FA Cup 1st Round - Slough v Grimsby

[DonnyNo6]

1 hour ago, Holyport Rebel said:

I don't know if any of you are looking at Grimsby's fan forum page, but for those of you that aren't it's quite amazing what a difference one win has made to their outlook.

From mostly fear and trepidation for our first match, their score prediction page for tomorrow's match is mostly extremely optimistic.

There are one or two who suggest it will be a close game, (one bloke thinks it will go to penalties ) , but the vast majority are going for an easy victory, with most scores ranging from    4-0 to 7-0.

The most popular score seems to be 5-1.

 

  

I think we should go for the penalty shoot out myself, entertaining like Burnham's was on Saturday apparently; 13-12! 😂

[sdelaney2308]

Good interview with Scott on the Sunday Night Club with Mark Saggers on YouTube 2 hour 6minutes in talking to Horsham then Scott interview.

Just now, sdelane2308 said:

Good interview with Scott on the Sunday Night Club with Mark Saggers on YouTube 2 hour 6minutes in talking to Horsham then Scott interview.

Sunday Night Club on Talktv

[HorshamRebel]

Currently 101 reserved seats in Blocks A(19) and B(82)

[GlenSTFC]

3 minutes ago, HorshamRebel said:

Currently 101 reserved seats in Blocks A(19) and B(82)

Decent pre sales hopefully we can get 150-200 on the night. Also it would have made sense just to give the one block nearest the goal so we’re all seated together instead of spread out over two sections.

[Nathan]

Unfortunately due to the lack of parking I won't be at the match tomorrow (despite me living only 60 miles from Grimsby). If there was suitable parking near the ground, I think a fair few more that 101 might have gone.

This makes me grateful for the parking, though far from ideal, we've got at Arbour Park.

[Irishadrian]

4 hours ago, Holyport Rebel said:

I don't know if any of you are looking at Grimsby's fan forum page, but for those of you that aren't it's quite amazing what a difference one win has made to their outlook.

From mostly fear and trepidation for our first match, their score prediction page for tomorrow's match is mostly extremely optimistic.

There are one or two who suggest it will be a close game, (one bloke thinks it will go to penalties ) , but the vast majority are going for an easy victory, with most scores ranging from    4-0 to 7-0.

The most popular score seems to be 5-1.

 

  

What's also interesting is how few away supporters most are predicting!

[sdelaney2308]

Real shame that I can not make it tomorrow just to far midweek from Swindon.

But will be supporting the team from afar All the best to the squad management and supporters who will be going you all will be doing us proud.

COYREBELS

 

 

 

[Holyport Rebel]

Grimsby's manager giving his thoughts as to how their win on Saturday helps their approach to our game with them tomorrow.

( Also I make it 170 tickets now sold in the away end for tomorrow. Morecambe had 139 last Saturday ) 

 

 

 

Edited November 13, 2023 by Holyport Rebel

[bonjour]

So only one more sleep before as Lenchy said away to Grimsby on a tuesday , that's what dreams are made off.

Win,Draw or lose i know that the team will do us proud. Games like this don't come round very often and being part of the rebel army tomorrow will make it a special day.

so let's sing out hearts out and you never know. It's a funny old game.

believe

 

COYR

[GrimsbyTownFAN]

Your fans tonight.   Absolutely Quality!!!

[Stan]

2 hours ago, GrimsbyTownFAN said:

Your fans tonight.   Absolutely Quality!!!

Actually thought Grimsby was a well run club . Stewards well organised polite and helpful . 

 

[Stan]

If you were not there , don’t let the score line fool you , we were closer than that . Grimsby definitely deserved the win but at 2-2 they were wobbling and oggie was terrifying them . If we had gone in level at h/t it might have been a different second half , but losing Temi so early then getting Scott lenchy and  Leon crocked as well left us way short against a league side . 

you need your best 11 on the pitch playing to their best to cause an upset and we were denied that early on. 
Also the fitness differential between p/t and f/t always kicks in the last 10 mins . Hence 3 goals . 
remember Rochdale 4-0 but two late goals made it look worse. 
Proud  that we got this far. Sung  our hearts out and this one goes into the experience bank that will make some future success all the sweeter as you can say I did a 9 hour round trip in November to see us lose 7-2 . ! 

 

 

 

 

[Irishadrian]

The only positive from tonight from a Slough viewpoint is that Welling who could have put us back in the drop zone were well beaten 4-1 by Braintree we also now have 2 games in hand over them.

Edited November 14, 2023 by Irishadrian

[GrimsbyTownFAN]

Slough Fans

.firstly, those off you who went tonight, I take my hat off to you All, sung for 95 mins, celebrated 2 very well taken goals. I even stayed behind at the end to clap your team and fans as they where by the away end.

Secondly, your team where fantastic. They definitely had us on our toes at 2-2.

.I wish you all the best for the rest off the season. You definitely deserve to be higher up that league.

 

Thanks for a great first round tie.

 

Up The Grimsby!!

[Reading Rebel]

2 hours ago, GrimsbyTownFAN said:

Slough Fans

.firstly, those off you who went tonight, I take my hat off to you All, sung for 95 mins, celebrated 2 very well taken goals. I even stayed behind at the end to clap your team and fans as they where by the away end.

Secondly, your team where fantastic. They definitely had us on our toes at 2-2.

.I wish you all the best for the rest off the season. You definitely deserve to be higher up that league.

 

Thanks for a great first round tie.

 

Up The Grimsby!!

Thanks GTF.

All the best for the season ahead.

[Reading Rebel]

Fantastic effort from the team.

Only injuries, fitness and that bit of extra quality to score goals late on made the scoreline look like a thrashing.

I think we can be proud of every one of them.

 

[Nathan]

Well the funs over, as it was always likely to be. The only thing I'm upset about was the final scoreline, it looked like we were thrashed when apparently it was quite even until their fourth goal went in. I see our habit of giving the opposition a two-goal lead before mounting an heroic comeback hasn't yet deserted us 🤣

The team have done us all proud, but now back to the bread & butter, where were need points ASAP.

[bonjour]

What a fantastic day, what a team, two words sums it up for me.

 

So proud

[Holyport Rebel]

It was an awfully long way to go.
It felt an even longer journey back.
We lost.
7-2.
I walked through my front door at 3-30am, and after a look at the comments on websites and twitter pages on my home PC,( I don't have or want a smartphone ), I got to bed at about 4am.
And I wouldn't have missed going to the Grimsby away game for anything.
As others have said before me, and will no doubt say after me, that was such an unfair scoreline.
For three quarters of the match Grimsby knew that they were in a game, and it was only in the last 10 minutes that they were finally able to shake us off.
Here are some of my thoughts on the match last night, for what they're worth.
When the coach finally arrived on the outskirts of Grimsby, I did laugh when a ditty rang through the coach from the fans at the back, ( to the tune of The Sloop John B )
                  I wanna go home
                  I wan-na go home
                  Grimsby's  a  s**thole
                  I wanna go home
Made me laugh anyway.
As we finally got near the ground, we followed the signs indicating where  away coaches were supposed to go.
Grimsby's ground seemed surrounded by a labyrinth of sidestreets, and as we turned into one of these from the High Street we got a few yards down it when the coach stopped, and Amy our driver said
                   I can't get the coach down there !
She was perfectly correct.
Somebody had parked a big campervan type of vehicle on one side of the road which made that road impassable for any coach. 
Good forward planning Grimsby Town FC !
There were now only 20 minutes to go till kick-off, and we all piled off the coach desperate to get to the ground before the match started.
Where to go to get to the away end ?
Absolutely no idea, so we just followed the stream of Grimsby fans walking along the High Street.
My thinking was lets get to the ground whose floodlights we could see tantalisingly over the rooftops of the many houses huddled beneath them,and work it out exactly where the away fans should be when we were at least beside the stadium.
All the time kick-off was getting closer and closer.
Reaching the stadium, I asked one of the stewards how to get to the away end.
                    Go back to the High Street, walk on  past the first turning on your left and take the next one, walk down that  road, walk around the stadium and then you're there.
                    Thank you,  I politely said, and saw a group of Slough fans going in an entirely different direction  but much closer proximity to the ground and decided to follow them rather than the massive detour suggested by the steward.
Time was short !
Our group got directed by a Grimsby steward to go along a bit further to another Grimsby steward, who said he would scan our tickets and take us inside the ground to where we were supposed to be.
Great plan.
Then his flippin scanner wouldn't work !
We then had to follow another steward who took us inside the ground around to the away end, once there he made us go back outside the ground ,walk 3 feet to the away turnstile and then get our tickets scanned as we passed  through it to get back inside the ground again.
I was one of the first one's through the turnstiles this way, but was told that soon after this the scanner at the turnstile stopped working and they let fans in anyway without this scanner check.
Makes me wonder how they arrived at the figure of 118 Rebels fans there.
I'd counted 171 sold tickets on their ticket website before I left for the match but perhaps that was wrong ?
Last night was my 46th Football League team ground visited.
Way short of the magical 92,but it at least made it very symmetrical with it being exactly half way there. 
The whole episode though was what you would expect from a very low ranking non-league outfit, not a supposed Football League one.
But at least I was in !   
( To be continued once I've written it and my internet problems here at home this morning have been sorted out ! )
                 

  
 

[Reading Rebel]

36 minutes ago, Holyport Rebel said:

It was an awfully long way to go.
It felt an even longer journey back.
We lost.
7-2.
I walked through my front door at 3-30am, and after a look at the comments on websites and twitter pages on my home PC,( I don't have or want a smartphone ), I got to bed at about 4am.
And I wouldn't have missed going to the Grimsby away game for anything.
As others have said before me, and will no doubt say after me, that was such an unfair scoreline.
For three quarters of the match Grimsby knew that they were in a game, and it was only in the last 10 minutes that they were finally able to shake us off.
Here are some of my thoughts on the match last night, for what they're worth.
When the coach finally arrived on the outskirts of Grimsby, I did laugh when a ditty rang through the coach from the fans at the back, ( to the tune of The Sloop John B )
                  I wanna go home
                  I wan-na go home
                  Grimsby's  a  s**thole
                  I wanna go home
Made me laugh anyway.
As we finally got near the ground, we followed the signs indicating where  away coaches were supposed to go.
Grimsby's ground seemed surrounded by a labyrinth of sidestreets, and as we turned into one of these from the High Street we got a few yards down it when the coach stopped, and Amy our driver said
                   I can't get the coach down there !
She was perfectly correct.
Somebody had parked a big campervan type of vehicle on one side of the road which made that road impassable for any coach. 
Good forward planning Grimsby Town FC !
There were now only 20 minutes to go till kick-off, and we all piled off the coach desperate to get to the ground before the match started.
Where to go to get to the away end ?
Absolutely no idea, so we just followed the stream of Grimsby fans walking along the High Street.
My thinking was lets get to the ground whose floodlights we could see tantalisingly over the rooftops of the many houses huddled beneath them,and work it out exactly where the away fans should be when we were at least beside the stadium.
All the time kick-off was getting closer and closer.
Reaching the stadium, I asked one of the stewards how to get to the away end.
                    Go back to the High Street, walk on  past the first turning on your left and take the next one, walk down that  road, walk around the stadium and then you're there.
                    Thank you,  I politely said, and saw a group of Slough fans going in an entirely different direction  but much closer proximity to the ground and decided to follow them rather than the massive detour suggested by the steward.
Time was short !
Our group got directed by a Grimsby steward to go along a bit further to another Grimsby steward, who said he would scan our tickets and take us inside the ground to where we were supposed to be.
Great plan.
Then his flippin scanner wouldn't work !
We then had to follow another steward who took us inside the ground around to the away end, once there he made us go back outside the ground ,walk 3 feet to the away turnstile and then get our tickets scanned as we passed  through it to get back inside the ground again.
I was one of the first one's through the turnstiles this way, but was told that soon after this the scanner at the turnstile stopped working and they let fans in anyway without this scanner check.
Makes me wonder how they arrived at the figure of 118 Rebels fans there.
I'd counted 171 sold tickets on their ticket website before I left for the match but perhaps that was wrong ?
Last night was my 46th Football League team ground visited.
Way short of the magical 92,but it at least made it very symmetrical with it being exactly half way there. 
The whole episode though was what you would expect from a very low ranking non-league outfit, not a supposed Football League one.
But at least I was in !   
( To be continued once I've written it and my internet problems here at home this morning have been sorted out ! )
                 

  
 

My first observation on your match day report (part 1) HR is the time the journey took.

The coach was due to leave at 2pm on a journey that was to be somewhere between 4 to 5 hours if you included a stop on the way.

With the journey taking almost 6 hours I can only assume that traffic/roadworks delayed the coach.