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[Meadow]

Welcome back Grimsby.

Your promotion reminded me of that classic rant on your forum back in 2009. Please tell me that Poojah's finally calmed down?

 

[Laker]

Grimsby fans (not necessarily the ones on here but generally) need to be aware that for every Bristol Rovers going straight through there are a Barnet who middled it and us and Luton who had very topsy turvy first season back (Luton and us collapsing massively after Christmas abd killing their promotion tilt, and us looking over our shoulders at the drop).

Bristol Rovers did fantastically to go straight back up but it doesn't happen like that often and I will bank on Grimsby being bottom half next season. Not meant in a nasty way, it's just a tougher league than you're led to believe when you're in the Conference.

 

[SamScfc]

All we need now is Tranmere and Wrexham next season then us and Lincoln the season after and the football league is back to normal and non league can go back to being irrelevant.

 

[GTFCfish]

Grimsby fans (not necessarily the ones on here but generally) need to be aware that for every Bristol Rovers going straight through there are a Barnet who middled it and us and Luton who had very topsy turvy first season back (Luton and us collapsing massively after Christmas abd killing their promotion tilt, and us looking over our shoulders at the drop).

Bristol Rovers did fantastically to go straight back up but it doesn't happen like that often and I will bank on Grimsby being bottom half next season. Not meant in a nasty way, it's just a tougher league than you're led to believe when you're in the Conference.

After being in a living hell for 6 years i will be delighted with a couple of years of mid table obscurity in League 2, before hopefully gradually building to where we may be challenging for the play offs.
I would be delighted if we were in the hunt this year, but mid table will do just fine for me!

 

[GodsGift]

Is Grimsby v Doncaster a particularly big game? It should be, but I can't say I've ever noticed it before.

 

[GTFCfish]

Is Grimsby v Doncaster a particularly big game? It should be, but I can't say I've ever noticed it before.

I can only remember playing them the once and that was when we had 2 players sent off in the League Cup when we threw away a 2 - 0 lead and lost 3 - 2, pretty sure we have never played at the Keepmoat though so should be good.

 

[Gladders]

I remember Doncaster having more fans than us at Blundell Park in a paint pot trophy game (I'm sure they had half the Main stand if I remember rightly), I think they were the holders at the time and wanted to win it again. We beat them on pens and then lost in the final to some unknown club.

 

[les.gtfc]

A bit late to join this thread, but hello again all, it's been far too bloody long.

As for God's Gift's question, no Grimsby v Donny has never really been a "big" game but it just that we'd like our first game to be relatively close, at a new ground (for almost all Town fans) I would think, in a stadium that would be able to cope with the obvious large following we're going to take in our first game back, wherever it is, and Donny ticks all those boxes.

 

[Luke Imp]

All we need now is Tranmere and Wrexham next season then us and Lincoln the season after and the football league is back to normal and non league can go back to being irrelevant.

Unfortunately, we have a pact with Macclesfield, so we'll be bringing them with us.

 

[les.gtfc]

I remember Doncaster having more fans than us at Blundell Park in a paint pot trophy game (I'm sure they had half the Main stand if I remember rightly), I think they were the holders at the time and wanted to win it again. We beat them on pens and then lost in the final to some unknown club.

That was the game of the amazing wind assisted fluke goal. It was blowing an absolute gale and from a Donny goalkick the ball caught in the wind and looped back towards goal. A Donny defender tried to head it back to the keeper but only managed in heading it over his head into the net.

 

[Flaxman's Alibi]

My advice to Codheads is (not that you'll need any advice) make sure that you enjoy every second of that warm sunny glow which will wash over your entire summer.

Promotion from the Conf (especially after 5+ years) must be the footballing equivalent to having a screw collect you from your cell, saying farewell to your fellow inmates, collecting what's left of your valuables and walking out of the prison gates in to the arms of your hot as f**k and sexually rampant missus, who can't hold herself back until you get home; so it's the back seat of the 1979 brown Ford Granada in a layby on the way home.

I agree with Laker - the jump in quality after a few years away took us by surprise. The game was quicker, the defences meaner and the strikers more deadly. Sounds weird but you get complacent after becoming familiar with non-league fare and it might take you a few months to get up to speed. Whereas Brovers and Cheltenham really haven't been out of the league long enough to feel the real suffering of being non-l league and a loss in quality of their teams.

I think you'll do very well to touch the play offs, though it isn't impossible. It's not long ago that it was accepted that you never bounce back first time from a relegation to the Conf.

 

[Flaxman's Alibi]

Unfortunately, we have a pact with Macclesfield, so we'll be bringing them with us.

Let's have you lot back next season. Football is far more fun with local rivalry around.

 

[Gladders]

Hurst has just confirmed on radio that he will 100% be staying with us.
Good news

 

[pontoonlew]

i'd be happy to still be a FL club this time next season, if that is 22nd so be it.

As for expectations are you sure about that? there is already a thread on the fishy about next seasons expectations and 90% of the replies are about play-offs or better. Guess it won't be too long before the boo boys are back.

I think they're built out of hope more than expectations. Fans will be happy just to be back in the most part, first & foremost. The expectation to win every game is now gone, which is good.

More good news is that Paul Hurst is staying.

 

[Luke Imp]

Let's have you lot back next season. Football is far more fun with local rivalry around.

'No' and 'Bob' spring to mind.

 

[AdamStag]

Money?

'No' and 'Bob' spring to mind.

It would be nice to have you back around.

Bit more a feel for things with Grimsby and donny back in the league, that Lincoln, York and Macclesfield are missing is a shame

 

[Vanni]

Did Lew really say Hurst staying is good news? This surely must be.......................

PS - Just kidding Lew! Hurst has delivered League football so he definitely deserves to stay in charge of you lot.

 

[Sefton Howie]

Hursty is a massive club legend here and our record appearance holder so absolutely delighted for him and mariners!

 

[Clarkey_GTFC]

Barring the odd nut job I don't think any of us expect to challenge next season. It seemed like an eternity in that league, we'll enjoy every loss as much as a win I'd imagine.

Very glad Hurst seems poised to stay. I was guilty of being anti-Hurst but in the back of my mind I always knew it was a stupidly hard league to escape. I think in a couple of years time he'll have us a squad easily capable of challenging for promotion again. He'll never be a true fan favourite and he'll probably never feel the same way about us but his post match words have really hit home for me. He's done all of this for himself and for the players, while the players have done it all for us. I can respect that.

 

[rudebwoyben]

All we need now is Tranmere and Wrexham next season then us and Lincoln the season after and the football league is back to normal and non league can go back to being irrelevant.

Well, that's not going to happen is it? I bet FGR get into the Football League than most of that quartet.

 

[pontoonlew]

Did Lew really say Hurst staying is good news? This surely must be.......................

PS - Just kidding Lew! Hurst has delivered League football so he definitely deserves to stay in charge of you lot.

Oh don't get me wrong, I think the fact he's been treated as a tactical God who was right all along is absolutely laughable. A fan on the Fishy asked for an apology from the fans who questioned the tactics and lack of plan B. Which when you take into account we got promoted on the back of Hurst changing tactics to a plan b (which by the way was forced upon him) in the 2nd leg & the final is also laughable.

He's also yet to thank the fans, bar a brief acknowledgement after spending 5 minutes slagging off the 'minority'. We raised 110k for his promotion fund, we traveled the country in numbers most league clubs can only dream of. He's not thanked us for that since getting promotion.

So I don't particularly like him but I respect that he (granted took a long time to do it) took us out of Non League. It's good news that he's staying because I firmly believe he'd never take us down and it's great news that the harmony in the club will remain. Going up without a manager could've spelt disaster. But I'm definitely not going to suddenly pretend large parts of the past 6 years didn't happen, that'd be seriously naive.

 

[LondonOrn]

He's also yet to thank the fans, bar a brief acknowledgement after spending 5 minutes slagging off the 'minority'.

Is there a transcript of this anywhere? I couldn't find an article about it from the last few days.

 

[les.gtfc]

Is there a transcript of this anywhere? I couldn't find an article about it from the last few days.

http://sport.bt.com/video/grimsby-b...ub-promoted-to-football-league-91364061162672

 

[LondonOrn]

Seems innocuous enough to me, is that such a bad thing to point out if it's true? Managing a football team can often be a thankless and stressful profession, and unless the manager is seen to be exceptionally incompetent and an egotistical control freak unpleasant to both his players and fanbase, no one just trying to do his job should have to put up with that level of abuse.

I don't quite understand why some Grimsby fans have taken such offence (if the comments on the Grimsby Telegraph are anything to go by), unless it reflects their barely suppressed guilt? It's not like he's mentioned any names, ranted at large or called a sizable section of their fanbase a bunch of twats, he's just telling things as it is/has been.

 

[pontoonlew]

Seems innocuous enough to me, is that such a bad thing to point out if it's true? Managing a football team can often be a thankless and stressful profession, and unless the manager is seen to be exceptionally incompetent and an egotistical control freak unpleasant to both his players and fanbase, no one just trying to do his job should have to put up with that level of abuse.

I don't quite understand why some Grimsby fans have taken such offence (if the comments on the Grimsby Telegraph are anything to go by), unless it reflects their barely suppressed guilt? It's not like he's mentioned any names, ranted at large or called a sizable section of their fanbase a bunch of twats, he's just telling things as it is/has been.

There's a few issues with it from my perspective.

Number one and most importantly, it's one of the first things he says. We've just won promotion and 'getting one over people' is all he seems arsed about talking about. Not only that but listen to how much he talks about that compared to thanking the fans, he's not exclusively thanked the fans once. Which sounds pedantic but when we raised 110k for him and had the highest away following last year, I think we deserved that.

Finally, I honestly believe the 'abuse' is over hyped. He thinks moaning only happens here, he's desperately wrong. There's been booing at games when we've been shit, there's been a lot of calling for his head in the confines of a forum (which didn't make the terraces) and there's been huge question of his tactics. All fair criticism, most of it was fair and a very small handful of times it went over the line. But to dedicate your Wembley speech to it is detrimental to the 99% who didn't abuse him. He should take a look at LVG last night, he got booed onto the pitch ffs and STILL dedicated his speech to thanking the fans. Only once did it go too far at a match, that was away at Halifax. We lost 4-2 a week after PH called the fans 'spoilt' fans of a side with no promotion in 18 years were 'spoilt'.

Hurst has popped at the fans for a long time now, he hates the suggestion he might be wrong sometimes. What's telling is, if you read the Fishy back, look at how many people beg for Monkhouse to be out the side and us to go to a 3 man midfield. The very tactic that sent us up and the very types of posts people are asking for an apology for.

 

[AdamStag]

Think most managers get it from clubs with expectations on getting out of the conference.

We won it by going on some stupid run of 22 wins out of 25 or something daft, including 12 on the bounce but paul Cox got dogs abuse from the fans when we were loitering around midtable and losing to part-time neighbours alfreton at home Boxing Day.

He did a similar thing - similar to hurst - it's the one time you have carte Blanche to go to the fans and basically tell the nay-Sayers to go fuck yourself.

Those who've never experienced the grim cesspit of the conference don't understand how hard to generally is to get out of (though Bristol and Cheltenham have recently done otherwise) - it's why no side has ever gone straight back down again

 

[dedwardp]

To be fair, he was only answering the question - BT Sports were the ones bringing it up and stoking the issue in the first place. It was the first thing they asked him, so it was the first thing he spoke about.

I thought this one was much better:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1619865148336503

 

[GodsGift]

After Grimsby scored their third to wrap up the game, his first reaction was to cup his ear to his own fans. He did the same when he lifted the trophy.

 

[GTFCfish]

After Grimsby scored their third to wrap up the game, his first reaction was to cup his ear to his own fans. He did the same when he lifted the trophy.

When that 3rd goal went in i think he could have done the wanker sign and shown his arse at us and nobody would have cared!

 

[Matt_]

Welcome back Fishy folk.

Here's another very good reason to have them back in the 92.

http://codalmighty.com/site/ca.php?article=5826