Just back..

Best home performance in a long time. Green and Smith joint MOM but no bad perfirmances today . Richardson cameo promising more

I popped into the Trust Bar at halftime and was pleased to hear fans commenting on going up this season. On today's performance, we'll be a certainty. Let's hope Barrow and Hartlepool won't be banana skins.

Two good teams and I think on balance we deserved to win.
We've got a great spirit and workrate. The players deserve that sort of atmosphere every week.

Thoroughly entertained.
Fab game.
Could have won that, but still extremely proud.
Green and Holohan were brilliant. Green the new Pouton. A proper yard dog but can play too.

The Smith household tonight. Puts hand in pocket, throws car keys on the sideboard. “Bloody hell Cooky what are you doing here?”

Shame we couldn't get the goal we deserved as that would have put us on the same points and GD as Bradford and into a play-off spot.


We’d actually have been 1 point ahead of them - them on 24 us on 25 points

Don’t disagree with any of the comments above about the quality of the game but bizarrely think this was helped by the referee who really let a lot go and just let the players get on with it. I recognise that  he made a couple of horrendous decisions re fouls on Clifton and Richardson, plus the free kick awarded against Smith for quality defensive header, but in general as both sides were up for a toe to toe game as a spectacle it worked out very well as best home game of the season.

Echo all the accurate and good comments above.

Richardson could have scored twice in the first 2 mins after coming on.  His direct running and skilful close control was great to watch.  Another weapon to use for the rest of the season.

To think that we could still have been in the NL this season playing Scunthorpe.

Holohan, clifton, Waterfall and green all had fantastic games but smith was my MOM and utterly outstanding

Pretty much echo every other comment,  incredibly proud to be a Grimsby fan today.

Really good, enjoyable game. Definitely the best home game of the season so far, in terms of the whole afternoon - lively crowd before kick off, good away following, decent game of football (entertainment wise) and, particularly 2nd half, a cracking atmosphere.

Bradford no doubt edged the first half although you could still point to Green rattling the post and Holohan's sitter with the last kick of the half and say we should've gone in at the break ahead.

Early 2nd half Bradford switched from their 4231 to a 442 with Angol going on up top with Cook. Was a bit concerned when I saw that as Angol seems to score regularly against us and it would've been no surprise to see Cook score either as an ex-town man. Credit to us that we dominated the majority of the 2nd half and eventually forced Bradford into taking off Cook to put an extra man back into midfield.

Thought Khan struggled to get the better of his full back, who defended very well in the 1v1 situations Khan got into. Kiernan, who I haven't particularly rated so far, had a decent 1st half and got a yellow for seemingly being fouled.

Green was immense, and games like that are when he will absolutely thrive. Dominant in the air and the best yard dog we've had for years.
Holohan was excellent up to the point of pulling the trigger. He made great forward runs off the ball and his chest down to set himself up from that long Efete punt/free kick was brilliant.

When Richardson came on he looked really effective picking up the ball and driving forward. I'd say he's been brought in as the closest we could find (who was available) to McAtee, and the way he drove forward and shot on those couple of occasions was definitely McAtee-esque. For me he just needs more confidence to be able to do that more often and have a swagger about him so much so that he demands the ball more.

All the back 4 defended well. Morris was a real calming influence 2nd half and is more often than not in the right place at the right time.

Real shame we couldn't pinch a winner as I think the roof would've popped off one of the stands had we done so, but proud of the club today.
Up the Town.