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Postbag: you write, I read
10 August 2006
Morning. Er, afternoon. Or whatever it is where you are. Hello, even. That will do. Hello. God I'm tired,
and I didn't even go and watch Town be shit against Wrexham. God help all those that made the
journey.
Anyway, keep up the letter-scribing and send your missives to postbag@codalmighty.com. That's 'missives', not 'missus'.
Although if she's nice, pop her in the post. Give her a sandwich though, I'm not feeding her...
Gay times
re: Tony B's question re: my Shrewsbury
rough guide. He's right, I've not been there. But Gay Meadow is an old ground and thus has
character. The charm bit can be relative, and given this is Shrewsbury's last season there before
moving to New Identikit Meadow (prejuding, I know, but the odds are with me), Gay Meadow is
relatively charming, and definitely the more charming of the two. Thus Shrewsbury's ground has
character and charm. I stand by what I wrote.
Andy Holt
Via email
Yay! Refwatch is back!
Yay! Refwatch is
back!
Steve McKatt
Via email
Hands up, baby hands up
Hands up who thinks Graham Rodger needs to sign more
players? As it stands we don't have enough senior players to fill the bench on Saturday. I'm worried,
you know.
Harry McSwegan
Via email
Ah, it'll all be fine. It just might take a while, that's all. [Letters Ed]
Thames water pollution shocker
They've just opened a new fish and chip restaurant
near where I work in London. You can get battered cod and blinkin' salmon! Pah! Where's the
haddock, eh? These 'ere southerners know nothing! Saveloy, my arse! It's no Pea Bung. I'll tell you that
for nothing.
Frank Jubilee
Via email
Blinking fish? What is this crazy southern nonsense? [Letters Ed]
At odds with Hartlepool
The website I use for betting has us joint 7th favourites for
promotion at 14/1. Seems a little stingy to me. 100/30 for promotion sounds stingy though.12/1 for
relegation sounds more like it.
They've also got this weird head-to-head bet - us against Hartlepool, with us 17/20 to finish above
them this year. Why Hartlepool?
Kirk Lactovic
Via email
He who laughs last...
Almost interesting to read the comments from one Nathan
Jackson in the postbag. Nearly. My brother works with the guy. We're ex-pat Mariners and young
Nathan goes to every Lincoln game ever.
After last years 5-0 drubbing his attempts at post-match superiority were met with my brothers
statement of "I don't care. It was just one game and we'll get promoted and you won't because we're
actually better than Lincoln."
Come the play-offs and there's no smugness in Lincoln about Grimsby anymore. They couldn't laugh
at our eventual defeat because their lone footballing acheivement is losing two playoff finals. And
sacking Adam Buckley for stealing his teammates possessions from the dressing room.
Still, they have actually signed some players this summer, cast off the burden of big Keith and his
ahem, ahem, direct approach and outplayed Leicester City and beat Nott'm Forest. Therefore I'm
dreading this season.
James Parrott
Via email
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Hang on Tony, Tony hang on
Now hang on Tony B. I was
at Shrewsbury last year and found it very pleasant, even when it was throwing down with rain and I
was expecting the River Seven to burst it's banks and flood Gay Meadow.
The beauty of Gay Meadow is that in the face of all these new soulless grounds in trading estates
next to warehouses, prefab Pizza Huts and Comet
electrical super stores, here is a ground just a short, really really short walk to town. Simply popping
over the bridge to the centre of a great little historical place with some really good pubs.
The ground had a bit of rustic charm to it and it's sad they are thinking of relocating, no doubt to some
soulless retail park on a bypass somewhere
and the only offer of a pre-match meal is in a dodgy fast food chain or a plastic pub.
Where has the heart gone in this game? I'm off to sob quietly in the corner.
John
Pakey
Via email
Aye. It'll all be different with the Fentydome though, right? Right? RIGHT? [Letters Ed]
The legend continues
Chapman's Pond used to be a brick
works. They dug so deep that it hit the water table and flooded the hole - apparently there are houses
at the bottom! Or so I am told...
lala
Via email
Shirty
What's with these two-tone Nike shirts that all goalkeepers seem to be wearing at
the moment? It started at the World Cup and that's where it should have remained, thank you very
much. I don't want to see that sort of continental nonsense at Blundell Park, and I'm sure you don't
either.
Ian Hairty
Via email
Quite right. Down with this sort of thing. [Letters Ed]
There's only two Grimsbys
Ian Jackson wrote in the last postbag to ask if
anyone had experience of the Grimsby here in Canada . As I live in Toronto a mere 45 minutes drive
from Grimsby , Ontario I can tell you a little about it.
As Ian said it is indeed on the way to Niagara Falls and the town sign tells you there is a population of
18,000 people. Its right on the coast of Lake Ontario in an area they call the Golden Horseshoe. I know
they make wine there and not too much else. I can recommend the service station though just of the
QEW highway.
For those who feel the need to know more about this place: more info.
PS Although this is a pretty dull subject I wonder if there are any other international
Grimsbys?
James Booth
Via email
Butchered report
I note that Mr Butcher has attempted to freshen up his match reporting
format for the new season. Myself I always think of that stand as the new Barrett. I note also that
the Boston report was a mere three thousand one hundred words or so. Thus we are getting about
ten per cent less words for our money.
Notwithstanding it still remains head and shoulders, arms and knees above any other written account
of a Mariners game. Long may his memory remain undimmed.
Richard Dawson
Via email
Message from the south
I would like to compliment you on a fantastic website, with very
interesting and entertaining information. The report on the Boston match was great, much more
interesting than I read anywhere else.
I saw my first Mariners match in 1948 and I attended regularly until I went in the military in 1956. After
that I saw only a handful of games. I have lived in America since 1963, but I always tried to follow
"The Town". Now, if the Mariners could only play the season as well as you report it, we have a great
chance.
I am now retired in Tucson, Arizona, but I will come back for one last game, if the new stadium is ever
built. Trying to park around Blundell Park in 1950 was really bad, so I can't imagine what it is like
now.
Keep up the great work and thanks for helping me keep in touch.
Robby Robinson
Via email
Thanks for the kind words Robby. Oh, and if you're waiting for the new stadium... well, just don't
hold your breath. [Letters Ed]
None of your neb
Love the Grimmo dictionary, but
how about adding the word "neb" in there, as in to have a nose at something? e.g. "Let's have a neb
at your new car then." Similarly nebby = nosey, as in "Get lost, you nebby cow!"
Many a time I have used the word since moving to the North West 10 years ago, only to be met with
blank looks. It wasn't just me who said it, was it?
Melissa
Via email
I'm sure I've heard it outside of Grimsby, but I'm prepared to be proven wrong. [Letters
Ed]
How are you doing?
I entered your competition about
shirt numbers throughout the season that Town players wear. How can I find out how I am
doing?
Steve Vigar
Via email
Hi Steve. It's been inconveniently hidden away in the 06-07 season index which you can find here.
[Letters Ed]
Dummy chucking
Is anyone else totally bored by the mud slinging between BBC Radio
Humberside and GTFC? Can we go back to talking about the football please rather than giving Fenty
and Burns's ego battle (it is hardly a battle of wits) more space than it warrants?
Paul
Williams
Via email
I think almost every fan is in agreement Paul. [Letters Ed]
Lumped
Gary Jones joined us last summer. Last season he featured as a forward. So
why do the pre-match club text messages still list him as a midfielder?
Dan Brown
Via email
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