nasty rumour that we might be missing a rather vital player tonight.

Fingers crossed it's not true

If you’re going to make a new post, at least say who.

I’m going to guess you mean Danny Rose?

Rose the only "vital" player

If any club had a 'vital' player it's us with Danny Rose. No other player currently has such ability/influence. Think about changing your predicted results/scorers tonight - but is it true?

Cartwright maybe as well??

Quoted from mimma

Cartwright maybe as well??

Hardly vital

Only one who is vital too us is Rosey

Quoted from forza ivano

nasty rumour that we might be missing a rather vital player tonight.

Fingers crossed it's not true

As one former Mariners captain once said “do I not like that”. 😬

Bad vibes tonight and probably the lowest crowd of the season to witness it

Looks like we’re back to 4-3-3. Don’t feel great about that but I suppose we’ll see.

Rose? Is it just a knock?

Quoted from smokey111

Rose? Is it just a knock?

🙏🙏🙏

Given Rose is missing fully expected Wilson to start but we’ll have to wait and see how things turn out before having a paddy but Eisa wouldn’t be my go to replacement. Hopefully he now scores two worldies 😀

Has to be 4-3-3 with that team. Somewhat surprised at the inclusion of Eisa as a starter but Wilson may have a bit of a knock. Someone has to step up and replace the graft that Danny puts in.

Oh dear no Rosey.
Kieran Green taken a knock? Thought he had a great game at Sutton.
I fear the worst. 😔

That's a big blow, hopefully a precaution and back for Saturday. Baffled by the decision to not go with Wilson but hey ho.

Oh sodomist. Will prob win 4 0 now ;D

Subs  
Eastwood, Green, Smith,  Woods, Wilson, Pyke, Andrews

Some saying 433, but could easily see it being 343

Mullarkey Tharme Rodgers
Clifton Holohan Thompson Hume
Gnahoua Obikwu Eisa

Don't see us abandoning the back three that has served us so well to put Mullarkey at full back and Clifton in midfielder again

If it’s 3-4-3 Eisa not tracking back to cover isn’t as important I’d think

Agree about the 3 centre backs. Think it'll be a sort of 5311 with Gnahoua in midfield and Eisa behind Obikwu but I'm no Michael Cox!

Mansfield commentators said last week that MK Dons were probably the best team they had played all season, I fear the worst.

541?

Quoted from mariner91

541?

There will be more there than that 🤨

Think it’s really important to keep our heads regardless of what happens tonight, I feel a third wave of meltdown coming if we lose.

How close is Vernam to a return?

Perhaps Rose has wrist injury after flinging his arm at the ball with such gusto on 85 mins on Saturday…

Quoted from grassbandits

How close is Vernam to a return?

and how long can he stay fit?

With Eisa, plus Pyke and Wilson on the bench we still have a goal threat tonight. Let’s just hope that Rose will be back soon.

Clifton at right wing back again?

Chance for the young Coventry lad to be right up front tonight sfter a first league goal on Saturday.

Hope Ghanoua (spelling ?) has a strong running game tonight.

Please can the officials be better as well !

FGR now winning at Bradford ffs.

Good start. Cameraman needs to wake up.

Really like Obikwu

We've started well

Quoted from Nutsy

Good start. Cameraman needs to wake up.

Really like Obikwu

Looks like the cameraman is on secondment from the Town centre team.

Pathetic away support BTW. 🙄

I was thinking the away support looked decent and then clocked the franchise flag in the corner, I was looking at Town fans. That's as poor of an away following we'll ever get.

Officiating at this level is a complete joke

Looks like another set of buffoons officiating

Yellow card ? He never touched him

Another poor ref, why o why do we get them?

Quoted from It Bites

Yellow card ? He never touched him

Yeah but the lad started slapping the ground, refs buy it every time. 🤬

Ref is card happy, 2 yellows already

Almost  ??) for them

How long is Hume’s deal? We need him securing for next season if not already.

Very happy with Hume and Tharme

How on earth is that a corner?!?

Quoted from Nutsy

How long is Hume’s deal? We need him securing for next season if not already.

Very happy with Hume and Tharme

Only until end of the season

Where did that ref come from, yellows for us and nothing for them with that foul on Thompson

Quoted from DB

Where did that ref come from, yellows for us and nothing for them with that foul on Thompson

A different planet.

Payne in the middle for them is a class act

God this ref is shocking.

OBIKWU!!!!

Yes! 1-0 town

YES

GET THE intercourse IN

Lovely stuff, f****g get in.

Get innnn

Great worked goal -  1.0 town

Get in, come on Town.

Nice goal!

Brill

Laid on by Eisa. Great stuff. We can do this.

Cmon town lets get two before half time

Quoted from RonMariner

Laid on by Eisa. Great stuff. We can do this.

Very unselfish. Could have hit it himself but went for the better option of passing .

1-0 - brill
Hope DA can coach this successful stuffy defensive minded set of players to safety 🤙
Then, he may be able to progress
UTM

Come on Town!!
FGR winning at Bantams
So Vital

Just need Andy Cook to do us a favour tonight.

Quoted from supertown

Very unselfish. Could have hit it himself but went for the better option of passing .

Looked like he mishit a shot.

Harvey needs to learn what he should come for. Would say it's the main flaw in his game

21 for them is a complete 🔔🔚

This ref is an utter girl private.

They should have left this referee in non league, he's utterly junk

Quoted from immariner

Looked like he mishit a shot.

Harvey needs to learn what he should come for. Would say it's the main flaw in his game

Oh, I thought it was a pass 🤷🏼‍♂️

What another yellow this ref is unreal, obviously has a new build at Milton Keynes on the go.

Refs give us a pen

Always rated this ref

25% 75% possession

What was that Gav?

Holohan pen saved

That was the worst penalty I've ever seen. EVER.

What a sh1t penalty FFS Gav.

Can't throw away gigantic opportunities sitting on a one goal lead like that Gav

Horrendous penalty 😭

What the intercourse was the Holohan you buffoon

Awful pen.

Terrible peno that could be so costly ffs

His finishing has been awful recently

Always been reliable at penos, what went wrong….. could cost us.

Wtf was that . It looked like he actually missed on purpose

This ref is actually bent.

Is he on a one man mission to relegate us . Awful

Keeper read it. How often do you see the keeper move

flipping huge chance missed

Do we want to win?

Quoted from It Bites

Is he on a one man mission to relegate us . Awful

Get a grip. He’s had a good half.

How many GKs do you see not dive? Got to credit the keeper for guessing right there. If he dives it goes in and everyone calls it a decent penalty

To be fair to Holohan, it's not often a keeper doesn't dive on a pen. But he didn't so it was shit. Could be massive.

That penalty was so poor, he took it as if he didn’t give a toss, these are a decent side, I just hope that doesn’t cost us that miss

Rose has put his last 2 in the middle, they obviously did research on that.

He’s taken that pen like he’s playing in a bloody charity game, absolutely dreadful. Hope it doesn’t come to cost us, we’re defending very well yet again

Penalty aside though, ref absolutely fucking awful.

Cost us at Sutton and probably gunna cost us pre points today oh and the sitter the other week get that clown out the team now he’s gunna get us relegated does intercourse all anyway

9 times out of ten the keeper dives, how many commentators say stick it down the middle, Gav did and on this occasion the keeps doesn't dive.

Just knew he was gonna miss

Quoted from Wrights35

Cost us at Sutton and probably gunna cost us pre points today oh and the sitter the other week get that clown out the team now he’s gunna get us relegated does intercourse all anyway

Also had a role in the goal.

Quoted from GrimPol

25% 75% possession

Shots on target: 3 - 0

Possession is not a relevant statistic when we're set up to counter attack and they're mostly just passing it around in midfield rather than anywhere dangerous.

Shockingly bad penalty. I'd easily have saved that and I was always shite in goal. I'd say Holohan has had a terrible half, but he did put in an excellent cross for the goal. Hopefully he'll be much better in the second half.

Have to say this is one of the most inept/biased refereeing performances I've ever seen and we should be two goals up! Two bookings for challenges which weren't even fouls and they are just dragging us down if we get past them in midfield without a word said. Surely their keeper should have been booked for the foul on Obikwu which led to the penalty as well?

Lots of good footballers in their team but nothing created as yet. We've got a few players who are well off the pace so hopefully they will improve in the second half as well.

Quoted from Wrights35

Cost us at Sutton and probably gunna cost us pre points today oh and the sitter the other week get that clown out the team now he’s gunna get us relegated does intercourse all anyway

How the intercourse did he cost us at sutton you utter clown

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Also had a role in the goal.

That’s true but giving a penalty away then missing one this week . It’s not like he is outstanding these little things are massive

Quoted from Wrights35

Cost us at Sutton and probably gunna cost us pre points today oh and the sitter the other week get that clown out the team now he’s gunna get us relegated does intercourse all anyway

Are you his agent?

Frustrating but gavs sank bigger penalties so cant really say he was the wrong person to take it. Just seems like were cursed to never go two goals up

Quoted from pontoonlew

He’s taken that pen like he’s playing in a bloody charity game, absolutely dreadful. Hope it doesn’t come to cost us, we’re defending very well yet again

That's the perfect description. Haven't seen a penalty that excrement since Brodie.

Quoted from Wrights35

That’s true but giving a penalty away then missing one this week . It’s not like he is outstanding these little things are massive

Was given Against Rose you  idiot

It would appear we are winning, excrement happens

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Im not gay, but throwing around that word sums you up.

That’s a terrible decision from GH compounded by an awful execution. FFS.

Best way to take a pen is to hit it hard into the corner. Even if the keeper guesses right there is still a very good chance it will go in.

But we have been incredibly wasteful in front of goal all season. One goal is not often good enough for a win and we need wins.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Shots on target: 3 - 0

Possession is not a relevant statistic when we're set up to counter attack and they're mostly just passing it around in midfield rather than anywhere dangerous.

It's an interesting one thats all. Now revised at 24.5%     75.5%    You can lecture me again if you have the time.

There's an argument that Holohan missed a massive chance on Saturday towards the end of the game that he really should have buried, but the only person who cost us that result was the buffoon linesman.

I just hope that doesnt come back to bite us

Can see this awful referee giving one against us

Quoted from Wrights35

Shut the intercourse up you little fagott

No need for that you tosser

Quoted from RonMariner

Best way to take a pen is to hit it hard into the corner. Even if the keeper guesses right there is still a very good chance it will go in.

But we have been incredibly wasteful in front of goal all season. One goal is not often good enough for a win and we need wins.

Especially FFGR are winning as awell

We're winning folks  :)

Gillingham will be missing a regular starter at CB against us on Saturday as he's been sent off this evening.

Quoted from Wrights35

Shut the intercourse up you little fagott

Behave!!!

Not scoring this penalty is a bit of a blow - but DA needs to put his arm around Gav and the rest of the players to say they are doing well - and to reinforce the game plan at 1-0
UTM

Don’t know what had happened to Holohan. He used to chip in with goals but recently he missed a sitter at the end at Morecambe that cost us two points, apparently another one on Saturday, and now a terrible penalty.

If we win, Sutton becomes irrelevant


Then it’s us, Salford or Colchester. FGR have a good manager….☹️

At the moment we are in 21st spot, 5 points up oh FGR with game in hand and 6 points up on Colchesrer who are 2nd from bottom.

Lets hope the peno miss will galvanise the side and we win to give us the above points.

Quoted from DB

At the moment we are in 21st spot, 5 points up oh FGR with game in hand and 6 points up on Colchesrer who are 2nd from bottom.

Lets hope the peno miss will galvanise the side and we win to give us the above points.

God I hope so

I just think I have the feeling it’ll galvanise them and make them think it’s their night 😨

This looks like it's going a long second half. They're passing it about really well

Quoted from DB

At the moment we are in 21st spot, 5 points up oh FGR with game in hand and 6 points up on Colchesrer who are 2nd from bottom.

Lets hope the peno miss will galvanise the side and we win to give us the above points.

And within 2 of Salford. It would be a huge 3 points . Come on Town

F**k me this is going to be painful

Can we start giving the ref some fresh fish like we used to years ago?

Quoted from Plankton

This looks like it's going a long second half. They're passing it about really well

45 plus added time is my guess

I hate this  ;D why cant we just be cruising to victory for once

Eisa is a donkey.

Sloppy passing from a town is what could cost us. Credit to Artell in the set up as we’re playing well.

Holohan has been poor in possession, not mentioning the penalty.

I’d be bringing Wilson and Wood on

2 of them clean through and they can’t decide who wants it

Quoted from Wrights35

Shut the intercourse up you little fagott

Ooh look, someone from 1975 is here.

Quoted from Nutsy

Sloppy passing from a town is what could cost us. Credit to Artell in the set up as we’re playing well.

Holohan has been poor in possession, not mentioning the penalty.

I’d be bringing Wilson and Wood on

Wilson is an absolute no brainer. He’s held the ball up brilliantly of late and we’ve got no one doing that.

I’d like to see Wilson up with Obiwku and Arthur

Missing Rose's defending from the front big time. Battling well but there's usually only so long you can be pinned back for

Well done town, getting back into the game

I’d be getting Wilson on now as well

According to half time stats, our accuracy of passing is only just above 50% against 83% for the Dons.

Not good enough at this level  !!

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Eisa is a donkey.

Wouldn't surprise me..

Well the fans are certainly behind the team.

Subs have already made a difference.

Holohan off for Wilson imo

Crowd arent helping here. Theres some right whinging illegitimates

Holohan awful tonight.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Wouldn't surprise me..

😂😂😂

If we can keep Hume and get a similar player in at RB, we’d have a very good defence

Quoted from Hagrid

Crowd arent helping here. Theres some right whinging illegitimates

We have some fans who seem to want us to do whatever it takes to grind out results while also playing the most attractive fluid football you've ever seen

So far this half we have defended not only well but as a solid unit. May it well continue. 6 weeks ago we would have been dead and buried under this sort of pressure.

Crewe 1-0 Sutton

Sutton losing

Obikwu looks like he’s learning really quickly, think he’s been good again tonight .

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Obikwu looks like he’s learning really quickly, think he’s been good again tonight .

Yep, probably his best game so far.

OFF THE POST

Must admit, Mullarkey, Clifton, Green and Rodgers have played much better under this recent run/set up

Respect to JT but he is flipping unbearable to listen to when we’re defending.

Brown envelope left in ref's pocket, just before kick off, no name mentioned but blue is the colour.nod nod ;) ;) say no more

Is that Thompson's 5th yellow for us already?

We are defending really well and chasing every ball. Hold out town

   Referee is appalling .

FGR 2 up

FGR 2-0 up, we need to hold on

FGR score again.

Massive win, well done town

Fantastic

Get in, well done lads

Town deserve that win, well done Town.

GET INNNNNN

Massive massive win

There is no point worrying about FGR we have to just take care of our own fixtures. Colchester forum are not liking the table at it stands, i think they will struggle especially with the pressure building on them.

A massive 3 points.. well done lads 👍👍💪💪💯

Couldn’t bear to watch. Absolutely brilliant. Superb, all of the above

Well done Town!  All that possession and they did intercourse all.

Great organised performance.

Well done all of them

MASSIVE result

We’ve Doidged 2 bullets
Well done Town 😀

YES a good victory. Haven't lost since that draw against Morecambe. Played 5, 9 points out of 15, staying up.

Huge huge win.

Brilliant well played Town Artell tactical master class  ;D

An brilliant heroic rear guard action. One day though I will enjoy a Town game without a knot in my stomach.

Massive 3 points  and  fgr winning  

Another fantastic defensive performance and well done to DA again making us hard to beat and giving us the best chance to pick up points. UTM!

Brilliant well played Town Artell tactical master class  ;D

Probably 8 or 9 points needed .

I think if Salford don't beat Stockport Thursday they have to be considered in the mix aswell .

Well done Town tonight

that kind of defending must give us hope. Well done Town.

Despite all their possession they created sod all. We had the best chances.

Well done lads and David Artell.

Forest Green win 2-0 away at Bradford. Big win for them. Still, 5 points ahead of them, 6 points ahead of Colchester who are now in the relegation zone, with Sutton now as good as down.

5 games unbeaten and just 1 (dodgy pen) goal conceded since we capped that awful run with a 5-1 defeat at home to Donny. Some turnaround, that.

Well Done Town
Great Win
We needed this as FGR seem to have turned a corner

Brilliant effort Town. Felt like we were playing against 12 men with that ref which makes it even more satisfying.

Another ugly win
I’ll take them all day 😉

Quoted from chaos33

Ooh look, someone from 1975 is here.

I’ve removed the Original post Chaos.

Just a massive shout out for Doug Tharme - absolute class act, a real leader at the back, just what we needed!

Thank you, Town. Really important with FGR winning at Bradford (how did they do that). Only two points worse off than Salford now.

Colchester really won’t like the look of that table .

Fantastic game. Obikwu needs to come back. Hume, Thompson, Tharme, Rodgers, Clifton and Cartwright had great games. Green seems to be the digger, CDM version of a super sub as he ran his socks off.

Arthur played well, as did Mullarkey without either being spectacular in any regard.

Credit to to the team and Artell, big three points.

Utm.

Elsewhere tonight, John McAtee scores his 11th of the season as Barnsley win 3-2 away at Carlisle. Shocker for Hursty though, with the Shrews down to 10 men after 6 minutes, eventually going down 3-0 at home to Exeter.

Oh, Lincoln beat Garry Monk’s Cambridge 6-0, so be prepared to be bored to tears about that tomorrow.

Did Harvey have a shot to actually save tonight?

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Did Harvey have a shot to actually save tonight?

No, the one shot they had on target Tharme cleared off the line.

Couldn’t watch - too stressful. Incredible turnaround since Donny - great effort from DA, the coaches, the players and not forgetting the fans - I’ve only been at Wimbledon where the support was superb, my lad was at Sutton and said the fans were great and to have 5.7k there tonight with next to no away fans is excellent.

Good, unexpected win.
Fook Bradford

Colchester supposed to be at home again on Saturday, a bit of spittle and that will be off again .

Quoted from supertown

Colchester really won’t like the look of that table .

And theyve got walsall next who are joint top of the form table, only lost 2 in the last 10

Be tough for us but gillingham have been inconsistant lately

I expect forest green to beat sutton

I also want to credit Harry, really think RWB suits his skills very well.

It’s play off form  since the Doncaster game. Should be two more points if it wasn’t for Stephen vulva  Brown on Saturday. Well done Town.

Absolutely fantastic Town, huge result. The Artell Out brigade are suddenly very quiet  ;) Patience is a virtue gents

Just looking at the form table, Swindon doing badly, only won once in the last six games, 6 points ahead of us but we have two games in hand, they could get sucked in to the mix along with Salford (but think Donny will pull clear)
As a matter of interest, Notts County one place and 3 points ahead of Swindon. Not suggesting they are in serious danger, but they have lost five out of the last six!

Quoted from lee65

Just looking at the form table, Swindon doing badly, only won once in the last six games, 6 points ahead of us but we have two games in hand, they could get sucked in to the mix along with Salford (but think Donny will pull clear)
As a matter of interest, Notts County one place and 3 points ahead of Swindon. Not suggesting they are in serious danger, but they have lost five out of the last six!

It's not beyond the realm  that we are already close to being safe ,FGR have Sutton who they will probably beat but then have that terrible run of 5 or 6 games against the top end teams - they only have 9 games left and I suspect their form might level out somewhat . Sutton are gone .

Colchester could end up with 4 games in hand but 10 points behind .

Salford could get dragged into it I think ,the rest probably have too many points already unless Swindon or Donny lose every game which I doubt .

To reach 45 points :
Sutton - 2.25 PPG - not happening
FGR- 1.3PPG
Col U - 1.2 PPG
Town - 0.7PPG
Salford - 0.6PPG
Swindon - 0.1 PPG

Might be a slightly higher points total but can't see it being much more.

We should survive quite comfortably on paper at least .

There is no way we don't get 7 to 10 points is there from these last 10 ?

Quoted from lee65

Just looking at the form table, Swindon doing badly, only won once in the last six games, 6 points ahead of us but we have two games in hand, they could get sucked in to the mix along with Salford (but think Donny will pull clear)
As a matter of interest, Notts County one place and 3 points ahead of Swindon. Not suggesting they are in serious danger, but they have lost five out of the last six!

No but I’d feckin love to finish above them (Notts)…

No reason why we can’t get to 40 points by the end of the month. Then plenty of easier games in April to take us to safety.

I fancy us for at least a point on Saturday and given Wrexhams away form that is not an impossible game to get something out of either.

Quoted from Nutsy

I also want to credit Harry, really think RWB suits his skills very well.

I'd personally disagree about this.

Yes, he's committed and, yes, he's done OK defensively, but his control of the ball and passing leaves a lot to be desired and his positioning isn't quite right because he's not a natural defender. Wearne managed to get a couple of decent crosses in tonight because Clifton wasn't in quite the right position. Not saying, say, Smith, would do any better but it's certainly not a natural positionfor him. A decent stopgap, but he's more effective in the wide attacking roles for me.