Our fans

Good evening all. Yesterday I took my 7 year old son to his first town away game, we’re both season ticket holders an he couldn’t wait to see what the away support was all about.  Before I go into full praise mode the flares and the lad who sat next to us who continued to use the C word at every opportunity even when I asked him to watch his language didn’t ruin the positives.

There’s a real sense of family when you go to town away games, the fact you see people in the street wearing town hats shirts or scarves an you immediately say hello or make conversation with people you have never met before! The fact every person sat near us spoke to my little lad an celebrated like crazy with us both when we scored the second! The fact every town fan I spoke to was proud and full of praise that I brought my son with me at that age to experience what it’s like to be a Grimsby fan and not just support one of the big teams and not only that but actually speak to him and make him feel like he is part of the whole fan base an support which did mean a lot to him when people asked for his name and who his favourite player was.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is in supporting Grimsby its more than turning up and signing songs! It’s almost tribal it’s a family and it’s the sense of a belonging that I don’t think a lot of teams have with there fans. I’m proud to be a town fan and hope to get to as many away games as we Can and thanks to all those we met yesterday!

Quoted from StickfordMariner

Good evening all. Yesterday I took my 7 year old son to his first town away game, we’re both season ticket holders an he couldn’t wait to see what the away support was all about.  Before I go into full praise mode the flares and the lad who sat next to us who continued to use the C word at every opportunity even when I asked him to watch his language didn’t ruin the positives.

There’s a real sense of family when you go to town away games, the fact you see people in the street wearing town hats shirts or scarves an you immediately say hello or make conversation with people you have never met before! The fact every person sat near us spoke to my little lad an celebrated like crazy with us both when we scored the second! The fact every town fan I spoke to was proud and full of praise that I brought my son with me at that age to experience what it’s like to be a Grimsby fan and not just support one of the big teams and not only that but actually speak to him and make him feel like he is part of the whole fan base an support which did mean a lot to him when people asked for his name and who his favourite player was.

I guess the point I’m trying to make is in supporting Grimsby its more than turning up and signing songs! It’s almost tribal it’s a family and it’s the sense of a belonging that I don’t think a lot of teams have with there fans. I’m proud to be a town fan and hope to get to as many away games as we Can and thanks to all those we met yesterday!

Sadly a very small minority of our fans have excrement for brains. Anyone who sets off a flare in the middle of a crowd should be banned for life.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Sadly a very small minority of our fans have excrement for brains. Anyone who sets off a flare in the middle of a crowd should be banned for life.

A very small minority at every club…the most embarrassed I’ve been as a town fan in the last ten year or so is seeing people loft Fenty up above their heads like he’s some saviour, some breaking of advertising boards, a fat racist woman that the club deemed fit to be let back in, Halifax, Dagenham this year and a fans forum…

Don’t forget the fans dancing / standing  in front of the disabled fans at the Parslow Chester game. All town aren’t we ? No mate not in my book.

Quoted from aldi_01

A very small minority at every club…the most embarrassed I’ve been as a town fan in the last ten year or so is seeing people loft Fenty up above their heads like he’s some saviour, some breaking of advertising boards, a fat racist woman that the club deemed fit to be let back in, Halifax, Dagenham this year and a fans forum…

Burton when we were relegated (particularly the ‘fan’ assaulting the keeper) and the singing about Brian Laws wife at Scunny were by far the most embarrassing our ‘fans’ have ever been.

As you say they are usually the minority

Quoted from aldi_01

A very small minority at every club…the most embarrassed I’ve been as a town fan in the last ten year or so is seeing people loft Fenty up above their heads like he’s some saviour, some breaking of advertising boards, a fat racist woman that the club deemed fit to be let back in, Halifax, Dagenham this year and a fans forum…

The most embarrassed I have felt as a Town fan is sitting in the Upper Smiths and watching the club Chairman (or principal shareholder, or whatever he was calling himself at the time) see fit to leave his seat and march across to grab a young boy’s flag and snap it in two.

Quoted from SouthLakesMariner

The most embarrassed I have felt as a Town fan is sitting in the Upper Smiths and watching the club Chairman (or principal shareholder, or whatever he was calling himself at the time) see fit to leave his seat and march across to grab a young boy’s flag and snap it in two.

I think you’ll find it was deconstructed to the point where it was safe and couldn't be considered a danger 😉

It’s even more concerning when a few of the embarrassing things isn’t so called hooligans on some wannabe rampage but the former owner/chairman/de facto chairman doing what he did best….

Halifax away takes some beating for me…

Every club in the country have good and bad stories about their own fans because we are all part of wider society.

I would prefer it if those who break the law were punished and just let the rest of us enjoy a fabulous day out.

Smoke bombs were thrown from the kop on Saturday but it doesn't get a mention on their forum