Having taken a look at the first goal again it’s Williams the culprit for me as he was the only defender who had eyes on him before he made his run. Gallagher already had a man to mark, so Pukki appearing ahead of him gave him an impossible task. Williams hadn’t moved at all.

Lucky we aren’t 0-4 down IMO. Douglas getting skinned alive plus when he does get the ball he always turns back, at least Bell keeps them guessing. Illuminating for me has been the difference between Pukki and Armstrong, very clever run tracked by no-one for their goal, leaving Gallagher of all people as the shot blocker. Only bright spot for me has been Elliott.

Using your terminology: “Mowbray, promotion and bringing through the best crop of youngsters in a generation.” Purely looking at their stints with us, I’d put him ahead of Jim Smith (couldn’t buy a centre forward worthy of the shirt), Saxton (his loyalty to players makes Mowbray look like Cruella DeVille) and Furphy (bottled the run in when we finished 3rd).

You make a key point there Philip about possession being seen as much more important these days, plus teams are much better drilling in fast counter-attacks, so hit and hope crosses are perhaps seen in the same way now as keepers booting the ball upfield - just a good way to give the ball away and not get it back again for five minutes.

I also agree. Because Armstrong didn’t track the overlapping Henry, it was 2-on-1 for Buckley, so he was done either way. It just so happened the winger hit a screamer into the top corner. Equally plausible had Buckley showed him outside the winger would have played Henry in and someone tapped it in.

Terrific point, and it has to be said Mowbray out-managed their guy. That’s four points in four days magicked up by the subs. Personally I didn’t blame Buckley too much for the goal, Henry was on the overlap completely unmarked, and both Armstrong and Rothwell should have done better. Bucko did some great stuff in the last ten getting us well into their half. Davenport has a stormer and deserved his goal.

Which has magically been reclassified as a square peg in a square hole. Fancy a hard-fought draw today 2-2.

But presumably you told them rather than letting them find out reading the paper over their cornflakes, which was how TP found out his services were no longer required.

TP wasn’t it?

Amazing to think it’s only a short time ago that 99% of our goals came from Dack, Graham and Mulgrew. Whodathunk after they were all out of the team we’d be top scorers in the division, with the division’s top scorer.

Almost a hole in the wall shop as I recall, tiny inside. Keith was behind the counter the few times I went in.

4 wins out of 5 makes a huge difference in this league. Did not play well but then neither did they. Too many of our players not at the races today but we showed good quality for both goals while they relied on lumping it into the mixer. We will play better and lose.

Elliott instead of Rothwell in the left-sided midfield role is a no brainer for me given Mowbray has loaded up on forwards

I enjoyed listening to those two Grimsby commentators almost as much as the action. And there aren’t many players with names like Jim Dobbin these days.

Was a very smart-looking shop exterior for the time as I remember from passing it on the Tockholes stagecoach, though it looks a bit of a jumble sale inside from that picture.

Neither was his attempted reverse nut a couple of seconds before ?

Watching Alan Wright and Richard Brown shows just how awful Nyambe and Bell are at crossing.

Poor half, excellent goal. Nyambe started it by bursting forward and pointing where he wanted it, peach of a pass from Elliott, great strength from Nyambe and a good pull back, excellent finish. Given how the half had gone, I think that’s one of the goals of the season.

When I came out to Canada I joined an Over-40s league and one of the teams had a bloke in his late 60s who had played for Poland - he was like Pele in his prime compared to the rest of us. Oh, and my mum’s cousin played for England.

Sett End. Second only to Quito for football pitch altitude...

He does it too often for my liking, running into packs of defenders and not getting a pass away.

I remember that game well. The midfielders never looked up, they all just played first time balls down the wings, no thought of actually passing to each other.

Personally, I think he takes too many shots that have next to no chance of going in - and none of his long-rangers have gone in this season. Shearer, Newell, Speedie etc all knew when to shoot and when to pass.

The last keeper he reminds me most of is Sir Roger, who also liked bringing the ball well out of his area, and who I expected to catch and save everything. Here’s hoping Kaminski gets thought of in the same way 50 years later.

If Armstrong lifted his head up once in a while, Ben would have twice as many goals already IMO, he’s been making a lot of really good runs without receiving the ball.