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Unfathomable

25 November 2012

What do you do when the Mariners have just played out a goalless draw against a side two divisions below them? Dwell in the past, of course ...

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The Grimsby Town rap

Can you help me please?

About 1991 I remember a record called the Grimsby Town rap was released. I had this but lost it. Where can I get hold of or listen to it please, to reminisce.

Many thanks

from Andy Ross

Letters Ed responds: @codalmighty asked for help with this one on Twitter. To use the appropriate twitter names, @payneardo is "not sure if it was a rap as such" but seems "to remember a record was released about that time, by a band called Merger."; @thundercliffe believes it was released in 1990 and may have been called Going for goal. It featured John Moore "saying 'chance on' a lot." The lyrics were "We're the Mariners and we play to win". @iamdidge remember

Chapmans Pond, and other things you only know if you are from Grimsby

Chapmans Pond is maybe not bottomless, but we were always told that an 'orse'n'cart had backed into it and was never seen again.

We called them Red Doctors too. The biggest ones were in the marshy, reedy bit on the sands next to the boating lake but this was way before Old Clee had ever seen a calculator.

Great site. I have just been told about you by a neighbour who turns out to be a Grimbarian too

from Geoff Wentworth

Letters Ed responds: Thanks Geoff, and welcome to the site. If you are interested in exploring local Grimsby lore, you might want to use the Search button at the bottom of the page to look for the copious correspondence we have had over the years about Chapmans Pond and Grimmo dialect.

Stop paying through the nose for expensive quick fixes

Dear CA Just a quick line on today's news. First, the Telewag printed an article today quoting Chris Waddle patronising us about how "sad it is to see Grimsby down in the Conference, hope they bounce back soon, blah, blah". He referred to playing at Grimsby when Kev Drinkell was around, and, never one to be slow to immerse myself in GTFC nostalgia, I looked up the programme from December '82 when we played Newcastle at home, and yes Waddle is in the team, sporting at that point a Movember tache - a man well ahead of his time, as his awful mullet in 1990 was set to confirm. The thing that caught my eye though was the reference to Howard Gayle in that little summary next to each away player's name on the back page The Mariner used to do. It says "coloured winger on loan from Liverpool". How times have changed!

On the new youth coach, I'm afraid the new appointment appears consistent with the shite coaching for kids in this country which has blighted our game for decades. I hope this new lad proves me wrong. His biggest task though, to return to another hobby horse of mine, is to get the future manager to use the players he hopefully "brings through", and not chuck them on the scrap heap whilst paying through the nose for expensive "quick fixes" as so many have done in the past.

Cheers,

from Chris Beeley

Thanks Chris, and thanks also to Andy and Geoff. Keep them coming.