How old are we all ?  It will be interesting to see the ages on the group if people are honest about it and you remain anonymous

I'll start    53

I’m over 60 😊

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Three score plus 9

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18 (birth certificate says 63 though)

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140 , I was there at the founding of Pelham, got drunk on gin.

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55

58

61 and a bit

71

59 going on 25

61

56

45

47.

78

10

70 (today!)

34.

Interesting that there are not many ‘youngsters’ on here… too busy on Twitter and Facebook?

75, last month.

Halfway between 18 and 90

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Quoted from thefish

34.

Interesting that there are not many ‘youngsters’ on here… to busy on Twitter and Facebook?

Aye, been feeling pretty sorry for myself after turning 38 earlier this week. You’ve cheered me up, ye old gits! 😆

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73

Quoted from buckstown

70 (today!)

Happy Birthday 🍻🥂🍾🎂

75

58

49.

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75 - were did it all go?
There was a time you could sneak onto the pitch at BP in the off season - I 'scored' at both ends with a tennis ball circa 1960 -  aka Ron Rafferty.
Now when I see us score I can think yep i've been there & done that.
Now it's back to the Home fo the Confused - Good Night  UTM.

Blimey, we could become the Ancient Mariners football team reserves!

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80

nearly 70!

65

49

58 (and just back from playing Astro footy!)

Too

57 a few weeks ago,

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I'm Spartacus!












51 really, but not really grown up yet

70, 71 in June

50

58

58

25

38

25

67

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The fishy needs some young blood or it will die out in 20 years and no one will be around to moan about Hurst being too negative in our champions league games.

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First match was vs Bradford Park Avenue - re-election season

                        
i think we areold.. 54

i think we are old . 54
first match ? harry waimans testimonial

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75. Next month

35

71

The amount of bus passes on show here is impressive.

28.. Hopefully another 50 years of moaning

39.

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I suspect a fair few of us were here from the start. I remember posting on the original forum in 98. In my 20’s  :'(

84.

My first ever match was against Notts County exactly
seventy-eight years ago today.

The next week we beat Germany in WWII

64 first game April 1968 v Peterborough 1-1

35, although I think you can place a rough age to town fans based purely on what they call the lower smiths.....

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First away day April 1972 when we lost to Donny 2-1 but the atmosphere was unbelievable I was 16 at time .

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Just a few months away from 60, but still jogging around trying to play 6 a side

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38 but i tell everyone i'm 36 so will go with that

37, but I feel young in this crowd!  ;D

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"Now the years are rolling by me, they are rocking evenly
I am older than I once was, and younger than I'll be, that's not unusual
No it isn't strange, after changes upon changes we Mariners are just the same
Lie-la-lie...."
(to misquote Paul Simon)

This forum could arrange a friendly with Craggy Island

61,been following Notts since '78 so I've aged more than my years

Just started my second half-century. Feeling like I'm closing in on my third.

29 + a year.... i didn't take it very well

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Won’t be long until the fishy has about 30 members looking at this thread 🤣🤣

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53

2 score and three quarters

Too old to rock n roll, too young to die....

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The Yoof obviously have better things to do with their time than moan about footy on one of those things from the dark ages before tiktok, a 'message board'.

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Quoted from Maringer

The Yoof obviously have better things to do with their time than moan about footy on one of those things from the dark ages before tiktok, a 'message board'.

Not me, I'm 22 and still sat at my desk boring myself with the ins n outs of Scunthorpe's player releases

Quoted from ChannelMariner

Not me, I'm 22 and still sat at my desk boring myself with the ins n outs of Scunthorpe's player releases

We’re not that different. When I was your age I was sat at my desk boring myself with the ins and outs of the infamous “Scunny Honey” competition. My Lord they were awful.

Edit: I’ve found it! For those of you old enough to remember the early noughties, and by which I mean almost all of you, feel free to remind yourself of the best fanny Scunny had to offer (p.s. they were all serious):

http://web.archive.org/web/20001209215200/http://www.vikingfm.co.uk/honey.htm

Quoted from Poojah

We’re not that different. When I was your age I was sat at my desk boring myself with the ins and outs of the infamous “Scunny Honey” competition. My Lord they were awful.

Edit: I’ve found it! For those of you old enough to remember the early noughties, and by which I mean almost all of you, feel free to remind yourself of the best fanny Scunny had to offer (p.s. they were all serious):

http://web.archive.org/web/20001209215200/http://www.vikingfm.co.uk/honey.htm

In track and field, you can start sprinting after the gun sounds, but if your reaction time is quicker than .100 of a second, it’s still classed as a false start.

As quick as .100 of a second is, it’s still slower than you posting your original message and then posting your edit, providing the link to the Scunts of the Year. 😜

I bet that took a lot of finding! Those images have probably burnt a hole in your hard drive, icloud and, for 23 long years, your fänny addled mind.

Did you ever find out who contestant 24 was?

'I love Scunthorpe and I haven't been on holiday'..... the very first contestant lets you know the level that competition is at without even seeing the pictures

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

In track and field, you can start sprinting after the gun sounds, but if your reaction time is quicker than .100 of a second, it’s still classed as a false start.

As quick as .100 of a second is, it’s still slower than you posting your original message and then posting your edit, providing the link to the Scunts of the Year. 😜

I bet that took a lot of finding! Those images have probably burnt a hole in your hard drive, icloud and, for 23 long years, your fänny addled mind.

Did you ever find out who contestant 24 was?

Busted. I’ve fapping away to those mutants for a good couple of decades now. And yes, here’s contestant 24 wearing that season’s Scunny home shirt. She makes my top 3….

[img]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ED5ih91XYAANu16.jpg:large[/img]

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First game 29th October 1955...  Division 3 N... Beat Derby County 2- 1...  Promoted that season as Champions... Average attendance that season was just over 15,000... and the attendence against Derby that day was 19,989...   I had to have a stool to see over the barrier...  I was armed with a wooden rattle which would now be considered an offensive weapon...  Happy days... lol...

Miss Scunthorpe.

No, not another beauty contest,  just very good advice.

68.  Another wrinkly.  After my last long distance walking race I am technically still an international athlete.  Hope to compete again at age 69 and 70 at the same level.  

Quoted from Poojah

We’re not that different. When I was your age I was sat at my desk boring myself with the ins and outs of the infamous “Scunny Honey” competition. My Lord they were awful.

Edit: I’ve found it! For those of you old enough to remember the early noughties, and by which I mean almost all of you, feel free to remind yourself of the best fanny Scunny had to offer (p.s. they were all serious):

http://web.archive.org/web/20001209215200/http://www.vikingfm.co.uk/honey.htm

Do you have any other Viking FM pearls of nostalgia, possibly linked to mutual school friends...?

Crikey !!!
Anyone under the age of 40 attended a gathering of "Fishy " members would think its smell of "wee" round here alternatively  Brut ,Old Spice and Hai Karate drinking from pint jugs.
"Do you Remember the price of Fish and Chips back in the day!"
Where you in the queue for the Star Wars film at the Odeon down "Freemo!" The photo was in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph.
Don't go down the road what cars our drove before you ask....
UTM 2023/24

I wish I'd never asked now ....... I didn't realise we were all a bunch of coffin Dodgers

Quoted from gtfc_chris

Do you have any other Viking FM pearls of nostalgia, possibly linked to mutual school friends...?

Amazing what people remember (and to be honest, I wish people would forget most of what I got up to at school, as you can probably imagine).

Interestingly, the DJ (Hirsty) that did that particular feature (Grass your mates up I think it was called) used to do midweek pub quizzes in the Barracuda and the Bootlegger, with his co-presenter Danny Oakes, who used to go by the moniker “Pimp Daddy Dog”.

Since it was cheaper to go out in the week (a quid a pint in many places) and you were less likely to get ID’d, I’d be out most weeks and once the quiz was done there would be hardly anyone about, so I got to know them both reasonably well. This helped when it came to shafting my old school mate who’d rather embarrassingly managed to simultaneously shít himself and vomit over his new girlfriend, trying to impress her by downing shots of cheap vodka. I think most of Lindsey school heard that story awkwardly recounted on breakfast radio.

Fast forward a good 15 or 16 years, and I would regularly bump into the two of them, along with a lass who used to present the Capital Breakfast show with them, in the tiny gym in the basement of my office building in Leeds. I’d bump into them all a good couple of times a week, until I didn’t see any of them for ages.

Forgot all about it until one day I bumped into Hirsty, only he was now a she. I try to be as accommodating and respectful as possible of this evolving, modern world we are living in but, blimey, it didn’t half catch me off guard. Trying to work out where you recognise someone from and then you’re like, fúcking hell, THAT’S who it is.

She now presents on another radio station, the name of which I forget. Anyway, back to your game of “who’s the oldest buggér on the fishy”…

Quoted from Knut Anders Fosters Voles

In track and field, you can start sprinting after the gun sounds, but if your reaction time is quicker than .100 of a second, it’s still classed as a false start.

As quick as .100 of a second is, it’s still slower than you posting your original message and then posting your edit, providing the link to the Scunts of the Year. 😜

I bet that took a lot of finding! Those images have probably burnt a hole in your hard drive, icloud and, for 23 long years, your fänny addled mind.

Did you ever find out who contestant 24 was?

Yea Gods. In the immortal words of Sean Lock: "That's a challenging w*nk"

Looks like Caveman is the oldest at the minute.

Quoted from Meza

Looks like Caveman is the oldest at the minute.

Story checks out.

Quoted from It Bites

I wish I'd never asked now ....... I didn't realise we were all a bunch of coffin Dodgers

On the contrary, the great abundance of life experience which many Fishy posters possess explains the tremendous footballing wisdom
for which the board is famous.

You could say, I suppose, that we're a bunch of deluded old gits mostly agreeing with one another unless/until we don't.

I strongly incline to the first viewpoint.


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I’m still smarting about Poojah being a whole decade younger than me, I’m well p#ssed off!

Poojah is more mature than all of us, I suspect that he went to a good school and fine University.

Quoted from Total Hawsehole

Poojah is more mature than all of us, I suspect that he went to a good school and fine University.

I went to a dreadful school, then a decent college, then a good university (that I didn’t deserve to go to!).

It probably shows.

Quoted from Total Hawsehole

Poojah is more mature than all of us, I suspect that he went to a good school and fine University.

Lindsey School and the university of life. I’m not sure that counts.

No, he went to Hereford and then Leicestershire college of sixth form resits to do a GNVQ in leisure and tourism 😂

Quoted from Poojah

Lindsey School and the university of life. I’m not sure that counts.

Without trying to sound pompous, that’s about as Grimsby as you can get, I reckon. Mind you, I’m certain Lindsey is in Cleethorpes, not that not matters.

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First game v York
Charlie Wright in goal
We won 4-3 I think
Before the game my mum and dad took us to Ramsden’s and bought me and my brother a toy Batman car that fired rockets out the back
My brother lost one of the rockets in the ground and dad replaced it with a swan Vesta matchstick
I have been to blundell park hundreds of times since
But never found the rocket lol
So many great memories of watching our beloved GTFC

Quoted from Heisenberg

Without trying to sound pompous, that’s about as Grimsby as you can get, I reckon. Mind you, I’m certain Lindsey is in Cleethorpes, not that not matters.

Well i say i am Grimsby born and bred..
BUT  technically  born in Cleethorpes a "Meggie"
as i was born in Croft Baker Maternity  Home back in the day
No longer there but something else.
UTM 2023/24

57.5 born in Nunny maternity hospital and attended Matthew Humberstone School

Quoted from Heisenberg

Mind you, I’m certain Lindsey is in Cleethorpes, not that not matters.

So is Blundell Park.  :)

Also a former Lindsey pupil. Played against Chris Hargreaves there back in the day to reinforce my GTFC-ness!

Quoted from Poojah

Forgot all about it until one day I bumped into Hirsty, only he was now a she. I try to be as accommodating and respectful as possible of this evolving, modern world we are living in but, blimey, it didn’t half catch me off guard. Trying to work out where you recognise someone from and then you’re like, fúcking hell, THAT’S who it is.

That’s exactly how I felt when I found out Tony Gallimore’s son was right footed.

Quoted from The Caterham Mariner

Well i say i am Grimsby born and bred..
BUT  technically  born in Cleethorpes a "Meggie"
as i was born in Croft Baker Maternity  Home back in the day
No longer there but something else.
UTM 2023/24

I was born at Croft Baker too.

One of my fondest gtfc memories is standing in wybers Co op considering my beer options and gally steaming straight in and getting 4 special brew with no hesitation. I was proud of his professional decision making. It made me realise the difference between a pleb like me and a seasoned drinker . I’ve been trying to recreate that moment ever since

I've heard stories of people driving home after a game and stopping for a pint in the Grosvenor, only to find Gallimore already at the end of the bar, even though he'd played that day!

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Born in Hull, lived in Cottingham until I was about 6. Dad took me to watch the Tigers at Boothferry Park, Waggy, Simpkin and all.

Moved over to Cleethorpes and never looked back, great place to live.

Started following Town in the late 70's, what a team, say no more.

72, Havelock followed by the university of life, first visit to Blundell Park in 1960

Quoted from lee65

58 (and just back from playing Astro footy!)

I’ve always assumed Lee65 was the same age as me ... now confirmed.

Quoted from Maringer

So is Blundell Park.  :)

Also a former Lindsey pupil. Played against Chris Hargreaves there back in the day to reinforce my GTFC-ness!

I’m the same age as Chris and played with him for several years for various teams, assisting many of his bagful of goals, and also against him as he was at Lindsey and I was at Wintringham.

63 and 11/12

A ridiculously youthful 66, thanks to a diet of fags, booze and inappropriate women.

120.

And I was only 59 before last year's play off games.

Quoted from Maringer

The Yoof obviously have better things to do with their time than moan about footy on one of those things from the dark ages before tiktok, a 'message board'.

As a teacher, I see how crap young people are at computer skills.  If it doesn't give instant gratification in some form, they can't be bothered.

56 Next week.  A relative whippersnapper here.  

Was at Wintringham when Watford came to train on the pitch.  We were chucking stones at their goalie.  The late great Graham Taylor told us to behave or eff off!

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Quoted from The Caterham Mariner

Well i say i am Grimsby born and bred..
BUT  technically  born in Cleethorpes a "Meggie"
as i was born in Croft Baker Maternity  Home back in the day
No longer there but something else.
UTM 2023/24

Likewise , always say I am from Gy but born in Meggies.  UTM202324?  Is that your prison number?

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Likewise , always say I am from Gy but born in Meggies.  UTM202324?  Is that your prison number?
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Ssshhh!!!!
You've sussed me ..Out tomorrow for good behaviour
to watch Town Vs Wimbledon.
UTM 2023--24 Looking forward to next season.

Quoted from The Caterham Mariner

Crikey !!!
Anyone under the age of 40 attended a gathering of "Fishy " members would think its smell of "wee" round here alternatively  Brut ,Old Spice and Hai Karate drinking from pint jugs.
"Do you Remember the price of Fish and Chips back in the day!"
Where you in the queue for the Star Wars film at the Odeon down "Freemo!" The photo was in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph.
Don't go down the road what cars our drove before you ask....
UTM 2023/24

The Odeon wasn't down Freemo it was in top town were McDonalds is now. It was the Regal down Freemo. Honestly, you oldies forget everything.

Oh and I'm 17 and go to Franklin 6th Form Academy although you oldies would probably call it Chelmsford or summats I don't know.

Whats Tik Tok?

Quoted from BlackandWhiteBarmy2

The Odeon wasn't down Freemo it was in top town were McDonalds is now. It was the Regal down Freemo. Honestly, you oldies forget everything.

Oh and I'm 17 and go to Franklin 6th Form Academy although you oldies would probably call it Chelmsford or summats I don't know.

Whats Tik Tok?

The Odeon was down Freemo . Was also called the Regal and ABC before that

Quoted from BlackandWhiteBarmy2

The Odeon wasn't down Freemo it was in top town were McDonalds is now. It was the Regal down Freemo. Honestly, you oldies forget everything.

Oh and I'm 17 and go to Franklin 6th Form Academy although you oldies would probably call it Chelmsford or summats I don't know.

Whats Tik Tok?

Tik tok is the noise clocks used to make when we could all still hear them….

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Quoted from The Caterham Mariner

Crikey !!!
Anyone under the age of 40 attended a gathering of "Fishy " members would think its smell of "wee" round here alternatively  Brut ,Old Spice and Hai Karate drinking from pint jugs.
"Do you Remember the price of Fish and Chips back in the day!"
Where you in the queue for the Star Wars film at the Odeon down "Freemo!" The photo was in the Grimsby Evening Telegraph.
Don't go down the road what cars our drove before you ask....
UTM 2023/24

I can remember going to watch Herbie Goes Bananas there , I also remember watching ET at the cinema outside Blundell Park

Quoted from grimps

I can remember going to watch Herbie Goes Bananas there , I also remember watching ET at the cinema outside Blundell Park

The Ritz . I used to go on a Saturday morning

Quoted from supertown

The Odeon was down Freemo . Was also called the Regal and ABC before that

And the Prince of Wales Theatre which show how old I am

Quoted from BlackandWhiteBarmy2

The Odeon wasn't down Freemo it was in top town were McDonalds is now. It was the Regal down Freemo. Honestly, you oldies forget everything.

Oh and I'm 17 and go to Franklin 6th Form Academy although you oldies would probably call it Chelmsford or summats I don't know.

Whats Tik Tok?

ABC Grimsby (Freemo?) Film club Saturday mornings...Tik Tok = Clock!!
YES it was "Chelly!" In my day coz I was at "Winny!" When skoolz where schools not Academy 's with out metal fences and Scaffa Baths was the biggest  swimming pool ever been to.
UTM 2023---24 ...

Quoted from supertown

The Ritz . I used to go on a Saturday morning

Saturday  "Kids Film Club" = Freemo
ABC Grimsby ..first saw Star Wars and queuing for "Jaws" ...Bloody Hell us oldies
ET was for girls !!!
Grease had to take my sister to see that one.
UTM 2023--24

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My god it’s like the fishys own version of celebrity death list.
Who’s too
Of the waiting for god list?

Quoted from monkeyboy

My god it’s like the fishys own version of celebrity death list.
Who’s too
Of the waiting for god list?

We used to do Celeb Death Buster in my old local , my mate won 350 quid when Mother Terasa died

Keeping on theme with the thread, see how many zimmer frames you can count at the game today?!

Quoted from monkeyboy

My god it’s like the fishys own version of celebrity death list.
Who’s too
Of the waiting for god list?

Stuff that !

I seem to be at the top!

70 in July (pm me if you want to send a present)
Born in Louth, went to school in Essex, ‘educated’ in Australia
Now at college in Yorkshire

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I'll be 70 in July... memories as far back as Johhny Scott & Ron Rafferty. As for the future... Season Tickets in the Ponny again...

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1st home game v Northampton 1970 lost 0-2 but I was hooked for life!

Coming up to 84

I’m a youthful 44. I look as old as most of you though.

Quoted from wuffing

Blimey, we could become the Ancient Mariners football team reserves!

Thats me in goal then back in the day
"The best undiscovered Goalie in People's Park!"  Jumpers for goalposts Ever late 1970's early 80's ..Now backache ,Creeky knees & dodgy shoulder ...reserve  reserves !!!
UTM 2023--24

Quoted from wuffing

Keeping on theme with the thread, see how many zimmer frames you can count at the game today?!

That could be a thread "predict the walking aids" for future matches.
ZIMMERS =
Walking Sticks =
Mobility Frames=
Ok more than 10 Red X's I shall report to duty Yeoman warder at HM Palace and
Fortress The Tower of London for execution by a French swordsman.

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Clickety click ....and don't my old bones confirm it  😏