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Going for a day out at Cleggy with the family and sneaking off to the game on Saturday so killing two birds with one stone. Really looking forward to it. Being from Donny originally i must have been to Cleggy about 200 times over the years and used to stay in a mates caravan in the fitties for nights out in the 90's so memory lane for me and can't wait.

I'm pretty confident about the match too given we've started really well this season and i'm optimistic. Grimsby will provide a test for sure though and i'd take a point happily but i've been so impressed with us this season so far so i'm quietly confident.

First time to Blundell Park as a Glover although been loads of times before as a neutral so not sure how many of us to expect. Maybe 150 ish?

Roll on Saturday
 

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Okay first and foremost...how does someone from Donny become a Yeovil fan?
 

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Secondly, what or where is Cleggy?

Is that what we call Meggies? :dk:
 

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We've scored some decent goals against Yeovil over the years. Another one on Saturday wouldn't go amiss but I'm sure Yeovil will defend better than what they did here.

 

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Hopefully we can continue our good run and it's obvious the confidence is there now. 2-0 to us, The Fish and Pattison with the goals.
 

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I’m just staggered that a Grimsby v Yeovil match thread already has 10 replies in it (11 with this one) as I expected about 3. :bg:
 

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I’m just staggered that a Grimsby v Yeovil match thread already has 10 replies in it (11 with this one) as I expected about 3. :bg:
All top notch match related content too. :whistle::whistle:

Got a feeling we will sneak this one. 2-1. JJ Hooper and Hess both off the mark.
 

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Turd game so far. Vernam and Jaiyesimi the best players on the pitch.
 

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Missing this and next 3 games due to work, seems like I’m one of the lucky ones.
 

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Jolley has got it completely wrong for me today. Didn't agree with the system half despite us playing relatively okay but his subs were horrific and we lost all sort of cohesion. First time I can say Jolley has fucked up since he arrived.

Performances were good until Newport but the past two games have been very bad. Have to start getting some wins and I'm confident we will once we get the new signings in the team. Thomas, Pringle and Embleton will improve our attack tenfold.
 

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Not a great spectacle today i think it's safe to say. Both teams working really hard and kind of cancelling one another out. I thought it would take summat special or a penalty to break the deadlock and that's how it proved. Absolutely cracking shot and goal from Patrick in a game where we created next to nothing.

Grimsby fans thought they should have had a penalty first half but i had a clear view of it with it being in our penalty area and it looked a soft dive at first glance but not seen it back so couldn't be sure. Obviously i'd have been disappointed to have a penalty given against us but even more so if that had been given. Not sure if there was an incident 2nd half too but couldn't e anything from where i was sat so Mariners fans will have had a better view.

I thought Jordan Cook was a handful and also Charles Vernam who i was impressed with for Grimsby but they looked a bit toothless up top. As we both were on the day. Interesting to see Woolford come off. I used to go and watch him at Frickley and a bit at York and he was unplayable in his early career. Christ knows what has happened to him judging by that showing. Really poor today i thought.

Overall i'm over the moon with the 3 points. A draw would have been a fair result but you can't look a gift horse in the mouth. Our lads defended heroically and everyone had the work ethic today. Really impressed with Darren and the squad he's put together for this season.

Anyway. Really enjoyed my day today as did the young un in Cleethorpes. Was given some directions by a kind Mariners fan on the promenade that took me along the sea wall and over the railway bridge to the ground. I was going in the wrong direction and it saved me some legwork on a baking hot day so cheers to that bloke.

Love Blundell Park. It's a proper old school football ground with so much history and yes it's seen better days on and off the pitch but it's a proud club and a proud area and everyone i encountered today were bang on with me. Gets a bad press does Cleethorpes / Grimsby and i'd imagine on a cold January fixture it wouldn't be that appealing an away day but everywhere has it's problems and i think some visiting football fans today singing songs about the place would do well to remember that.

Just hope you Mariners can start picking up and getting some form together.
 

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Not a great spectacle today i think it's safe to say. Both teams working really hard and kind of cancelling one another out. I thought it would take summat special or a penalty to break the deadlock and that's how it proved. Absolutely cracking shot and goal from Patrick in a game where we created next to nothing.

Grimsby fans thought they should have had a penalty first half but i had a clear view of it with it being in our penalty area and it looked a soft dive at first glance but not seen it back so couldn't be sure. Obviously i'd have been disappointed to have a penalty given against us but even more so if that had been given. Not sure if there was an incident 2nd half too but couldn't e anything from where i was sat so Mariners fans will have had a better view.

I thought Jordan Cook was a handful and also Charles Vernam who i was impressed with for Grimsby but they looked a bit toothless up top. As we both were on the day. Interesting to see Woolford come off. I used to go and watch him at Frickley and a bit at York and he was unplayable in his early career. Christ knows what has happened to him judging by that showing. Really poor today i thought.

Overall i'm over the moon with the 3 points. A draw would have been a fair result but you can't look a gift horse in the mouth. Our lads defended heroically and everyone had the work ethic today. Really impressed with Darren and the squad he's put together for this season.

Anyway. Really enjoyed my day today as did the young un in Cleethorpes. Was given some directions by a kind Mariners fan on the promenade that took me along the sea wall and over the railway bridge to the ground. I was going in the wrong direction and it saved me some legwork on a baking hot day so cheers to that bloke.

Love Blundell Park. It's a proper old school football ground with so much history and yes it's seen better days on and off the pitch but it's a proud club and a proud area and everyone i encountered today were bang on with me. Gets a bad press does Cleethorpes / Grimsby and i'd imagine on a cold January fixture it wouldn't be that appealing an away day but everywhere has it's problems and i think some visiting football fans today singing songs about the place would do well to remember that.

Just hope you Mariners can start picking up and getting some form together.
Good post, glad you enjoyed the day. I thought your strengths lied in having an abundance of individual talent that had the confidence to make things happen and take on a man, which proved to be a winning trait in the end. Our last ditch defending was decent enough but you caused us a lot of problems.

Woolford has been our best player so far when he's been utilised on he right of a front 3 but the system didn't suit him today. In fact the system let us down completely in the second half, we've played well when we've had 3 in the middle and dominated possession but 4-4-2 left us only hoofing the ball which your defenders ate up all day. Vernam was quality first half and was our one positive. Feel like him and Cook are too similar to play together though.

Good luck for the rest of the season, I think you've got enough to challenge for the playoffs. We've got a lot of work to do still.
 

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Yeovil have pace in abundance. Big units at the back, with little lads in midfield and upfront, supported by Fisher. They’ll be better than last year that’s for sure.
 

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What really annoyed me is that the Yeovil number 6, who was man of the match by a mile won absolutely everything in the air but we just continued to lump high balls into the area, and latterly when Mitch Rose came on, long high throws into the box which he just gobbled up with ease for 95 minutes.

I'm afraid it's looking like another looooong hard season.
 

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Good post, glad you enjoyed the day. I thought your strengths lied in having an abundance of individual talent that had the confidence to make things happen and take on a man, which proved to be a winning trait in the end. Our last ditch defending was decent enough but you caused us a lot of problems.

Woolford has been our best player so far when he's been utilised on he right of a front 3 but the system didn't suit him today. In fact the system let us down completely in the second half, we've played well when we've had 3 in the middle and dominated possession but 4-4-2 left us only hoofing the ball which your defenders ate up all day. Vernam was quality first half and was our one positive. Feel like him and Cook are too similar to play together though.

Good luck for the rest of the season, I think you've got enough to challenge for the playoffs. We've got a lot of work to do still.
Yep nice to hear positive things about
Blundell Park and Cleethorpes as an away day. I'm obviously biased but I don't get why people dislike coming here that much. Old skool ground with an away end with great acoustics, by the sea, cheap pubs, friendly locals and decent fish and chips.

Can only echo the sentiments of all the above regarding the match. Thought a draw was maybe a fair result, but not picking up the points we perhaps deserve is emerging as a bit of a pattern for us now. Having said that, we did nothing to really warrant a win. Especially agree with Les that we lumped it up far too often. Felt like a Slade performance in that respect, which is really frustrating as we've clearly demonstrated that we are at our most dangerous when keeping hold of the ball and keeping it neat and tidy. Not something I expect 100% of the time of course, but we should certainly be attempting it more than long balls.

Very impressed with Yeovil though. They're quite clearly sticking their middle fingers up to everyone that had them down as relegation candidates and wouldn't be surprised to see them in the top 10 at the end of the season.
 

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What really annoyed me is that the Yeovil number 6, who was man of the match by a mile won absolutely everything in the air but we just continued to lump high balls into the area, and latterly when Mitch Rose came on, long high throws into the box which he just gobbled up with ease for 95 minutes.

I'm afraid it's looking like another looooong hard season.

Omar has come on massively in the last year, it was fantastic to get him to sign a new contract this summer as there was interest from other clubs and we all thought he'd go.
 

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Reading our manager's post-match interview the state of the pitch is mentiined more than once. He implied that we couldn't play our normal game as the pitch was very dry and uneven and Grimsby keep it that way for a reason. Any truth in that?
 

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What really annoyed me is that the Yeovil number 6, who was man of the match by a mile won absolutely everything in the air but we just continued to lump high balls into the area, and latterly when Mitch Rose came on, long high throws into the box which he just gobbled up with ease for 95 minutes.

I'm afraid it's looking like another looooong hard season.
After 6 games? Come off it.
Reading our manager's post-match interview the state of the pitch is mentiined more than once. He implied that we couldn't play our normal game as the pitch was very dry and uneven and Grimsby keep it that way for a reason. Any truth in that?
I’ve never seen us water the pitch before a game so I don’t see why it should be any different from other games. What is your normal game?
 

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Reading our manager's post-match interview the state of the pitch is mentiined more than once. He implied that we couldn't play our normal game as the pitch was very dry and uneven and Grimsby keep it that way for a reason. Any truth in that?
The uneven thing will probably be a reference to the bump in the goal mouth, I guess? That's been there as long as I've been a Town fan though and will have been there every time Way has been to BP too. With regards to the dryness of the pitch, I've never heard anyone complaining about a pitch being too dry before, nor have I heard of us drying it out on purpose. If we are though, surely that's our perogative? Plenty of clubs treat their surface to suit their game. Worth pointing out that we generally have one of the better pitches in the division.
 

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