Lincoln game tonight

Based on the article I put a few quid on a Town win tonight. Hope he hasn’t pulled a fast one….

GTFC opening up another stand tonight to accomodate the Lincoln fans unusually large chips on their shoulders.

I actually found the article by the Lincoln City fan quite a thoughtful, entertaining read. Yes, he could have just written, " The result doesn't matter because it's a pre-season friendly," but then again we have a 300 page thread on Scunthorpe United that could just have said, "They're screwed!" But where's the fun in that?

Weather forecast doesn't look great, 71% chance of rain at 1900 hours on the BBC website.

Weird they grow up hating us. I was always ambivalent about the Imps as they are from a rather nice city that has constantly improved, especially with the university.
Hull were always the main rivals, then Scunny.
Either way, I agree that friendlies are a waste of time in terms of the real football landscape. Couldn't care less who wins tonight.

£12 per adult (£24 for me and my wife) for a pre-season friendly where it's rumoured Lincoln could be playing a weakened side, or £5 for streaming the game on Mariners TV.

Difficult decision but might still go.

I actually enjoyed that article, the references to other fans (webbing for Boston etc)

Not sure if going tonite.

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Weird they grow up hating us. I was always ambivalent about the Imps as they are from a rather nice city that has constantly improved, especially with the university.
Hull were always the main rivals, then Scunny.
Either way, I agree that friendlies are a waste of time in terms of the real football landscape. Couldn't care less who wins tonight.

Agree on this, remember being relegated into League Two to this barrage of peculiar hatred, and thinking "are we meant to hate them back or something?" Even living in Gainsborough at the time and having a few Lincoln fans around I always found it bizarre the levels of enjoyment they'd have around the turn of the millennium absolutely loving us losing to Forest or Man City, whilst they were losing at home to Chester City or Torquay? Remember thinking I am not even bothered what you guys do ha!

I understand some Town fans do view them as a direct rival seeing as we've played them more frequently over the past couple of decades, but traditional me grew up seeing the likes of Barnsley, Sheffield United or Wednesday as more of a direct rivals, and of course if we hated at our local clubs and those below us then it was 100% Hull and Scunny. Lincoln were as much of a rival as Notts County, Chesterfield or Mansfield, local-ish team, barely play them other than in a friendly and couldn't name more than 2 or 3 of their players.

Always found their chant "we smell fish" amusing, it's like they were blissfully unaware that we constantly sing about fish ourselves, and also don't find that song or the term "Codhead" offensive in the slightest.

Clearly he is a closet town fan......  

Sounds like he’s getting his excuses in for not attending .

I used to love the annual Imp excusefest for reasons why they couldn’t make the Derby game at Blundell park 😂
We’ve always filled their away end whatever division and whatever league position we’ve been in , same as we have all our local rivals.
We usually take well over 1000 for pre season games too.
They’ve only managed to fill ours a couple of times on recent years and always seemed to have a phobia about visiting us 😂