull and boring

I've got this as well, tried to get RH com but nothing working, again.

Excellent work down the left. To be honest, they look shocking.

There right back is awful, makes Efete look like Cafu

Quoted from Heisenberg

He scores incredible goals……yet does nothing else.

Apart from putting a good ball into the box for us to score 🤦🏻‍♂️

I thought Clifton was shite  8)

Quoted from 123614

Great cross by Eisa.

That’s my theory knackered then! And good, I’m pleased of it.

‘ how Sh1t must you be, we’re winning away’

Love it

These are flipping dire. Another goal and we can kill the game

Quoted from promotion plaice

I thought Clifton was shite  8)

After the season he had last season, i'm very shocked he was moved inside. Can only think it was at his request? but he's looked so much back out there.

One of our own

Clifton has been awful all season so far, but that was great positioning and control for the goal. UTM

Quoted from DB

I've got this as well, tried to get RH com but nothing working, again.

I’m listening on DAB radio humberside.

Have to say, Waterfalls use of the ball is much better than Rodgers.

Getting good commentary from Matt Dean and Craig Disley on the stream.

Alot better half   lets keep it going

Very good first half overall from town. Clifton looking renewed.

Quoted from LocalLadGTFC

Have to say, Waterfalls use of the ball is much better than Rodgers.

Needs context though no press from Salford just cart horse Harry Smith ambling around.

HT  Salford 0-1 Grimsby

Come on Town

Great 48 mins Town, lets hope we push on now and get a couple more early 2nd half, at the moment Salford look there for the taking

Artell has reverted to the players he can trust and we look solid . Salford look absolutely dire

Great stuff, got better as they went on. Best I've seen harry n holohan for a while, whilst Andrew's is the best I've seen him. Waterfall not letting the side down either.
Just a thought, given maher n rodgers have hardly been beckenbauer like in their distribution, is Luke really that much worse?

Will you fishy people, lay off Harry now.

Town working really hard on and off the ball. Played some really nice stuff

But how bad are Salford? Just dreadful.

Decent half that. Hold on Town!

Quoted from DB

I've got this as well, tried to get RH com but nothing working, again.

No problems here, we've got Matt Dean on RH.

We have outplayed them and need to capitalise on their lack of confidence , they really are shite and we can’t let them back in the game. Eisa scares me sometimes but other than that everyone having a good game.

Quoted from cannylad65

Will you fishy people, lay off Harry now.

He has been playing crap for a few weeks but having his best game for a while.

We deserve that lead but we must go on to win this as they have been frigging dreadful.

Quoted from cannylad65

Will you fishy people, lay off Harry now.

He’s had a decent 45 minutes in a season when he’s been pretty shocking for the most of it so no reason yet to change my opinion on his abilities. Be nobody happier though if he goes on and gets a hat trick but he needs to be far more consistent going forwards.

Can't ask more from them in that half, everybody looking much more up for it than in the previous game, lots of running at their defence and taking chances on. Defensively we look solid although Salford not given us too much to worry about, very physical side as always though so it's good to see players like Green giving it back and making their players back off, ref willing to let the game be played and not blow for every little nudge.

The tubby midget Bolton seems to be their biggest threat so far as he's got in round the back a couple of times. Manchester City academy failure so he's pretty good at this level even playing in a rubbish team. If only we could pay a fee I'd say try to get him in Jan as he's out of contract in the summer. A player like that would solve some of our issues.

Quoted from cannylad65

Will you fishy people, lay off Harry now.

Sorry Mrs.Clifton, we just call it like it is.

Think we've been in control majority of the game and had a few chances to grab a few goals. Salford look extremely poor and having a 6'6 lump up top as your main option shows you in which the way in which they wanted to set up this year. Thought they was poor when they was at BP earlier in the season and look the same today. Probably up there with the bigger spenders in the league aswell, wouldn't mind seeing these go down to see all the class of 92 lose interest and they become the nothing club in what they truly are.

That’s as poor a 45 minute performance as I’ve seen this season. Thankfully it was them not us.

They are very bad indeed. Wish we could play them every week 😊

They’re pretty poor but actually to be fair I think our work rate, shape, work off the ball has made them look poor.

Half way point another half like the please Town 🤞

Quoted from MuddyWaters

That’s as poor a 45 minute performance as I’ve seen this season. Thankfully it was them not us.

Agreed, but we need to put this game to bed as soon as we can in the second half.

They don’t press which is why we got schooled in the last two games, with time on the ball we look alright.  Clifton has that bit more space on the wing which works really well for him as he wants a little too long on the ball in midfield - he deserved his goal.
Andrew’s has got every second ball, good half from him too.  A good half!

Cartwright keeps our lead, he's exceptional at the moment

Please don’t let these mooks back into it. We won’t get a better chance of breaking our away duck.

We certainly need a second goal to take the steam out of them this half.

Not sure if it’s been mentioned but this pitch is a disgrace.

Not sure where they've got that right back from, he's dreadful. Would love to see Gardner in here.. think it's perfectly set up for him.

Get Conteh on for Andrews. He's been noexistant this half

What you also get with waterfall is his experience n leadership, which is a big plus compared to rodgers n maher

Come on Town, give us that second goal please.

Unreal footwork from Toby..

Town have turned into Brazil!

Got to kill this game off now

I’ve never seen a more one sided game , you know what’s gonna happen don’t you ? 😫

Maularky!!!

unreal from Toby, that's what he can do!!! 2-0

Mullarkey 2 -0 up and were looking good

Great finish by Mullarkey.

What a finish that is

Great finish and dribble from malarkey

Fuck1ng excellent from Mullarkey !!!

No less thatn what we deserve

Get in 0-2 Town.

Great individual effort again and got his reward this time. Salford were looking tired and in a panic so it was time to put the game to bed.

We’ll get 4 now

Lets go get 3 more!!

Incredibly well worked goal. We deserve that!

Quoted from grimps

I’ve never seen a more one sided game , you know what’s gonna happen don’t you ? 😫

We're gonna get our 1st away win this season.

and we thought we spent our money poorly? These are flipping terrible and I bet the budget is twice the size of ours  ;D ;D

That was brilliant from Mullarkey. We have been so dominant. Cant fault at all

Need to keep a clean sheet now for the icing on the cake

Conteh on for Green.

Greens done well today. Done his job of bullying their midfield

Quoted from denni266

Need to keep a clean sheet now for the icing on the cake

Imagine how helpful that would be psychologically. Clean sheet and an away win!

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Conteh on for Green.

Greens done well today. Done his job of bullying their midfield

Just going to say the same.

Khan on for Eisa

Quoted from sonofmadeleymariner

Conteh on for Green.

Greens done well today. Done his job of bullying their midfield

Totally agree, had a really good game

Gardner on please Dave, get him stretching this back 4 in behind as they come forward

Quoted from chaos33

Imagine how helpful that would be psychologically. Clean sheet and an away win!

I don't know about the squad but it will be bloody brilliant for us fans.

The time is now or never for Khan you feel

Unreal football, clinical. Danny Rose is magic

What a finish !! Rose 3-0

ROSE!!!! Makes it 3

What a goal for Rose, brilliant play from the back for him to score 3  0

0-3

Rose, lovely goal into the top corner

What a goal!!!

Get in!

Great finish

Holohan 🥰 Rose 🥰

That was a fantastic strike by Danny Rose (3.0)

What a performance this is from the boys!

Great goal!

Another great goal, I’ve been on Gav’s case but that was a beautiful ball which deserved that finish from Rose.

The one man who has been consistently good all season.

Three goal cushion - it would be great to see Cam Gardner and Charlie V get a run out now.

Do they sack caretaker managers  8)

Rose is brilliant

And now the cherry on the cake two Youth team players getting their league debuts

Another great goal.

We alwase create chances.. Just tonight we have converted them ,, and that is a good part of what has been missing

Gardner coming on, good for him and Braithwaite.

Play offs are back on then!!!!

And only the second time we've scored 3 goals in the league this season. It's a game of rarities.

What a great night. But Salford are in deep 💩 make no mistake.

YES What a fantastic way to end 2023. 1st away win and a clean sheet.

Forest and Sutton losing also, a nice 10point cushion.

Well done Town

Well deserved win, only one team in it after we scored the first goal and Salford never really threatened anyway, they have serious problems. Good confidence building win before some tougher games coming up.

Another great goal, I’ve been on Gav’s case but that was a beautiful ball which deserved that finish from Rose.

Salford have been very, very crap in both games against us this season but I thought we were very good all the same tonight. Clean sheet is HUGE.

So pleased for Harvey getting the clean sheet, he looks pumped.
Great performance by all the lads today UTM

We kept a good shape
Clifton is back
Rose is brilliant
Waterfall was v good

Salford were excrement though and I mean absolute 💩💩

Town made town look good tonight, well done boys!!

Well done to the travelling fans, loud & proud!!

Quoted from MuddyWaters

What a great night. But Salford are in deep 💩 make no mistake.

With about 1600 fans behind them then they should be heading back to their natural level.

A safe journey home to all our 910 happy fans, who put in a good shift as well as the team.

Give praise to those town fans there tonight.

But, 22 shots in total. 7 on target (I think) but a very positive display.

Well done you stripes.

Only Doncaster getting a point tonight from them below us

The bottom 3 lost tonight too , that’s put us ten points clear so maybe now we can go into the New Year looking up

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Not a team that gets the juices flowing. Nice to see Gardner on the bench but I am not optimistic seeing our starting eleven, that said I remember walking to the ground last year after hearing the starting eleven v Plymouth in the cup and saying who the hell is going to score for us.

Lets hope my pessimism is as equally misplaced tonight.

It was :)

Let's not get carried away, Salford were truly awful but that was a magnificent performance tonight from the lads. Fully deserved victory with tremendous performances throughout the whole team. Mom for me Luke Waterfall who showed the coolness and leadership that has been sorely missing at times. Special mention to Harvey Cartwright who made a fantastic save early doors in the second half which might have changed the game. A happy smiling mariner here for a change. Happy New Year!!! UTM! 😁

Look how much that meant to Harvey Cartwright. He’s one of our own too.

Quoted from denni266

Only Doncaster getting a point tonight from them below us

We were the only team in the bottom 7 to win tonight  :)

Quoted from 123614

It was :)

Delighted, good job football is not played on paper as didn’t look like a team that would get three but….. it did, brilliant win.

Quoted from lee65

We were the only team in the bottom 7 to win tonight  :)

Good night all round.. great way to end the year

We have finally found someone clearly worse than us.

Great team performance and everyone played with passion and that’s all we ask, well done town.

Credit due where credit is due,

Most of us hammered them after the Mansfield performances myself included, to go win away at home at any team in this league is fantastic but I thought we pretty much controlled all the game barring 10 minutes in the 2nd half where they had a few set pieces.

Alot of very good performances out there today. Waterfall looked excellent against the towering giant Smith, both full-backs very assured Toby took his goal brilliantly while Glennon looked back to his usual best his crossing is sublime. Midfield 3 was very very good today, industrious but had that bit about us today and made the crisp short passes. Wingers was the one area on the pitch where I thought we was average, Harry took his goal well and offers you the graft, Eisa was OK today and I'd love to see Charles get a proper chance once he's fit. Danny Rose just offers you everything in abundance always chasing lost causes and took his goal brilliantly.

Very very happy tonight.

Safe journey home to those travelling fans.

Quoted from lee65

We were the only team in the bottom 7 to win tonight  :)

Think Tranmere were in the bottom 7 before tonight. They are going great guns since they got a new manager.

FGR missed a pen in extra time and threw a point away.

10 points clear of relegation and 11 points below play off places . If only we could play Salford every week.

Quoted from GtfcGarner

Credit due where credit is due,

Most of us hammered them after the Mansfield performances myself included, to go win away at home at any team in this league is fantastic but I thought we pretty much controlled all the game barring 10 minutes in the 2nd half where they had a few set pieces.

Alot of very good performances out there today. Waterfall looked excellent against the towering giant Smith, both full-backs very assured Toby took his goal brilliantly while Glennon looked back to his usual best his crossing is sublime. Midfield 3 was very very good today, industrious but had that bit about us today and made the crisp short passes. Wingers was the one area on the pitch where I thought we was average, Harry took his goal well and offers you the graft, Eisa was OK today and I'd love to see Charles get a proper chance once he's fit. Danny Rose just offers you everything in abundance always chasing lost causes and took his goal brilliantly.

Very very happy tonight.

Safe journey home to those travelling fans.

Cant argue with that. Special👏👏👏 for waterfall,clifton, holohan,Andrew's, cartwright ,rose n glennon. N wow ,mullarkey,where did that skill n finishing ability come from? Only eisa slightly disappointing

What a game. Awesome team effort. Love that we kept going for another goal even at 0-3 up with positive subs rather than trying to park the bus. Well deserved clean sheet for Cartwright and goal for Clifton. Night and day from the last 2 matches. UTM.

Well done Artells and the lads

Well done to all 3-0 away is a great result and over 900 town fans making the journey after all the rubbish they have had to watch is just fantastic.

The fishy folk won’t be hungry this weekend…lots of humble pie to go round  8)

Easy for DA to criticise 2H performance at Mansfield; easy to criticise mentality for going half a season without an away win.  But has he done anything about it?  I give you exhibit A, his unenforced team changes and then exhibit B, the result n clean sheet.

Beautiful 😎

MoM Mullarkey ran himself into the ground tonight and scored a great goal.

Artell must be scratching his head with this lot of players  from pure fodder to how he played tonight .. Bbc says we had 22 shots

A penny for Gary Neville’s thoughts…..

Absolutely brilliant. Great to see Luke back in the tean and having a solid game. If we can continue to play like this, then everything will be fine. UTM

That’s a terrific result and just what we needed. Well done lads. I bet it’ll be a lot quieter on here this evening.

Quoted from denni266

Artell must be scratching his head with this lot of players  from pure fodder to how he played tonight .. Bbc says we had 22 shots

Tbf, he did say it wouldn't be a straight line!
N that performance from a patched up team, it's a funny old game.....

Dont suppose we will be hearing from Yoda before new years day😉

Quoted from Heisenberg

A penny for Gary Neville’s thoughts…..

I wouldn’t give that much !

Quoted from Badger57

Let's not get carried away, Salford were truly awful but that was a magnificent performance tonight from the lads. Fully deserved victory with tremendous performances throughout the whole team. Mom for me Luke Waterfall who showed the coolness and leadership that has been sorely missing at times. Special mention to Harvey Cartwright who made a fantastic save early doors in the second half which might have changed the game. A happy smiling mariner here for a change. Happy New Year!!! UTM! 😁

You can only play what's in front of you. Salford may have been awful but so have we on many occasions thus season. Well done the lads for what is a great morale and confidence boosting result - biggest win of them season (?), first away win since April and first clean sheet this season (?). What a great way to finish the year.

I didn’t see the game but great result and a clean sheet now let’s do it again on new year’s day.

Quoted from denni266

Artell must be scratching his head with this lot of players  from pure fodder to how he played tonight .. Bbc says we had 22 shots

Well not really. We went from playing one of the best teams in the league to the current worse.

Walsall will be a much sterner test.

Delighted to be proved wrong querying Clifton over Conteh. Fantastic support - 910 finally rewarded on the road. Walsall have well beaten Hollywood so Monday should be a decent test of consistency, ticket sales look good again, let’s get the home fans rewarded as well.

Quoted from bawarmy

I wouldn’t give that much !

Can you imagine, though? A return to NL must be incomprehensible to him.

Unfortunately we know the threat is real, but thankfully we’re all a little more confident after tonight.  Wish I’d been there. Safe travails to the town fans.

The bottom 3 teams lost and had a straight red and a red ( for 2 yellow cards) between them.

If Carlsberg did away wins and other games on the same night at the end of the Year! 😇😇😇

Delighted for the Team and manager.

Dominated the game and controlled it very professionally. Salford were truly woeful and were never in it. That said you can only beat what is infront of you and certainly an away win, a clean sheet and being 10 points clear is just the tonic we needed to end the year on

Brilliant result especially given the fact that we were missing several players with injury.

It good to see that points gap to the drop zone growing. The other thing that stands out for me looking at the table is the goal diff column. Ours is -4, which is on a par with several of the clubs above us, but the bottom five all have double digit negative differences, some pretty large, which shows that they often get thumped in a way that we don't. Many of our losses have been by a single goal.

The next game will be interesting because Walsall beat Wrexham 3-1 tonight and are bang in form having won four of their last five matches.