Football Manager Stories

Saturday 29th July 2023

Bromley 1-1 Grimsby Town

A fairly drab game ended up in a draw after a major error by keeper Harvey Cartwright caught rushing out for a through ball he was never going to get.  My MoM was Danny Rose who led the line well and scored our goal just after half time.  It was noticeable how good he is in the air on a number of occasions when leaping high to flick on headers against opposition players who were several inches taller than him.

In other news, Gavan Holohan is attracting attention from some obscure Australian A League team, Macarthur FC!  Burton Albion are looking to sign Michee Efete and Luke Waterfall has said he will be considering his options at the end of his contract.

Saturday 5th August 2023

AFC Fylde 0-6 Grimsby Town

A first half hattrick for Danny Rose, and goals for Gavan Holohan, Alex Hunt and Danilo Orsi-Dadomo sealed an excellent win for The Mariners in their final pre-season friendly

In other news, GTFC announced that a total of 5499 Season Passes have been sold to date.


Saturday 12th August 2023

Start of EFL Two 2023/24 Season

The new season saw us start off with a Home fixture against Newport County, with former Town favourite Omar Bogle in their starting eleven.  By halftime we were 2-0 up with goals from Gavan Holohan and Danny Rose on his debut.  Wilson took a knock in the first half and was substituted by Eisa at HT, who took his place on the left wing.  We had almost total control of the 2nd half and should have scored more but for some fine saves by the visitors keeper.  I shut up shop on 75 minutes and replaced Holohan with Khouri, forsaking the AMC position and dropping him back to Centre Mid.  Both Rodgers and Mullarkey were blowing hard and were replaced by Waterfall and Maher.  Just to be extra careful, I brought on Kieran Green for Clifton and we coasted the last 15 minutes to earn our first 3 points and clean sheet of the season.

Danny Rose again won many headers against taller opponents and mostly found a teammate with his flick-ons.  My MoM was Gavan Holohan who was busy the whole game, making good runs into the box and out wide too, as well as scoring a fine goal in the first half.

Tuesday 15th August 2023

EFL Cup 1st Round

Harrogate Town 1-1 Grimsby Town (4-5 pens)

Danilo Orsi-Dadomo played the part of super-sub for The Mariners came from behind to defeat Harrogate Town on a fine summers evening at the EnviroVent Stadium.

Left winger, Paul Glatzel gave Harrogate the lead with a free kick into the bottom corner from the edge of the area in the 34th minute.  Grimsby Town's equaliser came through Danilo Orsi-Dadomo as he seized on Will Smith's mistake to score with a well placed shop into the bottom corner of the net.

In the shootout that followed it turned out to be a heartache for Harrogate Town as wing back Jaheim Headley missed the final penalty


Keeper Harvey Cartwright was MoM after pulling off several fine saves to keep Town in the game.


We have been drawn at home to Sutton United in the EFL Cup 2nd Round.