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Match Thread Away vs Grimsby town - Tue 22 December 7pm kick off

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by How, Sep 25, 2020.

  1. JonButterfield

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    That's the issue with asking fans who they want.

    9 out of 10 on this forum would have preferred Holloway to McCall prior to his Grimsby stint, and the ONLY reason for that is that Stuart isn't an exotic or lucrative signing, whereas ex-QPR, Palace and Leicester manager Holloway would have been.

    It's the same thing with signings.

    We've seen first hand how pants Eoin Doyle is unless he's in a team creating 20 chances a game, but many would have preferred him to Billy Clarke.

    Clarke and McCall are known quantities, we understand what they're good at, and we know what they're not so good at. Sooner or later their deficiencies become all-encompassing, and we literally have people predicting we'll be in a relegation struggle, while also expecting Bolton to rise out of the mire - all based on the fact they're not stimulated by the comings and goings.

    Assembling a competent side at this level is NOT about exciting fans by offering big name, big money, fresh, new signings. It's about getting in players that will win more games than they lose.
     
  2. Petrov

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    Edited for you.
     
  3. Wakefield Bantam

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    You just know that we are going to be hit with COVID and all this will come back to bite us.
     
  4. salmonchantedevening

    salmonchantedevening Breakthrough Prospect

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    It was only last week there was a thread on here "McCall Out". The week before it was your utter displeasure at your owner. And you lecture us.
     
  5. How

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    Not sure what that’s got to do with me not rating Holloway?
     
  6. bantam2708

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    Sparks seems to be causing quite the stir on twitter with his comments amongst Stevenage and Grimsby fans.
     
  7. Damo

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    Nothing to do with the bad start they have had
     
  8. Damo

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    bit harsh, just as our defence was getting the hang of social distancing
     
  9. Bantam Begins

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    Grimsby fans have got a chip on their should or should I say haddock. They cannot willy nilly postpone games going above the governing body and expect everyone to just be ok with it.
     
  10. Damo

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    Thats the idea of squads and regular testing
     
  11. Get Rid Of It

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    Well, in October there are some euro nations league games and i take it the postponed game can be played then?
    Unlikely to be international call-ups so get it done and dusted then rather than months later.
     
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  12. Keefly Bantam

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    We haven't just tried to pull a fast one using Covid as an excuse to give you more time to get injured players back.
    I do hope the EFL fine your club the most they can. Appaling behaviour.
     
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  13. Biker

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    I hope bottlebank Grimsby with their shithouse football club, get relegated.
     
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  14. Pablo

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    McCall in / McCall out - they could alternate as a sticky thread depending on his employment status.
     
  15. salmonchantedevening

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    It was only last week there was a thread on here "McCall Out". The week before it was your utter displeasure at your owner. And you lecture us.
    Cant wait for Karma to strike!!
     
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    If he's got some pace we'll have him
     
  17. JonButterfield

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    If you stick around long enough, you'll notice that there's a new or bumped McCall out thread every time we don't win, there's an increasingly desperate need to replace our CEO, owner or both whether we win or not, and yet the fact we'll still probably be top half, in, or near the play offs won't matter because we need a new RB, striker, and winger.

    That things aren't actually going badly will escape a fair few posters.
     
  18. Bronco

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    You know how fans forums work mostly knee jerk reactions, you should have been on here when Lincoln kick our arses.
     
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  19. salmonchantedevening

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    Now that's what you call a reply!!:thumbup:
     
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  20. wetherbywhaler

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    I don't know but given the EFL reaction and likely penalties hanging over Orient, I suspect Grimsby can expect the same. Doing a bit of detective type thinking, matters in my mind become clearer.
    Today Port Vale have announced they have shut down their Academy for two weeks isolation due to a case/cases. That closure does not affect the rest of the Club's squad.
    Grimsby on the other hand have had this positive case out on loan at Spalding, at least one level lower than Park Avenue. Presumably he is a young lad from their Academy and all Academies are obliged under Protocol to keep the players in different groups separate from each other, we do at Apperley Bridge.
    The detective in me wonders if Grimsby have broken the EFL protocol and this youngster (possibly the whole Academy) have been training with all the rest, hence the complete shut down.

    The EFL have said there is a full investigation, if I'm right they can expect major action.
     
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