Player Contracts

Quoted from lukeo

Very interesting stats! I've always liked Hunt and would like to see him get more game time but like other say he does struggle a bit against more physical midfielded sides. But then you got to take the rough with the smooth and play to his/our strengths.

Which is fundamentally what’s wrong with our playing style. We always, always, set up to cope with the opposition rather than play to our strengths.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Which is fundamentally what’s wrong with our playing style. We always, always, set up to cope with the opposition rather than play to our strengths.

How do you know this is the case?

Listening to Paul Hurst after Mansfield he said we set up to pull their CB’s out to create space for our attackers.

I would imagine that Scannel, Taylor, Pearson, will be released and O’Neil and Gallagher not renewed. If we can’t retain Smith, Lloyd and Emmanuel then we are looking at at least 8 new faces to maintain the current squad numbers. So it should be a busy summer.

Personally I hope we bring in seasoned pro’s with plenty of experience at L2 level and above. I don’t think youngsters and NL players are what we need to mount a serious promotion charge next season.

Quoted from RonMariner

I would imagine that Scannel, Taylor, Pearson, will be released and O’Neil and Gallagher not renewed. If we can’t retain Smith, Lloyd and Emmanuel then we are looking at at least 8 new faces to maintain the current squad numbers. So it should be a busy summer.

Personally I hope we bring in seasoned pro’s with plenty of experience at L2 level and above. I don’t think youngsters and NL players are what we need to mount a serious promotion charge next season.

Absolutely. You can’t win anything with kids 🙄

Quoted from MuddyWaters

I'm not arguing with the stats but would add the context that Morris is more likely to try the more difficult pass.

Like passing to one of our players who isn't marked

Long Balls

I've seen (and heard at matches) people moaning about the use of long balls/passes and losing possession from them. But is that fair?

Salford City are the best users of long balls in L2. They have had 1,425 successful long balls out of 3,115 attempted (45.75%). NB. Matt Smith might be a big contributing factor to this?

Northampton Town are the least successful. They have had 1,023 successful long balls out of 3,514 attempted (29.11%).

Grimsby have had 1,163 successful long balls from 3,171 attempted (36.68%). This puts us in 8th place. So fairly good.

Short Passes

Swindon Town have the best short pass completion with 84.19% (13,864 out of 16,467 attempted).

The worst short pass completion in L2 is, maybe surprisingly considering they look good for automatic promotion, Stevenage. They have a short pass completion of 65.42% (6,317 out of 9,656 attempted).

Grimsby are 17th with 70.43% completed short passes(8,095 out of 11,493 attempted).