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Preview: Grimsby v Bristol R
By: Kevin Dolan
Date: 08/02/2007
AFTER the low and high extremes of the last two weeks, a hugely unpredictable Grimsby Town welcome Bristol Rovers to Blundell Park this Saturday.
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After a poor start to last season, Ian Atkins was sacked as manger and replaced by Paul Trollope (left) and Lennie Lawrence as first team coach and director of football respectively A decent couple of months around Christmas pushed the club up the table and on the fringe of the play offs before an inconsistent end of the season saw the club drift into 12th position for the second season running.
After falling out of favour at Bristol City last season, experienced goalkeeper Steve Phillips made the short move across the city and was League Two’s player of the month in November. Ex-Mariner Stuart Campbell scored his first of the season last Saturday with a brilliant last minute free kick, whilst midfielder Sammy Igoe spent 10 years with Portsmouth and then Reading. Highly rated attacker Rickie Lambert (left) joined at the start of the season from Rochdale, but goalscoring has been the main problem and Lewis Handell is their 2nd highest scorer with four.
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Rovers have the slight upper hand against The Mariners, especially in recent years where Town have only won one of the last 7 meetings at Blundell Park. P 37 W 12 D 9 L 16 F 56 A 56 Bristol R Head-to-Head (67th on The Opposition Ladder)
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The Pirates won on both their visits to Blundell Park last season as Chris Carruthers’ deflected free kick gained them three points and followed up their FA cup win only a month before.
Grimsby Team: Mildenhall, Croft, Whittle, Jones, Newey, Cohen, Toner, Bolland, Parkinson, Reddy, Jones (Gritton, 62)
Bristol R Team: Shearer, Lescott, Hinton, Elliott, Carruthers, Gibb, Hunt, Disley, Campbell, Walker, Agogo Attendance: 4,739 Â Â Report Bookings: Parkinson (Grimsby) Campbell (Bristol R)
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Click on the link for directions to Blundell Park (left).
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Click on the link for ticket prices to Blundell Park.
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