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		P	GD	Pts
1	Stockport	45	+49	92
2	Mansfield	45	+43	85
3	Wrexham	45	+36	85

4	MK Dons	45	+15	77
5	Crewe	45	+4	70
6	Doncaster	45	+3	70
7	Barrow	45	+7	69

8	Crawley Town	45	+4	67
9	Walsall	45	0	65
10	Bradford	45	-2	64
11	Gillingham	45	-11	63
12	AFC Wimbledon	45	+9	62
13	Harrogate Town	45	-9	62
14	Notts County	45	+4	61
15	Tranmere	45	0	57
16	Morecambe	45	-14	57
17	Newport County	45	-11	55
18	Accrington Stanley	45	-11	54
19	Swindon	45	-6	53
20	Salford	45	-16	50
21	Grimsby	45	-15	49
22	Colchester	45	-19	44

23	Sutton Utd	45	-25	41
24	Forest Green	45	-35	39

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Decision Time

Lincoln v Grimsby Preview

By: Rob Sedgwick
Date: 29/08/2008

THE Mariners travel to fellow strugglers Lincoln City with both teams looking for their first league win, and Grimsby looking for their first league goal!

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The Opposition

Overview

Lincoln started the 2007/2008 campaign poorly, managing just two wins before a winless streak that lasted from August 25 to November 24th. During this winless streak the Managerial team of John Schofield and John Deehan were sacked, and replaced with former Huddersfield Town manager Peter Jackson. Jackson turned things around and City were one of the form teams of the second half of 2007-2008.

This season the losing start had been repeated, with City yet to pick up anything in any of their four games to date. In fact when the two teams met at the same time last year both were in similar positions to where they are now.

The Team

City have a small squad, but most of the players available to Peter Jackson look more than capable of doing well at this level. Jackson rung in the changes during the summer and now in midfield City have got Stefan Oakes (left), Scott Kerr, Lee Frecklington, Shane Clarke and Martin Pembleton all competing for two places.

New keeper Rob Burch was sought after by others, including City, while Frank Sinclair could prove a clever buy if he still has the legs.

One to Watch

Frank Sinclair. Former Chelsea defender and Jamaican international, Sinclair has chosen to spend his twilight years at Sincil Bank. Since leaving Stamford Bridge a decade ago, Sinclair now 36, has played for Leicester and Huddersfield.

Recent Form

Town

Lincoln

L	Blackburn	(a)	1-4
L	Chesterfield	(h)	0-1
L	Brentford	(a)	0-4
W	Tranmere	(h)	2-0
D	Rochdale	(h)	0-0

Currently 17th in League Two.

L	Wycombe	(a)	0-1
L	Dagenham	(h)	1-3
L	Derby	(a)	1-3
L	Rotherham	(a)	0-1

Currently 18th in League Two.

Team News (by Ryan Robinson)

Town

Lincoln

Midfielder Robbie Stockdale and defender Richard Hope (ankle) are out. Stockdale had hoped to be fit in time for the game, but recovery from his injury has taken a setback,

Town's attempted loan move for Manchester City full-back Javan Vidal has been put on hold after the 19-year-old apparently had second thoughts on a one month deal at Blundell Park.

Town either have to play Jamie Clarke or Ryan Bennett at right back, on continue with a three man defence that they employed at Blackburn.

Lincoln City have completed the signing of striker Adrian Patulea from Romanian club Petrolul Ploesti.

Squads

Town

Lincoln

1	GK	Phil Barnes
2	DF	Robbie Stockdale
3	DF	Tom Newey
4	DF	Ryan Bennett
5	DF	Matthew Heywood (c)
6	DF	Richard Hope
7	MF	Peter Till
8	MF	Paul Bolland
9	FW	Martin Butler
10	MF	Chris Llewellyn
11	MF	Danny Boshell
12	DF	Jamie Clarke
13	GK	Gary Montgomery
14	MF	James Hunt
15	DF	Matthew Bird
17	MF	Nick Hegarty
18	MF	Peter Bore
19	FW	Danny North
20	FW	Andy Taylor
21	MF	Simon Heslop
22	FW	Nathan Jarman
23	MF	Grant Normington
24	GK	Leigh Overton

1	GK	Robert Burch
2	DF	Paul Green
3	MF	Aaron Brown
4	DF	János Kovács
5	DF	Lee Beevers
6	DF	Frank Sinclair
7	MF	Stefan Oakes
8	MF	Lee Frecklington
9	FW	Kevin Gall (on loan from Carlisle United)
11	MF	Scott Kerr (captain)
12	MF	Dany N'Guessan
13	GK	Ayden Duffy
14	FW	Lenell John-Lewis
15	FW	Ben Wright
16	DF	Daniel Hone
17	FW	David Graham
18	MF	Martin Pembleton
19	MF	Shane Clarke
21	MF	Gary King
22	FW	Sam Mullarkey
23	FW	Adrian Patulea

Head to Head

Lincoln are probably Town's oldest adversary and the two have met in competitive matches over 100 times. Grimsby have the edge overall, although Lincoln just shade it at Sincil Bank.

P 104 W 47 D 27 L30 F194 A 147

Lincoln Head-to-Head (15th on The Opposition Ladder)

Last Meeting

Grimsby 1 Lincoln 0 (Sat 29th Dec 2007)

A late goal by Gary Jones ensured that Town did the double over the Imps last season.

Report

Prediction

Lincoln 0 Grimsby 0

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