Gimps Top.....Aghhhh

Hard to accept but it’s the facts.......
There’s more to worry and think about at present but it still hurts......
I’ve still got all my match programmes........Drinkell,Donovan x 2,......the list goes on
Hope the good times come back before the lid goes on......lol
UTMM

I really appreciate the red cross........helps immensely.....ta!

Quoted from Epworth Mariner

Hard to accept but it’s the facts.......
There’s more to worry and think about at present but it still hurts......
I’ve still got all my match programmes........Drinkell,Donovan x 2,......the list goes on
Hope the good times come back before the lid goes on......lol
UTMM

All of that nonsense is none of our business. Fair play to them.

Best Imps side I’ve seen since 1982 under Colin Murphy, the football is sublime at times under Appleton (which was the only question mark against the previous regime)

Appleton was excellent when on loan for us many years ago, so maybe he can carry that in to management

Think this could be Appleton's first job at a club that isn't in turmoil. Very difficult to judge him from his spells at Portsmouth, Blackburn and Blackpool.

Actually, Oxford weren't in turmoil, and he did well there - got them promoted - before he went to become Craig Shakespeare's assistant at Leicester. Not surprised he's doing well at Lincoln.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Best Imps side I’ve seen since 1982 under Colin Murphy, the football is sublime at times under Appleton (which was the only question mark against the previous regime)

No Lincoln fan was willing to admit it at the time though  

Much as it pains me to say it I can only say well done to them and the fans, its deserved, it also shows what is possible and what we should and could have achieved.

Quoted from Azimuth

Much as it pains me to say it I can only say well done to them and the fans, its deserved, it also shows what is possible and what we should and could have achieved.

And as much as it pains me to say it Hurst was the man that would have taken us to another level in my opinion, you only have to look at what he achieved at Shrewsbury.
We should have fought tooth and nail to keep him but the present regimes penny-pinching did away with that one.

Quoted from promotion plaice

No Lincoln fan was willing to admit it at the time though  

The brothers brought us continued winning football and 3 trophies (literally unheard of at lower tier level), combined with incredible PR Skills that literally captivated the City unseen since Graham Taylor.

Older fans are willing to recognise this, but went along with the ride ... the difference now is that even the footballing purists are acknowledging this style of play is far more palatable.

Quoted from promotion plaice

And as much as it pains me to say it Hurst was the man that would have taken us to another level in my opinion, you only have to look at what he achieved at Shrewsbury.
We should have fought tooth and nail to keep him but the present regimes penny-pinching did away with that one.

Hard to argue with this, even though plenty of our fan base would like to say different. We’ve not had anyone like it since. May be holloway will change that but I suspect Covid and the long term penny pinching will still stop any sort of progression.

It’s clear to see that Appleton is likely to take Lincoln to the next level. Cowley’s style was, as many real, longer than 5 years a Lincoln fan will admit, not very palatable or easy on the eye. It was effective at the time and got them what they needed, the club invested and gave them free reign. It worked and they are reaping what they sow.

I couldn’t care less about Lincoln, they’re not a rival to me and as a football fan, whether it goes belly up or not, it’s hard to find criticism with them.

Quoted from aldi_01

Hard to argue with this, even though plenty of our fan base would like to say different. We’ve not had anyone like it since. May be holloway will change that but I suspect Covid and the long term penny pinching will still stop any sort of progression.

It’s clear to see that Appleton is likely to take Lincoln to the next level. Cowley’s style was, as many real, longer than 5 years a Lincoln fan will admit, not very palatable or easy on the eye. It was effective at the time and got them what they needed, the club invested and gave them free reign. It worked and they are reaping what they sow.

I couldn’t care less about Lincoln, they’re not a rival to me and as a football fan, whether it goes belly up or not, it’s hard to find criticism with them.

Out of interest who do you consider a rival?

Please don't say Hull, West Brom or Stoke as you havn't played them since the last Century?

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Out of interest who do you consider a rival?

Please don't say Hull, West Brom or Stoke as you havn't played them since the last Century?

Neither of you ...... you’ll play the Targers this season as they’re on their arses.

I don’t waste time looking at other clubs but I’d suggest your new found Champaign football has come about as you’ve probably got the best squad you’ve had in decades as you can pay more to get better players.

All that said from what I’ve seen (and it’s not much) of Appleton’s sides he does like to get the ball down and play, if you’re playing rather than hoofing then any success is worthy.

Scunny. A rival doesn’t have to be someone you play regularly, let’s face it, until they went back out the league Boston were your rival. My Lincoln STH friend still hates them.

Never understood this pseudo rivalry with Lincoln. When I first moved to Lincoln way back when the odd Lincoln fan would make some snide comment and when I didn’t react they’d get bored.

Lincoln are no more a rival to me than Mansfield or anyone else that’s a short way trip.

I mean we all hate hull but that’s not just a football thing...

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Neither of you ...... you’ll play the Targers this season as they’re on their arses.

I don’t waste time looking at other clubs but I’d suggest your new found Champaign football has come about as you’ve probably got the best squad you’ve had in decades as you can pay more to get better players.

All that said from what I’ve seen (and it’s not much) of Appleton’s sides he does like to get the ball down and play, if you’re playing rather than hoofing then any success is worthy.

Under Cowley then yes, but it was unsustainable hence the change of direction. Appleton's budget was cut by 40% for this season, but the recruitment started early and his contacts for young players (eg: West Brom) has been successful so far. He has also lowered the average age of the squad considerably releasing the likes of Eardley & Bostwick among others.

Hurst taking us to the next level is one of the funniest things I've read in ages.

He did his job, eventually, in getting us out the Conference but we fell over that line and you could argue that he only actually stumbled upon a system that worked because his favourite, Andy Monkhouse, got injured which meant he made to switch things up in midfield.  It also meant we couldn't continue with the long ball out to the left wing, having seen it fail pretty much every time since about late August of that season.

Whist I had no issue with his decision to rebuild that squad, because it was barely good enough to get promotion from the Conference, he then spectacularly failed to do so and ended up weakening it.  Vernon for Amond.  Berrett for Clay.  Chambers for Arnold. That's ignoring the players that he had no chance of keeping like Toto, Nolan and Tait, those were well out of his control.

His public relations skills were dreadful.  He was never going to take us to the next level of anything because he totally alienated a large proportion of the fan base.  A banner hanging from the flyover declaring 'Hurst Out' on the eve of a play-off semi-final second leg was in poor taste.  But cupping your ears to the fans having finally stumbled over the line was even poorer.  He hadn't been there for the last 15 years of abject failure, he hadn't felt it when we failed time after time after time.  He didn't have the right to stick that middle finger up at us.  That moment was as much ours as it was his, if not more.

Am I grateful he got us out the Conference?  Yes, but I don't hold him in this state of some sort of Messiah.  I always felt he held us back with his negative style of play.  I'll always remember him saying that as a player he much more enjoyed those 1-0 smash and grab wins than trouncing someone 5-0, it showed in his managerial style too.  

Did he deserve better investment from the board?  Yes, absolutely.  Promotion or not, denying any manager that level of basic infrastructure is criminal in this day and highlights the wider problems we've got.  

But to say he would have taken us to the next level is fantasy stuff in my eyes.  We had a poor squad that year and were in a bit of a honeymoon period type false position when he left.  What probably makes his record look better is that he was followed by a guy who was bat excrement crazy!

If I had to sum Hurst up it would be a great spotter of talent, but largely fails to get the best from those players when he has them at his disposal.  His other outstanding attribute is building a dressing room.  You can't deny the spirit he built here and evidently he built one at Shrewsbury too.  But that will only take you so far.

Quoted from aldi_01

Scunny. A rival doesn’t have to be someone you play regularly, let’s face it, until they went back out the league Boston were your rival. My Lincoln STH friend still hates them.

Never understood this pseudo rivalry with Lincoln. When I first moved to Lincoln way back when the odd Lincoln fan would make some snide comment and when I didn’t react they’d get bored.

Lincoln are no more a rival to me than Mansfield or anyone else that’s a short way trip.

I mean we all hate hull but that’s not just a football thing...

Just Scunny? That surprises me tbh, because I've never really considered them a rival as such as their history is virtually half both Town/Imps?

They had a brief sojourn in Tier 2 thanks to the investment by Swann, but wasn't backed numbers wise in terms of support by the town itself ... one could say they are back at their natural level, and a spell in non-league about due?

Don't really have a problem with Lincoln to be honest.

In fact I'd say that if we didn't have a football team in Grimsby (Cleethorpes), then I'd probably support them over Scunny or Hull who are nearer to here.

Most fans on here seem to dismiss Lincoln as rivals, but people my age - I started supporting Town during the early 00's decline - will have seen more derbies with them than any other local side.  I don't really care about Scunny: don't know anyone who supports them and the derbies that I've seen have been uninspiring.  On the other hand, I have several Lincoln-supporting friends (now that they actually have a strong youth support) and if there's one local rival that I'd want to beat to set the record straight, it would probably be them.  

Also, for a board that feigns indifference towards our county rivals so often, there have been an awful lot of threads about them over the last couple of years.

I think we should be indebted to both the Gimps and the Scunts as they alongside the obsessions of

- Hurst, was he all that?
- JF and his loans are killing us.
- The Checkatrade is the evil spawn of Satan

All keep this board alive when there is nothing on the field to talk about.
  

All the best to them... however couldn't give a toss currently. Only focused on league 2

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Out of interest who do you consider a rival?

Please don't say Hull, West Brom or Stoke as you havn't played them since the last Century?

I consider our (Humber and Lincolnshire) rivals to be Hull, Scunthorpe, Lincoln, Gainsborough & Boston
Rivalries exist only through location or achievement  

Gainsborough!?!?! - really?

Quoted from promotion plaice

And as much as it pains me to say it Hurst was the man that would have taken us to another level in my opinion, you only have to look at what he achieved at Shrewsbury.
We should have fought tooth and nail to keep him but the present regimes penny-pinching did away with that one.

Not sure it was helped by how disliked he was from some sections of our fanbase. Many had fair enough reasons: he often didn't endear himself to supporters. But others did come across as entitled ("we are grimsby we shouldn't be drawing against [insert team here], we used to be in the championship, our natural home is at least league 1, never mind the last 5 years that's irrelevant we should be top of this division through historic precedent!")

The flyover after the first semi final leg was one of the most embarrassing moments of being a town fan. Obvs we went on to get promoted... sheer pig-headedness.

Quoted from 139881

All the best to them... however couldn't give a toss currently. Only focused on league 2


I consider our (Humber and Lincolnshire) rivals to be Hull, Scunthorpe, Lincoln, Gainsborough & Boston
Rivalries exist only through location or achievement  

What on Earth?!!! You’re on your own with those last two. Never  heard such guff.

Quoted from Heisenberg

What on Earth?!!! You’re on your own with those last two. Never  heard such guff.

I agree, little Boston bless em' .... it almost felt like bullying a younger much smaller cousin, playing them didn't it?

Mind you their new ground is taking shape quite nicely, and looks far better than York City's seat abomination effort.

Quoted from toontown

Gainsborough!?!?! - really?

Quoted from Heisenberg

What on Earth?!!! You’re on your own with those last two. Never  heard such guff.

How would you two define a football rivalry? A Lincolnshire derby?

Just because a team shares a geographical region doesn't make them rivals. Hartlepool are not rivals to Sunderland and Newcastle.

Quoted from toontown

Just because a team shares a geographical region doesn't make them rivals. Hartlepool are not rivals to Sunderland and Newcastle.

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_derby[/url]

Quoted from 139881

[url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire_derby[/url]

No. Gainsborough are not our rivals just because we've played pre season friendlies against them and they are from the same region. By that score our bìggest rivals are cleethorpes town then as they play in the same town - but u missed them out altogether funnily enough.

Quoted from toontown

No. Gainsborough are not our rivals just because we've played pre season friendlies against them and they are from the same region. By that score our bìggest rivals are cleethorpes town then as they play in the same town - but u missed them out altogether funnily enough.

I've just noticed the error in my OP... hence the big fat X's

'rivals' was the wrong word to use. I worded it wrong

Quoted from 139881

I've just noticed the error in my OP... hence the big fat X's

'rivals' was the wrong word to use. I worded it wrong

Ok fair enough

Another win, clean sheet, and outfootballing a Crewe side on their own patch .... even Radio Stoke purred that we were the best side they’d faced so far.

I can’t wait to renew that rivalry with Gainsborough . I’m literally drooling waiting for next pre season .

After being well beaten by an excellent Pompey side in midweek, an Imps side averaging 21yo massacred Forest Green Rovers today ... having beaten Bradford 5-0 & Mansfield 3-1 in Cups already this season, it just goes to show the gulf between Leagues 1 and 2 is getting wider.

Horrendous defensive error by the multi-million pound rated Dutchman, and a shocking miss in injury time when clean through by the flying Irishman to make it 6 (SIX)

Mind The Gap Humber swamp dwellers.


(I mean Hull obviously  )

You need take over from Town sometime you've been under achieve ping for the last 50 years plus good luck

Completely irrelevant what Lincoln are doing. FFS who gives a toss? We have slightly more pressing things to worry about!

Fair play gimps

You look a really good quality outfit

Can see you going into the championship, good manager and brought you in some quality players but can you hold on to them??
Jorge Grant, Brennan Johnson and that Dutch lad at the back look the business apparently

Sadly ourselves are absolutely abysmal and the cod heads are even worse 😩😩😩😩

Quoted from Lincs Iron man

Sadly ourselves are absolutely abysmal and the cod heads are even worse 😩😩😩😩

At least we've got a new manager coming in so things could change for us.

I think it fantastic that the Imps are top of League One. We have far more potential than them if we had a decent owner and a new stadium. The success they are having and Rotherham too shows that despite the amount of money floating around the top end of the game, clubs like us still have a path to success.

Quoted from Epworth Mariner

Hard to accept but it’s the facts.......
There’s more to worry and think about at present but it still hurts......
I’ve still got all my match programmes........Drinkell,Donovan x 2,......the list goes on
Hope the good times come back before the lid goes on......lol
UTMM

Fair play to Lincoln and the fans who have got on board and got behind the club in numbers, an example to our club and to us GTFC fans what is possible with the right leadership and all pulling in the same direction.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

I think it fantastic that the Imps are top of League One. We have far more potential than them if we had a decent owner and a new stadium. The success they are having and Rotherham too shows that despite the amount of money floating around the top end of the game, clubs like us still have a path to success.

Hmmm? 🤔

How have you far more potential? Even when you finished 11th in the Championship in 1999 you only averaged 6,600 and that includes large away followings that filled The Osmond?

The evidence suggests otherwise as even in really big games recently at Wembley you take 13k whereas The Imps took at least double that amount?

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Hmmm? 🤔

How have you far more potential? Even when you finished 11th in the Championship in 1999 you only averaged 6,600 and that includes large away followings that filled The Osmond?

The evidence suggests otherwise as even in really big games recently at Wembley you take 13k whereas The Imps took at least double that amount?


Its sunday Morning, we’re flipping excrement, you’re doing well. Go away.

Also we’ve been to wembley so many times the novelty has gone. We went twice in a week. You’ve been once in your history

Quoted from GollyGTFC

I think it fantastic that the Imps are top of League One. We have far more potential than them if we had a decent owner and a new stadium. The success they are having and Rotherham too shows that despite the amount of money floating around the top end of the game, clubs like us still have a path to success.

Absolutely.

What's the point in us being bitchy about Lincoln - we're quite literally not in their league at the moment.
We're doing our best to rid ourselves of the individual responsible for that sad state of affairs, though - so that's a sensible start.

Who gives a f**k what they’re doing, we have plenty of other things to think about.  

Our two visits in 98 saw 63,000 at both games. Did Northampton and Bournemouth take 50,000 fans each?

Your final had 41,000 for a Trophy nobody cares about.

There is huge untapped potential at both clubs. Lincoln are currently realising theirs, while we have been mostly going downhill since 98 and are now saddled with statistically the worst Chairman in our history.

Quoted from diehardmariner

Hurst taking us to the next level is one of the funniest things I've read in ages.

He did his job, eventually, in getting us out the Conference but we fell over that line and you could argue that he only actually stumbled upon a system that worked because his favourite, Andy Monkhouse, got injured which meant he made to switch things up in midfield.  It also meant we couldn't continue with the long ball out to the left wing, having seen it fail pretty much every time since about late August of that season.

Whist I had no issue with his decision to rebuild that squad, because it was barely good enough to get promotion from the Conference, he then spectacularly failed to do so and ended up weakening it.  Vernon for Amond.  Berrett for Clay.  Chambers for Arnold. That's ignoring the players that he had no chance of keeping like Toto, Nolan and Tait, those were well out of his control.

His public relations skills were dreadful.  He was never going to take us to the next level of anything because he totally alienated a large proportion of the fan base.  A banner hanging from the flyover declaring 'Hurst Out' on the eve of a play-off semi-final second leg was in poor taste.  But cupping your ears to the fans having finally stumbled over the line was even poorer.  He hadn't been there for the last 15 years of abject failure, he hadn't felt it when we failed time after time after time.  He didn't have the right to stick that middle finger up at us.  That moment was as much ours as it was his, if not more.

Am I grateful he got us out the Conference?  Yes, but I don't hold him in this state of some sort of Messiah.  I always felt he held us back with his negative style of play.  I'll always remember him saying that as a player he much more enjoyed those 1-0 smash and grab wins than trouncing someone 5-0, it showed in his managerial style too.  

Did he deserve better investment from the board?  Yes, absolutely.  Promotion or not, denying any manager that level of basic infrastructure is criminal in this day and highlights the wider problems we've got.  

But to say he would have taken us to the next level is fantasy stuff in my eyes.  We had a poor squad that year and were in a bit of a honeymoon period type false position when he left.  What probably makes his record look better is that he was followed by a guy who was bat excrement crazy!

If I had to sum Hurst up it would be a great spotter of talent, but largely fails to get the best from those players when he has them at his disposal.  His other outstanding attribute is building a dressing room.  You can't deny the spirit he built here and evidently he built one at Shrewsbury too.  But that will only take you so far.

Perfectly summed up in my opinion.

Quoted from Hagrid

Its sunday Morning, we’re flipping excrement, you’re doing well. Go away.

Also we’ve been to wembley so many times the novelty has gone. We went twice in a week. You’ve been once in your history

With respect I didn’t start this thread.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

Hmmm? 🤔

How have you far more potential? Even when you finished 11th in the Championship in 1999 you only averaged 6,600 and that includes large away followings that filled The Osmond?

The evidence suggests otherwise as even in really big games recently at Wembley you take 13k whereas The Imps took at least double that amount?

Ah the 90s, when football attendances had a massive downturn. Can remember Sheff Utd getting less than 10k, Chelsea mid teens etc etc etc. Our upteenth Wembley visit when our club was at its lowest versus your first as a club on the rise. Our first visit we had 31k there, that shows our potential, as does for you the 26k that you took..

The thing is that the last few years have been Lincoln's best ever pretty much, so of course your fans have been flocking back. You're not massive and we aren't. We'll have our time again, hopefully soon, if Fenty gets his head out of his behind. You'll have a struggle again, not for while granted, we'll get our mojo back and roles will be reversed one day. It's football, forever cyclical, nothing lasts forever. Enjoy it while you can, your rise also gives us hope. A small club averaging 2k only a while back, building a fanbase and reaching the top of League One is admirable. Truth is, when we were there and much higher, we never thought about you, our rivals truly were Barnsley and the Sheffield clubs back then, and we certainly didn't ram it down your throats. I know the majority of Imps fans who actually have the brain space to think about us while you're doing so well are concerned about what's happening to our club, as we would you if roles were reversed. We're all part of the football family and the last thing we need is having someone else's success rammed down our throats right now. No one likes a gloater..

As a Scunny supporter I have always thought our three clubs were of similar size, as in support, stadium and potential. Must admit the imps getting 10k almost every week is simply amazing for them and I must admit I'm not sure we could achieve those figures week in week out. Like Norfolk Imp alluded to, have Grimsby ever pulled those figures in the championship days?? No would be the answer.
I suppose size of our towns and cities would also have something to do with this. Scunthorpe 82k, Grimsby and Cleethorpes 135k and Lincoln And Hykeham 130k. This suggests we are all about even in terms of ratio  

Quoted from Bigdog

Ah the 90s, when football attendances had a massive downturn. Can remember Sheff Utd getting less than 10k, Chelsea mid teens etc etc etc. Our upteenth Wembley visit when our club was at its lowest versus your first as a club on the rise. Our first visit we had 31k there, that shows our potential, as does for you the 26k that you took..

The thing is that the last few years have been Lincoln's best ever pretty much, so of course your fans have been flocking back. You're not massive and we aren't. We'll have our time again, hopefully soon, if Fenty gets his head out of his behind. You'll have a struggle again, not for while granted, we'll get our mojo back and roles will be reversed one day. It's football, forever cyclical, nothing lasts forever. Enjoy it while you can, your rise also gives us hope. A small club averaging 2k only a while back, building a fanbase and reaching the top of League One is admirable. Truth is, when we were there and much higher, we never thought about you, our rivals truly were Barnsley and the Sheffield clubs back then, and we certainly didn't ram it down your throats. I know the majority of Imps fans who actually have the brain space to think about us while you're doing so well are concerned about what's happening to our club, as we would you if roles were reversed. We're all part of the football family and the last thing we need is having someone else's success rammed down our throats right now. No one likes a gloater..

Some good points raised, but back then in your ‘Sir Alan’ days, t’internet was in its infancy so you never had the opportunity to ‘ram it down our throats’ although as our paths crossed some years later, you attempted to remind us I recall.

One thing I can assure you, is that fans of the Sheffield clubs in particular saw you as a day out on the coast on the pi$$, similar to a trip to Skegness, but with a game thrown in for good measure so please less of the delusion you were an actual ‘rival’ of either.

Football is though as you say ‘forever cyclical’ and post Covid we’ll see in which direction anything changes. At present due to no fans being allowed in stadiums, Fenty is getting away with things pretty much scot-free providing he doesn’t read The Fishy. Appleton on the other hand isn’t receiving the adulation from a packed ground that is pleading to be extended due to demand. Even under the Cowley’s there were Prem fans within the City who didn’t rate the style of play despite it getting  results .... not any more.

Fair play to them... they've done well for a small(ish) club

I do wonder what happened to the advice that Fenty gave them a few years back on how to run their set up

I can only guess they heated their offices with all the hot air he'd have spouted?  

When we were in the championship I often thought wouldn't it be great for both the Gimps and Scunts to be up there with us. I always felt sorry for them, and other than that I didn't give them a second thought. Hull, Barnsley and Sheffield clubs were our rivals.

When I first started watching Town we were getting gates around 7,500 to 8,000 and the Osmond from memory wasn't full every home game as claimed by the gimp, at times half full at best and when we were getting gates of around 6,000 we were in relegation or poor performing teams at the foot of the table, the scunts saw similar but smaller gates in their relegation season form the Championship.

This is is the best performing period for a Lincoln side in living memory and it is off the back of great investment and good will generated by the Cowleys. It won't last nothing ever does so enjoy the ride you are on or are you the kind of person who gets more joy out of others watching you pretending your enjoying yourself.

You want to talk about potential what was our average gates in league 4 when McMenemy was here. A team that was backed and had a charismatic manager.

Quoted from Epworth Mariner

Hard to accept but it’s the facts.......
There’s more to worry and think about at present but it still hurts......
I’ve still got all my match programmes........Drinkell,Donovan x 2,......the list goes on
Hope the good times come back before the lid goes on......lol
UTMM

How many Town fans actually give a toss?

We have far worse issues to worry about, I don't bother looking for their results.

Cod heads never got massive gates even in their hey day.
Small coastal club.

As for rivals with Sheffield clubs and Barnsley 😂 Thats laughable.
My dad was a Blades fan from Sheffield and he always used to say it was just an easy trip to the seaside for a urine up.
They never saw you as rivals and your rivals next season will be York and Chesterfield 🙄🙄

Quoted from Lincs Iron man

Cod heads never got massive gates even in their hey day.
Small coastal club.

As for rivals with Sheffield clubs and Barnsley 😂 Thats laughable.
My dad was a Blades fan from Sheffield and he always used to say it was just an easy trip to the seaside for a urine up.
They never saw you as rivals and your rivals next season will be York and Chesterfield 🙄🙄

You have made a real hobby of making yourself look a mindless twit so well done on that.

https://forum.thefishy.co.uk/Blah.pl?m-1589364134/s-0/

Quoted from Marinerz93

When we were in the championship I often thought wouldn't it be great for both the Gimps and Scunts to be up there with us. I always felt sorry for them, and other than that I didn't give them a second thought. Hull, Barnsley and Sheffield clubs were our rivals.

When I first started watching Town we were getting gates around 7,500 to 8,000 and the Osmond from memory wasn't full every home game as claimed by the gimp, at times half full at best and when we were getting gates of around 6,000 we were in relegation or poor performing teams at the foot of the table, the scunts saw similar but smaller gates in their relegation season form the Championship.

This is is the best performing period for a Lincoln side in living memory and it is off the back of great investment and good will generated by the Cowleys. It won't last nothing ever does so enjoy the ride you are on or are you the kind of person who gets more joy out of others watching you pretending your enjoying yourself.

You want to talk about potential what was our average gates in league 4 when McMenemy was here. A team that was backed and had a charismatic manager.

I would say to contrary and that away fan numbers at BP were probably one of the lowest in the League when we were in the second division - I went to nearly every home game in the early 80s we are talking a handful of games each season with more than 1k. Clubs filling the whole Osmond when it was standing I can remember these - Sheffield United in the Cup (1979) and Sheffield Wednesday on Boxing day when the club had to open the gates and let many in for free, Leeds first day of the season 1982 (total chaos), Chelsea's championship winning game (also chaos), Newcastle on Boxing Day in 1980 and their championship winning game, Derby first season up, Leicester, the Drinkell / Linekar 2-2, and that's it over 5 seasons or so. I don't know what the stated capacity of the Osmond was - circa 4 - 4.5k? For some of those it was definitely "overfilled" and also away fans went in the Cleethorpes corner as well - Leeds, Chelsea, Newcastle. Some big clubs were only given the Osmond corner -  West Ham, Chelsea - first season up, for the majority of games it was a couple of hundred in the Osmond corner.

Quoted from Marinerz93

When we were in the championship I often thought wouldn't it be great for both the Gimps and Scunts to be up there with us. I always felt sorry for them, and other than that I didn't give them a second thought. Hull, Barnsley and Sheffield clubs were our rivals.

When I first started watching Town we were getting gates around 7,500 to 8,000 and the Osmond from memory wasn't full every home game as claimed by the gimp, at times half full at best and when we were getting gates of around 6,000 we were in relegation or poor performing teams at the foot of the table, the scunts saw similar but smaller gates in their relegation season form the Championship.

This is is the best performing period for a Lincoln side in living memory and it is off the back of great investment and good will generated by the Cowleys. It won't last nothing ever does so enjoy the ride you are on or are you the kind of person who gets more joy out of others watching you pretending your enjoying yourself.

You want to talk about potential what was our average gates in league 4 when McMenemy was here. A team that was backed and had a charismatic manager.

When was this exactly?

I see you mention the Lawrie Mac days, that’s 50 years ago for goodness sake, but don’t worry we’ve got Sunderland fans eulogising over former glories now although I’m not sure many of them were around watching Stokoe lift the Cup?

Quoted from Lincs Iron man

Cod heads never got massive gates even in their hey day.
Small coastal club.

As for rivals with Sheffield clubs and Barnsley 😂 Thats laughable.
My dad was a Blades fan from Sheffield and he always used to say it was just an easy trip to the seaside for a urine up.
They never saw you as rivals and your rivals next season will be York and Chesterfield 🙄🙄

Your dad,   and what's funnier is you pretending to have conversations with him, I bet you have a face drawn on a piece of wood you talk too  

Worst troll ever.

Impish ‘Total Football’ overcomes typical Wimbledon hoofball and spoiling tactics.

4pts ahead of Hull, 9pts inside the Play-offs and a mahoosive 12pts clear of Sunderland .... what a time to be alive (well almost)  

Gimps playing total football??

Won't be long til your back down in the bargain basement again.

Cods lost again and look certain for drop. Southend and Stevenage starting to pick up points.

We are slightly better than Cods and should have enough to keep safe.

Got to feel for Little Grimsby

Quoted from Lincs Iron man

Gimps playing total football??

Won't be long til your back down in the bargain basement again.

Cods lost again and look certain for drop. Southend and Stevenage starting to pick up points.

We are slightly better than Cods and should have enough to keep safe.

Got to feel for Little Grimsby

We don't need to ship out players to strengthen in the window, you do.

Make of that what you will.

We are crap but you're even worse

You all pushed Hurst out and now welcome him back 😳

IN OLLIE WE TRUST 😂

intercourse off virgin

Truth hurts eh!

Glad you’ve got over your bout of laryngitis because after we beat you the other week you went very quite, but hey, here you are again spouting your usual drivel.

As Hurst got it within him to keep you up??
You have a terrible squad and already fallen into the bottom two.

You are Lincolnshire's worst club side

Quoted from Lincs Iron man

As Hurst got it within him to keep you up??
You have a terrible squad and already fallen into the bottom two.

You are Lincolnshire's worst club side

That is correct.

Quoted from ginnywings

That is correct.

At the moment.

Have to say that I'd be worried if I were a Scunts fan. They have lost to us, Stevenage and Southend in the last few weeks. They are broke. We on the other hand would appear to have access to funds to bring in new players.

Will be an interesting few weeks.  

I don't begrudge Lincoln their success. They are showing what a small club can achieve if well run. Just as we did in the 80's and 90's.

So we should look on their success as something to aim at. They can get into the championship. Scunthorpe did the same recently.

So we should take is as an achievable ambition for us.

We had our glory days in the 80's and 90's up to the Millenium
Scunts from mid noughties for a decade, now it's time for the Gimps.
It happens, It's cyclical  

First signing of the new January window for The Imps is an exciting one it has to be said. Morgan Rogers from Man City.

I've only seen him play a couple of times, in the FA Youth Cup semi which he shone in the first half in particular and the Final itself. He scored the 2nd in the 3-2 win against Chelsea and also hit the bar with a rasping drive after cutting in from the left.

In our recent EFL Trophy game the stand out player was the very pacy winger Jaydon Braaf playing for City, well Rogers kept this lad out of the side in the Final.

He's still very young and inexperienced but the talent is there. He is used to playing with technically excellent players, so should fit in nicely, and importantly has an excellent attitude.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

First signing of the new January window for The Imps is an exciting one it has to be said. Morgan Rogers from Man City.

I've only seen him play a couple of times, in the FA Youth Cup semi which he shone in the first half in particular and the Final itself. He scored the 2nd in the 3-2 win against Chelsea and also hit the bar with a rasping drive after cutting in from the left.

In our recent EFL Trophy game the stand out player was the very pacy winger Jaydon Braaf playing for City, well Rogers kept this lad out of the side in the Final.

He's still very young and inexperienced but the talent is there. He is used to playing with technically excellent players, so should fit in nicely, and importantly has an excellent attitude.

Fascinating

Quoted from Mandy Dunnit vs Hettie

Fascinating

Well City did sign him from West Brom for £4m, so quite a compliment that they trust us with his development?

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Well City did sign him from West Brom for £4m, so quite a compliment that they trust us with his development?

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Yeah not really the time mate, we’re excrement and focusing on our own club

Quoted from Marinerz93

Your dad,   and what's funnier is you pretending to have conversations with him, I bet you have a face drawn on a piece of wood you talk too  

Worst troll ever.

AHH plank you mean .. Not seen ed edd and eddie for years  

Norfolk Imp

How the hell do you lot get to sign quality players from Man City??

Hats off to the imps. Your fans have got behind the team massively and deserve all the success you're getting.

The Iron are still a bigger club than the Imps tho kid 👌

Quoted from Lincs Iron man

Norfolk Imp

How the hell do you lot get to sign quality players from Man City??

Hats off to the imps. Your fans have got behind the team massively and deserve all the success you're getting.

The Iron are still a bigger club than the Imps tho kid 👌

Iron fan
Talking to a Lincoln fan
On a Grimsby forum

You guys really do love us don't you

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

Iron fan
Talking to a Lincoln fan
On a Grimsby forum

You guys really do love us don't you

We're living rent free in their heads, but for god's sake don't let Fenty know, he'll start charging them and ask for back payment too!!!

Quoted from NorfolkImp

When was this exactly?

I see you mention the Lawrie Mac days, that’s 50 years ago for goodness sake, but don’t worry we’ve got Sunderland fans eulogising over former glories now although I’m not sure many of them were around watching Stokoe lift the Cup?

In the '80's maybe.

Grimsby Town average league attendances in the '80's

79/80 10,618 Tier 3
80/81 10,961 2
81/82 8,406 2
82/83 7,741 2
83/84 7,643 2
84/85 6,458 2
85/86 5,157 2
86/87 5,050 2
87/88 3,416 3
88/89 4.302 4
89/90 5,984 4

As you can see we started off the decade with excellent attendances when we came within a whisker of being the first team ever to go from Division 4 to Division 1 in successive seasons (a feat that has still not been done, and I doubt ever will). Gates gradually decreased as we got progressively worse until our double relegation but then picked up again when we won promotion from Division 4 in 1989/90 and was 7,237 the following season when we won a 2nd successive promotion.

Hahaha

How long do you have to go back until you get a decent size crowd!! 😂😂

Where have they all gone?

You're lucky to get 3-4K these days 😂😂🤷🏽‍♂️

Quoted from Lincs Iron man

Hahaha

How long do you have to go back until you get a decent size crowd!! 😂😂

Where have they all gone?

You're lucky to get 3-4K these days 😂😂🤷🏽‍♂️

You got 6800 at home in March against us and 2000 were from Grimsby you virgin
Get back to your colouring

3 key first teamers out today with Covid issues, Walsh, Anderson & Hopper .... so will definitely take a draw against Posh.

Come on Imps #UTI

Quoted from NorfolkImp

3 key first teamers out today with Covid issues, Walsh, Anderson & Hopper .... so will definitely take a draw against Posh.

Come on Imps #UTI

Andersons shagging his cousin aint he? So he’s probably in the cells

Quoted from Hagrid

Andersons shagging his cousin aint he? So he’s probably in the cells

Errr no, they just have the same surname, nothing untoward .... don't believe everything you read on t'internet.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

3 key first teamers out today with Covid issues, Walsh, Anderson & Hopper .... so will definitely take a draw against Posh.

Come on Imps #UTI

Let's hope Dembele has a blinder and ups his value even more, come on Peterborough.

Boro 1 up after 10 minutes, and they look bloody good for it.

Quoted from Gaffer58

Boro 1 up after 10 minutes, and they look bloody good for it.

More we look bad for it .... a horrendous first 20 mins by us, completely out of character.

Whose website is this FFS.  GTFC.

Quoted from NorfolkImp

More we look bad for it .... a horrendous first 20 mins by us, completely out of character.

Gimp, talk us through that penalty

Quoted from NorfolkImp

More we look bad for it .... a horrendous first 20 mins by us, completely out of character.

So during a Lincoln game you feel the need to come on a Grimsby forum, you really are sad. Are we saved under your favourites along with ‘Dating Cousins Matchmaker’ site?