On Friday night we're holding an event that's a bit different in the trust bar under the Findus Stand: Can You Hear The Grimsby Sing? An evening of words and music celebrating our football club, culture and community. You'll find more details on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/375625159453505/ Its a kind of follow up to the book We are Town.

So a competititon. No free tickets, but I'll buy a pint on the night to the person who names the most players who are mentioned in the pieces that will be performed - there are at least 70 players named. First person to name the player (and I do mean players, or at least player- manager) gets the point for that player. Bonus points for players who are the main subject of any particular piece.

You can only name five players in a post, and when you've posted once, you have to wait until two more people have posted before you can post again.

Does that make sense? Guess I'll find out when you start posting

Ok, I'll have a stab:

Phil Jevons
Wayne Burnett
Kevin Donovan
Paul Wilkinson
Keith Alexander

Decent start - one bonus pointer and another scorer (Burnett should arguably be a bonus pointer himself). The other three are such good guesses I was a bit surprised they didn't score

(My post doesn't count as one of the ones that's got to happen until you post again, natch)

can you indicate which names have been guessed correctly already ?

John McDermott
Ivano Bonnetti
Brian Laws
Nigel Batch
Tony Ford

Harry Wainman
Mike Czuczman
Bob Cumming
The late, great Paul Futcher
Stuart Brace

Not a snowflakes but -

not my first choice but -

Brian Laws
Wayne Burnett
Craig Disley
Phil Jevons
Omar Bogle

Quoted from moosey_club

can you indicate which names have been guessed correctly already ?

Remember its only the first person to name a player who gets a point for that player, so there's no point in repeating them in any case. You get at least one point for that selection

Quoted from BarkerDan10

Harry Wainman
Mike Czuczman
Bob Cumming
The late, great Paul Futcher
Stuart Brace

Decent guesses, based on a knowledge of the age of the promoter. But in fact I've only one piece in the show, and I only name Paul Futcher in it (still heart-stopping to think about him, isn't it?). Someone else mentions one of your names though, so you are well in the hunt.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Not a snowflakes but -

not my first choice but -

Brian Laws
Wayne Burnett
Craig Disley
Phil Jevons
Omar Bogle

Not at all- decent shout. You don't get anything for Phil Jevons and Wayne Burnett as Rich Mariner has already nabbed them. But you get two points for your other three.

Basil Rathbone
Alan Gauden
Mike Hickman
Gordon Walker
Charlie Wright

Keith Jobling
Dave Boylen
Graham Rathbone
Kevin Drinkell
Kevin Moore

Alan Connell
Kevin Drinkell
Liam Hearn
Joe Waters
Neil Woods

Matt Tees
Bobby Cummings
Trevor Wymark
Paul Wilkinson
Nigel Batch

Nathan Arnold
Jack Lester
Dave Moore
Graham Taylor
Paul Groves

Jack Lewis
Dave Worthington
Tony Ford
Steve Sherwood
Dean Crombie

Matt Tees
Tony Ford
John McDermott
Steve Sherwood
Kevin Moore

Garry Birtles
Micheal Boulding
Chris Nicholl
Mike Brolly
Jackie Bestall

Scope update:
Promotionplaice out in front with five correct names. RichMariner second with two names including one of the bonus ones.

Still more than 50 players unnamed, so plenty to play for. Remember you won't gain anything for naming a player someone else has already named.

Astounded to realise, that, to my knowledge, neither Joe Waters nor Paul Groves are featured in any of the pieces. Please do not try to bring rotten fruit to chuck at us on the night. Gordon Walker would have been a good guess if only we could persuade Phil Ball to fly in from Spain for the evening.

Steve Livingstone
Kingsley Black
Ron Rafferty
Peter Handyside
Gary Croft

Mike Brolly

Bradley Allen

Stewart Campbell

John Cockerill

Stacy Coldicott

Phil Bonnyman

Shaun Cunnington

Jamie Forrester

Phil Hubbard

Gary Jones

Gary Liddell

Clive Mendonca

Sidney Wheelhouse
Malcolm Partridge
Dave Booth
Michael Reddy
Harry Betmead

Knut Anders Fostervold
Michael Antoine Currier
Tomi Ameobi
Trevor Slack
Peter Grotier

Brian Keeble
Marc North
Don Donovan
Dave Worthington
Clive Wiggington

David Neilsen

Tom Newey

John Oster

Alan Pouton

Tony Rees

Paul Emson
George Tweedy
Bobby Mitchell
Paul Agnew
Kevin Jobling

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Tom Newey

John Oster

Alan Pouton

Tony Rees[/quo

Not sure your abiding to the rules Harry, 6 names on first list, two postings in a row, no free beer for you my boy!

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

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Tom Newey

John Oster

Alan Pouton

Tony Rees[/quo

Not sure your abiding to the rules Harry, 6 names on first list, two postings in a row, no free beer for you my boy!

Just got carried away.

Lee Ashcroft
Dave Beasant
Terry Curran
Mark Lever
Peter Beagrie   8)

Latest scores:
Promotionplaice 10pts
arryarryarry 4pts
LincolnMariner56 4pts
RichMariner 3pts

Still 49 names to play for, so keep them coming. Promotionplaice hasn't got that pint yet.

A lot of the names you are suggesting that don't feature on the night bring home how much good writing about good players hasn't made the cut (also some good writing about not so good players).

It'll be a cracking night, and the youth benefit, so hopefully help us have some more good players to remember fondly in years to come.

By the by, if you are thinking of going on Friday, but haven't got a ticket yet, don't worry. You can pay on the door. If you have paid for a ticket but not received one, don't worry either. We'll have your name listed.

Lee Ashcroft
Dave Beasant
Billy Cairns
Frank Barton
Danny Butterfield

Barry Conlon
Biffa Barker
Graham Rathbone
Mike Hickman
Shaun Mawer

Dave Gilbert

Gary Childs

Tommy Watson

Harry Wainman

Andy Tillson

Marlon Broomes
Jim Dobbin
Darren Barnard
Terry Donovan
Zhang Enuha

Ron Cockerill
Tony Rees
Jack Lester
Tony Gallimore
James McKeown

Andy Moore
Dave Moore
Gary Liddell
Jean Paul Kalala
Chris Nicholl

Curtis Woodhouse
Trevor Whymark
Gary Lund
George santos
Phil Bonnyman

Alan Marley
Elemer Berkessey
David Nielson
Jack Lewis
Bobby Cumming

Score update - no big changes at the top: Promotion plaice still on 10, LincolnMariner56 up to 5, BarkerDan10 up to 4. Meza and moss_side_mariner have successfully joined the hunt with their first entries.

44 names still in play, including one bonus point scorer (but if you get him, it'll be a fluke- not a likely subject)

I'll be travelling on Friday, so I'll declare the winner based on entries made by 8.00AM on Friday morning.

George Tweedy
Allenby Chilton
Paul Bolland
Chima Okorie (wildcard left field choice)
Neil Woods

Another entry (bored at work!!)

Paul Emson
Jimmy Gilligan
Chris Hargreaves
Gary Jones
Jason Whittle

Is anyone actually going to the evening of poetry and song?

Dale Banton

Steve Saunders

Graham Taylor

John Cockerill

Mike Brolley

Jackie Bestall
Pat Glover
Keith Alexander
Padraig Amond
Dave Gilbert

Mark Lever

Paul Reece

Dave Boylen

Michael Boulding

George Mclean

Lew Chatterley

Danny Coyne

Martin Pringle

David Beherall

Menno Willems

Mike Lester
Bradley Wood
Tony Gallimore
Steve Foley
Paul Agnew

Less than 23 hours to play, and the leaderboard is closing up. Promotionplaice still on 10, but BarkerDan10 and LincolnMariner56 are both up to 6. RichMariner and arryarryarry joint fourth, Badger57 and Meza joint sixth.

There are 39 players' names still to play for.

Lets ease up the restrictions on how often you can post. Either every hour or after one other person has posted an entry, whichever happens first. Still no more than five players per post though.

Quoted from Lincoln Mariner 56

Another entry (bored at work!!)

Paul Emson
Jimmy Gilligan
Chris Hargreaves
Gary Jones
Jason Whittle

Justin's brother?  ;)

Dave Moore
Jimmy Gilligan
Tommy Watson
Craig Shakespeare
John Oster

Harry Betmead
Alec Hall
Teddy Buck
Billy Rudd
Kevin Kilmore

Anthony Elding

Scott Nielson

Mick Halsall

Kevin Kilmore

Andy Todd

Dave Beasant

Akpro Akpa Akpa

Adam Proudlock

Tommy Widdrington

Aidan Davison

Keith Jobling
Kevin Jobling
Dave Smith
Don Donovan
Terry Donovan

Peter Beagle
Martin Butler
Ben Futcher
Rob Jones
Dale Gordon

Dale Gordon!
Was trying to remember his name all the way into work!
Useless (in that team) but great sparkly hair! Lol

Quoted from Badger57

Dale Gordon!
Was trying to remember his name all the way into work!
Useless (in that team) but great sparkly hair! Lol

I remember a Dale Banton ;D

Quoted from Badger57

Dale Gordon!
Was trying to remember his name all the way into work!
Useless (in that team) but great sparkly hair! Lol

Dale Gordon was the ex-Norwich and Rangers player. Never played for Town.

As you say though, I think it's Dale Banton who's he's being confused with.

Lol 😁
Yeah, that's right of course!
Now who the hell is Dale Gordon??? 😁

Paul Warhurst

Jason Lee

Ian Knight

Alan Pouton

Gary Silk

Quoted from Les Brechin

Dale Gordon was the ex-Norwich and Rangers player. Never played for Town.

As you say though, I think it's Dale Banton who's he's being confused with.

Yeah we had a Dean Gordon from Boro at fullback for a while

Brian Hill
Andy O'Dell
Bobby Ross
John Macey
Alan Woodward

Jonny Scott

Duncan Mckensie

Calvin Andrews

Chris Hope

Richard O'Kelly

Bobby Kennedy
Terry Curran
Darren Barnard
Sean Mawer
Adam Buckley

Chris Bolder

Terry Barwick

Andy Parkinson

Colin Cramb

Isiaha Rankine

Jimmy Thompson
Cieren Toner
John Duncliffe
Brian Keeble
Cliff Portwood

Jimmy Lumby
Connor Townsend
Daryl Clare
Rod Fletcher
Danny Butterfield

Really starting to struggle now!

Stuart Gray
Ashley Sestanovich
Ian Turner
Mark Smith
Malcolm Partridge

....and that concludes Badger57 ' s entry and can I think about something else now PLEASE???
Good fun though.  :)

Paul Crighton

Simon Ford

Gary Harkins

Lee Peacock

Bradley Allen

Ok,  couldn't stop brain ticking after all, just a couple more.

Steve Foley
Chris Seagraves
George McClean (sp?)
Errrr..... ::)

Quoted from 1mickylyons

Yeah we had a Dean Gordon from Boro at fullback for a while

Thats who I meant!!

Gary Martin
Graham Oates
David. Wilson
Joe fletcher
Keith Cockburn

Remember when the Pontoon got told off for bad language so we had,
He's here, he's there, we're not allowed to swear, Graham Oates,  Graham Oates?"

Think you can guess how it went originally! ;) ;)

Sorry for delay. Internet problems. Not been able to properly add up the scores but it's between promotionplaice and badger57. Dare say I can run to two pints so see you both tonight. I'll do a proper tallying up when I can.

Quoted from CodAlmighty

Sorry for delay. Internet problems. Not been able to properly add up the scores but it's between promotionplaice and badger57. Dare say I can run to two pints so see you both tonight. I'll do a proper tallying up when I can.

Haven't entered but will you do the full list after the event?

Ron Rafferty

Graham Hockless

Graham Rathbone

Steve Chettle

Anthony Williams

Quoted from CodAlmighty

Sorry for delay. Internet problems. Not been able to properly add up the scores but it's between promotionplaice and badger57. Dare say I can run to two pints so see you both tonight. I'll do a proper tallying up when I can.

I'm very surprised I caught up "down the final stretch!"
Sadly,  won't be there so buy yourself a stiff one and raise your glass to the Fabulous Futch for me!
Enjoy what I'm sure will be a great night and thanks for the great memories you invoked with your fab little quiz! 😀

I also won't be attending tonight but I echo the thoughts of Badger57 when he say's the quiz brought back great memories of past player's.

Have a great evening...........UTM

Sorry to  be late on this. Still got internet problems at home. The official winner was Promotionplaice with 10 pts, followed by Badger57 (7); BarkerDan10 and LincolnMariner56 (6 each).

Someone asked for a list of all the players. I was working from this list: Amond, Andy Cook, Arnold, Betmead, Black, Bogle, Brace, Buck, Burnett, Charlie Craven, Childs, Clay, Clifton, Clive Mendonca, Cockerill, J, Cockerill, R, Craven, Crowe, male private Young, Disley, Dyson, Ford, Foster, Futcher, Ginger Hall, Gowling, Hill, Jackie Bestall, Jacobson, Jimmy Carmichael, , , Jimmy Dyson, Jobling, Joe Robson, Jones, Kelly, Kevin Drinkell, Knights, Lennell John-Lewis, Lewis (Cyril- not Jack, anyway), Lonsdale, Martin, McKeown, Mclean, Mike Lyons, Monkhouse, Moore, Moore, D, Moore, K, Neilson, Parkinson, Pat Glover, Pearson, Pennington, Phil Jevons, Pinault, Portwood, Rafferty, Rees, Richard Brodie, Smith, Tait, Taylor, Tees, Thomas, Thompson, Tim Coleman, Toto, Townsend, Tweedy, Wheelhouse, Widdrington, Wright.

As you see, its all a bit rough and ready, and as none of you claimed the pint anyway, the only loser was me (I put money behind the bar and told the barman to put it in the staff Xmas tips pot if no one claimed it, not having seen your posts saying you wouldn't be there) In fact, there was a change to the programme and Gordon Wilson read his poem about our Cup defeat to Coventry in 1973, which names several players you guessed but didn't score for. Richard Brodie was the bonus player no one claimed. Gordon, again, read a piece with the unlikely title "Loving Richard Brodie".

To those of you who were there, hope you enjoyed it. I had the impression everyone who was there (and numbers were a bit higher than we'd expected) was glad they were there. Anything you feel we could have done better, let me know, either on here or by DM if you prefer.

I enjoyed it and was annoyed to have to leave early due to the deadly sick daughter / moaning wife combo.

My only feedback would be to have more of a stage and try and do something with the lights. It was very bright everywhere. I wonder if we the ugly audience should have been in darkness and the stage area lit up. Also, not sure if this was me being dumb, but I thought it started at 7pm so sat there for an hour waiting, sipping my soft drink. Gave me chance to have a chat with some new and old friends though I guess.

Personal highlights for me were (in no particular order) The Ballad of Phil Jevons, the Shim Sladey rap and being charged 30p for my drink (first time I have said keep the change in years).

It really was a good night and a refreshingly different sort of night for these ere parts.

Well done to those who organised it and contributed.

UTM.