The Hotel End

I'm not going...but bored with reading about 'Fan Ownership'!

I'm not either but think we will be making it 5 wins in a row. Safe journey to those who head up there.

See you next Weekend Rob in the Kemble ;)

Yep, deffo fella! Bus this time from Oxford to Cheltenham - in at 10.30am. Train back!

Poor stuff both of you.

Horrible little club, really hope we can 3 points there tomorrow, the team who scores the most goals will take the points home. Let it be us. UTC

The big question about tomorrow is will Curley Wurley name another unchanged side?

Should he? On a separate note you live in Warrington Waz?

I have a feeling that Sordell will come back in to replace Willo but who knows with KC?!

Yes, I do Melbourne

So do I, might see Powell in?

UK operation based in Birchwood Park. Small world Waz ain’t it?

Very!

Disappointed the Fan Ownership thread has been locked...was sooo enjoying it!  ;D

Twat!

didn't you miss an important meeting about the future of the club to go and look at cars?

Super Satdee double header on the beach today..

Leeds v Wilder KO 7;30pm for the warm up with my Leeds supporting mates then on to the main action of the day at Blundell Park. According to Google it's 12,287 kms from here to Cleethorpes and would take 2,454 hours to walk it!

Win this and I'll have to start taking a peek at flights, we took the decision to close our hotel for all of this coming May, last year, could this be an omen?

Cecil and Dulltwat becoming best buds  ;D
Prediction 1-1..
Grimsby get an early one thanks to a Taylor blunder and Pierre gets a 87th min equaliser..

Stick to the ironing Doc this has got Teyn landslide all over it. 3-0 or 3-1, I can’t decide?

😂😂

That's ironic when you are so lacking in personality, your life seems to consist of posting childishly unfunny thread titles...and then proceeding to talk to yourself (or with Baldy if really lucky) throughout the entirety of a Cobblers' game!

Correct -  unfortunately I had arranged a visit to CTM back in Jan for disadvantaged BMW car owners.

Go on Feely - defend freedom of speech!

Oh my goodness you lot! Just behave would you!  ;D

a noble cause

Same again for Cobblers.

Cornell; Goode, Taylor, Pierre (c), Buchanan; Foley, Turnbull; Hoskins, D.Powell, O'Toole; A.Williams.

Subs. Coddington, J.Powell, Bowditch, Bridge, Elsnik, Sordell, J.Williams.

First time for me to Grimsby and has definitely seen better days. Cold and very windy, just hope it doesn’t effect our free flowing football too much 😜😜

brilliant comeback as always Dully..zzzzzzzzz

cmon lads!!!!

COYC ......let's keep this run going !

WILL WE EVER GET A HANDBALL DECISION AGAIN?

Not until we get VAR next season...

Think VAR is Prem only next season.

I'm starting to get a very bad feeling about this game>

That'll do.

Oh well. 8 without a loss. Still 6 points off the play offs

Good result away at Grimsby, not a good record there recently, but with only 1 shot on target by both sides.

The unbeaten run keeps going.

Absolute dross, awful game between two awful teams who hoofed high balls for the whole 95 minutes in that wind!

Cheltenham a local derby according to Curle. Well, I suppose everything is when you managed up in Carlisle for 4 years.

 away ooint clean sheet. that wil do me.

The weather was the winner and as dire a game as Tuesday was but without the goal. 

Could've pinched it at the end but will take an away point.

Not entirely true - we lacked quality at times! Game a notch or two better than Tuesday! Defense good again! Foley unlucky with his lob. MOM for me was Cornell with his one and only save!

Post edit - to hasty with MOM selection! Just glad he made that save otherwise we might have lost.

Only 2 pages on this match day thread ... Wow.

Three now...  :P

If the thread had been titled the redevelopment fan ownership Grimsby game, we would be up to at least 17 pages now. Then locked!

Normal service to be resumed when the unbeaten streak ends.

As for today, Curle should be credited for going for the game (e.g. Sordell came on alongside Willo, which I didn't see happening)

Second half we definitely edged it.

And whilst the actual shots made stats make for grim reading, there were numerous occasions either players were refusing strikes on goal (frustating to see) or just not making quite getting on the end of some decent deliveries into the box.

Over the last few games the so called pundits have noticeably been awol. Your report is appreciated, the conditions were the winner....or leveller!

Wasn't there so can't judge. But imagine that this report suggests why there hasn't been much to comment about. Because there isn't much to comment about.

Sounds like it was a dire game but we didn't lose and didn't lose any ground on the top 7. I'd say next week is a must win now.

It was a pretty poor game all round , with no real quality from either side, in what much be described as atrocious conditions. The wind played havoc swirling the ball around, so might just be a point gained , rather than two lost. Grimsby were poor, apart from a 10 minute spell first half, with us not that much better if i'm honest. We huffed and puffed and had most of the possession it seemed second half, but didn't really do anything with it, pumping too many high balls forward, if only we had a player who could run with the ball and beat his man. Having said that , if only we had scored, i doubt they would have come back into it, but we didn't ,so on to Cheltenham and if we can win there, 4 points from 2 away games will be a great return at this stage of the season. For me , Foley was my MOM, closely followed by the defence , who all played well again and look really solid, shame we didn't shoot more in the 2nd half when in decent positions and could have nicked it at the end, with a bit more thought. The point keeps the run going and the belief, so not too disappointed. Decent turn out too.  

Yes the conditions were bad but neither team played them...why Cornell was still taking goal kicks to the narrow side and seeing them sail out of play on the wind I just don’t know. That said he made a couple of timely interventions and did everything he had to.
We did need someone to get the ball on the deck and run with it...Powell anonymous and Hoskins only a tad better. In a game of little quality I thought that Pierre was outstanding. Strong and solid in defence (Taylor had a few shaky moments and wayward passes, plus that cross near the death...poor) and he also look a threat up front, his run where he beat two or three players was great!

Grimsby were that bad that I didn’t see this as a point gained, they were there for the taking and we....didn’t!

Agree with most of this special mention to super Sam who was dreadful as was Taylor going forward, FFS he struggles to pass the ball 10yards the cross at the end was excruciating 😖

Dreadful game but played in dreadful conditions. Before a ball was kicked, yesterday was all about the result, not the performance.

It reminded me in many ways of the Hartlepool 0-0 away game (conditions aside) which ended our long winning run during our championship winning season.

Our 'solid' players all played well. Pierre, Taylor (cross at the end aside  ;D ), DB, Goode, Turnbull and JJOLT all did their jobs. Cornell did what he had to and did it well but cant recall him needing to make a single challenging save. This sides problem is totally in the creative department, and relying on Powell to open up teams is never going to get us far. He has the ability but only brings it to the party once in a blue moon. Williams is a a bog standard division4 striker. We've seen many of those over the years, a modern day Steve Guinan. He will score 10-15 goals a season but we need better in that position for us to progress.

I think we now have a very solid playoff standard team, very 1997esque. That season we won at Wembley, this season our start killed us when we were trying to play expansive football with players who do not have the necessary attributes for that to work. Of course we had Crookes and KVV back then, BUT they were 1 in 2/1 in 3 players. No surprise that neither player has done anything of note at their respective new clubs and are in and out of their sides.

Im optimistic about next season. If we keep all of the war horses and spend the collective wages of Powell, Williams, Bowdith etc on a decent striker and a decent winger, we could have a top3 challenging team on less wages than the current squad. Which is obviously something to factor in, we know the wage bill is still too high.

You have probably hit most of the nail on the head with that Drillers.
You mention the lack of creation, I am surprised that Jack Bridge hasn't been given an opportunity to be that player more often in a central role. He seemed to do alright in an earlier spell...

Andy Williams is still under contract next season so unless someone’s prepared to pay for him he’ll still be on the payroll.

My group cannot understand this either. At the start of the year he was a revelation in the number 10 role, and hasn't been used there since. Yet Curle has gone 8 games undefeated so isn't getting things wrong by any stretch. It's an odd one.

On the subject of players "breaking through into the first team", is that down to them? They train them as youths, gets them to the position where they are knocking on the first team door, then presumably are good enough to take over and the youths then train with the first team.
They must do their job to get them to a certain position, then its up to the player themselves or the first team coaching staff to kick on from there.

http://codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?article=7067

Great report..

Good read, dumpy Hoskins........😂

 ;D ;D Who the fcuk wrote that?..Stuart Hall??

Much better reading it with Stuart Hall's voice...

 
What makes that a good read? Or in the case of Feelgood  ‘ Great Report’ ?

I chuckled to myself reading that.....pretty much spot on, trying to make humour out of what was an awful day.

Slagging off our style in a way that doesn't come across as bitter...….

Style what Style? Grimsby weren’t any better and he fails to criticise them too much? The whole report was a bitter sweet comments, whether against our players, the wind etc. I found it a repetitive report reduced to mentioning by ‘brand’ scrap paper unfortunate to be identified. If Grimsby had won you can imagine his justifications for a well deserved victory ::)

Relax, it was a humorous report written in the style of Stuart Hall which isn't to be taken seriously...

Its a good job an empty paper bag didn't blow across the pitch...you'd have started an argument with it!!!

FFS Evers....... our style as in long ball, hoof, long throw. That was our style, much as it irks you that someone else says it! We certainly didn't "play the conditions"....how many goal kicks sailed out of play....versus how many goal kicks were taken quickly and short?

Grimsby didn't win though did they...and yes, they were even more toothless than us. But i'd expect them to be worse, seeing as they were 16th in the table on the back of a three game losing run.

For me, it was one of the worst games i'd ever had the misfortune to watch live.....and there have been thousands of games I've seen over the years.

It doesn't really matter who was "least worse".....as I said in my original post...an awful game between two poor teams playing in poor conditions.... neither one had the nous to adopt a plan B.

Just my opinion mind.....I am entitled to it...aren't I?  ;)

Relax man - it’s just an opinion from me😎

;D ;D ;D...what a dullard..Its a joke Cecil. Get back to your 1975 BMW..

The same as when you label somebody's post as being 'great' simply because it's roughly what you agree with

A final ode to Grimsby...

https://youtu.be/d0LeL9BUPtA