With the season about five weeks away, many clubs including my team Grimsby Town are reporting back for pre-season. I expect transfer activity to hot up as players on free's suddenly fine themselves sitting at home, rather than training with a squad. I think this soon sharpens the mind. Most teams are now back in training and friendlies starting to come up. The bookies still have Peterborough as the clear favourite. But with the teams who came down last year, added to this MK Dons, we could be set for a wide open year.
Still things seem very quiet in the basement division. On a brighter note, my team Grimsby started with a win against a local non-league side Brigg Town. 3-1, with virtually the whole squad getting half a game.
I as well as surporting Manchester United surport Darlington as i have lived there my whole life and i think that grimsby will make the playoffs as well as darlo. Did you know the real reason darlo hate hartelepool?
Interesting developments today, with MK Dons selling McLeod for £1.1M. I saw him as a real threat. With him gone, the race for the title is very open. I can see all the four recently relegated teams, plus Lincoln, Darlington, Peterborough and Grimsby all fighting near the top. I wouldn't be suprised to see D+R up there to. Can't wait for Saturday now.
THe best first game of the season i have ever seen (in league two) .FIrst we score a good header. Then goale gets sent off witch i thought was a penlty for them but no free kick then Joacham scores a brilliant goal to seal it and we only had 10 men
Well, after the first round of matches in the new season. Perhaps the biggest shock of the weekend was at Lincoln. With Shrewsbury visiting, 0-4. With Lincoln among the pre-season favourites, even the BBC had them down as champions. MK Dons managed to get reduced to 10 men and went on to lose 1-2. For them the other disappointment, must have been the crowd. Only 7740, in the new 30,000 stadium. So far, both Peterborough and Darlington look the business of the pre-tipped teams. Grimsby, played out a solid and very entertaining 1-1 draw with near neighbours Notts County. Both teams look more than capable of mounting some form of play-off type challenge. Perhaps both lack a couple of quality players to really challenge for automatic. Roll on Tuesday night, for the League cup first round matches. Grimsby verus Burnley.
The most interesting results this weekend were the turn around in Lincoln City, the continuing stuttering of MK Dons and the defeat of big spending Peterborough.
