Cod Almighty | Match Stats

Saturday 19 September 2009

Division 4

Torquay United 0

Grimsby Town 2 Nicholson (47og), Sweeney (65)

Attendance: 2575 (247 away fans)

No Town man stood head and shoulders over any other; it was a good all-round effort. But we wish to anoint half a MoM point each to: Lillis – for proper, effective and confidence-boosting goalkeeping duties; Linwood – for rocklike aerial defensive work; Straight Peter Bore – for positive attacking and some good link-up play down the right helping to shake things up a bit early in the second half, giving Town more dominance; and Sweeney – sweet free kick and work rate.

Don't know, sorry. Our Mariners World/Player subscription has lapsed and we haven't seen owt in the Telegraph!

"I can't legislate what happened five minutes into the second half with the own goal: it was a total freak and we didn't see that coming." (Like some Town signings of recent seasons, then.) "We won't feel sorry for ourselves. We've got to dig in now and we've got to keep going."

For all Torquay's endeavour they just have no finishing power in front of goal. Like virgins on a Saturday night out in the Dolly, they had enough chances but couldn't score. A consolation is they may win Division Four OG of the season! Cheers! Don't be too harsh on them. They are at the arse end of Division Four, like us, but they are a friendly club with little money (like us), with friendly fans, cut their cloth accordingly, and we hope they stay up.

The Town fans were excellent. Made an almost constant barrage of positive support and some excellent singing. The 12th man at times. We counted 200 in the stand; the other 47 must have been made up of the seated stand, the squad and support staff.

Mr O Langford (W Mids)
Mr Langford got most things right. He wasn't helped in the first half by a useless linesman in the Torquay half. Had the temerity in the second half to overturn his own initial decisions as the other, better linesman wiggled his flag excitedly insisting on Town corners, etc. He booked Linwood for upsetting the frustrated and shackled Torquay centre-forward Benyon, but sometimes words can hurt, like a freaky own goal. Score -€“ a respectable 6.285.