The Lincolnshire derby!!!

World football is full of derby matchs, Inter v Milan, Rangers v Celtic , Sparta v Slavia prague River plate v Boco juniors and now its our turn,the Lincolnshire Derby! its Grimsby v Lincoln!!

I must say that i am looking foward to this one more than any other of our visits to the land of the cod. Firstly because i am meeting up with an old friend who i havnt seen in fourteen years since school ,a grimsby fan no less!!(and having a night round the town on the friday night catching up to boot)

The second is more serious. as i write this blog Grimsby are looking relagation in the face. because of three teams having point deductions for money problems they started the season 17 points ahead of the relagation zone. that is now down to two points ahead of bournmouth in the last relagation place.with luton all but relagated.In the middweek games the codheads (thats what we call them) host top of the table brentford and bournmouth host midd table aldershot town who have nothing to play for (hmmm that sounds familer!!) so there is a very good chance that by the time the imps roll into town on saturaday the codds will be in the dreaded drop zone!

here is where the problem lies.all imps fans who arent smoking the funny stuff now that this season was all about rebuilding after the mess john schofield left us in. the defence is much tighter but alsa goals have been a little hard to come by.all this means that we are playing things out for next year. so we have nothing to play for where as grimsby are fighting for there lives.

However.. the imps away form has been off playoff standard and with some quators of the support starting to question jacko after the sale of frecklington and our own playoff challange long over an away derby win for lincoln would stop the mutterings in the stands of sincil bank.and buy jacko some time till the summer.so its all to play for!!!!!!!

as for the game i think if we can keep them out for the 1st 25 mins we are in with a great chance. They HAVE to win, so if they push foward can hopefully do what we did at gillingham and port vale and rip them to bits with out pace on the wings on the counter.At home teams sit in against us and that is why i think we have been poor at home,although we have only lost three at sincil bank.

so heres to a good night friday night, three points for the imps and if we do win its got to be battered cod (from grimsby!) with chips for tea saturaday night washed down with high quality czech beer!!!