Match thread

John Tondeur has tweeted:


Hannah starts. Jennings on bench. Debut for Boyce.No other changes.

The team in full from @officialgtfc is:

The #GTFC Team v Hereford United tonight: McKeown; Bignot, Thomas, Pearson, Boyce; Kerr, Thanoj, Disley (c), Rodman; John-Lewis, Hannah #utm


The #GTFC Subs: Hatton, Cook, Neilson, McLaughlin & Jennings #utm

I can see Hannah getting a brace tonight  :0P

Jt also just posted this "@JohnTondeur: Jennings got stuck on motorway apparently and has only just arrived."

Quoted from Meza

I can see Hannah getting a brace tonight  :0P

I bloody hope so

I don't care who scores, as long as it's one more than Hereford.

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Come on Town, lets have a good performance tonight and give us the 3 points we are all desperate for.  Need a boost tonight and a good team performance but will gladly settle for 3 points no matter what!

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Penalty for Town

About time we had a pen!

Hannah scores 1.0

1-0 Town, Hannah with a penalty after The Shop was brought down!

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Quoted from Meza

I can see Hannah getting a brace tonight  :0P

Halfway there already!  

Get in!!!!!!!!

First real attempt on goal? 1-1

Jesus 1-1 cannot defend a set piece again.  Poor marking, poor defence organisation.

Get a grip Town

Bloody soft goal, yet again!

FFS  

Sounds like a few goals in this game - hopefully going in Towns favour.

This.is.dull.

Bit more pressure...keep it up!

Looks like it's set up for Hatton, Jennings and Cook to come on and score a few goals in the second half

away in scotland tonight
alan buckleys trying to be nice about it, but sounds to me like disley will be in the team no matter what, why aren't mclaughin or neilson playing there?

Jennings has a good excuse.  Bad accident near Leeds somewhere.  Their game was delayed by 30 mins.  

We may need him.

That first half sounded very familiar! I was expecting a bit more off Town tonight, really hope we can take this game by the scruff of the neck in the second half.

Don't understand the selection decision re Disley/left midfield and find it infuriating, given that the same old questions and problems have arisen in the first half:

No service to strikers
No urgency generally and real inability to get hold of the game and take it to a weak side
Can't defend a set piece and conceded a soft goal
Favoured players auto-selected despite playing poorly
Dearth of creative ideas

Just a feeble effort yet again from a team apparently set on getting into the play-offs.

Quoted from WHYWONTYOULETMESIGNUP

away in scotland tonight
alan buckleys trying to be nice about it, but sounds to me like disley will be in the team no matter what, why aren't mclaughin or neilson playing there?

I suspect they are both carrying injuries. Problem is - with 2 games a week, it's going to be difficult for recovery

m62 was closed at jn 24 -25  its a good job we wernt playing macc tonight  lol

Sounds like Artus is back to haunt us. Seems to be playing well.

Is it on radio. If so what channel please

bbc radio humberside online

Need to change something, this clearly isn't working.

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Neilsen on for Disley

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Nielson  for Diz

Jennings on for Hannah

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all we are saying is give us a goal

I'm flipping sick of this excrement

Come on Cookie, please please please, give us a goal!  

Doing me head in listening to this garbage!

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They should sell the half season tickets for the first half of the season next year and save us all from this predictable rubbish every year  

Come on Town

this is awful, we have to win this, every time we get a decent result we then throw away anything we gained from it in the next few games

JT just uttered the phrase, "Town mustn't lose this". Oh dear!

Well, this is exciting..

Another turgid uninspired performance so far. This is not a team on course for promotion.

Very poor performance I'm afraid.

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Pearson booked again, when is he going to learn to keep his mouth shut.  His suspensions have knocked us back and we have struggled without him.

Frustrated with listening to Town struggling to beat teams like this.

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Cook misses a sitter.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarghh! Cook misses a chance in the final minute.

final score 1-1.

RUBBISH

Ridiculous, failed to win again.

Well that sounded delightful.  

Stuck in traffic?  No excuse.  Looks like poor preparation to me.  The team should be reporting for duty at lunchtime on a match day, not driving themselves there for kick-off like it's a Sunday League game.  

And now I read that, predictably, Pearson has been booked for moaning at the referee.  That man needs to learn to shut his mouth because he's going to end up costing us a game with his indiscipline.

Every flipping home game is thee same and has been for 3 seasons ,this fornicator is clueless .
I'm sure we'll have a load of idiots saying how were still in with a shout and have games in hand ect but we have spent more than all those clubs above except Luton ,We have had the same manager for nearly 4 seasons and he still dosnt know his best team.
He brings in new Strikers every season then sticks them on the bench and rotates them all.We have been consistently excrement in midfield for years and have never looked like getting any better.
Pull the trigger Fenty ,what do you have to lose ?

If Andy Cook is the answer, what on God's Earth is the question?

The mighty Nuneaton and Alfreton make the most of their home games and both win tonight while Grimsby 'don't fret, we're half a dozen games in hand' Town do their utmost to not only stay out of the top 5 but make sure nobody wants to spend a miserable couple of hours sat watching their 'brand' of football.

Utter dross, I sincerely hope that Fenty is prepared to pull the trigger at the seasons end because Hurst simply doesn't have what it takes, another 'hard luck' story from him to add to to Southport, Barnet, Macclesfield etc...

as far as i can see  mr hursts comments about them fighting for there lives, is just his way of saying i dont think we are good enough ,, AND WE ARNT ANYWHERE NEAR GOOD ENOUGH

I agree with hackney............ and I have mentioned before how we are so badly prepared physically and to turn up late because of traffic is another example of poor preparation.

I saw the Grimsby town coach drive through Macclesfield an hour before kick off on Saturday! An hour!! We prepare like a Sunday league team.

More than anything, this performance/result (like so many recent games) does not inspire confidence for the rest of the season.    

Come on Hurst supporters, where are you. This is dire beyond belief. Please let us have somebody in charge who can galvanise these players.

Utter sh1t.

Jennings should be fined,

You should allow for all problems en route,

Its now make or break  for Saturday,

Win and we are back on track,

Lose and we can forget about promotion,

Come on Hurst sort it out !!!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile, Nathan Jarman gets a hat trick at North Ferriby.  

Win and we are back on track Pete. FFS

We can sign as many Forwards/Defenders are you like, but  until we address the  area that hasn't been addressed
for 5 seasons ie: central midfield's lack of creativity, we are going nowhere, we have people who can score goals
given the right service, but the problem is that the service is usually crap and the management for 5 years at least
have done sodomist-all about it.
Bit of a struggle now isn't it?

I would of thought we are all Hurst supporters. Having said that, team selection is baffling. That's it.

Concentrate of the positives. Point gained. Closer to the play-offs.

I am only trying to be positive,

Maybe we are a lot worse than we think,

Listening to the commentary it seems that of the players that started, Thanoj and Thomas were the the only creativity on the pitch, as for Rodman, considering how often he had the ball he didn't seem to do anything with it at all.

I think there's a lot of frustration about, and understandably so - but if Cook's goal goes in at the death, we're not posting all that's just been posted.

And yeah, I know - it's not about 'ifs' and 'buts'. These are the fine margins that managers have to deal with, and I don't envy them.

I support my football club and I want it to be the best it can be. At the moment I don't have any concrete evidence that sacking Hurst will improve our situation. History tells us that sacking managers actually makes us worse.

Since we've been in the Conference we've finished 11th, 11th and 4th - let's see where we are at the end of this season. We could yet finish 5th and go up. Who knows?

With respect though Rob, we  made the play offs last year and our shortcomings were  brutally exposed, we
may well make them again, but not sure what  makes anyone have any  real confidence that we will be more
successful this season than our pitifull efforts in last years play off games were.
Hope i'm wrong.

The thing that gets to me is the lack of urgency and not closing teams down in their half. We back off and let them have the ball in so called non dangerous areas.

We need to press teams far higher up the pitch and have periods of pressure, you can only do this if we win the ball back higher up the pitch.

Paul, please please please press higher up. The players can only do this if you tell them to do it and not concede territory when we lose the ball.

Being stuck in traffic is an acceptable excuse for being late for the dentist or a school play, but not for a professional athlete to fail to show up for competition.  The management are to blame for not enforcing a professional matchday timetable: lunching together, stretches and light massage, any necessary physio, pre-game briefing, relaxation and meal, then to the ground in plenty of time.

I have defended PH before, but I have major concerns about his inability to recognise when things need to change.  He is wedded to the same tactics and sticks with failed combinations.  He doesn't seem to be able to motivate either.  A team that was a dead cert for the playoffs and talking of going on a run to challenge for the Championship is now scrabbling around for draws against relegation fodder.

I would like to see PH bring in Buckley to work with the attacking players to add a bit of zip and fizz, instead of laboured, lumbering hoofball.  AB could give the forwards a bit of confidence in their abilities and get them excited about going out on the pitch.

This Buckley argument. I'm fairly confident Buckley would not want to work with the first team.

Stiggs....

Agree about the lack of urgency and the high press being an awesome tactic to dominant games but disagree about using the high press with this squad of players. You have to have energy and athleticism to be able to play this effectively. If one player doesn't press then you can be badly exposed. And with the pae of our defence that wouldn't be pretty!

I think the point just highlights the poor acquisition of players, as the midfield in particular are really unbalanced. McLaughlin, Kerr, Disley and thanoj have about as little pace and energy as you can get for centre midfielders and would be run ragged IMO.

I suppose LJL will be leading the line again on Saturday(with little chance of having any chances), now that Andy Cook has missed a chance in his 9 minutes of action. See you in 3 weeks Andy for another 9 minutes. T'was always the plan from a year ago imo  - for whatever the reason.

Don`t let Cook`s failure to convert after ten minutes on the pitch cover up the inadequacies of the rest of the team by making him the scapegoat, apart from the odd match or two we have not improved from last season performances.

Ironically Kempson, Woody and Jarman are all in a shout of promotion this year, and Franky Artus looked as good last night as he did at Wembley, just where are we going wrong?

Stuck in traffic ?  What the hell is a player who is employed by Scunthorpe United doing living or staying in the Manchester area on a match day,

We are supposed to be a professional club,  players should be made to report hours before kick off have a light meal and talk tactics,

Not just stroll down to the ground a hour or so before kick off,

Grimsby Town are more to blame than Jennings,

Well Jennings  should take a bit of the blame for not allowing enough time to reach Blundell Park baring in mind how many times the roads get closed now days.