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Tuesday 23 February 2010

Division 4

Grimsby Town 1 Devitt (42)

Macclesfield Town 1 Butcher (58)

Attendance: 4813

We don't know. We weren't listening. It was probably Jamie Devitt.

You can't say anyone played well, only least bad. Peacock tried hard, Ak-Ak was irrepressibly conspicuous in his vamping down the flanks. He scared the life out of them until he tried to shoot. He made things almost happen. Devitt and Coulson fluttered briefly, but no-one did enough to have any pink champagne on ice waiting for them in Cleethorpes version of the Copacabana Club.

Is Tommy Wright the 2First-century schizoid Tony Daws or the Stuart Campbell of strikers? Is Nick Colgan modelling himself on Phil Barnes or Anthony Williams? Questions, questions, but have we an answer the question in hand? It's Oliver Lancashire. He is flaky, a mistake in boots. He cannot kick the ball, he has no spatial awareness or positional sense. He was a complete liability, unable to cope with Reneil Sappleton's barrel organ, the wind, the rain, the pitch and the unbearable lightness of being a Town player.

"I couldn't see them scoring, despite the pressure they put us under at times, and when we broke I thought we looked likely to score again. But we certainly are not clinical enough in front of goal. We created good chances, but we have to show more quality and the finishes have to be better."

"We battled our socks off. The quality is lacking at times but that's why we're in this division and, with the budget we've got, which is a third of most of the teams in the division, we do well to stay in it."

Keith Alexander is their manager, therefore they play the Keith Alexander way: lots of big men, ball pumped forward quickly, chase vigorously, and shoot on sight. Eventually one went in -€“ that's the laws of probability for you. The weather played to their strengths in the first half and they used it well. In the second they proved mentally stronger than Town, and that's why they'll stay up. Organised, committed and without blancmange for a heart.

Inflating the crowd deflates the atmosphere. Too many goats my dear Fentyzart, for the cheap seaters are observers not supporters. Now and again defiant life sprung from the lungs of the dying yak, but it was all too miserable to mither much.

Mr O Langford (W Mids)
Why do we bother analysing them, they're all rubbish until proven guilty. This man was par for this fourth division course as he had no appreciation of basic laws of physics, nor understanding of the ebb and flow of football. He must have read that article about taller players having more fouls given against them and decided to prove science wrong. Too many small things to list, this small things vill alzo go on ze leest. He might as well have 4.876, as that is as arbitrary as his decision making.

On 24 February 2009 Town had 23 points after losing 3-2 at home to Morecambe, having been two up.