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Quoted from barralad

I think it is a luxury Hurst cannot afford. Personally I'd rather what money we have is spent on providing competition at the other end of the pitch. It's not like you would regularly make a substitution of a goalkeeper during a match. Town like most other teams assess the risks of not even having a keeper on the bench and find it worth doing. It's a lot of money to spend to keep one of your keepers in the reserves. I suspect that particularly with the keeper role managers make a judgement call pre-season of all or nothing. Hurst has obviously decided McKeown is up to the task and apart from the odd error it is difficult to disagree. He was very good yesterday IMO.

Glad he had a good game yesterday because we all know he's got it in him but think every one on here agrees that he's not been up to his usual standards back end of last season/start of this one.
Hurst can find money to bring in a not very good midfielder so why not bring in a Keeper in for a month or two. This may focus McKewans mind a bit.

Having slept on it I'm of the opinion that...I don't know what to think. We almost need a new set of footballing terminology for this club, a new way of addressing our problems that are so different to those problems of other normal clubs.
We'e shot ourselves in the foot so many times before the season was even a quarter of the way through we've surely got no feet left.
Yesterday, taken as a one-off game would have been a decent point if we'd not committed so many stupid-Grimsby things already. Despite constant reminders that we were only 1/2/3 or games in, things would settle etc I wasn't impressed with the seasons start at all. TWO injury time goals in the first two games, silly, stupid tiny errors to gift the opposition goals when they'd barely troubled us...to me we'd already shown our weaknesses to the rest of the division 2 games in.

As a one-off game yesterday I think we take much much more from the game than our rivals. Lots of disquiet here in Lincoln from those who think about the game a little, the Hearn problem gathering pace and the fact that Rhead is the biggest pile of cheating human tissue and bones in the country. Anyone want Rhead on the back of their shirt?

Meanwhile we take the positives, 10 men were better than their 11, better support etc...then to the problems of scoring. Can't see how Hurst can take any blame for yesterday. Would have been Toto and Shaun for me but that's splitting hairs.
We had a family outing later in the afternoon so didn't go, but I even debated even listening to the commentary, so miserable am I listening to the same old tune every week. Tuned in after 5 minutes or so, just as Town had the ball pinging around in their box. Head in hands, I didn't even get excited and waited for it...'and the ball inches over the bar..' yep here we go.
Then the dreaded words 'Town should be winning this by at least two..'...my head sinks further into my hands as that is the signal for a stupid-Grimsby thing to happen in the net 20-30 minutes. What could it be this time??
We've done the overhit back pass, the cross to the far post/unmarked man has been a little overdone, no debutants to stick the ball in their own net...so step forward Josh G.

Rambling here a little but my point...it struck me that had a fan of another team, almost any other team, been in the room with me my behaviour would have looked odd. Ball in their box, mounting pressure, that's a good sign? Should be 2 up, dominating play, you'll go on to win this comfortably, they'd say.

NO. This is Grimsby and they do stupid things and score what seems to be 1 in every 10 chances.
As a one-off game, good result, as one in a sequence of games, more dropped points.
And apart from the one moment of stupidity we can't even lay into any of the players and demand they be dropped/replaced or call for 3 up front/4 in the middle or any normal footballing things.

Sadly, I have no answer to any of this, we just do stupid things just once or twice in a game, miss too many chances, and when these things aren't happening we're being a touch unlucky.

I honestly feel like I've aged a few years because of this bunch.
Enjoy your GTFC-free Sundays everyone.

Quoted from TAGG

Glad he had a good game yesterday because we all know he's got it in him but think every one on here agrees that he's not been up to his usual standards back end of last season/start of this one.
Hurst can find money to bring in a not very good midfielder so why not bring in a Keeper in for a month or two. This may focus McKewans mind a bit.

Thing is what keeper worth his salt and good enough to challenge Mac would want to come to a mid table Conference (or whatever grandiose title they have given it to try to make people like us feel better) club?

We need a leader on the pitch,that is what we are lacking and have been lacking for years.

Quoted from friskneymariner

We need a leader on the pitch,that is what we are lacking and have been lacking for years.

Take it you didn't see Disley yesterday then? The epitome of a captain's performance.

Quoted from 130[b

]Rhead is a known wind up merchant (ie cheat), [/b]but without seeing it I don't know whether to be angry at Gowling for reacting or Rhead for going down like he'd been shot! I can't say for sure that he was overreacting, but Lincoln players congratulating him after the card came out suggests so. That incident aside, we were comfortably the better team and should still have won, 10 men or not. Disley was fantastic in the middle and Bogle's goal was the finish of a man who once a bit more polished, will play higher.

But my man (or child) of the day goes to the 7 stone Lincoln fan who got really angry at something or other, just after someone else had been kicked out. It was fucking hilarious. If only there was a vine of it!

I recall Rhead playing for Mansfield at BP the last time we met. He came on as a second half sub and the first thing he did when he walked onto the pitch was to elbow Pearson in the ribs on the blindside of the ref and linno. This was before play had even resumed and was obviously an attempt to wind up and intimidate Sean. Rhead is an animal with limited ability but he has a function in battering opposing centre backs and being a target man. I'm pleased PH has a different approach to our game and I would hate to have to rely on playing the likes of Rhead in our team and adopting those tactics.

I bet rhead is Damon's best customer the fat cuunt

Just seen the highlights and we outplayed them with only 10 men,

We have got a team that never gives up,

We will get the results and shut the moaners up very soon,

Can't wait to see us beat Boreham Wood next week,

I wish I could get to more home games but that is not possible.

Quoted from grimsby pete

Just seen the highlights and we outplayed them with only 10 men,

We have got a team that never gives up,

We will get the results and shut the moaners up very soon,

Can't wait to see us beat Boreham Wood next week,

I wish I could get to more home games but that is not possible.

Do the highlights show what went on before Gowling grabbed fatty?

No they dont, they follow the ball