200 teams

St Albans are the 197th different team Grimsby have played, Who will be the 200th? It will probably be this season.

You can find a complete record of all the games we have ever played here:

http://www.thefishy.co.uk/resultsdb.php

Here's the 197. When a team has changed it name it doesn't count as a new team,

AFC Wimbledon
Accrington S
Aldershot
Alfreton
Altrincham
Arsenal
Ashington
Aston Villa
Attercliffe
Barnet
Barnsley
Barrow
Bath C
Birmingham
Blackburn
Blackpool
Blyth Sptns
Bolton
Bootle
Boreham Wood
Boston
Boston Town
Bournemouth
Bradford
Bradford Park Ave.
Braintree
Brentford
Brighton
Bristol C
Bristol R
Bromley
Burnley
Burton Albion
Burton United
Burton Wanderers
Bury
Buxton
C Palace
Cambridge U
Cardiff
Carlisle
Charlton
Chasetown
Chelsea
Cheltenham
Chester
Chesterfield
Cleethorpes
Cleethorpes Town
Coalville
Colchester
Coventry
Crawley Town
Crewe
Croydon Common
Dagenham
Darlington
Dartford
Darwen
Derby
Doncaster
Dover
Droylesden
Durham City
Eastbourne
Eastleigh
Ebbsfleet
Ecclesfield
Everton
Exeter
Fleetwood
Forest Green
Fulham
Gainsborough
Gateshead
Gateshead Utd
Gillingham
Glossop
Grantham Rovers
Grantham Town
Guiseley
Halifax
Harrogate
Hartlepool
Havant and Waterlooville
Hayes & Yeading
Heeley
Hereford
Hinkley
Histon
Hornchurch
Huddersfield
Hull City
Hull Town
Hyde
Ipswich
Kettering
Kidderminster
Kilnhurst
Leeds
Leeds City
Leicester
Leyton Orient
Lincoln
Liverpool
Long Eaton Rangers
Loughborough
Luton
MK Dons
Macclesfield
Maidenhead
Maidstone United
Man City
Man Utd
Mansfield
Merthyr Town
Mexborough
Middlesbro
Middlsbro Irnoplis
Millwall
Morecambe
Nelson
Netherfield
New Brighton
New Brighton Tower
Newark
Newcastle
Newcastle W E
Newport County
Northampton
Northwich
Norwich
Nottm Forest
Notts Co
Nuneaton
Old Carthusians
Old Foresters
Oldham
Oxford
Peterborough
Phoenix Bessemer
Plymouth
Port Vale
Portsmouth
Preston
QPR
Reading
Redcar
Redditch
Rhyl
Rochdale
Rotherham
Rotherham Town
Runcorn
Rushall Olympic
Rushden
Salisbury
Scarborough
Scunthorpe
Sheff Utd
Sheff Wed
Shrewsbury
Southampton
Southend
Southport
St Albans
Stalybridge
Staveley
Stockport
Stockton
Stoke
Sunderland
Sunderland Albion
Swansea
Swindon
Tamworth
Telford
Torquay
Tottenham
Tranmere
Tufnell Park
Walsall
Watford
Welling
West Brom
West Ham
Wigan
Wigan Borough
Witton Albion
Woking
Wolves
Workington
Worksop Town
Wrexham
Wycombe
Yeovil
York

Phoenix Bessemer intrigued me enough to look them up. Entered the FA Cup in 1882/3 is all the info Wiki had on them.

Was a steelworks in us Rotherham apparenty.

That's a cool little database rob. Can't believe we haven't played Manchester United for nearly 70 years and only played them once ever in the fa cup. That's unlucky!

Grimsby Town 5 Cleethorpes 0 in the FA Cup in 1885-1886 must have been a cracker. Bet there were celebrations long into the night  

Metropolitan police will be 200th team. I hope so, I cAn then bring them to task about this new craze "dry trains"

Doubt it will be this season Rob, we won't be playing anyone new in the league so it has to be in trophy or FA cup. Who are the most glamorous team we could draw in the 3rd round of the FA Cup to make it 200 i.e. the team highest up the pyramid we haven't yet played.

Quoted from ginnywings

Phoenix Bessemer intrigued me enough to look them up. Entered the FA Cup in 1882/3 is all the info Wiki had on them.

Was a steelworks in us Rotherham apparenty.

I see what you did there ginny  

Quoted from thevera

Doubt it will be this season Rob, we won't be playing anyone new in the league so it has to be in trophy or FA cup. Who are the most glamorous team we could draw in the 3rd round of the FA Cup to make it 200 i.e. the team highest up the pyramid we haven't yet played.

I suspect it would be glamorous Stevenage.

Salford in the next round of the cup?

Quoted from mike502

I suspect it would be glamorous Stevenage.

Suits me 15 mins from my house and looking at them if we went for it we would beat them, though I was surprised they beat Gillingham yesterday.

If not on the pitch our away support would overwhelm them.

Quoted from mike502

I suspect it would be glamorous Stevenage.

They'd be new, we've never played them before. The team that replaced us!

Amazing really that we've never played Stevenage over the years.

What about the Italian sides we played in the Anglo Italian Cup,

Plus other continental teams we have played in friendlies,

Do you have a list for them as well Rob ?

Is Japan the only country we've ever played?!

Quoted from grimsby pete

What about the Italian sides we played in the Anglo Italian Cup,

We never made it to the stage where we would have faced the Italian teams (unless my memory fails me).

Quoted from pizzzza

We never made it to the stage where we would have faced the Italian teams (unless my memory fails me).

Well you would know being Italian like..

Quoted from Teesknees

Is Japan the only country we've ever played?!

We drew 1 -1 against Czechoslavakia in 1958. Town's first ever live TV appearance.

Possibly someone in the trophy

Quoted from pizzzza

We never made it to the stage where we would have faced the Italian teams (unless my memory fails me).

Correct, there's a list of the games we played in the Anglo-Italian cup and there are also pages other minor trophies like that such as the Anglo-Scottish cup that we took part in.

http://thefishy.co.uk/story.php?id=8393280

Quoted from wigworld

We drew 1 -1 against Czechoslavakia in 1958. Town's first ever live TV appearance.

Now that would be worth seeing...along with "Cholmondley-Warner" style commentary no doubt!  

Quoted from GrimRob

Correct, there's a list of the games we played in the Anglo-Italian cup and there are also pages other minor trophies like that such as the Anglo-Scottish cup that we took part in.

http://thefishy.co.uk/story.php?id=8393280

That brought back a bad memory of going to Filbert Street...we were dire and a 4-0 defeat flattered us. Arrivederci Roma that night for sure!

Bobby Davison got a hat-trick for them if I remember correctly and at the time I remember thinking I'd never seen such a heavily tattooed player. How times change eh!

I could not remember if we played any Italian sides just knew we were in the competition,

BUT

I do remember us playing Brondby in a friendly,

We drew 2-2 I did not realise how big a club they were at the time.

Quoted from grimsby pete

I could not remember if we played any Italian sides just knew we were in the competition,

BUT

I do remember us playing Brondby in a friendly,

We drew 2-2 I did not realise how big a club they were at the time.

Peter Schmeichel was in goal for Brondby that day IIRC.

Quoted from Les Brechin

Peter Schmeichel was in goal for Brondby that day IIRC.

I thought their keeper was a big un.  

Who fills in the database and how plastered did they get after we beat Halifax 7-0 at home for them to put a 0-7 away defeat in there?

Bloody hell, I've seen us against over 100 teams now! Scary excrement

Quoted from Theimperialcoroner

Bloody hell, I've seen us against over 100 teams now! Scary excrement

Up to 97 on the database but well over 100 if you include the Ibiza cup and the trips to Denmark and Sweden. Not bad as I only average a dozen games a year

Just a quick count but reckon I've seen us against 143 of those, plus a few pre-season friendlies like the Brondby game and I think we played Dundee at home one pre-season too.

I have seen us play 112 of those teams,

Not bad seeing as I have lived in Suffolk for over 28 years.

131 I think

Include friendlies, "A" team, Lincs League etc and you'll probably double that lot.

Over 100 I think - the joys of being a team who have slid down the football pyramid.  It feels like we've played about 50 in the Conference years.

There will be a few of our younger fans who have never seen us play in the league,

Don't worry , we will be back.

I reckon I have seen about 130 of them at home and about 60 of the away.
Shows how old I am  

Somewhere between 130 and 140. There's a few i think i've seen but not 100% sure. Memory banks fading with age.

Quoted from cod_head_doug

I reckon I have seen about 130 of them at home and about 60 of the away.
Shows how old I am  

I have only seen us play at 30 of those away grounds,

BUT

I have been to some of them many times,

I am a creature of habit , I think,

OR

I just like to travel to the ones that it does not take too much time to get to,

Even more so since I have been living down here,

That has made it easy to get to the wonders of Ebbsfleet, Boreham Wood, Histon Kettering ect,

I would like to return to the likes of Cambridge Ipswich and Norwich before I pop my clogs though.

Counting them properly it's 131 and I'm not sure if I've seen us play Cardiff and one or two others. I need to wake up to myself.

Quoted from Theimperialcoroner

Counting them properly it's 131 and I'm not sure if I've seen us play Cardiff and one or two others. I need to wake up to myself.

Same here. Cardiff was one of the ones i was unsure about.

Quoted from ginnywings

Same here. Cardiff was one of the ones i was unsure about.

Last time I saw us play Cardiff we won 6-3!!

One of the very few places I haven't been to for an away game. (Apart from the Millenium Stadium that is)

Quoted from Les Brechin

Last time I saw us play Cardiff we won 6-3!!

One of the very few places I haven't been to for an away game. (Apart from the Millenium Stadium that is)

I've not been to an away game there either. When did we beat them 6-3?

Quoted from ginnywings

I've not been to an away game there either. When did we beat them 6-3?

The last time we played them 84/85 I think.

Quoted from Les Brechin

The last time we played them 84/85 I think.

Would almost definitely have been there for that then. Thanks.

I can remember one time when we played Swansea and  losing 4-0 at half time,

Then we scored 3 in the 2nd half but could not get an equaliser,

I was in the Ponny and all 7 goals were scored at that end.

Cardiff away was an interesting experience.never seen an away end populated by more home fans than away supporters!

87 for me I think. Some of you have got a bloody good memory!

Quoted from Vance Warner

87 for me I think. Some of you have got a bloody good memory!

I have got a very good memory from years ago,

Now ask me what I did yesterday that is another question.

Quoted from grimsby pete

I have got a very good memory from years ago,

Now ask me what I did yesterday that is another question.

What did you do yesterday?

Quoted from pizzzza

What did you do yesterday?

What day was yesterday ?

Solihull Moors are going to be team 198!

Quoted from wigworld

We drew 1 -1 against Czechoslavakia in 1958. Town's first ever live TV appearance.

That draw looks even better now as they're 2 countries these days

Bognor will be the 200th team we have played. This year we have played for the first time:

Bromley
Boreham Wood
Harrogate
St Albans
Solihull Moors
Weston Super Mare

Somewhere between 180-190

#genuinefan

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I have seen a fair few of them over the years,

130-150 my memory is not as good as it was.

Quoted from wigworld

We drew 1 -1 against Czechoslavakia in 1958. Town's first ever live TV appearance.

I can just imagine the commentator saying Grimsby are the team playing in black and white.  

132  Looking at some of the teams we played brings to mind more vividly were we are now.  

Quoted from Les Brechin

Just a quick count but reckon I've seen us against 143 of those, plus a few pre-season friendlies like the Brondby game and I think we played Dundee at home one pre-season too.

Queen of the South and Kilmarnock spring to mind as well

Quoted from GrimRob

Correct, there's a list of the games we played in the Anglo-Italian cup and there are also pages other minor trophies like that such as the Anglo-Scottish cup that we took part in.

http://thefishy.co.uk/story.php?id=8393280

I think we actually had the choice of whether to go to Italy if we "qualified" and I'm pretty sure we'd decided we wouldn't be going.

138 of those instantly recognisable as having seen, maybe 3 or 4 more if i rack my brains hard enough.

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