Tuesday 22nd October

[Stocky]

Grimsby in the Play-Offs. They seem really good away from home. Looking at the stats again last night, less possession, they've soaked it up and got another cracking away win.

It's at home where they seem to try and dominate the ball where they're coming unstuck. If they could sort that out, they could be a force.

 

[Stocky]

Port Vale started off well and better than I thought under Darren Moore. My Vale mate says Croasdale has been excellent for them. A very solid player, a massive part of our 2 promotions. A footballer's footballer, does the hard yards for his team mates and never shirks a game.

 

[valefan16]

Port Vale started off well and better than I thought under Darren Moore. My Vale mate says Croasdale has been excellent for them. A very solid player, a massive part of our 2 promotions. A footballer's footballer, does the hard yards for his team mates and never shirks a game.

Croasdale has, best player in August, then lost his place when George Byers was fit, but Byers has a fracture so he is back in, just breaks up play, ticks the game over and he has got a couple of goals with excellent runs into the box which we didn't expect!

The partnership with Garrity didn't work initially and Doncaster/Barrow it got over ran but since Byers has been out we've tweaked it a bit and it looks good at the minute.

Rico Richards also looks a decent signing as well who you had last year.

 

[Stocky]

Croasdale has, best player in August, then lost his place when George Byers was fit, but Byers has a fracture so he is back in, just breaks up play, ticks the game over and he has got a couple of goals with excellent runs into the box which we didn't expect!

The partnership with Garrity didn't work initially and Doncaster/Barrow it got over ran but since Byers has been out we've tweaked it a bit and it looks good at the minute.

Rico Richards also looks a decent signing as well who you had last year.

Richards you could tell he had good techincal ability, wouldn't have been quite sure where his best position was but if he can get used to mens football and get himself consistently in games, I could definitley see him becoming a good player.

 

[valefan16]

Richards you could tell he had good techincal ability, wouldn't have been quite sure where his best position was but if he can get used to mens football and get himself consistently in games, I could definitley see him becoming a good player.

He made his first start Saturday and ran the show, was everywhere, the only problem is he seems to put so much in that he gets knackered quite early!

 

[Grimsby Road]

Grimsby in the Play-Offs. They seem really good away from home. Looking at the stats again last night, less possession, they've soaked it up and got another cracking away win.

It's at home where they seem to try and dominate the ball where they're coming unstuck. If they could sort that out, they could be a force.

Yeah pretty much my view is we look better than a lot of teams but a lot worse than the very good teams - Notts , Donny , Walsall and Chesterfield although they didn't have much on us . The rest have all looked either a lot or slightly worse than us in truth ; I havent seen AFC Wimbo , Vale or MK yet but assume they are probably a bit better than us on paper and as a team . We have 7 of the bottom 8 in a row coming up after the next 2 games I think that will define our season .

 

[Gladders]

Grimsby in the Play-Offs. They seem really good away from home. Looking at the stats again last night, less possession, they've soaked it up and got another cracking away win.

It's at home where they seem to try and dominate the ball where they're coming unstuck. If they could sort that out, they could be a force.

Or more accurately, of the 6 games we've played against the current top 10 we have only won one( and that was at home!) and of the other 8 games against the lower down teams we've only lost one ( and that was away!).

But hey let's just look at stats and make an uninformed opinion!

The more accurate thing is we are currently a mid table ish side who can beat worse teams than us but lose to better teams!

 

[Stocky]

Or more accurately, of the 6 games we've played against the current top 10 we have only won one( and that was at home!) and of the other 8 games against the lower down teams we've only lost one ( and that was away!).

But hey let's just look at stats and make an uninformed opinion!

The more accurate thing is we are currently a mid table ish side who can beat worse teams than us but lose to better teams!

Some of these away wins you've been clocking up are better than mid table. They're the types of places you'd take draws at even if you're going for auto's/play-offs. And you've been getting wins.