The #GTFC Team v Cambridge: McKeown; Bignot, Fyfield, Pearson, McDonald; Kerr, Disley, Neilson, Rodman; John-Lewis & Hannah #utm

Just setting off for BP. Can't wait!

Oh, and the subs are


#GTFC Subs: Colbeck, Cook, Thanoj, Hatton & Tounkara #utm

Good line up today, really hope they can perform, i am sure Pearson will make a difference. I am at work  unfortunately so will have to make do with commentary.

C,Mon Town Wembley place at stake today!

Ready to play count the offsides since Hannah's starting!

Come on you mariners!!!!!

Oh when the town, go steaming in! Oh when the town go steaming in! I wanna be in that number! Oh when the town go steaming in!

Come on you mariners

Quoted from GrimsbyTiger4

Oh when the town, go steaming in! Oh when the town go steaming in! I wanna be in that number! Oh when the town go steaming in!

Knock knock

Wakey Wakey town!!

Iffy start so far, they've had a couple of chances

So...who will christen the scoreboard with the first goal? Them or us  :-/

FFS 0-1 (1-3)

Oh....there's the answer..

Ffs

fuuuuuuuuuck

So they score...from the kick off they attack us and get a corner. And Paul Hurst is apparently happy with our starts?

Yet another poor start....

Lets hope we can struggle through into the playoffs.

We sound all over the place

Honestly, what a load of sh1t

Another shocking start to a game by GTFC. It's not a problem though, ask Paul.

FFS come on town!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cambridge seem more interested in trying to thrash us than defend their lead

Do we bother to warm up nowadays?

Stuck at work & this is really rubbing it in !!

We've been poo for 2 months, Cambridge away in the league aside. I'm not sure, apart from tinkering, what has been done to remedy it. Our central midfield needs refreshing and that's been obvious since Christmas.

Bottlers at home or poor tactics?

Too predictable by the sounds of things!

Please don't mention Bird and Hurst in the same sentence Mr Tondeur. It just gives me an image of Hurst looking at Birds name on a piece of paper with the words available, and Hurst furrowing his brow, shrugging and binning said piece of paper.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Knock knock

Who's there

Quoted from GrimsbyTiger4

Who's there

Oh Wendy

Quoted from GrimsbyTiger4

Who's there

Cambridge !

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Oh Wendy

Taaaaaaaaaan, go steaminggggg innnnnnnn!

It sounds utter cr@p. We've got nothing.

Quoted from chaos33

It sounds utter cr@p. We've got nothing.

Same as always, LJL trying his hardest, to no avail...

No support,

Gives ball away,

Fires high and wide,

Town are just terrible,

Sort it Hurst or we might have to get somebody who can.

Get in

1-1 Neilson (2-3)

Neilson !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good old Hursty, you sorted it.

Why do we do this create hope every time your about to give up :)

goooooalalallllllll

'They(Town)'ve just been terrible haven't they'...

In a semi final where the prize is Wembley!!  :B

Oh, goal from nothing! We'll smash 'em!  ;)

Quoted from AdamHaddock

1-1 Nelilon

The Celtic manager  ;)

We dont want half time

Score a goal and we start playing. Hurst really needs to start earning his wage and figure out why we do this.

Feeling a bit better after the goal but that first half still sounded as bad as anything since we landed in this division. Big improvement needed second half because I can see Cambridge getting another

Why do Town do this to me? Im a bag of nerves sat here.

Goal came from a big McKeown free kick into the box and was a great finish. We've woken up a bit since scoring (LJL carved a good chance out for himself but as usual spooned over), however up until then we've been utter excrement. Neilson's the only player looking remotely up for it today. Rodman has been dire.

Quoted from RoboCod

Score a goal and we start playing. Hurst really needs to start earning his wage and figure out why we do this.

Agree, he says people should not get on the slow start band wagon and get behind the team,

Well Paul, if you told the players to start at a faster tempo instead of being slow and steady,

The home fans would get behind the team from the start and put fear into the opposition ,

Grab the game by the balls at the start of a game and our home form will improve.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Goal came from a big McKeown free kick into the box and was a great finish. We've woken up a bit since scoring (LJL carved a good chance out for himself but as usual spooned over), however up until then we've been utter excrement. Neilson's the only player looking remotely up for it today. Rodman has been dire.

Rodman is dire I'm afraid to say. He'll smash 'em second half! ;)

Cheers Chris. Many Cambridge fans made the journey?

Quoted from immariner

Rodman is dire I'm afraid to say. He'll smash 'em second half! ;)

Cheers Chris. Many Cambridge fans made the journey?

Looks to be about 2 to 300 of them here. Quite nice to see a crowd in the Osmond for once!

Quoted from Chrisblor

Looks to be about 2 to 300 of them here. Quite nice to see a crowd in the Osmond for once!

That's dreadful! Nice, big away crowd for us though!

Started better this half. Need a hypnotist to tell Town it's the second half when we kick off the first half...

C,mon Town, we can do this.

Unlucky Hannah

Not very good Hannah

Tondeur doesn't understand how the keeper saved it, Croft says poor finish...

The keeper saved it because it was straight at him

Town dominating in the second half but still short of that final ball at times

Come on Town

Hannah off side again. :o

Hannah is one of the least intelligent strikers we've ever had (at least that I've seen). He might be a sniffer but he simply does not understand the offside rule which nullifies all of our momentum.

Get Tonk on.

Bring on The Tonk !

Arrrrgh!!!!!

Takes off our most creative player again. :/

Gosh, Neilson off.....for a change :-/

Tonk and Colbeck on,

Hannah and Neilson off.

Noooooo! Ridiculous taking Nielson off. Terrible decision from Hurst. There goes our chance. Massively pi$$ ed off.

Barnet winning at Wrexham, we've an awful lot of points to make up because of this stupid cup.

Gainsborough trinity have scored from a Winfarrah corner.

Mr. Hurst is RAPIDLY getting on my mammaries! :(

Quoted from Southwark Mariner

Gainsborough trinity have scored from a Winfarrah corner.

Bring him back!

Why take neilson off when rodman is rubbish?

How hard is crossing, seriously?? Getting it away from the goalkeeper and in the 6 yard box - penalty spot area; we turn it into an impossible art!!

Are LJL, Kerr and Disley still playing?

Not sure what Hurst has against Neilson, who always seems to get subbed at this stage in the game.  I'm not sure I buy this "he isn't fit" thing either.  Neilson's always been "unfit" or "carrying timber" or whatever.  If he's a professional athlete, she should be fit, unless he's some sort of Ledley King who can now only ever be used sparingly.

I don't think that's the case though and fear that the more likely reason is that Hurst is still wedded to some of the worst long-ball traits of Rob Scott.  We see this with the repeated late introductions of Cook, which usually heralds the start of a desperate Lincoln-esque hoofball assault.  I hope I'm wrong.

Surely you have to keep Neilson on the pitch in such an important game. Some decisions Paul makes are baffling!

The worst thing is we could have won something this year but slow starts in both games have stopped us.

All over. The second half sounded good from town but Cambridge definitely superior over the two legs. Need to get our act together to get back in the play off picture

As soon as cambridge scored today we were out of the competition

Quoted from AdamHaddock

All over. The second half sounded good from town but Cambridge definitely superior over the two legs. Need to get our act together to get back in the play off picture

It didn't sound good. Lots of possession but almost zilch created.

Afraid we got what we deserved, just not good enough on the day, again. I really fear for our ability to progress through the playoffs. :-/

Well done town. Proud of you as always, now, let's concentrate on getting back in the play offs. Well done to the lads (and lasses) that turned up today. Brilliant noise from them. Embarrassing that Cambridge only brought 300.

Conference league......premier league fans

Neilson and Colbeck to start on Tuesday please

Didn't surprise me - the manager can only blame himself - he didn't learn from the previous 2 games and only offered predictability in a one off cup game that would have been very lucrative, had they won :-/

I'm deflated but to be honest i was expecting us to go out, We have to make the playoffs now,

We have to re-group and improve, We need to Get at teams from the off, the lack of goals is worrying!

I think this will do more harm to the players going out at this stage..... humberside kept on going on about we have no quality,, suprize suprize,, we are non league . i doubt we will make the playoffs either,,we are well short center mid and up front

Glad wer'e finally out, but not at all happy with the current situation. If we start games like this, and there's no sign of it stopping, or even being acknowledged by Hurst, we can and will lose to anyone in this division. Don't see us winning 4 games in hand, we'll probably average 6 or 7 points from them (possible less) but even 7 points will only just bring us level with Alfreton!
Usual end of season flop ahead of us, would love to feel more positive.

With the strikers we've got we'll do well to make the play offs . We probably won't lose many but we won't win many , the season fizzling out in a succession of draws unless we get 2 strikers in on loan who pose a threat in front of goal . If it means loaning out a couple of our ineffective 4 some I'd do it

Neilson was constantly getting hold of the ball and running at their defence causing problems before he was subbed off. He is definitely not unfit - Hurst just has his favourites who stay on regardless of how poorly they play *cough*Rodman*cough*

At one point Fyfield was hunched over with his hands on his thighs looking knackered, yet stayed on for the full 90 minutes...

Why was Neilson taken off?

Disappointing result and I really hope it doesn't demotivate the lads further as we do seem to be on a bit of a downer at the moment. Hope they can just focus on getting back into the play-offs and, of course, getting promoted this season.