Got to keep the faith going so

Grimsby 1 Pools 2

0-0 half time, Pools score early second half for a change Grimsby equalise with 10 minutes to go, Macdonald on as a sub beats 5 defenders and slams one in in the 91st minute and the 1,300 Poolies go apeshit as the ground empties.

UTP NSD PTID

Oh and Crawley battered at home v Bradford, Cook hat trick.

I also agree.
Wins for Pools n Bradford.
Happy Easter to all Poolies.
Remember Jesus.
UTP.

Going to be a hard game this one.

Grimsby 2 Pools 2

Think Pools still have too much for Grimsby now... id of backed us for the draw anyways few weeks ago but deffo going for the win now.

they somehow keep grinding results out but we want this game more than them and it means nothing to them should they win or loose !

Umerah is deffo well over due a goal and i can see another coming from the likes of Cooke or Kemp.

1/2 Josh & Dodds
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Where are people likely to be going before the game. Taking my son to his first away day so not looking for anything rowdy just a nice atmosphere.

Hi Guys /Girls
Grimsby fan here in peace
Just seen that you are bringing a decent following on Friday so thought i would post
It will be one of only a handful of clubs who bring decent numbers this season , we can offer only 1200 tickets as we sold 6000 season tickets ,and as our old ground only now holds a touch over 8k ,home walk up tickets are housed in the away stand corner in case you wondered why thats the limit .

We have had a good season , have good owners(a couple of wealthy lifelong fans made good ) ,squad and manager and should kick on next year but now have nothing to play for now .

I wont be there Friday as i have made good a promise to the wife and kids to spend it with them , but will keep an eye on proceedings - we have struggled at home when teams 'park the bus ' as we dont have lots of guile in our team but are excellent on the counter .

Gav has done well but is in and out of the team as our 4 midfielders are all at quite a similiar level ,great guy though .

The Fanzone is excellent and welcomes away fans fron 12 onwards normally , craft beer and street food to -i see you said above about somewhere to go for your lad ,might be good in there as there is kids games and bits +pieces for them before games ,also live music normally .There is lots of good eateries around quite a few have featured on 'rate my takeaway lately ' (if anyone watches that ) ones relatively close to the ground 'pips' .There is the basic Spoons in Clee if required to and if you want cheap next door is trying to undercut spoons so its 2 or 3 quid a pint .

If anyone needs any help with anything about Friday let me know and i will try my best to answer .

IMost want you to stay up instead of Creep Crawley so dont expect too much hostility on Friday ,maybe even a bit of support

Will be all but a full sell out so should be a cracking atmosphere .

2-3

The abuse your fans will get from the Poolie away end will soon change that It's all pantomime though isn't it? Thanks for the post, good to see northern clubs sticking together. Too many dropping out of the football league.

Excellent, thanks for that.


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What a fantastic post from someone who by the sounds of it is a genuine footy fan. A pleasure to hear from you, sir.

Hear hear. Well done Grimsby great post. Only been there once and on the way back was arrested in an eaterie but an old couple said it was mistaken identity as I had paid and a great rush of fans confused them. I was allowed on my way. That was in your well known rivals place. You know, the one that has a woman's personal anatomy in its name. Pools won 1-0 that day. Remember the wind whipping in off the sea a bit like Hartlepool. Enjoy the rest of the season Grimsbyboy.

Thanks for the kind messages .

I am indeed a proper football fan , just enjoy the game in general .Weirdly I have only ever been to the north east twice -once when we played Darlington in that big stadium which had about 4k in it ,and then when we lost 8-1 to you a good few years ago now ;both bad experiences for obvious reasons .

I saw someone mentioned our neighbours , but if you are not aware ,rivalry aside its very sad whats happening at Scunthorpe utd .Besides almost certainly going down to NLN their new owner has scrapped their academy, made all staff redundant and is moving the club to Ilkeston (apart from matchdays ) many of there fans predict the end of the club after May or a merger with Ilkeston Town .Another sad time for the proper fans as its unlikely to end well for them .

remember well as a kid all the lincolnshire clubs being in the old division 2, championship in todays money. wish it was still the case and these new age clubs never have existed outside non league. cannot see many fans of any traditional league clubs who have to pick and choose games picking stevenage, crawley, forest green etc as their game of choice.

when i took my lad when he was young i got their early. parked as close to the ground as possibly and walked on the beach to cleethorpes town centre where there is stuff for kids to do and decent chippy,s about.

First team in a while we've played who have nothing really to play for. Think our lads will be more fired up for it and confidence will be high after Saturday so a great chance to pick up a win.

well we need one win at least over the two easter games. for me this one is our best chance to do itas i cannot see that team going out at grimsby will all be playing on monday afternoon. if thats the case we have not much in reserve to pick from againt a side that needs the points as much as us and their bench trying to run the game possibly succesfully.

This is going to be a very hard game if you think Grimsby are going to roll over think again from their fans point of view.
They had 2200 supporters at Bradford double what we took.
They have a sell out against pools.
Easter Monday they have Doncaster away and have sold 3000 tickets once again a sell out.
So do you think the players are going to roll over with that amount of support behind them i think not.

Good fans dont win games as we all well know.
Pools will win.
UTP.

correct in theory but having a large support home and away is never a guarentee the team will perform to its maximum and bring home the result fans desire. same with pools where real shock results or a big win usually happens on a shit tuesday night infront of the seasons lowest crowd. 10,000 stockport fans the other night didn,t seem to affect the game as they only drew it. so many pools players in the past and at present say how great the fans are but fail to give these fans what they want on a regular basis.

Fecking Hell Kevin, Begining to worry about you and all this positivity.
Your shrink is doing a hell of a job.

Mind you were spot on last time,

It's the bounce in support that winning promotion from the National League and carrying on the good form into a first season back in the EFL with a cup run will give you.

Poolies know all about that - and the wheels coming off when the cup run finally ended.

Grimsby have no chance of making the play-offs and their last 4 results are drew 3, lost 1. That sounds familiar too.

You should take confidence from our home record though .
Won 4 drawn 9 lost 5

Probably 3 quarters of the teams have parked the bus which is not only an effect way to play against us but with the big crowds , it goes against us when we are 0-0 against teams who they think we should be beating as the fans become annoyed and start getting shirty with our own players and the officials .

Keep it tight and dont go hell for leather all out attack and you have a decent chance of getting a result , Askey will know this hes a decent manager if he can keep you up this season I would expect a much improved season next time around .

Its not really about the bounce mate its helped getting promoted ,but we were selling out every week in the NL .

Because after nearly 2 decades of an owner that told us we were 'punching above our weight ' in the national league decayed the club to almost a state of the end and tried to sell it to a convicted fraudster .

Ever since we got taken over there has been 'the bounce' and cant see it stopping .

pools have not got a bus to park so really if we do win we will have to outscore you. now i have said that it will be a bore of a goaless draw where you mariners will hope they have seen the back of us.

Spot on Mr Accrington, Pools are always going to give at least one goal away so it is a question of trying to outscore the opposition. We really don't have a bus to park.

Good to see Grimsby getting good support, very much like Pools take big away followings, with a bit less travelling to do.

Seems like people are starting to switch from the prem to local clubs. Who would of thought a few years back Pools would get 5000 at home after not winning in 10 games, sat second bottom of the league.

Might have something to do with the cost of following a prem team....and there is the matter of financing prawn sandwiches.

I also prefer the smaller lower league grounds as opposed to the vast concrete mausoleums you get with the higher up the pyramid teams. Closer to the players, better potential atmosphere.

Agree entirely for me it the older the ground the better the feel and atmosphere.

Well Friday/ Monday is no different to Saturday / Tuesday so if no injuries and a decent result at Grimsby I see no reason to change the side.

Late 85th winner for us 0 - 1 and move out of the bottom 2 as the Bantams beat the Red Devils.

I agree totally about the stadiums /grounds

As i said on an earlier post I am a massive Grimsby fan but a football lover in general .

Have been to a wide variance of stadiums over the last few years and can honestly say some of my favourites have been the smaller ,older stadiums .

Hartlepool , Grimsby ,Havant and Waterlooville and Weymouth over Man u , Soton , Arsenal etc any day for me .

There is just something different in the air -its real
When we played Weymouth last year they even let me have a pint on the side of the pitch ,small thing but ibremember it ;i dont particularly remember anything of note of when i went to Southampton v Brentford a few weeks agoba lot of vertical passing in a new ish ground thats pretty souless most games ,i preffered The Dell .

Interesting article in Monkey Business on what strip Pools will wear as all of our current strips clash with Grimsbys allegedly ?
I suppose some will say Pools players can wear anything as long as we get 3 points.

We are playing in our home kit, hopefully doesnt clash too much!

Just hope we keep the run going, a point would be a good result. If we go behind then we don't fold and we create chances hopefully as we don't accept defeat. Can't worry about others but pressure is building on them given our run of form.

know that but can murray and sterry play both games for a start. there is always the odd knock in all games but for some reason now our lads seem better able to cope with them. listened to accringtons john coleman on you tube and he mentioned easter games. said in there promotion season they were the only side in the division to play the same players in both games. lets hope we can repeat this as there are still not much on the bench.

Sylla out is massive-ie result changing

Featherstone can use ball ok but we have no one in midfield now to break up play---hope its not a long term injury because if it is we are fooked

fancied us for a point but will go 2-1 Grimsby now

65% against 35% possession so far

1 up after 20 mins

Kemp scorer

Eddie Kyle says Harry Haddock doesn't look happy.

Half Time still 1 up

So far so good. Grimsby don't look any better than they did at the Vic. Hope it stays that way.

Passing has been very good for most of the match . Featherstone and Sterry playing really well. Cook distribution really poor. I have thought this last few games. Grimsby very poor mid table comfort they don’t care. If we score a second it’s game over. We need McDonald on and Cooke of in second half. Just finish them of Pools.

Thing is we know that Grimsby will score so we just got to get a second goal from somewhere. The stats say Pools have only had one shot on goal, I guess that would be Kemp's goal.

Good first half
Ferguson, Jennings and Featehrstone very good

Grimsby are dangerous from long throws though and gradually going more physical--need to keep being positive as if we try and sit back we will concede dont look comfortable from balls in the box

Rochdale winning again!
Though if we finish behind them likely means we didnt get enough points anyway as they have a few nasty fixtures to come.
Stevenage need to pull their fingers out 2nd half!