GTFC starting XI v Dover Athletic: McKeown, Nsiala, Pearson, Boyce, Magnay, McLaughlin, Clay, Brown, Disley, John-Lewis & Connell

Man U 1 v 2 Swansea full time.

Paddy on the left?

Not clear. Is it a back 3 or 4?

Quoted from MeanwoodMariner

Not clear. Is it a back 3 or 4?

At a guess a 3 with Clay, Brown and Disley in the middle, paddy and magnay wide?

i would have dropped clay and put paddy in the middle with winfarah on the left

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

At a guess a 3 with Clay, Brown and Disley in the middle, paddy and magnay wide?

Looks that way, the three cb's where warming up together.

Thought Paddy would be at lwb after seeing Chaos' s comment earlier

Town are 1/9 to score!!!!!

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Town are 1/9 to score!!!!!

I'm not willing to risk a pound to win 9.

Few more options on the bench today - Pittman Makrethh and Winfarrah

How do I get the game from humberside  on iPad please? It cut out as they were explaining how to get it

Why can't humberside just keep it simple and at least explain where to get the game lol

Quoted from jaymariner

How do I get the game from humberside  on iPad please? It cut out as they were explaining how to get it

You need tunein app and search for live event number 2 on BBC sport website.

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Why can't humberside just keep it simple and at least explain where to get the game lol

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28793529[/url]

Hopefully works!

Quoted from kamakazebear

[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28793529[/url]

Hopefully works!

Doesn't work on mobile devices. Tunein app needed for those.

Quoted from Abdul19

Thought Paddy would be at lwb after seeing Chaos' s comment earlier

:)

Yep left wing back in a 3-5-2

Anyone else's commentary on Mariner's Player distorted or is it my pc connection?

Quoted from acko338

Anyone else's commentary on Mariner's Player distorted or is it my pc connection?

It was terrible for me too, using the bbc link now

Quoted from acko338

Anyone else's commentary on Mariner's Player distorted or is it my pc connection?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28793529

If you can't hear it, here's a summary:

Tondeur: There's a break on...

and

Buckley: It's boring.

a fantastic summary

this is not going well

Dont think  Buckley is far wrong by the sound of it on the radio

Quoted from MeanwoodMariner

It was terrible for me too, using the bbc link now

and me !

Quoted from livosnose

and me !

and me, Player way behind

Barnet 0 v 2 Lincoln

        Altrincham     1 - 0     Bristol Rovers
     Barnet     0 - 2     Lincoln
     Braintree Town     1 - 0     Chester FC
     Eastleigh     0 - 1     Gateshead FC
        Forest Green Rovers     0 - 0     Alfreton Town
     Grimsby Town     0 - 0     Dover
     Halifax Town     0 - 0     Welling United
     Kidderminster Harriers     0 - 0     Dartford
     Torquay United     0 - 0     Southport
     Woking     0 - 0     Macclesfield Town
     Wrexham     1 - 0     Nuneaton Town

crikey zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz :o

Quoted from sapper mariner

        Altrincham     1 - 0     Bristol Rovers
     Barnet     0 - 2     Lincoln
     Braintree Town     1 - 0     Chester FC
     Eastleigh     0 - 1     Gateshead FC
        Forest Green Rovers     0 - 0     Alfreton Town
     Grimsby Town     0 - 0     Dover
     Halifax Town     0 - 0     Welling United
     Kidderminster Harriers     0 - 0     Dartford
     Torquay United     0 - 0     Southport
     Woking     0 - 0     Macclesfield Town
     Wrexham     1 - 0     Nuneaton Town

Just found Lincoln winning 2 0 at Barnet surprising.  I apologise.

This is the worst Match Thread EVER!!!

Whats happening in the game?

How we are playing?

Have we had any chances?

anyone heard how big or small the crowd is? not much noise coming over on Humb

Quoted from Mariner Timsky

This is the worst Match Thread EVER!!!

Whats happening in the game?

How we are playing?

Have we had any chances?

because we are all listening here mate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28793529

prob just the laptop, but the streaming is ar5e!

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

prob just the laptop, but the streaming is ar5e!

not your laptop mate, try this

[url][/url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/28793529

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Town are 1/9 to score!!!!!

WOW !

There really is nothing of note to report. Dull, dull, dull.

prob just the laptop, but the streaming is ar5e!

Town have done nothing and the crowd are quiet, hence the tone of this match thread reflecting the reality of the game.

Bring back Buckers.

dire........Hurst running out of time here, 45 minutes left for me, if he doesnt win this, he has to go

Well the highlight so far is when I found out they have a player called Matt Lock
I blame the parents

Come on Town

I can see this one ending in a drab 0-0 again, boring, boring, boring

has ljl missed his weekly sitter yet?

hurst has to change things now. clay off  winfarah on

Oh dear. Cue the excuses

I'm too bored to even form an opinion of that first half.

Come on Town!! all we need is one goal and a clean sheet and we will all be buzzing!

i can't see it happening, but i think a right b*llocking and a reminder of the length of their contracts might do the trick at half time. If you want to get out of this league you HAVE to beat the likes of Dover (no offence) if you want to stand a cat in hell's chance. I like Paul but he needs to get them scoring

And could be worse we could all support united!

Quoted from BeijingMariner

i can't see it happening, but i think a right b*llocking and a reminder of the length of their contracts might do the trick at half time. If you want to get out of this league you HAVE to beat the likes of Dover (no offence) if you want to stand a cat in hell's chance. I like Paul but he needs to get them scoring

Only thing is with Paul he is not the passionate type. Strikes me as being unassuming and quiet

Quoted from Rick12

Only thing is with Paul he is not the passionate type. Strikes me as being unassuming and quiet

yep, agreed, quietly passionate maybe, but if it doesnt come across, then it's not noticed at all

So 3 games into the season, people are starting to realise that we aren't actually any good. Classic example of people having short memories after the shite we were served up last season was very quickly forgotten in pre-season.

Hurst hasn't a clue, Lewis is sh!t couldn't hit a barn door, give some one else a chance we ain't got nothing to loose at this rate

so far my decision not to bother going today is paying off....i am afraid to say. Dull as dishwater.

I really hope Hurst's decision on team selection and formation wasnt based on matching the free scoring Dover's set up.  :-/

Got home from my Hols at 1pm. Could easily have made the game and once upon a time i would have been there no question, but i just couldn't be arsed. Hurst is a boring manager with a boring approach and i'm glad i didn't bother. He succeeded in boring my Town enthusiasm out of me last season and is doing nothing to get it back so far. Think i'll keep my money in my pocket for now.

i think Paul has the knowledge and the desire to do it, ie get them scoring...but i just dont know how he will go about it or even if he will  actually manage it.....if he does, if we get momentum then all of a sudden will he be great? the team and the manager has great potential methinks, I would just like it all to start tonight :-)

Quoted from ginnywings

Got home from my Hols at 1pm. Could easily have made the game and once upon a time i would have been there no question, but i just couldn't be arsed. Hurst is a boring manager with a boring approach and i'm glad i didn't bother. He succeeded in boring my Town enthusiasm out of me last season and is doing nothing to get it back so far. Think i'll keep my money in my pocket for now.

Unfortunately, I agree. Brand new season but same old stuff.

Quoted from ginnywings

Got home from my Hols at 1pm. Could easily have made the game and once upon a time i would have been there no question, but i just couldn't be arsed. Hurst is a boring manager with a boring approach and i'm glad i didn't bother. He succeeded in boring my Town enthusiasm out of me last season and is doing nothing to get it back so far. Think i'll keep my money in my pocket for now.

This, even to the point I also got back from being away today and realised it wasn't worth adding to my depressed state.

Nice hols gilly???

Anywhere nice?
(No offence gilly the game sounds sh1t)

Quoted from BeijingMariner

i think Paul has the knowledge and the desire to do it, ie get them scoring...but i just dont know how he will go about it or even if he will  actually manage it.....if he does, if we get momentum then all of a sudden will he be great? the team and the manager has great potential methinks, I would just like it all to start tonight :-)

Today !

Poor shop :(

Quoted from promotion plaice

Today !

sorry, yes, today, but it's ten past 11 at night here :-)

Better 2nd half. Good attacking play, hit the post....this is better. Need that goal to get things started..

the goal is coming

Quoted from BeijingMariner

sorry, yes, today, but it's ten past 11 at night here :-)

Fair play.

thought that was it then......

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Nice hols gilly???

Anywhere nice?
(No offence gilly the game sounds sh1t)

If you mean me, then i have been pootling around the North of England in a motorhome. Northumberland, County Durham and Yorkshire Dales. 'Twas excellent.

Wish Lewis would slip off the fuckin pitch how many chances does he need

come on town, let's be avenue :-)

Quoted from BeijingMariner

come on town, let's be avenue :-)

It's the end of the road.

Hurst never changes things quickly enough and never ever makes a substitution at half time. Makreth on and a defender off is the way to go surely?

Buckley now backing up what i say and he would have changed it ages ago. What does he know eh?

Attack!

Agree. Pittman on too for either of the so called strikers.

Agreed, make a sub after a period of pressure, Town can never sustain more than 10 minutes of pressure and it falls away again. Need JackMack on to run his legs off.

Mackreth AND Pittman should be on. We have no creativity in the team and will never score set up like this.

Rodman scored for Gateshead.
I reckon if we keep plugging away, we could get a goal this side of christmas.

I agree chrisblor.

Pittman and Mackreth have to come on in the next five minutes. If they don't then I'm going to start losing faith in Hurst.

when  i saw Mackreth in pre season he looked ace, really ran at defenders and beat most of them, him one side and Neillson on the other, Pittman in the middle, that would look handy, when does Scott come back from suspension?

Quoted from MeanwoodMariner

Rodman scored for Gateshead.
I reckon if we keep plugging away, we could get a goal this side of christmas.

2015??

Pitman coming on

good change, Connell off Pittman on

On paper we must have the best team we've had for years

Pitters on Clown off

Quoted from promotion plaice

It's the end of the road.

no the goal is close

Quoted from mariner4life

no the goal is close

I thought that was a reference to my Letsby Avenue reference......

Yay....a positive substitution....well done Paul.

but i do think the goal is close

C'mon town, just one will do it, UTM

Or even legsby avenue (cue new ground thread)

23 minutes left, come on town, pull yer socks up otherwise people will lose faith

Jackmack on for clay

Come on Jack lad, lets have  run at 'em

yeahahahahahah

yes

goal
#

paddy the goat

how good does that feel?

Get in Paddy!

Quoted from MeanwoodMariner

Rodman scored for Gateshead.
I reckon if we keep plugging away, we could get a goal this side of christmas.

Told you!!

Thank intercourse for that

Hoorah. Lucky deflection in the end...typical Town ::)

Blimey, 250 minutes and we manage to score from a deflection

Get in

Wooooooooooohoooooooooooooo

I knew that we had scored when the threads suddenly went from 92 to 102!  ;D

Phew! Shouldn't forget how bad the last 250 mins have been and mustn't let a win here take away from the fact we must improve.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

I knew that we had scored when the threads suddenly went from 92 to 102!  ;D

Them scoring would have had the same effect.

In other news, Town have a slice of luck.

     Altrincham     2 - 0     Bristol Rovers
     Barnet     1 - 2     Lincoln
     Braintree Town     1 - 3     Chester FC
     Eastleigh     2 - 2     Gateshead FC
     Forest Green Rovers     2 - 0     Alfreton Town
     Grimsby Town     1 - 0     Dover
     Halifax Town     2 - 0     Welling United
     Kidderminster Harriers     1 - 0     Dartford
     Torquay United     0 - 0     Southport
     Woking     0 - 0     Macclesfield Town
     Wrexham     1 - 0     Nuneaton Town

At last a goal , now let's do what we have been doing best, hold out with some solid defending. C'mon town hold on this could give the club a timely boost for sure.
Jumped out my chair when flashscores announced it, slipped on the bloody laminate and fell over and cracked my elbow lol a small sacrifice for a goal.

Pearson=yellow card magnet

Pearson booked!!!!!!!

FFS

oh excrement

Ffs!

flipping typical

[IMG]http://i61.tinypic.com/qskwab.gif[/IMG]

Nooooooo

i was just about to post that Pearson being a yellow magnet was why we had signed so many quality defenders......and then we conceded......

Hang your heads in shame those three inept defenders.

Same as happened too many times last season. When we score we can't keep a clean sheet. When we keep a clean sheet we don't score. Too many draws as per usual.

Same old same old....run through the Town team...always works regardless of the team. Mind you, why isn't Mackreth on and doing a turn and run like their guy did?  

* Mack's on....impress me please.

And do it quickly!

87 from Dover, fair play to them. looking like a poor result from a very average performance. crowds will dwindle

Brown misses a sitter

Fcuk !!!!!!!!!!!!

Fiddlesticks.

oh bottom

oh dear

pen to Dover....Hurst on the edge here

intercourse OFF

Sorry , times up .

saved

get in there macca

oh, ok then, the best player we have :-)

Saved....
I don't think I will be spending £18 to watch this rubbish at any stage this season.

Mackreth....joke of a player

MACKRETH DON'T YOU HAVE EYES?

rubbish and unnaceptable....Hurst has to go now

One game closer to getting rid of one of our worst ever managers!  :-) You see, that's why you shouldn't play so defensively. Doesn't matter if they're the best in the World, one little mistake is all it needs, and being human someone is going to make one.

1-1 words fail me

Quoted from Bruce Springsteen

Mackreth....joke of a player

You're obviously at the match and seen mackreth a few times in his career,so could you expand on your astute summary?

Something badly wrong here....Hurst you MUST change the setup up front. Do we need some sort of petition?

good night gents

Oh dear....

Time for Mr Hurst  to go Shocking Abs Shocking

I'm going to stay off the internet for a few days other than to look at http://www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com to cheer me up :(.

Quoted from BeijingMariner

87 from Dover, fair play to them. looking like a poor result from a very average performance. crowds will dwindle

already have...200 ish less home fans than Tuesday today, including myself.

Im disgusted by that, ruined my birthday

Not good is it? Seems pretty much the same as last year so far. Hurst is just not astute enough to build a good side with one of the best budgets in the league. We are solid is about the best i can muster. Can't see me rushing back to BP any time soon, which is a pity because i've been a loyal supporter for over 40 years.

At least the current top 3 did not win.

Let the powers at the top decide . I know what I'm going to do after 53 years of supporting Town .
Dropping into this league was bad enough .

Now come on all you moaners, be fair. We knew it was going to be a tough game because PH told us it would be. No doubt he pressed home this message to the players in no uncertain terms, emphasising to LJL that the main job of a striker is to be the first line of defence.

After all Dover had only conceded 4 goals in their first 2 games. This was always going to be a tight match where one goal would prove indecisive. Fortunately for us our manager has tactical nous and selected a 5 man defence all of whom are capable of running 100m in 3 weeks. It was just unfortunate that we scored and this gave Dover new heart to come at us.

Oh I am sorry I wasn't there to see our gallant lads battle their way to a point against the Mighty Dover.

This place is going to be interesting tonight. Despite injuries etc I have to say the current situation is pretty poor and I've said for a long time, Hurst isn't the man for me. Don't think for a minute he'll go but things have to drastically change. He needs to stop being so bloody stubborn and take his finger out of his bottom, sharpish.

To be fair, we had a pretty bad pre-season too....

Quoted from Dan

To be fair, we had a pretty bad pre-season too....

Your right , we were told that Hurst was trying out different systems . That didn't work either . Really don't know where we go from here , however with Gateshead on the near horizon thing will get clearer I hope , one way or another .

So if it wasn't for Macca we would have lost at home to Dover,

I give up.

Quoted from TheRonRaffertyFanClub

Now come on all you moaners, be fair. We knew it was going to be a tough game because PH told us it would be. No doubt he pressed home this message to the players in no uncertain terms, emphasising to LJL that the main job of a striker is to be the first line of defence.

After all Dover had only conceded 4 goals in their first 2 games. This was always going to be a tight match where one goal would prove indecisive. Fortunately for us our manager has tactical nous and selected a 5 man defence all of whom are capable of running 100m in 3 weeks. It was just unfortunate that we scored and this gave Dover new heart to come at us.

Oh I am sorry I wasn't there to see our gallant lads battle their way to a point against the Mighty Dover.

Ha ha ha! Like this one! :>)
My God, PH is the most boring manager we've had in my lifetime if not quite the worst!

Quoted from pontoonlew

This place is going to be interesting tonight. Despite injuries etc I have to say the current situation is pretty poor and I've said for a long time, Hurst isn't the man for me. Don't think for a minute he'll go but things have to drastically change. He needs to stop being so bloody stubborn and take his finger out of his bottom, sharpish.

He's not going to do that though is he mate?   :o On the bright side, I've saved myself at least £36 already this season!  :)

Coming back from the game the formation was the right one to use but Paddy should been in the centre for Clay so he can make runs into the box and link up with the forwards with Winfarrah at wing back. Another thing no player hits a shot from outside the box which is annoying. The midfield looked very lethargic in the first half.

Just so annoying lower teams coming here and getting points of us aimless balls into the box again not enough passing no width with Paddy at wing back, Lenny hit the post, was unlucky when he headed it round the keeper, Pittman looked decent put himself about should have scored. Scottie Brown is a good signing for us keeps us ticking over.

What annoyed me was he was just about to bring on Mackreth and we scored sat him back down and tried to hold them out which was a wrong decision he should off took Clay off brought on Mackreth after we scored and jack would of had more space to run in behind them, but no he brought him 3 mins to go.

A real big test against Gateshead with Maddison and Rodman and co, hopefully get a few players back like Nielson but at this rate their gonna hammer us with this team where putting out the last couple of weeks.