Cod Almighty | Match Stats

Saturday 23 April 2016

Conference Premier

Grimsby Town 1 Disley (83)

Chester 2 Rooney (48), Astles (61)

Attendance: 4575 (210 away fans)

Nolan had an excellent first half. Pearson seemed to be fine. McKeown was the best ball boy ever. That's not enough.

"At half time it was about giving one or two individuals some messages, but for the team it was more about passing the ball, and I must've spoken Chinese because we decided to play the ball longer, which when you've got the wind like we did, the ball just runs away which it did on a few occasions."

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"We were under a bit of pressure from Grimsby 20 minutes into the game, but the players came through that and all the elements were in our favour in the second half."

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Woeful out wide and bereft of gumption throughout. Superficial superiority dissolved immediately when the going got tough. Without Arnold there is no creativity, or hope of fantasy, from the flanks. What is there left but small men scurrying and hoping for something to turn up?

There's nothing in the play-offs to be scared of. Especially this variant of Grimsby Town.

Not bad enough to be relegation fodder, not good enough for middle-table play-off dreaming. Just bog-standard Conferencers. A couple of decent players here and there and a defence that any sentient set of footballers would be able to penetrate at will.

I'll go out on a limb and predict they will not get relegated this season.

Welcome to the newly independent state of Catatonia.

Mr S Bennett (Staffs)

Stop moaning about the referee. His positioning was marvellous, intercepting a couple of Chester attacks and letting the game flow as much as it possibly could. Numbers? 8.888.

A series of short, slow steps from tepid to turgid.

In a word: crumbs