Any team news?

cook and lewis upfront,  Strange pairing to me

A chance for cook tho to claim a place ....Over to you Andy  :) :)

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Hatton Doig McLaughlin Cook in. Pearson Hannah Neilson Bignot out.

I think PH has picked a side with the opposition and the conditions in mind, something he doesn't often do. Two big strikers to contend in both boxes. Hatton better in the air than Biggers IMO, Paddy more defensive minded than Scotty Neils. Strong team though with a strong bench. UTM

Team:  Mckeown, Hatton, Kerr, Doig, Disley Cook, MacDonald, LJL, Rodman, McLaughlan and Fyfield

Subs Tomas, Neilson, Hannah, Thanoj, Tonka

Colbeck not in squad. Illness, injury or just left out?

Cambridge have only played 2 games at home since Christmas, and have lost both of them - UTM

Interesting from paul! But come on mariners!!!!!

C'mon Cookie I hope he makes his critics eat their words.

Would have had Tounkara start because of his pace on the break

Really hope cookie does well

1' McLaughlin tries one straight from kick off...but it's not testing Norris in the Cambridge goal

Been a bit of a frantic start it seems.....or is it just JT getting over excited as he often does?

Hope Cookie takes his chance today.

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Quoted from Cumbrian Mariner

Hope Cookie takes his chance today.

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Agree, thought he was great vs Huddersfield, a real asset when he's on song

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Got to get the ball to him where he can hurt them though....not sure we'll be able to do that to be honest but time will tell

C,Mon Town!  Sounds about even at the minute , we will need to take advantage of the wind this half though!

Quoted from stuart brace was king

Agree, thought he was great vs Huddersfield, a real asset when he's on song

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Yep, Coolie was a handful that day and very unlucky not to keep his place in the next game.  When he came on as sub against Tamworth though he really looked up for it and I was chuffed when he got the 4th.  He needs to get a run of games to get his confidence up.

Ffs

Bloody hell 1.0 cambridge.

Damn!  1-0 Cambridge  :(

0-1 Cambridge

Slow start by Town (again!!)

We always start so bloody slow

We are playing rubbish AGAIN

Exactly what we deserve. Totally pathetic start to this from town.

Sounds like Big Mac his having a mare

Very odd team selection. Not got a good feeling about this.

Call me negative but I can see us losing by 3 or 4 today

Not in this first half hour

Not sounding good is it :/ come on town!!!!

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Call me negative but I can see us losing by 3 or 4 today

Never say never but I don't see that happening....would be gutting if it did though :-/

We will still win start second half really well.

Take this score right now

Conditions no doubt are not helping, but for the past couple of months why do we struggle for the first 20 minutes or so?

A lot of Town players first touch doesn't seem to good today, the pitch will not be helping.  Hope against the wind we play the ball on the deck and up our tempo.

When you play with the wind the tendency seems to be to use the long ball.

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Cambridge are playing on the same pitch. I want to know when our midfield decide to join the game

Quoted from Garth

Take this score right now

Me too...they nearly scored again and we're still not at the races! :-/

We will do well to not concede again in this half, just hope Hurst  can re-organise us and make a game of it in the second half.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Cambridge are playing on the same pitch. I want to know when our midfield decide to join the game

That was the problem last week too imho

Sounds like Cambridge want it more.
At least some of the league scores are going our way.

Meanwhile, in the conference:

Lincoln 1-0 winning against Kiddy
Gateshead losing 0-1 to Woking
Luton winning 1-0
Nuneaton winning 1-0
Salisbury 0-2 against Southport

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Has Mclaughlin touched the ball yet other than his pointless shot at kick off

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Has Mclaughlin touched the ball yet other than his pointless shot at kick off

Was just thinking the same thing

Going back to the start of the season, when McLaughlin, Kerr and Disley all played in midfield we never did that well...seems they just don't work together

Score? Only just got internet back :(

Corner along the ground.. It worked what once and even that was a bit of a lucky deflection.. We've got a real arial threat team today and we flipping do that.  Awful so far by town!

We seem unable to create anything at the moment.

Get tonk on take ljl off put neilson on take mclauglin off.

Seems like Rodman is having one of those head down dashes into a group of defenders days

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Score? Only just got internet back :(

Losing 1-0, haven't played well so far.

Our fans have gone quiet, every time JLL touches the ball he either loses it or fluffs his chance!

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

Was just thinking the same thing

Going back to the start of the season, when McLaughlin, Kerr and Disley all played in midfield we never did that well...seems they just don't work together

I just think disley goes missing and doesn't push up often enough considering he's supposed to be the more attacking midfielder of the two, kerr's really effective in what he does but when he has a bad game or is out the entire midfield crumbles. I thought if there was a lesson from last season it would have been two nivens would be better than one. And on Mclaughin, the only times i've seen him do well seems to be when he's on the wings doing berbatov skills to get past defenders (probably like two or three times this season), think he's got his position wrong.

Is Disley playing Did he play last week?

Just need to get in to half time without any more damage and then re-group for the second half.

I like Big Chris's commentary he is honest and at times quite funny.

I wasn't too confident about today I put a 2-0 defeat down not having Pearson was key decision for to go for that defeat but not only that Cambridge haven't lost many so who knows but we need an away goal.

Need changes second half if things don`t alter after 60 minutes, front two not working, no midfield and a shaky defence

HT

Got away with if from the sounds of it

Need to be much better 2nd half

If you was paul hurst what would you do?

I would bring Neilson and Tonk on!

Quoted from chaos33

Is Disley playing Did he play last week?

The only way you ever find out is by the teamsheet or the scoresheet

Get rodman off and put colebeck on.

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Get rodman off and put colebeck on.

Things must be bad!

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Get rodman off and put colebeck on.

Think we might have to change the rules for this to happen

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Get rodman off and put colebeck on.

He's not even on the bench is he?

At least Rodman seems to be trying to do something even if it's not working today

Too many others aren't even getting in to the game from the sounds of things

Do we really need to make changes for change sake.  What impact do you think it has for me its the players that are in form which I would replace if injured or they are fatigued.  I'd love to be a manager lol

Sounds like more of the same so far...Cambridge imposing themselves

Going to be a long 45 minutes unless something drastic goes our way

Come on town amd didnt realose he wasn't on bench am at work was just catching up quick aha

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Come on town amd didnt realose he wasn't on bench am at work was just catching up quick aha

He's probably had as much impact as anyone today to be honest though.... ;D

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

He's probably had as much impact as anyone today to be honest though.... ;D

He will score as well now  

Great fgs playing poor

Game over!

Quoted from 1291[b

]Do we really need to make changes for change sake.[/b]  What impact do you think it has for me its the players that are in form which I would replace if injured or they are fatigued.  I'd love to be a manager lol

We do now

2-0 now....

Think we can forget about Wembley  :-/

I think I mentioned this Bird guy would make a difference to their attack as opposed to the last game.

flipping dire

flipping rubish, gotta keep it at 2 or tie's over

We need to make changes NOW

Come on Hursty change it

Should have had a bet.  Great now lets focus on the league.

Reminder: Portsmouth offered us Ryan Bird on loan in January but Paul Hurst turned him down.

Looking like a good decision that...

The Cambridge team are literally taking the urine out of us.  To Paddy, Cook, Hatton and any players who want the whinge in the future about not getting a Janice or starting.. Please refer to this performance! and the rest of you regular starters, you've been male masturbation today

Quoted from Madeleymariner

I think I mentioned this Bird guy would make a difference to their attack as opposed to the last game.

Our attack has been none existent....but that's because of such poor service to our front players.

But to be frank we've been outfought and outplayed all over the park today

Have cambridge let in more than 2 goals this season?

Wasn't bothered about going to wembley, but our form recently is just getting a bit worrying, as good as winning away at cambridge was, its going to be useless if we're not in good form for every other game. Next game I want to see a bit of a change in gameplan, tonkoura starting, and a team that can actually do counterattacks, quickly, not just pass it sideways until the other team has got all 11 back behind the ball.

Come on FFS change it

They didn't want this game. Let's exit this competition and get back to the League. Feel for the travelling fans but we need to get this team back into good form in the league games. A team starting with Cook and LJL is one heading out of any competition.

It's unbelievable how much a strong back 4 is ruined by Shaun Pearson not being present.

Please change it PH this is dire!

Do these players want to play at Wembley or what? Do they realise whats at stake here?

Quoted from RoboCod

They didn't want this game. Let's exit this competition and get back to the League. Feel for the travelling fans but we need to get this team back into good form in the league games. A team starting with Cook and LJL is one heading out of any competition.

Yer Cook and LJL probably won't cross Hurst mind again this season lol.

Luton making short work of Hereford (3-0 now). Looks like that's the league sewn up for them in mid-February

Quoted from springstomind

Yer Cook and LJL probably won't cross Hurst mind again this season lol.

No way I would lay any blame on the front two today....it's the players behind them that haven't put in a shift

Quoted from cmackenzie4

Do these players want to play at Wembley or what? Do they realise whats at stake here?

They should want to win every game but I'd definately say its not the most appetising of finals. I just hope we don't flop like this in the play off semi's again.

im so so angry, feel for our fans, this is a fantastic oppurtunity for MONEY for the club, sounds to me like there has not been a player in a town shirt who has given anything today

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

No way I would lay any blame on the front two today....it's the players behind them that haven't put in a shift

Yer not JUST them mate, but it
Doesn't make the mouth water does it lol.

Bottom line is Cook and LJL will not get us out this league! They are not consistent enough.

Need a change now, this lots no good

Can't believe Hurst started with McLaughlin on the wing and Cook and LJL upfront!! Love to know his reasoning.

Come on HATTON, lets have a sot on target

PH can naive sometimes Tounkara played really well yet got drop why the hell has he signed him on loan.  

Drops Cookie after great performance against Huddersfield
drops Tounkara after an assist and goal
Continously subs Neilson after 65 mins
never drops Disley

I cant be arsed to list others but PH needs to stop messing with players confidence dropping then after they played well.  Oh well.

Quoted from immariner

Can't believe Hurst started with McLaughlin on the wing and Cook and LJL upfront!! Love to know his reasoning.

When interviewed that would be the first question i would  ask him.

Second coach just got to the game

Not many had any interest in this competition but everyone said that getting to the semis and losing would be the worst possible outcome.
Why the hell has he has selected this team in this game is beyond me ? Looks like this season will pan out just the same as last but without the terrible Wembley  day out  :o

Sub: Kerr off Neilson on ?

Scott Kerr off and Scott Nielson on for the last 20 minutes

Come on Town......give us something to believe in for next week

How the intercourse does Disley stay on the pitch all the time? LJL too.

Come on Town, give the fans something to shout about and they will sing all day for you.

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flipping excrement corner.

Substitutions 20 mins too late

4 against 3 after our corner....

Lucky they didn't get a third

Disley and John Lewis are untouchable despite showing turd form.

Sounds just the same as last week - no urgency, second ball wins, energy, forwards isolated, no supporting runners. Just sh1t. Weak in all areas.

Wtf is with these corners lmao? Actually ridiculous football

Should have started!!

If we do get knocked out in the semis (which is looking likely) it will be interesting to see how it will affect our performances for the all important up coming league games.

Cookie going off and Tonk to replace him

Too little too late from PH...but fingers crossed they can work as well together as they did v Tamworth

I don't want people to think im making a scapegoat of him for today, but definately think disley needs a few games out, just seems unfair that even when he's scored in games he's never really stood out for me this season in most games, not a good enough leader to be captain, bit like tom cleverly not sure what he does do alot of the time, just makes alot of sideways passes, seems unfair that mclaughin and thanoj can only get one game as an opportunity never a run, how can you judge them that way, all 3 seem like the type to partner kerr not to replace him, so disley should be the one to get left out.

Meanwhile back in the league....Luton 5-0 up. Romping home!

IF we make the play-offs what odds on us falling flat with another couple of performances like today?

This defeat will mess up our season they will either turn it on or shrink

It will be interesting to see if the comments by JT regarding how sh1t we are will be relayed to Hurst during the after match summary by him

GIMPS now 2-0 up against Kiddy

If be gutted as if love to go Wembley again, but if we do go out in semis may not be end of the world as we really need to pick up in he league, as if Luton and it's looks like they might win the league, can you currently see us beating this Cambridge team again ... given our current form. Being at home doesn't even seem to give us advantage recently.. Never mind away games.

Really need to pick up some momentum going into the play offs! Assuming we make them! Looking forward to having Pearson back :(!

Thanoj replaces injured McLaughlin

8 mins left for them to give us something to play for next week

If we can nick a late goal, we're right back in this tie

Starting to have a couple of chances, better late than never - hopefully we will put one away for the fans.

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Can you imagine what the players might say.....why does Disley always play even when he's had a bad game...back stabbing does happen even in football.

bad day I tink now im picking every fault I can muster. Lol

McKeown makes another save. Their goalkeeper has caught a tame, deflected shot and a few crosses. How uninspiring.

Sometimes systems don't work but it's unfathomable that so many players can be so sh1t on an individual level. JT is a doom-monger but everything is 'poor' this, 'hopeless' that...not good enough!

Town fans are in full voice, fantastic again.

Its the final ball all the bloody time.

Quoted from Garth

It will be interesting to see if the comments by JT regarding how sh1t we are will be relayed to Hurst during the after match summary by him

Let Chris ask the questions as to why we've failed to turn up for what's one of our biggest games so far this season

Any more performances like this and we won't have any more big games at all

Or we just run it for a pissing goalkick.

Quoted from Cumbrian Mariner

Town fans are in full voice, fantastic again.

Thats good because at least hurst can't subtly blame the fans for a change

Tomlinson   scored twice again for Lincoln, is he any good?

He scores goals something our strikers can not do.

Not just this game but  all the ones since Christmas tells me we seem to be following last seasons fade away form, and I fear now for the playoffs

Quoted from WHYWONTYOULETMESIGNUP

Thats good because at least hurst can't subtly blame the fans for a change

Fans' expectations put too much pressure on the players maybe? That'd be a "good" excuse

Thats what will cost us from going up lack of goals.

Quoted from Meza

Thats what will cost us from going up lack of goals.

Same as last season .

Attendance: 3264, 1023 Town fans - fantastic travelling support again

3264 at the game

1023 Town fans

As JT says they deserve better

PH comes across as a soft manager if the players really wanted to play for him they would be up for it what will he do change it he does that anyway.  He's making a rod for his own back.  Having said that lack of recent matches might be the reason in dip in form

Why cant we pass a ball?

Lmfao.. Unbelievable

YESSSSS   SHOP 2-1

2.1 last minute in injury time - would you believe it?

Ahaha robbed  

hahaha GET IN

JT needs new glasses!!

excrement. The. Bed.

Daylght Robbery! Long live male private Turpin

Cambridge fans must be spewing .. We deserve nothing from this game lmao.. we are capable of a 1 goal deficit win at home aren't we? Lmao! Hmmm

Don't let that goal get in the way of a s**t performance from town today, because I won't

2=1 Come on.

Listen to the Town fans, we will support you every day of the week - all we ask is that you turn up!  

Back in the tie now despite a terrible performance, got to be much better next week - a game at wembley is at stake.  

Taking the positives out of it at least we kept going to the very end.

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We're dire at home, winning away was our best hope. Still, back in it.

Cambridge must feel gutted, i know they won but to concede in injury time like that must be a massive blow, game on now!

Quoted from Teestogreen

If we can nick a late goal, we're right back in this tie

See  ;D

We'll still get stuffed at home anyway ,i cant remember us playing well in any home league game this season  :-/

Quoted from ackomariner

Don't let that goal get in the way of a s**t performance from town today, because I won't

Life isn't perfect and occasionally we are going to play poor, we have to forget about it, learn and move on

Game is well on now

Quoted from ackomariner

Don't let that goal get in the way of a s**t performance from town today, because I won't

Agreed it was absolutely dog egg mate.. I think everyone will be happy about the fact that this gives us a punchers chance .. People are going to be happy BECAUSE we were so poor and managed to come away with a 2-1 defeat.. But yes not acceptable from nearly every player today

Conference scores:

Barnet 1 Tamworth 0

Gateshead 0 Woking 2

GIMPS 2 Kiddy 0

Luton 7 Hereford 0

Nuneaton 1 Hyde 0

Southport 3 Salisbury 1

Quoted from Cumbrian Mariner

Conference scores:
When have we looked llike scoring 7 in a game this season ? I cant remember us scoring 3 this year  :-/

Barnet 1 Tamworth 0

Gateshead 0 Woking 2

GIMPS 2 Kiddy 0

Luton 7 Hereford 0

Nuneaton 1 Hyde 0

Southport 3 Salisbury 1

Quoted from Garth

Not just this game but  all the ones since Christmas tells me we seem to be following last seasons fade away form, and I fear now for the playoffs

The thing is, a team should evolve through the season, no players position in the team should be safe unless they're doing consistantly well, but paul hurst (and rob scott aswell) don't seem to have the balance of rotation and there never seems to be any adapting of gameplans as to what where up against. Some players don't seem to be allowed a real chance and some players seem to be guarantee'd a place in the team no matter what. Often changes that positvely affect the team only come by accident through an injury to one of the favoured players. The fact is we do have a quality team (though short in depth) and have often had to use that quality to battle through games where our gameplan is wrong. Often if the other team has any kind of quality, and our tactics aren't right for the game, its just game over, nothing will change throughout, as seen today. One of our main problems for over 3 seasons has been the slow pace of our counter attacks. How can the manager(s) have sat back and watched us fail to do, what so many teams do so succesfully to us. And thats have players up and ready, for when we get the ball out, to run up the other end, and create a chance, swiftly and aggressively. This season started with them seeming to miss the philosophy of the idea of a 4-3-3, but sticking with it way after everyone else could see it wasn't working, with no positives really anywhere to be seen. I really have respected the players we've signed in the last few years and definately beleive paul hurst has a great eye for qualities in players, but tactically we just seem fairly inept and I can only remember ONE real tactical change halfway through a game, and one that worked and that was in the FA trophy final last season.

Also whats with making subs so late on all the time?

Thank god we got the away goal means a lot

hopefully we'll turn them over at home like the kiddie, Northampton, Huddersfield etc

but they know they must improve you cant get any worse.

Did Tounkara do well when he came on.

Do away goals count????

Get in, was looking very depressing but amazing support!

Quoted from Meza

PH comes across as a soft manager if the players really wanted to play for him they would be up for it what will he do change it he does that anyway.  He's making a rod for his own back.  Having said that lack of recent matches might be the reason in dip in form

Prefer PH "Soft manager" to shouty and angry Scott.  At the end of the day on our good run of form the players looked completely behind him, poor form atm perhaps but he is not the kind of man to get excited when we are on good form or down when we are struglling, that kind of stability is good imo!

Quoted from sutton mariner

Do away goals count????

Checked the rtule book last night, nope

Quoted from grimps

We'll still get stuffed at home anyway ,i cant remember us playing well in any home league game this season  :-/

Huddersfield and kiddie there's two off the top of my head

Quoted from cmackenzie4

Cambridge must feel gutted, i know they won but to concede in injury time like that must be a massive blow, game on now!

Excuse the managerial pun Chris but that's  bang on the money!  ;)

Luton are well ahead now, could have the title sewn up in the next few weeks.

Even if not deserved, the team have a reasonable chance of getting to Wembley.    The main aim though is to get to the play-offs in anything like decent form.   The opposition is likely to be easier than last year.

Massive, massive goal from John-Lewis to get us out of jail after that performance.

Lets go and turn it around next week now!

Final score?

2-1

Screw next Saturday, we need much, much better against Barnet on Tuesday.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Final score?

You having a laugh?  ;D

Cambridge 2 Town 1

Set up very nicley for second leg.

Quoted from thevera

Huddersfield and kiddie there's two off the top of my head

Hudds was in the cup

Quoted from grimps

We'll still get stuffed at home anyway ,i cant remember us playing well in any home league game this season  :-/

Kiddy. And, er, that's it!

Quoted from grimps

Hudds was in the cup

So's the Cambridge game next Saturday!

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

So's the Cambridge game next Saturday!

So we have played well in one league game a home this season then ?
This does not fill me with confidence ,I know I'm sounding negative but I seem to have a six sense when it comes to Town.
I had a feeling we'd be shite today the same as last week ,When i saw the team news I knew we'd lose and I expect so did many others on here.
Maybe its just years of Grimsby being excrement has knocked any optimism out of me  ;)

Quoted from grimps

So we have played well in one league game a home this season then ?
This does not fill me with confidence ,I know I'm sounding negative but I seem to have a six sense when it comes to Town.
I had a feeling we'd be shite today the same as last week ,When i saw the team news I knew we'd lose and I expect so did many others on here.
Maybe its just years of Grimsby being excrement has knocked any optimism out of me ;)

Wasn't Ambitious, Just shows what Hurst really thinks of the Trophy.

Quoted from GrimsbyTiger4

Wasn't Ambitious, Just shows what Hurst really thinks of the Trophy.

But two good performances and we're back at Wembley.....as favourites to win too.

A no brainer for me...Hurst wants us to win the trophy but set up a side today that was much too cautious and it came back to bite us

Still Shop's goal gives us a lifeline to show what we can really do IF we take the game to them

We're not going to win the league so to get the trophy win under our belt and then push on to win promotion via the play offs has to be the aim

Quoted from GrimsbyTiger4

Wasn't Ambitious, Just shows what Hurst really thinks of the Trophy.

Having seen the line-up I'd have taken 2-1; thought we'd lose by at least 2 and so nearly did. Gives us a shout but we've been so poor at home recently, hopefully the significance of the match renders those performances irrelevant; the players certainly need to forget about them and conjure the spirit of the Kidderminster and Huddersfield games.

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

But two good performances and we're back at Wembley.....as favourites to win too.

A no brainer for me...Hurst wants us to win the trophy but set up a side today that was much too cautious and it came back to bite us

Still Shop's goal gives us a lifeline to show what we can really do IF we take the game to them

We're not going to win the league so to get the trophy win under our belt and then push on to win promotion via the play offs has to be the aim

I hope so mate, and tbh he has to say that he wants to win it. I'd love us to truly conquer the conference, Fa Trophy and a play-off final win. Two days out, both at wembley (if play-offs are at wembley this year) i feel another wembley double coming on... Reminiscences of '98 ;) UTM

If we dont go up I just hope we dont lose the core of the team

McKeown
Thomas
Kerr
Disley (he just needs a rest but has scored a few)


We could end up losing

McKeown
Thomas
Hatton (he will go)
McDonald
Doig
Kerr
Disley
McLaughlin
Rodman
Neilson
Hannah
LJL
Cook
Hearn

we could end up building a new team due to cost cutting then end up mid table.  :(

Quoted from GrimsbyTiger4

I hope so mate, and tbh he has to say that he wants to win it. I'd love us to truly conquer the conference, Fa Trophy and a play-off final win. Two days out, both at wembley (if play-offs are at wembley this year) i feel another wembley double coming on... Reminiscences of '98 ;) UTM

To quote Kevin Keegan

I'd love it, just love it!  ;)

Quoted from FishOutOfWater

You having a laugh?  ;D

Cambridge 2 Town 1

NO Tim, somebody said away goals do not count,

So we must have lost 2-0  ;)

Quoted from grimsby pete

NO Tim, somebody said away goals do not count,

So we must have lost 2-0  ;)

haha oh dear......
Anything for a laugh ay pete ;)

Quoted from GrimsbyTiger4

haha oh dear......
Anything for a laugh ay pete ;)

Sorry Tiger, I just can't help myself. :)

Quoted from grimsby pete

Sorry Tiger, I just can't help myself. :)

It made me laugh out loud Pete  ;D

Btw bet you're glad you didn't get there in the end today....would have compounded your woes no doubt so best you stayed away

Having said that the Shop's goal has worked as a pick-me-up this evening because otherwise I'd have been a miserable old git but now I'm looking forward to next week

Funny old game innit?  ;)

Quoted from grimsby pete

Sorry Tiger, I just can't help myself. :)

haha im 'avin a laugh with ya mate, peteLAD

Quoted from GrimsbyTiger4

haha im 'avin a laugh with ya mate, peteLAD

I know mate, I just can not be serious,

Life is too short.

Quoted from grimsby pete

I know mate, I just can not be serious,

Life is too short.

And that is why i'm grimsby 'till i die

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