Luton match thread

Just arrived at game, filling up nicely, looks like big mac may be on bench.

Good luck Town, get back in those play off places tonight!

Come on you mariners!!

Grimsby Town v Luton - McKeown, Hatton, Pearson, Boyce, Thomas, Disley, Kerr, Rodman, Neilson, John-Lewis, Jennings.

Hannah, Thanoj, McLaughlin, Fyfield, Tounkara on the bench.

Good to hear Chris Nicholl on Radio Humberside,

Quoted from grimsby pete

Good to hear Chris Nicholl on Radio Humberside,

Yes, he sounds rather frail even on the radio but what a player. Pearson, BigMac and Doig all rolled into one was Chris.

Cook not in the squad but not injured as seen training on the pitch pre-match, so that's an odd one for me.

Glad we're going in with Rodman & Neilson. I feared he might go a bit more narrow and defensive by playing one of our centre mids wide on one side. Get in to 'em!

Quoted from MeanwoodMariner

Glad we're going in with Rodman & Neilson. I feared he might go a bit more narrow and defensive by playing one of our centre mids wide on one side. Get in to 'em!

Agree. Was fearful of that.

Maariners, Maariners, Maariners

Come on Town

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Bright start from Town. Corner...

Just tuned in from Moscow. Sounds like we're having a go. Fingers crossed for a good result for Town.

Sounds like LJL has been working on his missing.

Neilson !!! 1-0

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Scott NEILSON 1-0 Town

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get in. did neilson celebrate against his old club?

Maaarrriiinnneeerrrrssss!!!!

My God.....1-1

1-1, muck up in defence

How many more GIFT goals are we going to give away.

Flip!

GOAL! Calamitous defending by Town gifts Luton an equaliser. Hatton clears straight to Robinson 6 yards out & he's left with a tap in 1-1

Dear oh Dear i know this hindsight, but Hatton is leaving at the end of the season wouldn't it be better to play walker?  can he play right back.

It seems like we have a problem with concentration after key "match events": either ends of halves, after a goal or break in play.  I wonder if PH has a specific drill for when one of these events occurs, so that we can regroup and lock play down for ten minutes or so?  This could be dropping a midfielder back to shield the defence, a striker into midfield or just a plain-old concentration and focus?

Only just tuned as I had someone come visit right before kick off! How are town playing?

Come on HH - exhuberance rules and think of the consequences later! - surprising considering the experience in the team?

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I think you're right Teestogreen, we should probably just have no plan in place for after restarts and let everyone go haring after the ball as they please until their adrenaline levels come back down!

Having said that, sounds like a good game so far!

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Sounded a good half of football. Shame we conceded straight after scoring, hopefully we can push on and get three points!

just turned the radio off Tondeur is right over exaggerating commentator doing me head in......how can any of you listen to him lol

How much sense does Buckley talk!!

Quoted from Neilo83

How much sense does Buckley talk!!

Alot more than JT haha

feck

1-2 LUTON, following a quick break after a Town attack!

Come on Town, we are still well in this game and playing well.

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Hopefully Cook and Hannah can come on in the last 4 minutes and help us to score 2 goals - like the last home game. Must be the game plan. All is not lost.

Quoted from Teestogreen

Hopefully Cook and Hannah can come on in the last 4 minutes and help us to score 2 goals - like the last home game. Must be the game plan. All is not lost.

Cook isn't on the bench!

Well Cook wont be coming on because he's not in the squad.

The usual story, undone by a team that's not great but just more organised than us. More headlines of 'We should have had something from the game' but just tired of hearing it now. Chuck Tonka on, someone to run at them.

Att 3789 with 410 Hatters

Things could be worse, Braintree could be winning and be only two points behind with a game in hand......

Ross Joyce up to his tricks, this time we benefit though.

Quoted from Belfast Town

Cook isn't on the bench!

I know. But the question is why. I need to learn that injury is the reason - who will tell me?

Oh no, I think I am having flashbacks ....... All I keep on hearing is "Town getting caught on the break here"  Thought this was a phrase we heard too much of last season!

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isn't time neilson came off?  

Quoted from bobbyturtle

isn't time neilson came off?  

Hannah coming on...who for ?????

Oooh...Rodman off.

We just don't sound likely to score. No strikers on the scoresheet again. Depressing.

sounds like a good effort, glad we won't have meet luton, if we get into the play offs

Well that's a big if.... We get into the play offs, it is getting contested in the table for the play off positions, we have easier games head of us, let's hope we can profit from them instead of wasting them like we have several others recently. I have a sneaky suspicion Alfreton or Nuneaton will sneak up instead of the more fancied Cambridge or us.

This shows more than ever that we dont score! Because we dont create; and when we do we do not score

At least we tried to pass it around and as a result put the opposition under pressure for periods of time, but again its not so much the strikers missing a load but a lack of clear opportunities created either from our inability to play the final ball, or lack of movement/anticipation of the strikers.

Seems like there was some good play in there, but also that we need to create far more chances than others in order to score, which is difficult enough with only one striker playing.  How about picking two of them (NOT including LJL; he isn't a striker) and giving them a proper run?  Too much chopping and changing so pairs of strikers aren't able to build up an understanding.

Paul deserves this defeat for ignoring the reasons why we won the last home game. Numpty!.

Braintree and Gateshead back in the running, along with a few other teams - all with lesser infrastructure but with better management  

I wasn't there tonight for reasons i w'ont bore you with, but listened to the commentary, sounded like a game
effort from Town, but once again tactically out thought from a team not special, but organised and knew their
jobs, we, on the orher hand are one positive midfielder away from being a decent side, but until we address
this we are going to fall short IMO.
I loved Buckley's sides  (apart from Buckley 3, which i was dead against) but i listened to this bloke on the
radio tonight and realised what knowledge this guy has,  he has forgotten more than our current coaching
staff have ever known and if he was prepared to help Hurst as an ASSISTANT,he should be there now, helping
us over the line to the play offs  and not commentating on Radio Hull and i can tell you i NEVER  thought
i would be saying that!

Getting sick of watching the selected 11 bottlers throwing the game away, slow, boring non penetrative football  with 10 outfield players scared to shoot.
Better in possession than of late but no clue how to unlock or get behind a defence.

The movement of lutons forwards was a pleasure to watch, and our movement was nowhere near good enough.

I hope ph was watching with a beady eye

Quoted from Meza

GOAL! Calamitous defending by Town gifts Luton an equaliser. Hatton clears straight to Robinson 6 yards out & he's left with a tap in 1-1

Dear oh Dear i know this hindsight, but Hatton is leaving at the end of the season wouldn't it be better to play walker?  can he play right back.

But it was Kerr who copulated up!!!!!

Great effort today, shame about the result, couldn't have asked anymore from them,

Onwards and upwards
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Quoted from BIGChris

But it was Kerr who copulated up!!!!!

Correct bc, and we need to stop these stupid goals somehow

Luton knew how to nick a win, Town play pretty football in parts but we just don't have that killer blow to kill teams off, Aswad and Neilson played well and a couple of spectacular saves by Mckeown too.

We scored enough goals to win the match. Its just a shame we couldn't defend.
This league really is poor. It seems noticeably worse than other seasons. I don't buy all this talk by ph that most games are difficult. Luton aren't particularly great either

Quoted from cmackenzie4

Luton knew how to nick a win, Town play pretty football in parts but we just don't have that killer blow to kill teams off, Aswad and Neilson played well and a couple of spectacular saves by Mckeown too.

Yeah they did play well, but thought mckeown should have been sent off

Quoted from ackomariner

Yeah they did play well, but thought mckeown should have been sent off

Thats what my lad said acko,  i was at the toilet then, so missed it.

Luton did what they had to do and got an easy three points.  There defence had no problems dealing with our .... strikers (?)

Quoted from nightrider

We scored enough goals to win the match. Its just a shame we couldn't defend.
This league really is poor. It seems noticeably worse than other seasons. I don't buy all this talk by ph that most games are difficult. Luton aren't particularly great either

With respect, we scored 1 and that is unlikely to be enough against a side
running away with  the league, score 1 you go for the jugular and score 2, we d'ont
do this, we just crawl into our shell and try to defend the lead and as i have posted
numerous times IMO  this is because ALL of our coaching staff our defenders, with
negative defenders thoughts, we have to be more positive, or this season will just
fritter away IMHO.

That's exactly what neilson said on rh

Quoted from misterx

Luton did what they had to do and got an easy three points.  There defence had no problems dealing with our .... strikers (?)

Really?

Quoted from petethemariner

With respect, we scored 1 and that is unlikely to be enough against a side
running away with  the league, score 1 you go for the jugular and score 2, we d'ont
do this, we just crawl into our shell and try to defend the lead and as i have posted
numerous times IMO  this is because ALL of our coaching staff our defenders, with
negative defenders thoughts, we have to be more positive, or this season will just
fritter away IMHO.

We did not go into any shell, we kept going forward,  just not clever enough to break them down, in fact we probably have drawn them out a bit to create some space.

Quoted from oldun

We did not go into any shell, we kept going forward,  just not clever enough to break them down, in fact we probably have drawn them out a bit to create some space.

OK point taken, probably didn't phrase that right, but can you honestly say you feel
confident of a win when we go 1 up?  sadly I d'ont.

Quoted from BIGChris

But it was Kerr who copulated up!!!!!

it was taken from the mariners wall Chris, and JT didn't even mention a blunder just a pass that no one attempted to deal with.  Frustrating but we go again on Saturday.

Quoted from barralad

Really?

Yes really.
It was a piece of urine for them tonight

Quoted from petethemariner

OK point taken, probably didn't phrase that right, but can you honestly say you feel
confident of a win when we go 1 up?  sadly I d'ont.

Before Christmas I used to feel quite optimistic about us getting a win when we went 1 down!  I don't know what has changed since then and why.

Quoted from petethemariner

OK point taken, probably didn't phrase that right, but can you honestly say you feel
confident of a win when we go 1 up?  sadly I d'ont.

For the majority of the season we hadnt dropped a point from a winning position. That has changed over the last few weeks though

Quoted from Meza

it was taken from the mariners wall Chris, and JT didn't even mention a blunder just a pass that no one attempted to deal with.  Frustrating but we go again on Saturday.

To be fair Meza, having watched the highlights, Hatton scuffs a clearance and then Kerr just dallies and passes to their player. Both carry some blame