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RonMariner
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Christ, if someone told me then that we would drop out of the EFL twice in the next 20 years I would not have believed it.
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Really? I mean, most of these ended up as non-league journeymen or straight up retired after leaving us. They had a hardworking ethic and grit instilled in them that allowed them to excel against bigger teams back in the day but I wouldn't say we had a high standard of player back then. One or two were quality but often padded out with quite cheap and lesser known options that didn't have much of a career before or after us. In many ways it was a case of players and a manager in Buckley that just clicked, they'd fight for Buckley and won games through sheer determination. Once Buckley was gone when the results stopped coming in and the core of that group was gone was when the wheels really started falling off.

I doubt Buckley and his Buckleyites that he took from Grimsby to West Brom and back to Grimsby could happen in those leagues in this era.


The expectation levels went throough the roof, even though we were punching way above our weight. I saw us get some real drubbings away from BP. One was at Wolves where we were beaten 4-0 and a big, beefy lady behind us stood up and shouted. ‘Buckley, why don’t you f,,, off?” Andy Sinton had ripped our defence apart.
Buckley worked wonders and spoke his mind. I wish he hadn’t come back so we could remember him for taking us to Wembley for the first time, rather than all the abuse he later received. He was a good football man and had no time for some of the administrators who he famously said ‘were not football peeple’.
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Christ, if someone told me then that we would drop out of the EFL twice in the next 20 years I would not have believed it.


Too true, Ron. For the first time for many seasons I feel that we now have a bright future with the new owners. Watching the Play-Off compilation on YouTube was so dramatic. How those lads fought against all the odds and kept fighting. Brought tears to my eyes even though I am an old man. Rekindled my pride in being a Mariner. Just great.
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Andy Love left at the end of the 1999/2000 season, I seem to remember him going to Ilkeston after a few loan spells there.


Thanks for that. That Swindon game was the last of the season and there were rumours that our lot had been messing about in the hotel the night before the game. Don’t know if it is true, but they were safe with 50 or 51 points and played awfully. Andy was a bit out of his depth. We sat behnd the goal at the covered end of the County Ground, in came the corner and bang he was picking it out of the net. Welcome to the Championship (or Div2?). The other memory of that game is the stink of beefbiurgers that filled the stand for the whole 90 minutes and we went home smelling like fried onions.
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Brighton at home 2-2 I think was the last game at that level . I seem to remember they brought a decent following?


Yep, they had to win to stay up, and failed (obviously). It’s funny, I can’t remember what I had for lunch but I can remember trivial details from trivial games like this literally decades later. For instance:

1. Michael Keane scored a controversial penalty to put Town 1-0 up, before trolling the Brighton fans in the Osmond, pointing downwards. It would have been a nice bit of shíthousery, were we not already relegated ourselves.

[img]https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/grimsby-towns-michael-keane-points-the-way-down-for-brighton-hove-picture-id680960192?s=2048x2048[/img]

2. The game saw the first appearance of Town’s godawful GTS kit. It would be the only time we would wear that kid as intended, with white names and black numbers on the back. The shirt was a direct rip-off of Juventus’ 2002/3 kit, but the football league wouldn’t allow different coloured names and numbers the following season, and so we had to settle for red, which looked shíte.

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3. Danny Coyne wore a white goalkeeper shirt, that was never seen again. Danny likewise.

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4. I accidentally saw Darren Mansaram’s cóck in the bogs of the Baton Rouge later that night. It had both good length and girth. Regrettably, I have no photographic evidence of this.


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4. I accidentally saw Darren Mansaram’s cóck in the bogs of the Baton Rouge later that night. It had both good length and girth. Regrettably, I have no photographic evidence of this.


If you wander over to the non-football thread, you will be pleased to see Wetherspoons are installing CCTV above the urinals. Twenty years too late for you to seize Mansaram’s footage mind.
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If you wander over to the non-football thread, you will be pleased to see Wetherspoons are installing CCTV above the urinals. Twenty years too late for you to seize Mansaram’s footage mind.


Footage? I mean it was big, but not that big…


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Footage? I mean it was big, but not that big…


Wasn’t Mansaram’s nickname ‘Flash’?

I guess that’s how he got it!
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Really? I mean, most of these ended up as non-league journeymen or straight up retired after leaving us. They had a hardworking ethic and grit instilled in them that allowed them to excel against bigger teams back in the day but I wouldn't say we had a high standard of player back then. One or two were quality but often padded out with quite cheap and lesser known options that didn't have much of a career before or after us. In many ways it was a case of players and a manager in Buckley that just clicked, they'd fight for Buckley and won games through sheer determination. Once Buckley was gone when the results stopped coming in and the core of that group was gone was when the wheels really started falling off.

I doubt Buckley and his Buckleyites that he took from Grimsby to West Brom and back to Grimsby could happen in those leagues in this era.


Yes really.

When did we last have players as good as Coyne, McDermott, Gallimore, Santos, Barnard, Groves, Pouton, Oster, Hughes, Jevons, Kabba, Boulding, Livingstone?

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Yes really.

When did we last have players as good as Coyne, McDermott, Gallimore, Santos, Barnard, Groves, Pouton, Oster, Hughes, Jevons, Kabba, Boulding, Livingstone?



I do feel sorry for the newbies, but when you have witnessed the above, and others who nearly took us into Division 1 (Today's prem ) then we had the best seasons ever. I do feel sorry for those who witnessed the Fenty era but this club is better than that and so are the supporters.

The future is looking good, good times are coming.



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