Yesterday

Well for who is classed as a manager with bags of experiance , you showed you left it back home..  I think you need to get your head out the clouds and your finger out your behind . You are at grimsby now  not lording it over prem players. Unless you can say that clifton and pollock where carrying knocks  there was no excuse to not start with them. You sent a young side out and could easy have been slaughtered and that stands at your feet  not the players. You cost us the game not the players , they did there best and was kernackered after 60 mins , Basically half a team of kids asked to play against mainly seasoned pro`s. So far i have seen nothing better than the last crop of managers even the fine words are there that i see through .. And where are all these big named experianced players that was wanting to come and play for you .. yer right  i smell something funny and steamy. Yu cocked up bringing players back too late ,, you cocked up not getting players in earlier . you cocked up penny pinching and losing players to other clubs,, and you cocked up with the team selection yesterday , we expect better from you if you are as good as you think you are .. and if you want to spout like you did before about if we dont like it we are not wanted . swollow this   i have been suporting my team for 60 yrs  and will prob be here for 20 after you have gone and been forgotton about ,, Dont like it  then sort your self out

Wow. Hope we don’t lose the second game too 🙄

He's having to chop and change an unfit squad (largely consisting of new players who haven't played professionally before) in unprecedented circumstances.

Relax

Yeah, right up there with the Braintree 5-0 and Hartlepool 8-1 defeats yesterday wasn't it.

FFS

Where are the experienced signings?

Do Scannell, Rose, Moshni and Williams not count?

What a plonker.......

Drama queen...oooooooh look at meeeeeeeeeeeee

U OK Hun?

Whilst I am fully behind IH and don’t agree with a number of Denni’s comments there is within his post some very interesting points which in truth have not been answered.

Why could we not get competitive friendly fixtures? Lincoln had 3 matches at least including Scunny and Oldham, surely local sides like Hull and Doncaster could have put together a decent eleven for a friendly?

Why were we late coming back, solely a financial decision?

If, as Ollie states, only the returning players were fully fit why are the likes of Clifton not playing whilst others get their fitness levels up?

I don’t want to dwell on Boyd as he’s 15 and surely reads the Fishy but bringing him on before Clifton seems a very odd decision.

Personally, given the press releases to date I always thought it would probably be November before we see the real quality of our squad but have financial decisions put us at a real disadvantage this season?

Finally I think we have quite a difficult start to our fixtures and still look to require a bit more quality and experience in the side and the sooner the better, but certainly it’s not a time for getting too uptight about performances and results as there are indications of the styOllie wishes to play which should be well worth watching.

Same here don't agree with the OP, but what are the facts around preseason did other teams play games or not. If they did then it is legitimate to ask why they did and we did not.