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Hilarious if this is true. Taken from FGR forum: http://forum.fgrfc.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=50281&start=80Re: Play Off Tickets Postby T50 BOS » Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:29 am Collected a couple of East Stand tickets this morning having paid for them on-line yesterday morning. Saw a chap trying to buy tickets and being quizzed by our ticket office staff. At first he seemed very plausible "oh I come very match and pay cash so no history on the booking site". Anyway after a couple of other questions that he stumbled with he was asked to name some FGR players. "Simples" you would think - after all he watches FGR every home game??!! Anyway having just about named Parkin he couldn't name another single player. Result no tickets !. 1-0 to the FGR ticket office and quite right too !!
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Fancy a football fan wanting to watch his team
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Hilarious if this is true. Taken from FGR forum: http://forum.fgrfc.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=50281&start=80Re: Play Off Tickets Postby T50 BOS » Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:29 am Collected a couple of East Stand tickets this morning having paid for them on-line yesterday morning. Saw a chap trying to buy tickets and being quizzed by our ticket office staff. At first he seemed very plausible "oh I come very match and pay cash so no history on the booking site". Anyway after a couple of other questions that he stumbled with he was asked to name some FGR players. "Simples" you would think - after all he watches FGR every home game??!! Anyway having just about named Parkin he couldn't name another single player. Result no tickets !. 1-0 to the FGR ticket office and quite right too !!
To be honest though, when there's a big(ish) gate with us, you hear the odd cry of "you're rubbish nr 2" or "what are you playing at nr 6" - must be hundreds out there who don't know player names and whilst we could probably reel off a few FGR players ourselves other than Parkin, not all of their fans might be in the same boat
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The Prime Minister can't name his club ,never mind players.
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The Prime Minister can't name his club ,never mind players.
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From The Times, 11th April 2000:
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THERE is no friend to ask, no 50-50 chance and certainly no studio audience to assist as you sweat on the telephone, just three questions away from the ultimate prize - a ticket to see Grimsby Town at home.
In Grimsby's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? - "Who Wants To Be A Mariner?" - the Chris Tarrant soundalike at the end of the line asks: "What is the name of the club mascot?" You answer: "Harry the Haddock." The would-be Tarrant replies: "I'm sorry, you won't be going to Blundell Park. The answer I was looking for was Mighty Mariner."
Sadly for Town, it is not so much demand from their own fans that has prompted the Tarrant-style inquisition, but the extremes to which Manchester City supporters are going in order to see their promotion- chasing side. City's 2,200 allocation for the Nationwide League first division encounter away to Grimsby on Saturday sold out in three hours.
That left 7,500 sales to home supporters, but asking them for ticket stubs from previous matches, or proof of residency in Grimsby, failed to deter City's 10,000-strong travelling "blue army".
Steve Wraith, the Grimsby accounts manager, said: "We had Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all with supposed Grimberian qualification, all after tickets. To weed out the Manchester City people, one of the staff started asking callers to name our assistant manager (John Cockerill). When they couldn't, they'd get all flustered and angry. We then compiled a list of 30 questions, which genuine Grimsby followers should be able to answer. Get three out of three correct and you get a ticket for the game." More than 400 callers, most posing as Town fans, have stumbled over questions, such as what town is Blundell Park in (Cleethorpes), the food outlet outside (McDonald's) and two squad players with the same surname (David and Richard Smith). Several guessed right the stand with the players' tunnel (Main stand), only to trip up on where Grimsby's new stadium is to be built (Great Coates).
Security is the key concern, with tickets in home areas of the ground reportedly selling on the black market for £50 and Grimsby supporters being offered large sums. "We'd rather have the odd empty seat than the small percentage of visiting supporters who might be out to cause trouble, as happened when some City fans got into home areas at Huddersfield," Wraith said.
While supporters of City, who are second in the division, continue to bombard the Grimsby websites and bone up on trivia, they should be aware that the questions above are now outdated. Wraith yesterday devised another 30, some even more devious. Like Tarrant's millionaire, the jackpot of a Grimsby ticket is proving just as elusive.
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From Man City to Forest Green via Great Coates. Pretty much sums up the last 15/20 years that.
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From Man City to Forest Green via Great Coates. Pretty much sums up the last 15/20 years that.
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I remember those questions when trying to book tickets for the City game by phone. I was surprised that Town came up with such a good idea.
I got my tickets but did fail on 1 question. It was the name of some obscure youth or reserve training ground that was not well known, unless you lived in the Grimsby area.
Passed the other questions though!
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Strange that we did not want any City fans in the home stands. When West Ham came in 1981 they were in with home fans. No trouble (although they did win 5-1).
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Several guessed right the stand with the players' tunnel (Main stand), only to trip up on where Grimsby's new stadium is to be built (Great Coates).
Not very fair throwing in a trick question...suprised anybody got into the game with that one !!
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Must be Brizzle fans apparently lots of them are trying to get in the home end.
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