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Postbag: up the bleedin' Mariners
23 September 2005
Up the Mariners, Up the Mariners, we're gonna win the cup one day. Up the Mariners, Up the Mariners,
it's Grimsby Town that rule ok.
Woohoo! Letters to the usual address: postbag@codalmighty.com. But, remember the
orange…
Born in the Ancholme Valley
OK, I have to confess that I was not born and raised in Grimsby
even though I claim it as home. Martyn Wyburn missed a point when he tried to explain his reasoning
for claiming Grimsby as home. The educational system in this country has failed to enlighten
generations of children of the Ancholme Valley and the jewel that is Bonby. Once I left home I found I
became ill every time I tried to claim Scunthorpe as home. As a town fan it is not possible to claim
anything nice about Scunthorpe, and over the years I have adopted Grimsby as home.
I also live in Leicester and for the last twenty years have tried to educate the egg chasers and the
Foxes about the joys of total football Grimsby style. I have taken a lot of abuse over the years but
there is a small part of Leicester that is forever Grimsby.
Keith Falla
Via
email
Didn't play for Spurs
Here's a stranger than fiction offering from the pages of
SportInter.com.
David Jagger
Via email
Things tha only knows if tha's from Rotherham
When are you bringing out the "I was born in Croft Baker" t-shirts? I want
one. I was born in Rotherham District General.
Michael Shelton
Via
email
Russ sucks
Russ asking the fans to 'suck' - presumably he only means during the half
Town were attacking the Pontoon. We'd have been scoring own goals
otherwise, something Town have always been capable of doing without any help.
Mat
Wystock
Via email
It's in the tea leaves
The Guardian's Four-pint Pundit has pointed out similarities between
now and 1989 - falling house prices, potential new England coach with
root-vegetable-shaped head etc.
I was inclined to agree. PM in third term. Hull in the 2nd division. Town promotion push in the 4th during
the 2nd season of a bald, former non-league manager's tenure. J.McDermott. Passing and movem…
er… 2005 is the new… 2005.
Chris Parrott
Via email
Westside
I'm from Manchester, is that like Croft Baker? I've never even
been to Grimsby, I do like fish though.
Janet Dixon
Via email
It'll do. [Letters Ed]
Seeing red
Hi Codalmighty people. I'm a Town fan stuck in Northern Germany writing to
drop a line about something that you might find interesting. I'm a squaddie in Germany so as such I
can't get to many Town games - the only one I have been to this season was Chester away (Yes, the
first game!) - so I watch my local team here in Germany, Werder Bremen. Yes they are a 'big' side but
they are a 'fish' town on the coast that no-one likes and they often get patronised so I feel at
home.
Anyway, the German fans have a history of protesting about anything they think is anti-football, the
current one is a campaign of solidarity with a relativley small Austrian Team, Austria Salzburg. They
have been taken over by Red Bull who have changed the team name and the team colours. Last
weekend there was a protest at all German Bundesliga matches often with home and away fans
showing matching protest banners at the same game - cool and clever. I couldn't possibly advise
anyone else to take the same line as me and many thousands of others, but I won't be drinking
anymore Red Bull for a long time. I know that this will not stop their sales completley, but hopefully
someone somewhere is now reviewing the situation.
Anyway, just a thought. It shows that a concerted effort on the part of footy fans can have an effect
for the good of the game. I would instigate a ban on ITV at my house in light of the way we were sold
down the river, however as my missus watches Coronation Street I'd be risking never getting fed
again.
All the best and keep up the good work.
Tim Mosey
Via email
Thanks for that Tim. I guess this has already happened to some extent in the UK with clubs such as
'Total Network Solutions'. It'll be a sorry day if it ever happens to a league club - but you get the
feeling it's not far off. [Letters Ed]
Spurs have big men
Nice article, just a few points to make about it, quote: "…about the height of his
side. "We are not a big team," he has admitted in the run-up to the match. This suggests a problem at
set pieces, offering dead
ball magnet Rob Jones - and Town - some hope."
Jol here is refering to our height upfront when Keane and Defoe start together, not at the back where
we are tall and solid. Radek Cerny isn't on loan, we bought him earlier in January and he is a terrific
'keeper - unfortunately for him we have England's No. 1. Browny HAS made the step up putting in
some great performances last season, but he's a little unlucky that we have so much talent in that
area.
Im sure it will be an entertaining match and whatever the outcome of the game I wish you all the best
with your season.
Mark (Down at the Lane)
Via email
Ah, well, it's all academic now anyway… [Letters Ed]
Too much luck
Spurs fan here - really excellent and accurate Tottenham preview - you know your footie alright.
Good luck on the night (but not too much).
David Gage
Via email
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Strutting the Blow Wells
OK, so I may be nearly a year late on this one, but I
thought it would be worthwhile to confirm that sticklebacks really are called 'struts' and the red-bellied
males are most definitely red doctors. I know this because my fishing chum Wilf told me this over 30
years ago. I should perhaps qualify this by saying that I once convinced him to walk in the pouring
rain, on our way home from the Louth Navigation Canal, by
employing the logic that if he ran he would be struck by raindrops falling ahead of us that would
otherwise have missed. But then I believed this to be true myself.
Based more on an enthusiasm for underage smoking, our angling success was invariably limited,
restricted to the occasional roach, rudd or tiny dace. Our only attempt at night fishing resulted in Wilf
hooking an
extremely angry and aggressive swan and a catastrophic conflagration which consumed the
borrowed tent as my paraffin lamp was overturned in the struggle. We used to 'punish' eels for
tangling our lines and swallowing our hooks and getting us covered in eel snot by making them run the
gauntlet of speeding traffic on the A1031 where it crosses Buck (or sometimes 'Waithe') Beck
outside Tetney. It was also here by the bridge that Wilf once swallowed a handful of gozzers after
trying to keep them warm
under his tongue 'like the professionals do'.
Once we caught a truly gargantuan gudgeon, undoubtedly a UK record to be reported to Angling
Times. We returned to Wilf's house with the
specimen wriggling in a water-filled bait box only to be devasted by the pathetic verdict delivered by
his mum's kitchen scales. On the return journey to the Beck the sky grew black and the rain started
falling. As we passed the Ramsden's house at the edge of the village, a plan hatched. After brief
deliberation the not-so-mighty gudgeon was dispatched through the air, over the wooden fence, and
hit it's target - the Ramsden's swimming pool - with a satisfying splash. The oft-repeated tale of the
miraculous appearance of the fish in the pool puzzled local folk for many a year.
Now the reason I read the Chapman's pond story in the first place was because I thought it was going
to refer to Chapman's pond in Tetney, dug and originally owned by a branch of my mother's family.
Evidently I was mistaken, but the tie in here is that Buck (Waithe) Beck continues its track eastwards
to join the Louth Navigation Canal via the Tetney Blow Wells. These sink-holes, pits or wells are also,
like Chapman's pond in Grimsby, long-held to be bottomless and with sheer sides. You name it and
there's a story about it disappearing in the Blow Wells. Chief of these stories, and favourite amongst
my mother's many cautionary tales, was the horse, cart and driver that were swallowd down into the
murky depths one black night. This alone was enough to keep us well back from
the dubious edges of the Blow Wells whenever we were on expedition, and hence we never
scientifically tested the full degree of their bottomless-ness. Anglian Water now abstracts fresh water
from the Blow Wells, so they could perhaps be called.
My fishing rod fell from the crossbar of my pushbike in 1976 and was run over and destroyed by a
following car. I never bought a new one, and whilst I have had absolutely zero interest in fishing ever
since, I do know that the UK record for a rod-caught gudgeon presently stands at precisely
5oz.
Andy Crow
Via email
That is BY FAR the greatest letter ever sent to Cod Almighty by an absolute country mile. In fact, I
think it should be turned in to a film… [Letters Ed]
WLTM
I'm looking for a mate I met travelling through Australia about 10 years. He was a
massive Grimsby fan and I'm sure he still is. His name is Simon Prout. Top lad and would like to catch
up with him as we lost contact.
Have tried a few things but can't track him down. I think he is the only Mariners fan from Gloucester. I
know he was a huge fan and never missed a home or away game. Skinny red-head milk-bottled lad.
Just trying every avenue. Well done last night by the way.
Chris Heenan
Via
email
Never heard of him myself, but someone else may have… anyone? [Letters Ed]
Where were they… last week?
How long before the attendance of 8206 from last
night's game is compared to the 30,000 'fans' we took to Wembley a few months down the line? "We
had over 8000 for the Spurs game but all we get for league games is 4000".
John
Nolan
Via email
Hammered
Congratulations on the result last night from a Happy Hammer. Always nice
to see our rivals humbled - it's happened to us enough over the years. Look forward to meeting you in
a later round.
Posh Iron
Via email
Indeed it has happened to you. Do you remember Valentines Day 1996 (apart from the cheap
perfume and meal I bought you)? [Letters Ed]
Cash for splash
If that JPK quote on the splash-page isn't a future t-shirt design I'll eat my
hat.
Rich Mills
Via email
Grimsby born and proud
'Up the Mariners' is the
best. I used to think the bloke on the left of the single sleeve was Mike Brolly and the chap in the
middle Joe Waters. The other one? Er… dunno Dave Boylen? I've got another Town single called
'Gonna see the Mariners'… or something like
that anyway.
I played drums on 'Grimsby Born & Proud'. Best moment was playing it at a packed pub gig in Hull and
getting out alive. I am now living off the royalties in a beach hut in Skegness.
Jonathan
Tabois
Via email
Crappy classics
Listening to 'Up the Mariners' after
our historic victory over Spurs in the Cup sent shivers down my spine. Really inspiring stuff… 'Up The
Mariners' and all crappy, yet classic football songs.
Alan Hamilton
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email
Still drinking after the Spurs victory?
God bless you Cod Almighty folk for the rendition of ‘Up
the Mariners’. I just played it really loud AGAIN and she is a beauty. Brings a tear to me eye… sob…
I’m 12 years old again… my cats getting his nuts cut off in the morning… Harry H says he needs my
bicycle, but I'm a frier and I'm not sure about you.
Sean
Via email
I think incoherence has got the better of you there, Sean [Letters Ed]
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