Cod Almighty | Match Stats
Tuesday 8 April 2014
Conference Premier
Grimsby Town 2 Tounkara (90), John-Lewis (90+5 pen)
Woking 2 Betsy (84), Murtagh (90+1)
Attendance: 3507
If in doubt, get it right. Well done you.
Rodman was Town in the first half, but for acceptable achievement in the field of adequacy it has to be Shaun of the Pearson. He even saved his own bacon.
"We go three games in a week away from home, get nine points and don't concede a goal. And we kept going last night, and got what some people see as a disappointing result, but that's up to them."
"It was never a penalty in years and the referee got wrapped in it. No doubt about it, it cost us three points [sic.] tonight. He knows that and their manager could not believe how lucky he was."
A curate's egg. Lots of things appeared to happen. Town did more in the first minute than they had in the last four games. Much more expansive, with Disley making frequent forward runs, but always just a little bit gummy.
Mmm, strikers. Jennings was a waste of time. A weaker, slower Hannah. Ah, The Shop. Less a fashionably false number nine than the false teeth in Town's attack. The lad tries, he's very trying. But he held his nerve and saved his career at the very, very last as the whole ground trembled. He kept right onto the end of the road, and well, what a lovely ending.
Chunky challenges and chintzy cha-cha-chas were the order of the day from the yellow Cards. Betsy gave up when the sun set and Beasant was a flappy presence, strangely unable to catch the ball for a big chappie; like his dad, but without the perm.
Harry Hill's Card school were organised pingers and pongers that always carried an existential threat, if not an actual one. Town had to mess up to let 'em in. Not bad at all, but made of cardboard when the wind blew. The play-offs are a cruel, unattainable dream for Flash Harry's card sharks.
Silence is golden.
Mr A Holmes (W Yorks)
Was not a Woking class hero, despite his curiously persistent insistence on not giving Town a penalty when monochromers fell in hope. Ah, but he finally fell for the falling and it all turned out nice again in the end, didn't it. Bonus points for the daft denouement: 6.66. The devil is in the detail.
Shooting, running, falling, calling, bawling, mauling, failing, hailing.
In a word: bottle
Town: McKeown; Hatton, Pearson, Boyce, Thomas (Fyfield 87); Rodman, Kerr, Disley, Neilson (Colbeck 74); Jennings (Tounkara 74), John-Lewis
Subs not used: Hannah, Thanoj
Booked: Disley
Woking: Beasant, Newton, McNerney, Goddard (Jones 89), Nutter, Payne, Ricketts, Murtagh, Betsy, Marriott (Sole 71), Rendell
Subs not used: Allen, Cestor Botuli, Johnson
Booked: Newton, Nutter