Cod Almighty | Match Stats
Tuesday 13 August 2019
League Cup (R1)
Grimsby Town 1 Cook (39)
Doncaster Rovers 0
Attendance: 2470 (478 away fans)
The sandwichboarders like a battler, not a bottler, and they sent their compliments to the cook for an ultimately functionally satisfactory meal.
Everyone worked mighty hard, with Pollock particularly prominent, but without the big gloves of Jamie Mack there would be no dream tie with Sol's Macc Lads.
The latest variation on a theme of bland soup stirred very few loins:
"It was a case of protecting some of the players who have played the first two games, but also giving that opportunity to others as well."
Big Dazza was publicly delighted with everything but the goal, glossing over the uncomfortable fact they were playing Town's discombobulated reserve reserves, all the wrong players unnecessarily in the wrong order:
"It's a game that we dominated from start to finish. We were totally dominant in all areas of the pitch, but it was just in that final third."
Not too bad, all things considered.
The midfield was an exercise in futility, but they all tried their best, so stop moaning about them. For the most part they all showed why they are squad players and not starters. Tombola 2 was at least a pest to them; Cook was an adequate Whitehouse replacement; and the defence more or less held together, despite Gibson's creaking.
Now, we don't want to see that XI again at those prices. Town got away with it off and on the pitch thanks to Yorkist wafty wastefulness. Spirit only takes you so far, which is clearly as far as the second round of the League Cup. Still, better than losing.
Oh you pretty things, don't you know you're driving your manager and fans insane.
Not so much shooting practice as missing practice. They did very well to miss so badly, so often. That takes real skill after many hard hours on the training ground.
They're in danger of prettifying themselves into the fourth division at this rate of waste.
Blinded by the light and a runner on the right.
Mr J Brooks (Leics)
These few words are written for Big John: he just drifted into town and stayed all alone, he didn't say much, kinda quiet and shy. His lucky number is 7.932.
They missed again, wo-ho I think they missed again.
In a word: lustrous
Town: McKeown; Hendrie, Davis, Pollock, Gibson (Hessenthaler 65); Cook, Hewitt, Ring (Green 79); Wright (Cardwell 90), Ogbu, Vernam
Subs not used: Russell, McPherson, Painter, Hope
Doncaster Rovers: Dieng, Halliday, Anderson, John, James, Blair (May 79), Whiteman (Sheaf h/t), Crawford, Kiwomya (Taylor 59), Sadlier, Ennis
Subs not used: Lawlor, Gomes, Blaney. Longbottom
Booked: Taylor