Leyton Orient 1 Grimsby Town 2 (League Two)
MARTIN Ling laid into his under-achieving team and promised changes after Orient's dreadful home form continued with a defeat against Grimsby, writes Peter King.
Goals from Andy Parkinson and Martin Gritton proved too much for a well-below par O's, who could only manage a late consolation.
A frustrated Ling said: "If we had managed an equaliser at the end it would really have only papered over the cracks. I will have a long hard think and perhaps it is time to change things about a bit." The east Londoners never really got going and the Mariners took the lead on 19 minutes.
A loose ball from on-loan Watford striker Scott Fitzgerald, making his Orient debut, was pounced on by Gritton, who freed Michael Reddy and he squared to Parkinson, who fire home all too easily.
Tom Newey and Daryl McMahon tested Grimsby stopper Anthony Williams while at the other end Lee Harrison saved well from Reddy.
Teenage subs Efe Echanomi and Derek Duncan seemed to liven up the hosts, but the visitors added a second with 20 minutes to go when Gritton turned in Parkinson's cross. Harrison then did well to tip Reddy's cross away and also saved brilliantly from Parkinson.
Fitzgerald headed wide on 75 minutes, but six minutes later Echanomi headed home from close range.
Fitzgerald then capped a miserable debut when he was red carded along with Ronnie Bull after a tussle.
The O's sparked into life but Michael Simpson, Alan White, Lee Steele and even Harrison who had gone up in desperation for a corner in the dying minutes couldn't come up with an equaliser.
