Cod Almighty | Match Stats
Saturday 1 February 2020
Division 4
Grimsby Town 2 Vernam (19), Glennon (53)
Forest Green Rovers 2 Bailey (32), Aitchison (50)
Attendance: 4675 (76 away fans)
Sorry, wasn't paying attention to the champagne shenanigans.
Benson was fine then faded, Vernam veered between old and new Slim Charlesness and Whitehouse had his moments but how apt that we are the Desperate Dan Appreciation Society against the Village Greeners. Reliably solid from the chin to shin and from foot to nut.
Entertainingly erratic for the media, but underneath the layer of rent-a-bumpkiness there is some simple, old-fashioned soccer sense and sensibility:
"And next week they'll see the type of lads I've brought in – we're going to play, we're going to play, and we're going to play, and hopefully they'll get more and more comfortable with it."
Dull, but mostly accurate.
"We had the best chances to win it, disappointed we didn't win, but I'm pleased with the performance."
A curious mixture of static stodge and kaleidoscopic fantasyball.
Defensively there were less holes than Tuesday, but Öhman remains erratic when approached by menacing squirrels and Glennon is still making the same positional errors, looking like a ball playing midfielder filling in at left-back as an emergency measure. That's fine practice for Burnley, but we need a left-back. Hello Bradley G!
The two goals were beautifully crafted pictures at an exhibition that started way back with Jamie Mack. Wonderful. Great. Super. Town danced around the maypole but not much else happened on the Village Green for possession led to… possession.
Today, Colin, we shall be mostly keeping the ball.
Hey, the pressure is off, the heat is not on, let’s watch the flowers grow in this garden of earthly delights.
They have borrowed well, especially the Norse god.
Leaving aside any sniffery about nouvelle riche arrivistes, these Fruit of the Foresters are a decent football team with a lack of muscle. They have no particular personality, even Conrad Blimp eschewed his Mansfield mannerisms and was all sweetness and light.
We'll be seeing them next year as they fall away to 10th.
The quiet majority was quietly satisfied.
Mr P Marsden
The raspberry roamer was much improved from his previous visit, for he was merely averagely rubbish now and again, with spasms of illogicality in our vicinity.
How mean.
What do you mean? The mean score this season is: 5.213. I mean that most sincerely, folks.
Wind powered seaside entertainment for the masses.
In a word: triangulation
Town: McKeown, Hendrie, Pollock, Öhman, Glennon, Clifton (Tilley 55), Benson, Whitehouse (Wright 83), Vernam, Hanson (Green 83), Clarke
Subs not used: Russell, Hewitt, Waterfall, Buckley
Booked: Clifton, Hendrie
Forest Green Rovers: Logan, Bernard, Rawson, Kitching, McGinley, Dawson (Hall 71), Adams, Winchester, Aitchison (Stevens 90), March (Collins 85), Bailey
Subs not used: Thomas, M. Mills, Williams, Frear
Booked: Kitching, Winchester