Cod Almighty | Match Stats
Saturday 18 April 2015
Conference Premier
Southport 2 Almond (46), Foster (54)
Grimsby Town 2 Chapell (24), Pearson (85)
Attendance: 1968 (653 away fans)
Jack Mackreth could be bothered to do more than pull his shorts up. The rest can apologise in person at the player of the year awards.
“Without wishing my life away, and other people's, if we could fast forward a week and a half, I'd be much happier. In the meantime, we've got to keep ticking over.”
"The game plan was to drop and let their centre-halves have the ball, and it was disappointing to concede before half-time. We pushed further up the pitch in the second half and we caused them problems. It was a case of everyone giving everything and as a manager that’s all I can ask."
Didn’t we have a tedious time the day we went to Southport. A beautiful day, we had lunch on the way and all for over £100 you know.
What a complete and utter waste of everyone’s time. Why bother next week? Just throw the game and take a 3-0 loss. Only Mackreth played with any intensity or positive intent. The rest just wanted to avoid getting hurt. They’ve switched off mentally and physically and just look like part-time park players. There’s no such thing as momentum? And the earth is flat, having been created in 6 days by aliens wearing lycra.
Town are de-intensifying to the play-offs, reaching low personal standards not glimpsed since… the end of last season… and the season before.
Southport should be relegated. They won’t be because Town have allowed them to take four points and slapped Alfreton twice. The management of Grimsby Town need to realise that Alfreton is a lot closer than Southport and we always beat them.
They had no-one of note, doing anything of note. There is nothing to deconstruct: they wore yellow and managed to get eleven young men to stand around in a field. Their manager told them to let our defenders have the ball and hilarity ensued. “Football League? You’re having a laugh”. We know, dear Sandpipers, we know.
Too embarrassed at our own stupidity in turning up to turn on the players and management
Mr R Wigglesworth
He’s rubbish, and was rubbish again, but it was thoroughly unprofessional and insulting to fall back on the standard bemoaning and be-groaning about the fig leaf in black. He gets 5.000 as he did end the game before midnight.
A splendid Esplanade, a flaccid farrago in a field.
In a Word: mooks
Southport: Thompson; Challoner, Foster, Joyce, Connor; Rutherford, Almond (Evans, 86), Marsden; Beesley, Hewitt, McCarthy
Subs not used: Donnelly, Usai
Booked: Challoner, Rutherford
Town: McKeown; Parslow (Bignot, 86), Pearson, Gowling, Magnay; Chapell, Brown, Clay, McLaughlin (Macreth, 72); Pittman, Palmer (Hannah, 72)
Subs not used: John-Lewis, Arnold
Booked: Parslow, Pearson
Awayday theme: suits/Santas (tbc)