Omar Bogle

Quoted from sam gy

If finishing 7th in the 4th tier is the most sucessful period in your history then i really do take my hat off to you sir.

I think a lot of Lincoln fans just have to remember that we are in the same league as each other. And we finished 11 places apart in the same league. The way some have been carrying on after we've signed Whitehouse is laughable.

Look I remember, by successful I mean - New training Academy (Never had 1), most season tickets , ever, new ground in the pipeline, and lots of other bits etc, not necessarily the team.

We've had this conversation before.

It all depends on when you first started going regularly. I saw my first game in 1972 but it wasn't until the late 70's/early 80's that I started going regularly.

For me our rivals were the 2 Sheffield clubs, Barnsley and to a lesser extent Leeds, when we were both in the same division for a few seasons.

I always looked upon Lincoln as an annoying little brother really and I actually went to watch them a couple of times when they were in non-league the first time. This was mainly to see my boyhood heroes Nigel Batch and Bobby Cumming really but I can say that if we didn't have a football team in Grimsby then I'd probably support Lincoln, even though Hull and Scunny are closer.

Never, ever saw a rivalry with Lincoln or Scunny until recently and we've hardly ever played Hull in my lifetime so there's no real rivalry been able to build up there really.

Quoted from nealeardleyscrossing

Your season ticket office.

Very quick to be fair. Good banter.

Quoted from nealeardleyscrossing

Look I remember, by successful I mean - New training Academy (Never had 1), most season tickets , ever, new ground in the pipeline, and lots of other bits etc, not necessarily the team.

Yep its all looking rosey being a GIMP.  However just need to sort out your football cos the last time i went i had neck ache. 😂

Quoted from Meza

Yep its all looking rosey being a GIMP.  However just need to sort out your football cos the last time i went i had neck ache. 😂

I think you're right and DC has already started addressing this I think with our two recruits so far.- Both are footballers. I think fans are split on Rhead - I personally think he was what we needed in the NL, and he was good for us. But some of his antics and his behaviour on the pitch is not what I want to see. I think DC has found it hard to recruit the striker he would like and I think this frustrates him (We have missed out on quite a few)

Most of our budget will go on forwards this summer - Green is fine , but we need someone with him. This won't in my opinion be Rhead.
However, If I were a NL manager I would be on the blower trying to get Rhead in my team.

I'm not sure that many Non-League clubs have that kind of budget for pies.

Quoted from Les Brechin

We've had this conversation before.

It all depends on when you first started going regularly. I saw my first game in 1972 but it wasn't until the late 70's/early 80's that I started going regularly.

For me our rivals were the 2 Sheffield clubs, Barnsley and to a lesser extent Leeds, when we were both in the same division for a few seasons.

I always looked upon Lincoln as an annoying little brother really and I actually went to watch them a couple of times when they were in non-league the first time. This was mainly to see my boyhood heroes Nigel Batch and Bobby Cumming really but I can say that if we didn't have a football team in Grimsby then I'd probably support Lincoln, even though Hull and Scunny are closer.

Never, ever saw a rivalry with Lincoln or Scunny until recently and we've hardly ever played Hull in my lifetime so there's no real rivalry been able to build up there really.

Hit the nail on the head mate, I was born in the mid 80’s so all
I remember was First Division football bar 97/98 in until we went down in 2003 which was my last year at school. It was all Sheffield Wednesday and Barnsley for me but the old man would rattle on about Scunny and Hull. Although at that time both of them (and Lincoln) were two leagues below us. I even went to a hanful of Lincoln games between 99/00 and 03/04 including their Div 3 play off final defeat against Bournemouth in Cardiff. Living in Gainsborough, it was like going on Trinity for me, just another opportunity to watch football. When went down in 2004 to League Two it was a chance to play Scunny again so that was our main focus, but also all of a sudden Lincoln had bumped us up to main rivals and were “Codhead this, Codhead that”, I think they were like Notts County or Mansfield to us, local but not local enough to be a real rival. I’d be naive to say they aren’t a rival now but as I touched on before they aren’t viewed as our number 1 or maybe even number 2 by us. I actually don’t mind them that much, but I’ve been corrected by them a few times saying “ yes you do you hate us as much as we hate you”

No idea who else they view as rivals ? Mansfield, Peterborough, Notts County ? No idea

Quoted from barralad

Great post. I started watching Town in 1968 and cannot remember playing Hull ever until that great 79/80 season. Growing up our main rivals were Scunny (who we always seemed to beat) and Lincoln (who we never seemed to beat.)

One of my fairly early games in the Boys Paddock was August 1958 and we beat Lincoln 4-2. Strange fixture reversal, the return game was only a week or so later and was 4-4 at Lincoln, Rafferty scored all 4 which is why it is etched on the memory.   Then we played them in the promotion season of 1961/2 and won 4-1 at home Cliff Portwood hat trick and the only penalty I can remember Scott missing, and drew away I think.

But there was no aggro then, in fact even though we were so close there were very few away supporters.

Quoted from nealeardleyscrossing

Your season ticket office.

Can remember beating them 4-2 the year they got promoted think it was 1966 towards end of season.