Cod Almighty | Match Stats

Saturday 4 October 2025

Division 4

Salford City 0

Grimsby Town 2 Khouri (1), Vernam (31)

Attendance: 3,608 (1,351 away fans)

Vernam, Warren, McJannet, and Pym were all standouts today. I would say Vernam if someone pointed an angry haddock at my head, both as our best player on the day and the overall player of the match. Assisted our first goal, scored the second, and dominated his lane until he was subbed off late in the second half.

Big Dave is keeping calm and just carrying on regardless, at his own convenience and definitely not losing his head:

"Proper win that. They ask you questions physically and we stood up to that really, really well…Mentality outstanding…They kept throwing forwards on but we adapted and I thought the lads did that brilliantly…just a couple of good saves after they lumped it over the top but we were well worthy of the win."

Ah, but with all that rain, was the pitch playable?

"The grass was ridiculously long, it was coming up over us boots, but that's them probably to try and stop us playing football."

OK, let's carry on cruising.

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Calamity Karl began his oration as Abraham Lincoln and ended up as a drunk bloke under a bus shelter in Lincoln moaning about life whilst hiding from the rain:

"I come to you with complete clarity on the fundamental flaws on that performance. For me one of the first ones was how we actually kicked off. That was so disrespectful to the game. We were a little bit flippant how we defended in that first fifteen minutes."

Flippin' 'eck, lad. You cannot be serious?

"Our decision making when we got in there was a little bit flippant and I am furious how we defended for both of their goals. I can't make things up, say we were bad. I don't need negativity, I am not here for that. The two goals were our fault, the chances we didn't take were our fault."

So, Karl, to have complete clarity, what you are saying, not to be flippant about it at all, is that, fundamentally, it's all your fault.

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Gary Neville commented during a podcast before our now famous Carabao Cup victory against Manchester United that "Grimsby are a good team by the way". Those words haunted him back in August, and they haunt him and the Ammies now. Town are shaping up to be such a solid team this season. Calm at the back, lethal at the front, and a cracking work rate all over. Colchester at home awaits.

The attendance was 3,608, of which 1,351 were Town fans. Our cohort made the away end bounce all game. Their fans were loudest when applauding substitutions. At least they probably don't have a long commute home.

Mr S Parkinson

Overall, Stephen Parkinson was a fairly judicious enforcer of the rules in today's match. Got his cards out when needed and annoyed me only two to three times, which is very good. A solid 8.