Quote Originally Posted by Robertomac View Post
First time I've left ML feeling angry for a while. There's been games this season where I've been disappointed with the result, but felt we played well, but yesterday after 25ish mins we were utter dog sh1te.

We need to be more clinical in front of goal. It's a big problem. Other teams have regularly scored 3, 4 and 5, but we don't, despite creating plenty of chances. We should have been 3 up inside 25 mins and the game put to bed.

Rodrigues and Wootton in particular lacked energy and enthusiasm. Wootton was second to everything, failed to anticipate most things and never won a header. Why oh why, was he allowed to keep dropping so deep? Someone should have been screaming at him to stay at the half way line.

Rodrigues just didn't look interested. There was a loose ball played square in the first half where if he'd been on his toes could've intercepted, but he was caught flat footed and too late to react. I thought that summed up his performance.

5 minutes into the second half, it was clear their high press was causing us all kinds of problems, so why did we persist? It was crying out to go more direct.

All in all a very gutless performance, lacking in energy and desire with a thoroughly deserved win for Grimsby. Very frustrating and a million miles from where they need to be. Simply not good enough.
Spot on analysis
Ruben just couldn't be arsed and it showed
Brunt was non existent and looked slow and unfit
Wootton looked disinterested
It was crying out for changes to personnel and tactics at half time. Notts didn't touch the ball for the first ten mins of the second half and the writing was on the wall.
Credit to Grimsby, i thought they played extremely well once they'd worked out Notts would play themselves into trouble with the high press. And also the following they had was incredible
We need to go back to Palmer Vinny and Francis in the middle
Get some legs in there