Cod Almighty | Match Stats

Saturday 22 April 2017

Division 4

Grimsby Town 4 S Jones (pen, 6), Clements 36, Vernon 59 Osborne 62

Yeovil Town 2 Lawless 47 Zoko 75

Attendance: 4,061 (101 away fans)

Defying the odds those sandwich slayers and cheese blockers got it right again. Is he the new Alan Pouton? He is Jamey Osborne.

He fed the pigeons, and sometimes fed the sparrows too. Jamey Osborne gives us a sense of enormous well-being

They had the freedom to make decisions, they made the right decisions and I thought there were some pleasing things on the eye, certainly going forward. 

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I have to apologise to the supporters because some of the defending was abysmal and we all have to take responsibility as a group and go into the next game, but there has to be change.

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Well that was a stroll, wasn't it. No hassle, no worries. The word is simple.

Buried within the comfort blanket were some wibbles and wobbles. Pearson had a slightly torrid time against a couple of sturdy pipe-cleaners, as did Andrew whose defending and attacking was shonky. Andrew was perfectly fine when not attacking or defending. Clements provided ammunition for his detractors and benefactors, while Berrett was professionally unobtrusive and tidy again. Nothing special, but nothing awful. Jones was fitfully present and effective, looking more like a midfielder than a striker in this new new Town.

Osborne was irrepressible despite being shoe-horned into an unsuitable position. It has got to that point where we should maintain some media blackout on the omnipotence of Osborne, so no-one else notices what a player we may have. Vernon. Scott Vernon. Much maligned under the Short One and the Mad One but flowering into Lump-lite under the Bald One.

Here’s a thing: Osborne has time, Vose needs time, that’s the difference between them.

Summer is looking simple and uncomplicated already.

As they leave Blundell Park Yeovil are officially next year's relegation fodder.

They had no defence and a mysterious vapidity in the middle of the pitch. Otis Khan was a hyperactive Vose, running around in circles resulting in… nothing. Ak-Ak and Zoko were occasionally too hot to handle, but there was no sense of danger in these artless anaemic amblers. They had no soul.

Inoffensive, inert, improbably safe... for now. Phil Jevons shrugged his shoulders when he went to Yeovil Town and we'll shrug our shoulders when you go down. You will, you will, for the Glovermen had that look in their eye, that look that clubs have when they are tired of treading water.

The sharks are circling below. Waiting… waiting… waiting.

What's to complain about? All conflicts resolved and we all lived happily ever after.

Mr E Ilderton

The peeper in puce was no raspberry fool, being as low key and inoffensive as Yeovil. He added to the home fun with a little one-two in the second half to set Town free. What a lovely day out it was for him: 7.898

They knew what they were doing, we knew what they were doing, they did it.

In a Word: uncomplicated.