COLCHESTER United claimed a welcome 3-2 win at Grimsby Town, on Tuesday night.

Goals from Joe Taylor, Zach Mitchell and Arthur Read secured the U's a much-needed victory at Blundell Park, in Matty Etherington's first game in interim charge.

Colchester fans have their say on their side's win over the Mariners.

Steve Duckling

Very nervous at the back but got the goals to secure victory. Error more on Greenidge than Goodman, awful back pass. He made some good saves after that. Read sheer class in the middle - missed him. Gutsy performance to give us the much needed 3 pts

Jonathan Brown

Fantastic team performance. Owen was unlucky early on but made some very good saves. Read & Fevrier were different gravy. Taylor is a dangerous front man with great speed & finishing & looked up for it again tonight. Plenty to work on but great 3 points.

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Duncan Stonehouse

Showed exactly what we’d been missing with Ready suspended last few matches. He always looks like he’s got more time on the ball than everyone else, absolute class. Could have folded like a cheap suit after that bizarre early OG but credit to the lads for turning it around.

Dave B

The 1st goal will go viral, but credit to the team for showing grit to get back into the game & dominating the 1st half. Started the 2nd slowly, but credit to Etherington in making the subs to tighten up at the back. Good to get a win at last!

Adam

Great win, still need to work on being better defensively but such a nice feeling to win a game again

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Allen Smith

A great win and feeling we’ve missed this. Taylor scoring again and Read key here. Just need to as I keep saying to stop the two goal thing. Work on this and we will rise up

Si Collinson

Passion. Desire. Determination. Everything the fans had been calling for was there tonight. Everyone played for the shirt and each other. Shows what a United dressing room can do. Hopefully this is a line in the sand and our season starts here.

Jonny Purslow

Players had passive, aggression in the game and looked like they wanted to be in the team which is the col u we know! Keep it up and league 1 we go…. Up the U’s

David Clayton

We’re a totally different team when Read plays. Players’ character in question before tonight but that was a determined performance after a shocking start. Credit to MB; made decisive changes when momentum was against us. Expect he’ll get at least 2 more games.

John S

Don’t get me wrong here I’m happy we needed those 3 points. But I’ve got this gut feeling that cowling will use these results which lets be honest we scraped through to hire Ethrington permanently as an excuse to go internal Up the U’s. But cowling out