Total Football: Grimsby vs Cambridge

[PaulHaddock]

Two teams who supposedly don’t play very good football.

We’ve tightened up at the back considerably but in turn, that has taken our attacking threat down to nearly 0. We’re also yet to have a decent test in ages and Cambridge are the only top half team except Newport we’ve played in 9 games (I think, cba to check). Anyway, anyone going for a spectacle on Saturday will probably be disappointed. Hopefully Dembele can get his first home goal.

Cambridge don’t normally bring many fans do they?

 

[GodsGift]

I'm sorry but these two minnows don't warrant an individual match thread.

 

[PaulHaddock]

LOL WHY CARNT YOU JUST LEAVE US ALONE, we don’t like change.

 

[northstandexile]

This game has 0-0 written all over it .

 

[Arbury]

Can’t comment on you cods style of football but ours is just crap really, we set up defensively and are currently playing some of the most mundane football known to man.

We won’t attack(even if we’re losing) and will just happily plod along until the final whistle.

Your right we never take many to cleethorpes and with what’s currently on show we won’t take many this time either.

2-1.


KTF

 

[Laker]

LOL WHY CARNT YOU JUST LEAVE US ALONE, we don’t like change.

I'm sorry but these two minnows don't warrant an individual match thread.

I'm not even gonna comment on the match now, I'm gonna ask for my account to be suspended.

 

[GodsGift]

Please do.

 

[BlackHaddock]

I expect a boring 4-0 win for us: 123 Cambridge fans, all wanting to leave early, but kept in by the local Police and two stewards.

 

[Laker]

Please do.

Doesn't always work apparently.

Plus I'm here to fuck you off anyway.

 

[Habbinalan]

I'm the cheery ray of sunshine and optimism in this thread. Treasure it, there won't be many more along. I shall be heading up for my traditional haddock, chips and peas but my "regular" companions have ducked out again. It's not just Arby and Lakey who feel that "The Thrill has Gone." I, on the other hand, consider myself a connoisseur of the classic Derry away performances - provided the result is right.

Looking through the fixtures, the Mariners have only had one home match this month - a 0-0 with Crawley. The fixture list has been relatively friendly so far but their only home wins have been by single goal margins against Crewe and Yeovil, with draws against terrible travellers Colchester (2-2) and rivals Lincoln (0-0). last time out they got a point at struggling Morecambe (another 0-0).

Having said that, we'll probably set up as at Lincoln and hope to be no more than 1-0 down by half time. That might work, especially if we're playing with the promised "fresh breeze" from the Pontoon End behind us in the second half. I'm expecting us to drop the diamond and start a flexible 4231/4141, before throwing on Uche and reverting to 442 at some stage in the second half.

Forde
Halliday, Legge, Taylor, Carroll
Deegan, O'Neil
Mingoia, Brown, Dunk
Ibhere

Subs: Mitov, Taff, Maris, Ikpeazu, Elito, Howkins, Foy

Given the room (by the likes of FGR and Yeovil ) we can play a bit - but we won't. If we have to chase the game in the second half, it will be with 2 big guys up front. Certainly the fullbacks will be looking to get forward but we'll clearly need to keep an eye on Dembele. I think I'll sit/stand a few rows further forward this time as I expect the ball to spend quite a bit of time above roof level.

Although I've gone for a predictable draw in the Predicta, I feel a 2-1 win is on the cards, reversing last season's scoreline - which was Russell Slade's first match in charge. Whatever happened to that Hurst guy who was so clueless in the Conference and even worse after that lucky promotion?

We should bring around 350, which is a couple of hundred down on the numbers travelling to Lincoln

 

[Tom_CUFC]

Fish & chips, long day on the beer, on this occasion, fuck the football.

0-0.

 

[Vanni]

Logic dictates that a goalless draw is on the cards but I reckon there will be goals in this one. Grimsby have gone two home matches without scoring a goal and so have we in our last two away games, so expecting both sides to draw another blank is a bit much I reckon.

I'm confident we'll get the win. 2-1 (Jabo/Brown)

 

[Limerick Mariner]

This game is not tempting me away from bass guitar practice in deepest east Leicestershire. I'm predicting a catalogue of ridiculous defensive errors and a 3-4 scoreline as per the start of the 1991-92 season.

 

[GTFCfish]

We will win this one either 2-1 or 3-1.








Maybe.

 

[Laker]

We've dropped a striker in favour of a midfielder so will be playing 4-4-1-1 or 4-5-1 depending on how poorly we're playing.

I guess I can forgive the thinking that a point wouldn't be a bad result off the back of the two home wins and draw at Lincoln but it ain't half boring to watch.

I'm pleased Brown is starting but obviously not happy with O'Neil and Elito, especially the latter when Dunk and Maris are clearly better on the left.

I'm pleased to be staying at home to be honest.

 

[GTFCfish]

Can't believe I actually fancied some goals in this, what the fuck have we turned into at home?

 

[GTFCfish]

Can't believe Paul Haddock started an individual match thread for that shit, surely he should have known better.......

 

[Vanni]

Me too Fish, no idea what I was thinking, though I feel we could have won this if we had anybody who could finish. Tbh I expected much more from Grimsby, as playing at home while putting in an away performance doesn't augur well I reckon. I dare say your forward's line much more toothless than ours.

Re. our maverick manager, while I don't have a problem with not playing 4-4-2 on the road, his substitutions left me baffled once again. Taking off Elito, clearly one of the better players in the first 45 mins to the unbiased U's fan, and Mingoia who was also having a good game, shows how utterly clueless he really is. Quite obvious to me he's managing the side by taking advice from our message board.

 

[PaulHaddock]

Absolutely diabolical second half of football. Cambridge were shit. Fortunately for them, we couldn’t handle Uche and he gave us nightmares. We also decided to carry on the hoofing which the Cambridge CBs ate up. Thought we shaded the first half while Cambridge had the second. Both teams had chances where they should’ve scored but both teams were fairly solid, probably showing why we’re both midtable.

Shitty timewasting from Forde in the first half so Cambridge didn’t have to play in the wind, really surprised he wasn’t booked. Slade may be doing a lot wrong but he’s at least made Luke Summerfield and James Berrett into good footballers.

 

[les.gtfc]

So, who cleaned up at the bookies then?

 

[Son of Cod]

I'm not even gonna comment on the match now, I'm gonna ask for my account to be suspended.

Quite frankly, a pathetic response after the trauma I have suffered.

Anyway, we continue to shuffle in the general direction of the playoffs pretending that we are playing with our phone hoping that one of the other kids pukes up and drops out of the queue. We're not looking at them. We're not looking at them.

 

[Habbinalan]

So, who cleaned up at the bookies then?

Further points gained on the Predicta means that I'm actually in danger of promotion rather than sitting on my laurels awaiting the arrival of Vanni PoolieTom and GTFCfish in the Bravo league. So sure we'd score that I didn't dare use my Joker.

Just back and no interest in seeking out the "highlights."

Man of the match, our own Forde Thunderbird, is far too gentlemanly and polite to the referee to get booked for time wasting in a situation when there were no Grimsby ball boys and all he had to do was walk after the ball and walk back - he's getting on you know, not built for jogging. He is a rock and we were perhaps lucky to go in level at half time. Grimsby gave our defence more bother than some have whilst they had the wind but once that objective was achieved and the wind even strengthened we probably had the better of the second half and could have nicked it from one of the corners or Uche's late effort that was tipped away.

Goal-less draw was probably a fair result and clearly considered satisfactory by our team and manager whilst the Mariners and Blundell Park had a familiar "second season feel" of frustration and disappointment in their home form and tactics whilst away results are delivering the confidence that mid-table is as bad as it will get.

 

[Tom_CUFC]

Should've won the game second half, wind undoubtedly affected it again with Grimsby edging the first half although Uche should've buried his open goal chance, and then we've controlled it second half and done everything but score. Good teams win those games, average teams draw, and that's what us and Grimsby are.

The fuck is that percussion band all about? Awful.

 

[BlackHaddock]

Undefeated in October, hope November is the same: but we win at home too.

 

[Son of Cod]

Watched the "highlights". Looked like both teams had their chances and that it was Summerfield and Jones looking like the only ones really looking to unpick the opposition's defence, with Demebele occasionally feeding off the scraps. Jones is at the centre of pretty much everything positive we do right now.

 

[BlackHaddock]

Watched the "highlights". Looked like both teams had their chances and that it was Summerfield and Jones looking like the only ones really looking to unpick the opposition's defence, with Demebele occasionally feeding off the scraps. Jones is at the centre of pretty much everything positive we do right now.

Yes, the highlights made it look like a decent game and there was no wind, very clever these modern lenses.