Cod Almighty | Match Stats

Friday 15 May 2026

Division 4 (PO2)

Salford City 2 Udoh (53), Cesay (117)

Grimsby Town 2 Green (74), Kabia (78)

Attendance: 4,500 (560 away fans)

Worked tirelessly and Town would probably have at least got to penalties if Kieran had not got injured.

Big Dave is down in the dumps but not out for the count. Progress is not linear (©) but he did get straight to the point of why, ultimately, there was no return to the promised land just yet:

"Devasted, immensely sad from what we've just seen in the last five minutes… really upset in there…understandable. I felt they were done but they hit us with a mistake…a similar goal to the first leg. If you don't learn from mistakes you don't deserve to go up. It's a good season, but we've come up a little bit short, that's how it is."

Buck up, let's crack on, let's look to the future, he's only just begun:

"We've come a long way, much more work to do…there's plenty of things in the pipeline and we'll improve again. That's my job – to improve – we gotta use this feeling we have now as absolute fuel. Failure is learning."

And finally, Cyril, just one more thing, as Coach Calmer lobbed a brickbat of truth through the windows of the world of fiction:

"There's a lot of things online that are baloney."

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