Pack Out Blundell Park

Look at all those kids Liverpool had playing against Chelsea today. Then look at the positive noise and atmosphere the Liverpool fans made compared to Chelsea.

One team individually and collectively played above their sum parts and the other didn’t. Positive support from your crowd more often than not elevates performance imho.

Quoted from grassbandits

Look at all those kids Liverpool had playing against Chelsea today. Then look at the positive noise and atmosphere the Liverpool fans made compared to Chelsea.

One team individually and collectively played above their sum parts and the other didn’t. Positive support from your crowd more often than not elevates performance imho.

Liverpool weren’t 2 goals down after 10 minutes. Town fans have proven over the years that if you give them something to get behind, they’ll back it, but finding ourselves in “game over” situations within the opening stages of the last two home games doesn’t lend itself to raucous support - it’s a two way thing.

Quoted from grassbandits

Look at all those kids Liverpool had playing against Chelsea today. Then look at the positive noise and atmosphere the Liverpool fans made compared to Chelsea.

One team individually and collectively played above their sum parts and the other didn’t. Positive support from your crowd more often than not elevates performance imho.

Your right ...But Yuk Liverpool.. remember Southampton  then Brighton = " You think Grimsby  have won the FA Cup!"  We to did our team proud.LIVERPOOL make my skin
crawl ..No thanks .
UTM

I firmly believe, Saturday is the biggest game in a very, very long time.

Now that sounds extreme…

However, going down would cause irreversible damage & I think that realistically, we need an absolute minimum of a point to prevent that from occurring.

The first time going down was horrific, however, after years of rubbish it was probably needed & the play off campaigns galvanised a desire for following Grimsby Town, particularly to the younger generation, who have been starved of any success.

The second time was strange, due to ownership hostility & COVID. By the time we all got back to Blundell Park, we could have been playing anyone and we’d have attended in huge numbers, irrelevant of level + the buzz of the new owners.

However, a third time? I just can’t see any positive spin. It’s the fans that have to put up with it and I fear a lot of people’s patience will have run out.

I have a really bad, gut feeling.

Quoted from crusty ole pie

Lukeo can we have a ticket watch please

Oh go on then!

Quoted from bradzmilne

I firmly believe, Saturday is the biggest game in a very, very long time.

Now that sounds extreme…

However, going down would cause irreversible damage & I think that realistically, we need an absolute minimum of a point to prevent that from occurring.

The first time going down was horrific, however, after years of rubbish it was probably needed & the play off campaigns galvanised a desire for following Grimsby Town, particularly to the younger generation, who have been starved of any success.

The second time was strange, due to ownership hostility & COVID. By the time we all got back to Blundell Park, we could have been playing anyone and we’d have attended in huge numbers, irrelevant of level + the buzz of the new owners.

However, a third time? I just can’t see any positive spin. It’s the fans that have to put up with it and I fear a lot of people’s patience will have run out.

I have a really bad, gut feeling.

There wouldn't be and all the goodwill towards the owners and club would be erroded , maybe forever for some .

That's why it's vital we stay up - a battle at the bottom can be seen as a blip , relegation would be a disaster . Crowds would be down to 4k in NL at a push 5k if we steamroller it .

But momentum would be gone and I think it would underpin the thought in many's minds that we are at best a yo-yo club between lower end league 2 & NL .

The thought of going to Solihull , Dorking or even Aveley on a Tuesday night will hardly get pulses racing , even if it's a bit of a laugh - they were fun times seeing new grounds , how amateur ,small and old school they are (I mean at Kings Lynn you can't even see ) it's not the 'fun' I want to go back to .

We must stay up

Can anyone actually remember the last time we packed the park and won ?
We always let ourselves down at home when its a full house.

Quoted from Poojah

Liverpool weren’t 2 goals down after 10 minutes. Town fans have proven over the years that if you give them something to get behind, they’ll back it, but finding ourselves in “game over” situations within the opening stages of the last two home games doesn’t lend itself to raucous support - it’s a two way thing.

Yeah , Liverpool fans haven't seen their team flirting with relegation to non-league for the umpteenth time in the last 15 years.

Quoted from Poojah

Liverpool weren’t 2 goals down after 10 minutes. Town fans have proven over the years that if you give them something to get behind, they’ll back it, but finding ourselves in “game over” situations within the opening stages of the last two home games doesn’t lend itself to raucous support - it’s a two way thing.

Absolutely.

Quoted from bradzmilne

I firmly believe, Saturday is the biggest game in a very, very long time.

Now that sounds extreme…

However, going down would cause irreversible damage & I think that realistically, we need an absolute minimum of a point to prevent that from occurring.

The first time going down was horrific, however, after years of rubbish it was probably needed & the play off campaigns galvanised a desire for following Grimsby Town, particularly to the younger generation, who have been starved of any success.

The second time was strange, due to ownership hostility & COVID. By the time we all got back to Blundell Park, we could have been playing anyone and we’d have attended in huge numbers, irrelevant of level + the buzz of the new owners.

However, a third time? I just can’t see any positive spin. It’s the fans that have to put up with it and I fear a lot of people’s patience will have run out.

I have a really bad, gut feeling.

I think the permutations of Saturday’s game are pretty simple; win and we’ll probably stay up, lose and we’ll probably go down. And going down would be absolutely catastrophic.

I posted the maths on here the other day, but relegation is likely to cost the club between £2.5m and £3m next season, money we can’t afford to lose given the players we already have contracted for next season. It’s a compound, viscous circle - we don’t have the money to compete, people are hard up and stop going, we have even less money to compete…it’s a death spiral I don’t see us recovering from.

Go down, and I see us becoming something of a Torquay or Yeovil. Gradually struggling more and more in the National League, before eventually finding ourselves playing regional football.

We just can’t go down. We absolutely mustn’t.