Good strong team. Line up as expected, but no Gowling. Anyone know why?

He apparently felt his groin at HT on Tuesday but very glad Shaun is back in.

Carrying an injury, apparently.

Amond and Bogle up front. Interesting. It's so crazy it may even work.

I think Hoban is injured as well. Hopefully his and Gowling's are just minor knocks and they'll be fit for the play-offs.

Henderson on the bench...😳

Please can we get back into the clean sheet habit today

Simon he slop scores early equaliser for wrexham and kiddy take lead v dover

Two chances missed by podge so far

Quoted from psgmariner

Amond and Bogle up front. Interesting. It's so crazy it may even work.

Playing two of the leagues leading scorers up front together?? He's nuts that hurst, absolutely barking mad. Next He will be telling us that winning matches is more important than keeping a clean sheet and maintaining 'us shape'

holman scores , noooooooooooooo

Quoted from jimgtfc

Henderson on the bench...😳

Can someone inform the police he's been found.

Ben Tomlinson puts barrow one up. Alan Goodall scores og for morecambe and Wrexham go 2-1 up v braintree. Andrew Wright puts southport 2-1 up

Think monkhouse has been very good

Sounds like we should be comfortably ahead on the radio?

Chester score :( FFS.

But losing on the pitch

FFS!

Quoted from mariner91

Sounds like we should be comfortably ahead on the radio?

That was tempting fate. Now look what happened....

Sorry people, jinxed it.

Quoted from Freemoash88

FFS!

WHS

Fat read scores 1 of 2 Lincoln goals in 2 minutes and scunts go 1 up

Can't we , for once, just thrash one of these crap teams without drama?

Just needs Braintree and Eastleigh to score now and we're in a bit of doo doo!

Last 3 away:
7 points and 8 goals.

Last 3 at home:
No goals and 1 point so far.  

2-0 chester.

FFS!!

Clearly if we get into the playoffs it's going to be by the absolute skin of our teeth! :(

FFS

FFS

night night play offs

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Whey !! We copulated this up no play offs this year, bye bye Hursty

what the bugg3ry!

WTF!

Can you see us winning if we do make the playoffs

What a fu(king joke.

Quoted from denni266

night night play offs

As it stands with other results play offs are confirmed.

So much for resting all the key players at Tranmere.....

This isn't good...

Where is Jordan Stewart when you need him?
Ooops - sorry - there must be someone on the bench that can turn a game.

110K ?? Wasted on this crap !!

We just don’t do things easy very bad form Hurst get some bloody attacking options on.

Quoted from OllieGTFC

Whey !! We copulated this up no play offs this year, bye bye Hursty

Get a grip.  We will still be in this evening unless both Eastleigh and Braintree win today and we have another match too.

FFS Hannah on to finish us off.

Well at least everyone should be happy that Amond and Bogle are playing

Chester 2-0 up and throwing Hannah on, looking for MORE goals?

Embarrassing(blushing)

I don't say this very often as I can't stand seeing him on the pitch, but I wish he hadn't taken Monkey off he sounded like one of the few players creating anything for a change

LondonMariner- am taking your happy that we are 2-0 down then ? And nearly out the play offs ?

Att 4,575. 200+ from Chester.

Quoted from OllieGTFC

LondonMariner- am taking your happy that we are 2-0 down then ? And nearly out the play offs ?

We're just saving our goals for the playoffs  ;D

If results stay as they are, we are guaranteed a play-off place.

We won't make the play offs when we lose to tranmere 😂 Always next year

Quoted from OllieGTFC

We won't make the play offs when we lose to tranmere 😂 Always next year

Get a grip man, we'll make the play offs tonight ;)

No way are we going to Wembley on this form absolutely awful. Where is the response??

I think it's all part of his cunning plan. Hurst realised we couldn't catch Cheltenham, so now he's trying lull the other playoff teams into a false sense of security

Quoted from Harry Haddock

Get a grip man, we'll make the play offs tonight ;)

is it worth being in them playing like we are

Quoted from OllieGTFC

We won't make the play offs when we lose to tranmere 😂 Always next year

Check the league table, if Eastleigh draw, as they are doing at the moment, they will have 76 points with one game left, if we lose, we will still have 80 points with one game left, do the math!

Quoted from OllieGTFC

We won't make the play offs when we lose to tranmere 😂 Always next year

Does someone need to explain to you how this play off thing works?

Calvin Andrew pulls one back for Rochdale.the veggies are losing to Halifax. Braintree go 3-2 up

We will see then!! We make it to play off final I'll run the whole Grimsby road naked

Promised not to be negative but have to say this is quite worrying.


Not gonna get excited nor downbeat anything can happen in the playoffs but its not looking great is it ?

Braintree winning 😂😂😂

Braintree winning :-/

Diz scores..

Go Braintree

Disley scores!! A false hope?

Disley, still about ten to go. Jlaa gets shrewsburys third

Quoted from denni266

is it worth being in them playing like we are

You're absolutely right, we should let the kids play instead  :-/

Tranny winning...big game next week unless we get a point, they'll be gunning for it

Tranmere winning

Quoted from Mrs Doyle

Tranmere winning

They can't catch us.

Town need a goal   -    NNNOOOWWWWW!

Quoted from RoboCod

Tranny winning...big game next week unless we get a point, they'll be gunning for it

But it's irrelevant to us, coz that goal should confirm our play off place

Tranmere winning with two to go puts us in the play offs unless Eastleigh get an unlikely win.

Looks like Tranmere are coming to our rescue.....1 up at Eastleigh which could mean we are definitely in the play offs......

Quoted from Teestogreen

Town need a goal   -    NNNOOOWWWWW!

Why? We're as near as damnit confirmed in the play offs
Andy cook scores last minute equaliser for barrow at torquay

So it looks like were in the playoffs but with the most anticlimax of feelings.

Yep, a draw or a win for Tranmere and we are definitely in the play-offs.

Quoted from RoboCod

Tranny winning...big game next week unless we get a point, they'll be gunning for it

Instead of dishing out red crosses would you actually like to take issue with the above fact?

who cares if we lose today - it doesn't matter

It's absolutely incredible how little people understood the position we were in? Have you not looked at the league table or you don't understand how the play offs work? Ollie?

That's it, we are in.

Quoted from forza ivano

Why? We're as near as damnit confirmed in the play offs
Andy cook scores last minute equaliser for barrow at torquay

To avoid the prospect of playing Braintree - bogey team for me  :P

Big game for them not us

Quoted from RoboCod

Instead of dishing out red crosses would you actually like to take issue with the above fact?

Because it's irrelevant to us, we're in the play offs now.

Depends on the table, mine was late in updating, Tondeur's not helping..we scrape in with this defeat, I'm a little deflated on that display but a nothing game may give us time to to work this out.

Mariner91- yeah look at the position we are in, only just in the playoffs we shouldn't be losing to side like this no disrespect to them, we won't go up we are not good enough, our form going into the play off is pis poor

Quoted from mariner91

Because it's irrelevant to us, we're in the play offs now.

unfortunatly its not by us winning. its others that have put us in them :o

Quoted from RoboCod

Instead of dishing out red crosses would you actually like to take issue with the above fact?

You been on the vino robo? I think you will find that we are confirmed in the play offs so next week is irrelevant, might be big for tranmere but that's it

We might be able to piz Tranny off big deal.

Quoted from RonMariner

Can't we , for once, just thrash one of these crap teams without drama?

I think this is it for me. Why has it been such a nail biting crawl to this point, throwing away points to shite teams like Chester? I just can't understand it. Our overall goal tally and table position really has flattered us especially in this later half of the season.

Quoted from RoboCod

Depends on the table, mine was late in updating, Tondeur's not helping..we scrape in with this defeat, I'm a little deflated on that display but a nothing game may give us time to to work this out.

Five points clear with a  game left isn't really 'scraping in' is it.....?

Michael rankine scores alty s fifth

Sounded poor. Very poor for a promotion seeking side to lose last regular home game of the season like that, even though we're in the play offs. Poor reward for the 4000+ faithful who turned up.

Hope we take a point off Tranny next Saturday.

Quoted from denni266

unfortunatly its not by us winning. its others that have put us in them :o

I don't disagree with that, I'd much rather we'd cruised through with a 4-0 win. But the hysteria on here just now was hilarious, at no point today were we in danger of falling out the play offs and the Tranmere goal confirmed us as being in them. Yet some on here were acting like we'd just blown any chance of making it. Couldn't make it up.

You just never know past seasons we've been in decent form and blew it twice except against BR were we were robbed.  So maybe this time......who knows.

Quoted from OllieGTFC

Mariner91- yeah look at the position we are in, only just in the playoffs we shouldn't be losing to side like this no disrespect to them, we won't go up we are not good enough, our form going into the play off is pis poor

We're third and we're five points ahead of sixth place, hardly only just in the play offs is it? Ten minutes ago you were saying we'd blown it and wouldn't even get in them...

Yeah just looked at the table 😏

Easily could be VGR at home in play-offs.  Good or bad considering their collapse in form is even worst than ours?

Braintree look sure to grab a play off place after today's win. They play Altringham next week.

We should rest a few players next week, so I expect we will lose at Tranmere. We might then finish 5th and be playing FGR in the play off semi. As they seem to be in worse form than us at the moment that might not be a bad thing.

Quoted from LondonMariner43

Five points clear with a  game left isn't really 'scraping in' is it.....?

Limping into them then? That was a horrible 2nd half, as wayward and weak as anything we've had this season. 1 game left this season and we still haven't figured out how to beat these teams, specially in pressure games. Other than dropping Podge for a game then bringing him back but that's not really feasible long term.
Bit worried, still not doing the business regularly.

Quoted from mariner91

I don't disagree with that, I'd much rather we'd cruised through with a 4-0 win. But the hysteria on here just now was hilarious, at no point today were we in danger of falling out the play offs and the Tranmere goal confirmed us as being in them. Yet some on here were acting like we'd just blown any chance of making it. Couldn't make it up.

Not so. If Eastleigh had scored instead of Tranmere we would be in huge danger of not making it.

Anyway, irrelevant now. We need three good performances to go up.

It seems churlish to be critical on the day we clinch a play off place, but here was a 'must win' game against a very poor side. We failed.  It's only thanks to Tranmere beating a team that we couldn't even when they played half the game with ten men that we made it.

Not really a confidence booster is it.

Up to last week, Chester had lost more away league games than any other team this season in our Division.  They were bound to win then?

Quoted from RonMariner

Not so. If Eastleigh had scored instead of Tranmere we would be in huge danger of not making it.

Anyway, irrelevant now. We need three good performances to go up.

That's an if though, just like saying if we'd snatched an equaliser we'd have been definitely in. At no point were the scores today making it likely we wouldn't get in to the play offs.

Quoted from RonMariner

It seems churlish to be critical on the day we clinch a play off place, but here was a 'must win' game against a very poor side. We failed.  It's only thanks to Tranmere beating a team that we couldn't even when they played half the game with ten men that we made it.

Not really a confidence booster is it.

As you say, I don't think there's any positive spin to put on today. A third poor home performance in a row is very worrying.
We've made it based on 45 games though, not because Tranmere won. During the regular season we've got the better of VGR & Dover so we do have it in us.

I'm fuming with Hurst. All Grimsby had to do was win today and third place would now be certain (all but mathematically).
Now, unless Hurst goes for it next week which is highly unlikely against a motivated Tranmere, Grimsby will finish fourth or even fifth. That entails playing away in the second-leg, but much more importantly it means no return for those foolish enough to back Grimsby each-way ante-post.
HURST OUT!

Quoted from ROKERITE

I'm fuming with Hurst. All Grimsby had to do was win today and third place would now be certain (all but mathematically).
Now, unless Hurst goes for it next week which is highly unlikely against a motivated Tranmere, Grimsby will finish fourth or even fifth. That entails playing away in the second-leg, but much more importantly it means no return for those foolish enough to back Grimsby each-way ante-post.
HURST OUT!

I feel your pain. I wouldn't overestimate Tranmere though. Braintree only need to avoid defeat at home to Alty to keep Tranmere out of it. I expect Braintree to win comfortably so Tranny may not be the highly motivated, fight-to-the-death team you fear if news of a couple of early goals comes through.

I think the most worrying thing is that the manager's best team played today and lost - the bench had little to improve the chances of winning.

UTM

we were  crap today in front of a decent crowd yet again . no plan as normal other than oops its the 70th min quick get the subs on :(

I wouldn't mind coming 5th and playing FGR.

We were dog excrement today especially in the second half..

Says it all for me when my pick of MOM was JPP he was only on for 10 minutes ffs

Back home cold and frustrated , was like an end of season nothing to play for  . Nolan was for me MOM .

The sad thing is that second place was there for the taking over the last few weeks.

We will finish with fewer points than last season, and probably a lower finishing position. Not really progress is it?

Still, we are in the play offs. Three good performances is all that is required and let's face it, the other play off contenders are hardly world beaters either.

It's now in our hands.

Quoted from DocTower

Back home cold and frustrated , was like an end of season nothing to play for  . Nolan was for me MOM .

I hope that was the cause for it. I was surprised at how the noises coming from the club after the Woking win was a very calm 'job done' type reaction as if we had already qualified. I suppose they've been proved right (or got away with it anyway).

Quoted from RonMariner

The sad thing is that second place was there for the taking over the last few weeks.

We will finish with fewer points than last season, and probably a lower finishing position. Not really progress is it?

Still, we are in the play offs. Three good performances is all that is required and let's face it, the other play off contenders are hardly world beaters either.

It's now in our hands.

I genuinely cannot remember when Town pulled off 3 good performances one after the other.

bit of dementure there mate we had a good few decent runs this season

Quoted from heppy88

I genuinely cannot remember when Town pulled off 3 good performances one after the other.

I would have to agree with that totaly

I am so glad I have missed the last few Grimsby Town matches! Sounds absolutely shocking what is going on at the moment. Half our season's matches lost in the last 9 matches! :D

Must admit without Conner Townsend we have looked second rate yes he was that important.

Quoted from RoboCod

Limping into them then? That was a horrible 2nd half, as wayward and weak as anything we've had this season. 1 game left this season and we still haven't figured out how to beat these teams, specially in pressure games. Other than dropping Podge for a game then bringing him back but that's not really feasible long term.
Bit worried, still not doing the business regularly.

Actually if that was guaranteed to work, ie drop one game then scores a hattrick the next it really should guarantee us promotion if dropped for the Tranny game ;D

Tranmere will be in the last 5 and we will be fourth. That is not good! I predict Tranmere v Dover final. I have my ticket so I will go. I will support Dover!
Hopefully it'll be Grimsby v Tranmere though and we can muster some sort of miracle!

Are you serious?

Braintree need a point at home to Altrincham to make Tranmere's result against us utterly inconsequential.

Apart from the Woking result we aren't really the form team .  Forest solar panel fc have rested players , Dover and Braintree on paper have over achieved , they do what they do well and have got results .  The lottery of the play off's now awaits .

Quoted from chaos33

Are you serious?

Braintree need a point at home to Altrincham to make Tranmere's result against us utterly inconsequential.

Altrincham won 5-0 today and are fighting for survival. They will be going for it hammer and tongs!
Braintree will be nervous!

We will probably just be excrement - as usual !

Quoted from chaos33

Are you serious?

Braintree need a point at home to Altrincham to make Tranmere's result against us utterly inconsequential.

Altrincham won 5-0 today and are fighting for survival. They will be going for it hammer and tongs!
Braintree will be nervous!

We will probably just be excrement - as usual !

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Actually if that was guaranteed to work, ie drop one game then scores a hattrick the next it really should guarantee us promotion if dropped for the Tranny game ;D

Yes, it's a plan...miss Tranny, score a hat trick(at least!) in the play-off 1st leg, skip the 2nd leg, then hat trick at Wembley.
If there's a better plan I'd like to hear it(tongue_smilie)

Quoted from easypeersy

Altrincham won 5-0 today and are fighting for survival. They will be going for it hammer and tongs!
Braintree will be nervous!

We will probably just be excrement - as usual !

They beat Welling though, who are mince.

If Tranmere are in the play off final I'll eat my hat.