Come on town!!

(Eastleigh just scored a 4th)

Bbc live event 7

McKeown; Magnay, Robertson, Nsiala, Pearson; Clay, Disley, Mackreth, Arnold; Pittman, John-Lewis.

Bench: Brown, Hannah, Parslow, Palmer, Jolley

Strong bench. If shop doesn't score at least we have a physical striker in Palmer to replace him with today.

Why have we got 3 strikers on the bench, not like Hurst would ever use them all  ;D

Really need Kiddy to beat Halifax to slow them up.

Ist and for most we need to win hopefully barnet and Bristol can drop a point or two

Good start... Forest Green 0 v Southport 1

Town need to turn up before we start worrying about other teams!

We got away with that, that was over the line by Braintree.

barnet 1 up

Typical Akinde wins and scores pen Alty player sent off

Some sloppy play by Town.

Sounds poor so far.

Why are we persisting with 4-4-2 at home? It has been shown time and time again that it is too easy for the opposition to nullify.

Magnay is a class act!  30 minutes gone and we haven't had a shot on goal. :-/

Quoted from chaos33

Sounds poor so far.

It is Phil.

Going by the lack of twitter activity it must be a dull game as far. Will be 0-0 at half time and we'll probably win 1-0 again. Results over performances right now IMO

Ollie and Jolley will come on at 72 mins and combine for an 85th minute winner

Dire this. We look clueless in midfield and attack. Braintree should be winning after failing convert about 4 chances in 10 seconds. We're just hoofing it and Braintree are easily dealing with it every time.

Barnet 2 up now,

Quoted from immariner

Why are we persisting with 4-4-2 at home? It has been shown time and time again that it is too easy for the opposition to nullify.

That's exactly it. This is the wrong formation and line-up for this game - too easy to play against if you're decent, well organised and strong like Braintree are. Has Hurst got the balls to change it because this has got 'Grimsby Town 0' written all over it?

There was the problem, LJL chases wins lost cause and no one near him to pass to wheres Pitmann and the wingers? We are just too slow and negative

Braintree are no better either though.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

There was the problem, LJL chases wins lost cause and no one near him to pass to wheres Pitmann and the wingers? We are just too slow and negative

It's what I said in the other thread about long standing weaknesses:

Lack of urgency and speed of movement
Too much distance between players
Not set-up with enough attacking intent

Been glaring for season after season, and here it is again today.

Quoted from chaos33

That's exactly it. This is the wrong formation and line-up for this game - too easy to play against if you're decent, well organised and strong like Braintree are. Has Hurst got the balls to change it because this has got 'Grimsby Town 0' written all over it?

Exactly. It is the same formation that has seen us lose 4 of our last 8 at home. I cannot believe Hurst is sticking with it, it's a head-in-the-sand sort of approach.

Quoted from LondonMariner43

Ollie and Jolley will come on at 72 mins and combine for an 85th minute winner

I take that back - pessimism says a late sucker punch - 0-1 to Braintree.  We won't score today!

We wont win the league because of our home form or they way we play at home....the atmosphere must be playing some part with that.  But we must win today must win.

Upto now this is the worst performance by Town I have witnessed this season, void of any idea all over the park, it's a good job Braintree are clueless too.

zzz zzz zzz zzz wow think I'm going switch the radio off this is aweful I can't believe how slow, negative and devoid of ideas

He has to change something at half time. We have to win this game and it sounds like we've done absolutely nothing.

Everything about the match so far has been awful. I'm the opposite of entertained.

If i was manager they all get my bloody boot at there behind...i certainly change it

Quoted from Meza

We wont win the league because of our home form or they way we play at home....the atmosphere must be playing some part with that.  But we must win today must win.

balderdash. The crowd haven't got on the player's backs today. We're just playing badly and Hurst doesn't have the tactical nous to change things.

In other news Altrincham just missed a penalty against Barnet.

How would people change it? I'd go:

                McKeown

Magnay Nsiala Pearson Robertson

          Disley   Brown   Clay

    Arnold                         Jolley
                     Palmer

Gainsborough winning 2-1 i wonder if Hamish scored

At the game, atmosphere kept up for as long as it could in this dreary match, Braintree just here for the counter attack, given us a big scare, on the other hand we've not done a lot, we can pass it around nicely but not quick enough to make any real space in their packed half, need to just run at them and into their box more, doesn't matter if we keep losing it we do anyway, chance of a penalty or breaking though on goal is all we can really hope for until they start tiring out, until we're close to the box just try retaining it for longer rather than always trying to get forward, make them chase it more, just think we don't know how to play like a home team really, specially one that's a favourite to win

Quoted from immariner

How would people change it? I'd go:

                McKeown

Magnay Nsiala Pearson Robertson

          Disley   Brown   Clay

    Arnold                         Jolley
                     Palmer

Thats the formation i would use.

Quoted from Meza

Gainsborough winning 2-1 i wonder if Hamish scored

He's on the bench for them. Waste of a loan if they're not going to bother playing him as well.

Quoted from Chrisblor

Everything about the match so far has been awful. I'm the opposite of entertained.

Is there a word for that? Boredom would be the absence of entertainment, but not sure what the opposite of it is. Might ponder that during what is presumably going to be a woeful 2nd half.

1-0 Diz header

Magnay set Dis up for a Beaut! Magnay is a cracking footballer!

Get in Gooooooal  (100)

Disney rascal

Utm

We've set up the same way this half but with more attacking intent. The goal was all Magnay and Disley though. Clever run from deep, superb ball into the box and an intricate headed finish.

Get in!

Att 3339 with 19 from Braintree!

Oh for a decent away following at BP again!!

UTM

Captain Fantastic. Magnay to Disley goal, we've heard that before!!

Glad I'm not paying to watch this

Can we play Cowdenbeath lol

fgr up 5-2

Town subs: Arnold off Jolley on.

UTM

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

Disney rascal

Let's hope we have a Plan B  :P

Quoted from sapper mariner

fgr up 5-2

Still only 3 pts and they have some difficult games ahead.

"Town may need a second here"

Add that to the stock list of phrases for the talking John Tondeur doll.

Gateshead 0 Brizzle Rovers 1

Clay off,  Brown on.

Next sub for me Palmer get him on give him some more minutes

Gateshead are dogger!

Plenty of points to be dropped Chaos all we can do is make sure we win.  Anyone remember how many points the last team needed to secure a playoff spot?

Bloody hell. Is Hurst feeling alright?

Braintree down to 10

And bloody well stay off!!!

Braintree down to 10 men unfortunately (They play Macc on Tuesday)

2011-2012

Luton 5th - 81 pts

2012-2013

Wrexham 5th - 80 pts

2013-2014

Halifax 5th - 77 pts

2014 - 2015

?  Seems to be getting more competitive could 75 pts could secure last play off place.

Why are we doing this to ourselves!

Was Kenny Davis sent off their capt he is a bit of a dirty player

Phew  :o

That'll do.

Another win, happy as not going to home games in the near future, but unless we are seriously in a battle for top spot the crowds wont get any better, boring people to death week in week out :-/

Good result if not a great game, another 3 points.

Onwards and upwards.

UTM

Three in a row, now onto Woking and another amazing away day!!

A win's a win.  I think with a vocal and supportive away following rather than the BP blanket-rustlers, hecklers and doom-mongers, the team will be able to go out and put on a great performance at Woking.

Bristol Rovers 73
Barnet 71
Grimsby Town 65
Macclesfield Town 64
Forest Green Rovers 62
Eastleigh 57

A wins a win few weeks ago never thought we would catch Macclesfield now look at us  ;D

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Another win, happy as not going to home games in the near future, but unless we are seriously in a battle for top spot the crowds wont get any better, boring people to death week in week out :-/

Yeah - only 9 points in 7 days. Boooooooooooo

Are you actually a Town fan, seriously?

Quoted from nickmariners

Yeah - only 9 points in 7 days. Boooooooooooo

Are you actually a Town fan, seriously?

No need for that.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Another win, happy as not going to home games in the near future, but unless we are seriously in a battle for top spot the crowds wont get any better, boring people to death week in week out.

Sorry and I really don't want to be rude but that is pathetic. UTM

Quoted from AdamHaddock

No need for that.

Yet somehow there is a need for over-the-top criticism of a team that's won 3 out of 3 in a week -- odd sense of appropriateness.

Quoted from nickmariners

Yeah - only 9 points in 7 days. Boooooooooooo

Are you actually a Town fan, seriously?

Yes seriously enough to get beat up at school when I was 13 rather than stay quiet about who I support. My point is money plays a big part in this and bigger crowds means bigger budget which means better players which usually means better results. Exciting football means bigger crowds, better atmosphere and if what the club are saying is true about needing the atmosphere to get the players going it aint going to work if the "entertainment" isn't there 9 games out of 10. Cant remember if your an exiled fan or not Nick but a trip to see Town isn't cheap for me so I pick and choose the home games I travel to.

Quoted from baswaldsmate | Braintree Forum | Posted: 1st March 2015

When at half time we slowed down the recording of the goal line effort from our boy's in Grimsby's boardroom. It was agreed by both Grimsby and Braintree Directors it was a goal. The whole of the ball had crossed the line.

I missed the coach and drove 380 miles to see the game and again we did everything to at lease shared the point's. but again we did not take our chance's.

When you think this year we had more forwards than any other year yet we score less goals.

6 point's to be safe next 2 games.

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