Keep calm.......

Quoted from gtfc_akpa_akpro

Christ the negativity in this thread is pathetic. There’s half a season left, a transfer window still open and 69 points available. The state of panic in mariners fans when we are winning every week is unbelievable. Yes, I appreciate we are on a very poor run and need a lot of work doing but if we go by these message boards, we should have been relegated when Jolley took over and all the over occasions when fans melt down.

Get behind the team from afar, have some trust in Hurst and his team and look forward to the future of new ownership.

Have you seen us play in the last 2 months or so?

110% trust and belief in Hurst but we are pretty bad. We need half a dozen competent players at L2 level, how many of them types will sign for a club in our position?

Quoted from gtfc_akpa_akpro

Christ the negativity in this thread is pathetic. There’s half a season left, a transfer window still open and 69 points available. The state of panic in mariners fans when we are winning every week is unbelievable. Yes, I appreciate we are on a very poor run and need a lot of work doing but if we go by these message boards, we should have been relegated when Jolley took over and all the over occasions when fans melt down.

Get behind the team from afar, have some trust in Hurst and his team and look forward to the future of new ownership.

I’m totally behind the team and Hurst and have everything crossed we can stay up. I’m being realistic in what I think we need to sort to stay up. That’s what this board is for, expressing one’s opinions and if you watch how can you deny the suggestion I am making? UTM!!

I still have hope and the glass is half full.[/quote]

The glass is like our squad - regardless of whether it’s half full or half empty it’s twice as big as it should be

Quoted from Epworth Mariner

I will probably get shot down for this .......but if you look at our points total of 20 from 23 games it’s 5 points pro rata from the “staying up” target of 50 points . Hope my maths makes sense lol !
So if you add on a point for our negative goal difference the minimum target is 31 points from our last 23 games.
If you look at the current teams who have achieved 31 points at the halfway stage you come up with a number of mid table teams - who on average have lost around 6 -7 games.
Our target is not impossible. Tough yes.......but in our hands and half the season left to play for.
Hurst is not blind to what needs doing,and quite capable of delivering it.
I still have hope and the glass is half full.

Our biggest problem is that most of this squad would struggle to get into a Northern Premier League side.

We haven't got a forward who will score more than 5 goals in a season, it is sad that our leading scorer is a lumbering centre half.

Our midfield is weak and never look like adding a goal or two, Clifton's form is going backwards, Rose in the main has been poor and doesn't look fit enough to even last a game. There is no real creativity or any sense of battling for the cause there either.

As regards the defence and goal keepers, you only have to look at the goals we have been conceding which can only be described as dreadful.

The only bright spots for me are possibly Morais who as yet doesn't look fit enough to last a full game and Wright who again had a problem remaining fully fit.

We could do with at least 12 new players but will the club allow that?

Yesterday was disappointing for a number of reasons:

1.  No new manager bounce, whilst Port Vale get an immediate return from sacking their Manager
2. No improvement in our defensive shape or ability to stop conceding goals. Hoped a week with Hurst & Doig would see us either hang on for a 0-0 or lose to odd goal but it is seems maybe not enough time was spent on the training ground because of the need to sign players. A no win either way.

3. Selections. Agree with a number of posters, and stated on another thread, that the selection of Spokes, Wright, Gibson and Jackson Jnr, would not only have given us some energy and pace but sent a clear message to others that changes are happening so perform or leave.

4. As Forza said in other threads the fact PH never has trusted young players to perform and prefers experience. In our situation that is, in many ways, understandable but surely having seen our last 5 games, and having consulted Dave Moore and Ben Davies there should have been enough football knowledge that to continue to pick Preston, Rose, Green & Williams was very unlikely to change our fortunes.

Just watching Crawley and they are on a 9 game unbeaten run which suggests to me Town were the last team to beat them which seems unbelievable. We have also won at Cheltenham, Orient and should have beaten Carlisle at home, but for Macca, and given these sides are all nearer the top of the league rather than the bottom it does indicate we do have some ability within the side but new signings and some much needed confidence are the priority for the remainder of the season.

Watching Crawley thrash Leeds 3-0 at the moment and they’re top scorer has 16 goals! Imagine that........

Hassenthaler having a great game......

Quoted from oochiad

Watching Crawley thrash Leeds 3-0 at the moment and they’re top scorer has 16 goals! Imagine that........

Mark Wright comes on in stoppage time, publicity stunt or what  

The simple fact is we only need to compete with the bottom 4 teams to stay up . Most of these aren’t going to regularly pick up points . New players will make a difference. As long as we end up 22nd that’ll do me

Quoted from promotion plaice

Mark Wright comes on in stoppage time, publicity stunt or what  

Didn’t touch the ball did he? 😂😂