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Saturday 14 December 2024

Division 4

Grimsby Town 0

Crewe Alexandra 2 Lankester (55), Tabiner (63)

Attendance: 5,745 (218 away fans)

Well, that's your reward for a flawless performance. Apart from their first goal and dropping and butterfingering a cross. Either corporate chompers really like his hair or they couldn't be bothered to go further than the first name on the team sheet. It's the only explanations I can find, I won.t be surprised if it's a dream.

Up there on the mountain top those with a plexi-glass perspective were oblivious, but to those of us down on the less-than-sunny streets it was obvious. There's only one man in the frame: cruising Cameron McJannet. The defender of the faith is a different drum playing a different kind of beat.

Look Dave, that performance, just like that pitch, ain't gonna take any spin. Line and length lad, that's the way to do it.

Going out of his way to mention he was not mentioning the pitch, Big Bog Dave "….It's a small factor, but it's a big errrnough of a factor" sought solace in an opponent's respect for his glittering construction (if you ignore the fact they had an injury crisis and no fit forwards):

"When you see a team bring four centre-backs and two wing-backs that's a credit to us – I hope I see that more on opposition team sheets as that shows where we are"

No it doesn't. We don't. Face facts, don't write fiction

"When you lose you've got to learn. We lick us wounds and we go again"

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Unlike that day in 2001 Cramb-buster Bell was as pleased as punch that the BabyBellBoys listened intent-Lee to his plans for world domination:

"They executed unbelievably what's been delivered to them in the last couple of days and this morning"

Well, that's nice for him.

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"When you lose you have to learn" he says. We keep losing, will they ever learn? They do know it's Christmas don't they?

We've learned to expect exactly what happened here. There is nothing new, just the same game, the same mistake at the same time. It's boring to repeat ourselves, it's boring to watch this Town at home against competent opponents. Read any version of this section from any of the games lost this season.

We just looked like a slightly less worse version of last December's lot. No ideas, no heft on the flanks. This game was predictably predictable, Town are predictably predictable.

Let's just get five more wins eh?

Scoring two goals at Blundell Park? That's just par for the course, nothing special. Ah, you had no bananas today, did you.

Well, in that case, that was impressive.

This bunch of Cheshire cats never, ever, looked like scoring until they did. They never, ever, looked like conceding, having done their homework and handed it in on time.

Compact and bijou, meticulously organised, comfortable in possession, comfortable out of possession and seriously relaxed with the irritating art of the niggle, this fast-footed wrecking Crewe are perfectly capable of professionally grinding up.

Up there with Walsall for all round adequacy. Not scary, just better enough everywhere and all the way from A to Z.

Unlike the team we gave it a go. For a while.

Mr J Durkin

A thoroughly decent young man, perfectly consistent and took no nonsense from either team. Ignoring all plunges and whinges, overriding errant linesmen where possible, this tootsman didn't mean to cause any sorrow or pain so let me tell you again and again and again: 8.382

Suckers do get punched.

In a word: torpor