Match Thread (merged)

Team

McKeown
Nsiala
Pearson
Gowling
Horwood
Arnold
Nolan
Disley
Monkhouse
Hoban
Amond

Subs

Tait
Bogle
Clay
Pittman
Stewart

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Strong team. Changes dont bother me because we lost. Good to see Monks and JP both back in the squad. Come on town

Why is Tait on the bench?

Hurst on TV now saying Town WILL NOT win the league.  Way to go Paul, thats how you install confidence in your team

Quoted from chaos33

Why is Tait on the bench?

Hurst was worrying about the height in Cheltenham's team the other day so he's probably stuck Toto in at right-back because he's taller than Tait

He said 'I don't believe we will win the title'. Unbelievable!  

Not liking the new layout Admins,

Keep downplaying those expectations Paul ffs

I'm here supporting the team. i'll leave it at that.

felicitations sakes. Half this board have been saying we won't win the league since August and the very same people are now slating Hurst for saying it in April. What do you want him to say?

Win tonight and let's put the pressure on them.

Something like that..

Quoted from LH

felicitations sakes. Half this board have been saying we won't win the league since August and the very same people are now slating Hurst for saying it in April. What do you want him to say?

I want him to say we're going to keep trying to win automatic promotion until it's mathematically impossible. I don't want him to entertain thoughts of settling for second best.

...but he's being realistic? Why doesn't he just say we're going to bid for Messi in the summer?

Quoted from LH

...but he's being realistic? Why doesn't he just say we're going to bid for Messi in the summer?

Because winning tonight, winning our games in hand and then gaining 2 more points than FGR and Cheltenham over the rest of the season is significantly more likely than us signing the best footballer in the World.

Of course the odds aren't in our favour for automatic promotion, but it's certainly not impossible at this stage and as such he shouldn't be saying we can't do it. It's so pessimistic.

PH is absolutely right.

We are unlikely to win the league, so say so.Why put pressure on himself and team?

What he tells his players will be different.

What LH said, for Christ's sake.



Also, maybe he's just playing it down to take the pressure off. We all know this is must win.

As is said, everyone knows we arent gonna win the title. Theres been 50 threads on the bloody subject!!

BTW, Have also heard we're bidding for Messi too.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

PH is absolutely right.

We are unlikely to win the league, so say so.Why put pressure on himself and team?

What he tells his players will be different.

He doesn't have to say "YEAH WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE LEAGUE", he just needs to go "it's unlikely, but we'll keep trying until it's impossible". Telling everyone publicly he doesn't think we'll win the league is so uninspiring.

Town support sounding excellent on tv

C,Mon Town we can win these.

I've drunk that bottle of wine a bit too quick. Only 3 minutes gone.

Nice to see Cheltenham still fall over their own shadows

Didn't realise Arnold was 28.

Our fans sound fantastic, as always!

Hahahaha Conference refs.

Thought that was a blatant penalty tbh

Makes up for the blatant one they got away with earlier in the season

Phew 😄😄😄

Pen all day long.

Karma

Makes up for the one we didn't get at our place.  Ha.  Oh well, ref probably expected that their lump upfront had fouled Pearson, although he hadn't/

If that had been at the other end, I'd have burst my spleen.

But as it is, karma. And tee hee.

I'd like to see a super slow mo replay. Their player may have hit Pearson's arm into the ball, but i might just be seeing things.

We are absolutely shocking at clearing our lines in defence so far.

We're not in this. Expect PH is trying to play it out and get an odd goal again.

Clearances out of defence have been very poor, but the midfield and strikers aren't holding the ball up at all. They're comfortably bossing our midfield so far.

We are pushing our luck

Huge push on Pearson when viewed from behind. But yeah, shocking defending when trying to clear, Toto looks a bit wobbly.

Toto is not looking at all comfortable at full-back. We keep winning the ball and then putting it out of play - infuriating.

Totos been poor. They've all been poor but it's all down this side.

Toto has never convinced me as a make shift full back.

Disley, clean through but decides to shoot from outside the box. Take another touch closer to the goal and have a go!!!

It's coming.....for them I think.

"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

Oops, sorry, wrong forum.

This is poor, how many free kicks are we going to give them?

All of this is why I don't want to play Cheltenham in the play off final.

God this is bloody awful with the pitch n ref not much better.

Quoted from 97

Toto has never convinced me as a make shift full back.

I don't understand the lack of trust in Tait, who has been very good all season, just to put a square peg in a round hole. Tait is much more composed, better technically and positionally, on the deck, passing, supporting attacks, crossing....but no....Toto for superior height. Defensive, tentative, speculative, unconfident. What a message to give to Tait and the supporters, especially coupled with the remarks about not believing we can win the title prior to the game. What kind of ethos is this?! Think like a winner man!!!!

Tait for Toto. Or indeed Taxi for Toto.

We sound second best at the minute.

We just haven't got going yet. Not looking good at the moment. Come on Town.

What chaos33 just said basically.

Quoted from cmackenzie4

We sound second best at the minute.

We are

Quoted from chaos33

I don't understand the lack of trust in Tait, who has been very good all season, just to put a square peg in a round hole. Tait is much more composed, better technically and positionally, on the deck, passing, supporting attacks, crossing....but no....Toto for superior height. Defensive, tentative, speculative, unconfident. What a message to give to Tait and the supporters, especially coupled with the remarks about not believing we can win the title prior to the game. What kind of ethos is this?! Think like a winner man!!!!

I understand setting up to neutralise the opposition's strengths, but Hurst nearly always takes it too far and ends up weakening our own team instead.

Have we decided the pitch is excrement so we're going to lump it up and play head tennis all night?

Pitch absolutely flipping excrement!!! Disgraceful surface for football.

Kicking it straight out of play again. What on earth are we playing at?

This is like watching OAPs eat soup.

As per that interview from hurst from that helmet clem, he hasnt given up on the title

Get hold of the ball FFS. The passing and hold up play is terrible.

He also said we started better. I take it back he's a moron.

Well so far for my money....Monkhouse picked but obviously not fit...we are not even kicking the goal kicks towards him ....Nsiala is getting      pushed up for heading goal kicks and then caught out of position....midfield looking weak....no attacking threat...

If this is 0-0 at half time I'll be delirious.

That Storer just demonstrated why that rule is balderdash perfectly.

Tiny bit of possession ends as Toto has another brain fart and aimlessly clips it up in the air to be easily recovered by the opposition.

We've got to stop giving away lots of cheap free kicks/corners.  They've got some big units in their team.  Only one winner when we lump it forward...

Cheltenham go down faster than a 5 dollar whore

flipping SHITE REF that is a massive dive. Pathetic officiating

Fooking Pell, male masturbator.

What the F*CK are town playing at?

Goal from a non free kick.

It was coming! FFS!!

Gah

Oh and Monkhouse can intercourse off if he's not even going to jump in the wall. I'm seething

Great free kick, but a stupid one to give away; move should have been neutralised way back in midfield.

WHY THE intercourse DIDN'T THE WALL JUMP!

Jump ffs😡😡😡😡 but  diving cheating illegitimate

F***ing cheats. That all you can say. Either that, or incompetent refereeing, because Pearson never touched him and that's never a free kick. Pell overran it and dived.

Let's hope that wakes Town up!

Good free kick. Can't see us coming back now based on what I've seen.

we're shite anyway , lucky it's only one nil

Just put the commentary on just as they score...McKeown beaten by a free kick again?

Not seen it but is there a recurring theme here?

I've said a couple of times that Cheltenham are no better than us. May have to re-appraise that because we are shocking at the moment. Ref equally as shocking and they invariably go against us, these dodgy decisions.

Rubbish free kick.  Dive by Pell.  Have our players got lead in their boots.  The wall didn't do enough for me.  Not exactly bottom corner.

How Grimsby would it be if we mount a challenge to fall out the playoffs.

Free kick was rubbish.

Typical Town. That shot would of been block if we jumped. flipping basics or what..

Quoted from HackneyHaddock

Great free kick, but a stupid one to give away; move should have been neutralised way back in midfield.

No way is McKeown to blame. It went over the wall and in because Monkhouse decided to watch it flying over his head instead of jumping.

Double cheats

Third in the division , you wouldnt have thought so on this display   unless theres a big improvement in the second half only one result .  Set up for a 0  0  that hasn't worked .

We're shite because we're all over the place. Never seen us play well with Toto as a full back. Defenders have no idea what they're doing. Put Tait on, regain balance and please do something Monkhouse.

Tin pot all round

We'll win this 1-4.

"Joey, have you ever seen a grown man naked?"

Typical of the last 5 seasons under Hurst , we're a month from the end of the season and he still has no idea what his best team is.
God I hope this is his last

These commentators on Humberside are doing my bloody head in.

Well looks like we are just going to roll over and not even have a go.

Shite negative football , i mean how on earth does bob monkhouse walk straight into the team when we have a young lad on the bench from swindon and from what i have seen has more potential than anyone else on the pitch..

Infact why even bring him on loan if your not gonna play him intercourse sake..

Sorry, wrong forum again.' 😢

Feel sorry for our travelling fans spending their hard earned on this.

No energy, no cohesion, no confidence, no pace, not a clue.

But I'm not writing Town off yet..

Cheltenham aren't actually that good, we are shocking.

I said that Grimsby would be found out at Forest Green and I still stand by that statement. We were second best that night and nicked a goal.
Someone on the away coach had overheard me and ranted at me before we set off home talking as if Grimsby Town were the best team since sliced bread.
Well now we are getting found out... found out to be a mile and a half behind the best two teams in this division. There is a long way to go to be good enough for the football league I am afraid.
We have passionate and loyal fans following an average and sometimes poor team that cannot seem to go that extra mile to get us our much desired promotion.
It is easy for people to blame the manager but that is unfair. The truth of the matter is, we just don't have enough money to buy good enough players to compete. Even at this lowly level!
It is incredibly sad with the history we have behind us!

We are absolutely dire in midfield and upfront. Hoban is a useless lump, and Disley and Nolan are positionally all over the place. Arnold and Monkhouse both may as well not be on the pitch for all they've contributed this half.

We look good when we get it down on the ground.

How do we miss that?!

How didn't that go in