All I can say in defence is that we all know that in the greater scheme of things we are a pretty ordinary team in a league full of other ordinary teams, both marginally better and/or even marginally worse than us.
Unfortunately I think that means when we are a bit off it after a tough away fixture a couple of days earlier, then we run the risk of being moderately to completely dreadful. And clearly we were!
I don't understand why MA benched Lee Shaw, when from all reports he has been the main danger in recent games. It seems he is reluctant to put Shaw and Hines in there together, but as they seem to give the opposition more trouble than anyone else, they'd be among the first names on the sheet for me.
Bob's has already gone cheese-eating surrender monkey after Grimsby stuck five past Tramcar, whilst I think it is the ideal set-up for Chesterfield to tear The Mariners apart as they search for a repeat of Tuesday's fluency. It's not as though they've previously shown anything to suggest that 5-2 was more than a flash in the pan, and is the bottom third of League 2 really any better and full of flowing football than the Vanarama?
Of course, MA does have to select a team and motivate it, which could be a problem, especially in Maguire's absence, but Grimsby are the first opponents we've had this season who have everything to lose against us. For everyone else, anything they got against us was a plus, but for Grimsby a win is only the expected, and losing would immediately destroy all Tuesday's good work.
The truth about Tuesday is the Vanarama need not have quite such a clutter of fixtures, which guarantee poor games, with poor attendances, long journeys that fans cannot make after work, and false results.
The other truth is that fans who stand up early should be loudly and embarrassingly told to sit the xxxx down. And maybe there could be an announcement before every game that should any fans need to leave early their first consideration should be their impact on other fans and their enjoyment of the game.
Unfortunately I think that means when we are a bit off it after a tough away fixture a couple of days earlier, then we run the risk of being moderately to completely dreadful. And clearly we were!
I don't understand why MA benched Lee Shaw, when from all reports he has been the main danger in recent games. It seems he is reluctant to put Shaw and Hines in there together, but as they seem to give the opposition more trouble than anyone else, they'd be among the first names on the sheet for me.
Bob's has already gone cheese-eating surrender monkey after Grimsby stuck five past Tramcar, whilst I think it is the ideal set-up for Chesterfield to tear The Mariners apart as they search for a repeat of Tuesday's fluency. It's not as though they've previously shown anything to suggest that 5-2 was more than a flash in the pan, and is the bottom third of League 2 really any better and full of flowing football than the Vanarama?
Of course, MA does have to select a team and motivate it, which could be a problem, especially in Maguire's absence, but Grimsby are the first opponents we've had this season who have everything to lose against us. For everyone else, anything they got against us was a plus, but for Grimsby a win is only the expected, and losing would immediately destroy all Tuesday's good work.
The truth about Tuesday is the Vanarama need not have quite such a clutter of fixtures, which guarantee poor games, with poor attendances, long journeys that fans cannot make after work, and false results.
The other truth is that fans who stand up early should be loudly and embarrassingly told to sit the xxxx down. And maybe there could be an announcement before every game that should any fans need to leave early their first consideration should be their impact on other fans and their enjoyment of the game.