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Tuesday 11 March 2025

Division 4

Grimsby Town 0

Notts County 2 Jatta (56), McGoldrick (87)

Attendance: 6,270 (807 away fans)

It's a legal matter baby, County didn't have him on the run. Bunny Warren was unnoticed and effective in the back three. Splendidly done young man. Keep it up.

We saw the future and it's as orange as County's shirts: Geza from the Freezer was wowsome for a full 45 minutes. And then the Hungarian Falcon rather lost all power to his engines. One player plugs holes and glues the team together these days: Evan Khouri, man about Town.

There's trouble at t'mill. Big Dave was despondent at the derision dripping down from some stray dentists:
"Some people think we've got a divine right to beat Notts County whose budget in probably three time more than ours and we've got a bottom third budget in the league.

I don't come to work to get abused. If you think I'm game for being abused, go home, don't bother coming. I think it's poor, just three or four idiots. My kids don't eat if I get the sack."

After being talked down by his therapist, young Matt:
"It was a close game with big moments and the big moments went against us today…Saturday's a new day. This doesn't derail us, we've improved so much, this was a competitive game, don't let the result cloud that judgment."

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Cor blimey me lubbaducks, take a breath will yer! Mr Telephone Man was happy with his plan and with players that can and who did:
"They was at their very best – they gave 45 minutes with their energy in the second half we matched that and we came out and went through our gears, played some really good football on probably the trickiest pitch that we've played on this year."

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They tried. We're just not good enough, in depth, that's all.

For some it's a season too soon, for some a season too late to cope against a team of County's capabilities. They are a better version of what we are trying to be. Bigger, stronger, faster, technically and tactically. The first half was excellent and a taste of what could be, so let's leave it at that.

We know we’ve run out of luck, but not out of pluck. We can't win 'em all.

The set of players they put out were, finally, in the end, significantly superior to the set of players we ended up with. That's where we are, that's where they are.

Jatta and McGoldrick. There you are, that's the difference a higher rate of pay makes, it brings moments of bliss between a thrilling miss or two.

They didn't moan, they didn't groan and they didn't play act…much. They played the game in an old-fashioned way and old-fashioned style, a world away from the oafish brute ball from mid-table mumblers and table-topping stumblers. County played football in the right way.

No way will they avoid the play-offs this year if they carry on like this and don't lose their head.

The weak-willed and hypocritical harrumphers did pour down the stands and pour into Grimsby Road 'cos they're Grimsby through and through; Grimsby 'til they die.

Mr S Oldham

The lean and lanky lad was appallingly adequate, calamitously competent, barely making any decisions capable of being raged at through one eye. Has football finally reached rock bottom: 8.314

Town ran out of steam, ran out of players and ran out of ideas as the home crowd ran off crying.

In a word: inevitable