Grimsby's Rivals

Definitely an age thing for me it would now be

Scummy (but can't count them)
Lincoln narrowly over
Hull

But when I started supporting them hull would have been top
Cant see it as a rivalry now they are quite literally out of our league.

The Yorkshire clubs like Barnsley and donny yeah it's a bit of added spice but we wouldn't register for them as rivals so it's not the same, whereas Lincoln and scunthorpe hate us.

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Thanks, I’ll stick it in my Poojah star jar.

Very good Poojah,I didn't notice until you pointed it out but an excellent reply

Hull are a perfect example of local rivals as opposed to a club we have an actual rivalry with. We've only played Hull twice since 1989 and both were in the FL trophy so not really a footballing rivalry.
Age, location play a part in who we see as rivals. As an exile the teams I desperately wanted to beat were those supported by people locally..Wolves, Stoke, WBA  while we were playing lots of Yorkshire and Midlands clubs higher up the league

For me in the eighties and early nineties it was the Yorkshire clubs Barnsley Rotherham Sheffield clubs. We hate Yorkies  etc etc………

Always growing up it was Yorkshire clubs that was most fiercely hated, particularly Sheffield clubs as they aren't far away and came over in numbers. Hull mostly for local and political reasons with the whole Humberside thing, being close but quite different and not wanting to be in the same county as Hull and have it considered big brother like the politicians wanted.

Lincoln was probably more of a recent thing when we found ourselves in the same league for a long time but can consider that a local rivalry. I'd say our biggest rivals are still Yorkshire clubs due to them being still close by and the often local dislike of people from the area who regularly come to the beach for local holidays.

I'm old enough to remember going on the ferry across the Humber to watch us play Dull. There was, and still is, a certain animosity towards the city of Kingston Upon Hull, on the south bank. Not so much the other way, but if you come to Grimsby and mention Hull, there will always be a resentment towards them. It goes way back and is more than just football, Grimsby dockers, Grimsby fishermen, and then the dreaded Humberside. When we played them back then, it was well tasty on and off the pitch. The only way to get there was to get the train to New Holland pier, and then the old paddle steamer across the Humber. Welcoming committee waiting in the pubs around the ferry terminal. Then getting the train to Boothferry Park, which had a train platform in the stand, straight off the train to the turnstiles. To me it was a proper rivalry, not just playing the nearest club and calling them rivals, more like the Merseyside derby, or North London derby.

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Scunny,scunny,......and more scunny, hate everything about them and the place, Lincoln a close second, not bothered a about hull, they don't view is as rivals and be all the lads I know from hull consider Leeds as the club they hate.

I guess there’s a debate over what constitutes a rival. Is it in relation to rivals in terms of what we’re aiming to achieve or is it just teams we don’t like like.

Most of my life it’s been the Yorkshire clubs, particularly both Sheffield teams. Then we had a spell of playing Lincoln so many young lads regard them as a derby.

We’ve played scunny s few times and they’ll always be a rival but can’t be for the sake of this research.

Hull is the one for me, every cup draw I beg for Hull away. It’s s multi faceted hatred I guess.

I guess this season one could say that Donnie, Mansfield are the closest thing to a rivalry but again, I don’t really care. They’re just localish away days.

Our oldest rivals are clearly Lincoln. We've been playing each other reasonably regularly for over 140 years!

We've also played them a lot more than other local clubs in recent decades as Scunny had their moment in the sun and we've toiled around the bottom division.

It has occurred to me that I can't remember ever watching us play Hull (and I'm almost 50!).probably saw a game at some point when I was a kid but that's a long time ago. I do, however, remember always having a chuckle if Hull had lost games in years past. My Dad really doesn't like Hull after working there on and off in the 70s and this has obviously rubbed off on me to some degree! Scunny were just never on my radar and I simply don't care about them now, just as I didn't care about them when they were three divisions higher than us.