The Fishy News Stories
| 30-Apr-2002 The Bell Tolls for ITV Digital ITV Digital are to switch off their pay-TV channels at 7am on Wednesday morning, and the firm is set for liquidation. | |
| 30-Apr-2002 New Moves On Contracts! Paul Groves wants Terry Cooke to stay and is about to offer him a deal and Groves also moves to retain Boulding and Ford. | |
| 29-Apr-2002 Contracts: Club Statement Grimsby Town club Chairman Peter Furneaux explains the current position regarding contract talks. | |
| 29-Apr-2002 Accolades For Daryl Clare! Daryl Clare returns to the football league with Boston United and is awarded the Golden Boot. How times change! | |
| 28-Apr-2002 Conoco Stadium Meeting The next stage in the planning process is on Tuesday when NELC meet to listen to local residents' objections to the ground. | |
| 28-Apr-2002 Bluebird Manager Feeling Chirpy! Former Town boss Lennie Lawrence wishes to thank GTFC for giving him the sack. Now he's leading Cardiff into the play-offs. | |
| 27-Apr-2002 Hull City Friendly Date Set Town have pencilled in their first pre-season friendly against neighbours Hull City on Friday July 26th. | |
| 27-Apr-2002 Boulding And Ford: Latest News On Contracts! The latest update on the contract saga of Boulding and Ford with Lennie Lawrence bowing out! | |
| 26-Apr-2002 Pair Turn Down Contracts Michael Boulding and Simon Ford have both turned down new contract offers from the club today. | |
| 26-Apr-2002 Boulding And Ford Offered New Contracts The club have announced that Boulding and Ford have been offered new contracts. The waiting game begins! | |
| 26-Apr-2002 Oster Prank Backfires John Oster is in the headlines again as a prank with an airpistol causes damage to a team mate. | |
| 26-Apr-2002 ITV Digital To Be Broken Up! Ailing TV company ITV Digital is to be broken down and sold in pieces said administrators today. | |
| 25-Apr-2002 The Ray Lucas Column: My Final Piece Ray Lucas signs off his column for the final time, explaining why he is no longer contributing to the Fishy. | |
| 25-Apr-2002 Buckley Leaves Imps Former Grimsby Town boss Alan Buckley has departed from Sincil Bank "on purely financial grounds". | |
| 25-Apr-2002 Danny Butterfield To Stay At BP? Danny Butterfield is a free agent in the Summer. Will he be staying at Blundell Park or not? | |
| 24-Apr-2002 Coyne Back To Tranmere! Town 'keeper Danny Coyne looks like returning to his old club Tranmere...but only for a day!! | |
| 24-Apr-2002 Contract Talks Have Begun! Town player-manager Paul Groves has started the serious business of contract negotiations now the season is over. | |
| 22-Apr-2002 Other Awards Winners Other awards and winners at the 2001-2002 awards evening at the Winter Gardens tonight. | |
| 22-Apr-2002 Coyne Wins Player of the Year! Town 'keeper Danny Coyne won The Player Of The Year award tonight, and the Fishy Reader's Award as well! | |
| 22-Apr-2002 Millwall Report Card Dr Fishy has compiled match statistics and a report card for the Grimsby Town side that lost to Millwall 3-1. | |
| 22-Apr-2002 21/04 Millwall 2nd Half Tony Butcher reports on Town's final game of the season where, for once, the Mariners were playing only for pride. | |
| 22-Apr-2002 It Doesn’t Matter Any More: Millwall Report Tony Butcher reports on Town's final game of the season where, for once, the Mariners were playing only for pride. | |
| 22-Apr-2002 Town Will Be Fighting To Keep Players! Grimsby Town now have a fight on their hands to keep players as big offers roll in from "bigger" clubs. | |
| 22-Apr-2002 Paul Groves - Looking Ahead! Paul Groves talks about the Millwall game and looks ahead to the summer and next season in Division One. | |
| 22-Apr-2002 Millwall 3 Grimsby Town 1 Grimsby Town lost 3-1 at the New Den meaning Millwall reached the play-offs with points to spare, and Town stayed up!. | |
| 20-Apr-2002 Injury List 20/4 Peter Forrester brings you all the injury news ahead of Sunday's game with Millwall at The New Den. | |
| 20-Apr-2002 Reserves Bow Out Martin Copass looks back on a mixed season for Town's reserves, and looks ahead to next year's second string fixtures. | |
| 20-Apr-2002 Millwall Preview For once Town have nothing to play for against Milwall other than to gate crash the party at the New Den! | |
| 19-Apr-2002 The Play-Off Race Richard Lord looks at which teams are likely to finish in the play-offs on a nervous last day of the season. | |
| 19-Apr-2002 New Move In TV Crisis Granada's Executives have met with League chairman Keith Harris and Chief Executive David Burns. | |
| 19-Apr-2002 Donovan's Hard Luck! Kevin Donovan talks of his despair at being relegated after leaving Grimsby to avoid precisely that fate. | |
| 19-Apr-2002 Players Want To Stay Bradley Allen and other players say they want to stay at Blundell Park, despite their contracts being up in the summer. | |
| 19-Apr-2002 Three Doubtful For Millwall Clash Manager Paul Groves has a trio of Town players injured to think about during his preparation for the game at Millwall. | |
| 18-Apr-2002 League Chairmen Say We Will Fight For TV Money! League chairmen met today and will continue action against Granada and Carlton if they do not come to table. | |
| 18-Apr-2002 3 Year Contracts For Groves's Team! Paul Groves and his management team are to be offered new three year contracts by the club. | |
| 17-Apr-2002 Graham Rodger Talks About His Future! Town No. 2 Graham Rodger says his position has not yet been decided but wants to stay at Blundell Park. | |
| 16-Apr-2002 Race To Sign Boulding! Peter Furneaux says an offer will be made to Boulding but he cannot guarantee that he will accept. | |
| 16-Apr-2002 Danny Coyne Says We Must Keep Our Stars! Danny Coyne says club should move quickly to sign players who are out of contract. | |
| 15-Apr-2002 Coyne Misses Out (Again!) Town 'keeper Danny Coyne has failed to get deserved recognition once more in the the First Division team of the season. | |
| 15-Apr-2002 Crucial Contract Talks Begin! Grimsby Town are to begin the talks with manager Paul Groves and key players re. new contracts. | |
| 15-Apr-2002 Groves Praises His Team Paul Groves praised his full team today after their great victory on Saturday against Burnley. | |
| 14-Apr-2002 Football League Nears Compromise A compromise agreement over the money owed to the League by Carlton and Granada could be reached this week. | |
| 14-Apr-2002 13/04 Burnley 2nd Half Tony Butcher reports on the final act of The Great Escape, when Town secured their 1st Division status for another year. | |
| 14-Apr-2002 The Future Is Now: Burnley Report Tony Butcher reports on the final act of The Great Escape, when Town secured their 1st Division status for another year. | |
| 14-Apr-2002 Burnley Report Card Dr Fishy has compiled match statistics and a report card for the Grimsby Town side that beat Burnley 3-1. | |
| 13-Apr-2002 It Went To Plan! David Nielsen got the first goal in Norwich's 2-0 win over Barnsley, which sent the Yorkshire side down to Division Two. | |
| 13-Apr-2002 JOB DONE! Bradley Allen and Michael Boulding destroyed Burnley and helped Grimsby to survive in Division One for another season! | |
| 12-Apr-2002 Injury List 12/4 Peter Forrester brings you all the injury news ahead of this weekend's big clash with Burnley at Blundell Park. | |
| 12-Apr-2002 The Football League Reject Increased Offer! The Football league have rejected what is described as a derisory offer from ITV Digital. | |
| 12-Apr-2002 Club's Official Statement Grimsby Town announced that the new ground would be known as The Conoco Stadium at a press conference this afternoon. | |
| 12-Apr-2002 Stadium Sponsor Named! Grimsby Town's major sponsor of the new stadium has been revealed by Radio Humberside as Conoco. | |
| 12-Apr-2002 Paul Groves Says he has Six Strikers! Paul Groves says he is spoiled for choice with all his front men fit for Saturday's crunch clash with Burnley. | |
| 12-Apr-2002 GTFC Press Conference To Announce Stadium Sponsor Grimsby Town Football Club will announce the new stadium sponsor later today at a press conference. | |
| 12-Apr-2002 Norwegian Club Lillestrøm Target Robinson! Norwegian Club Lillestrøm may make a move to sign Paul Robinson who is presently on loan with Grimsby Town. | |
| 11-Apr-2002 Burnley Preview Arguably the biggest game of the season when three points would almost certainly see Town avoid relegation. | |
| 11-Apr-2002 Chapman For Recall? Left-sided defender Ben Chapman looks like getting a recall to first team with Galli suspended. | |
| 10-Apr-2002 Titanic's Crewe Crewe's alarming slump in form continued against Birmingham and their desperate run has landed them in the relegation zone. | |
| 09-Apr-2002 Help Each Other! Former Grimsby striker David Nielsen has declared he will help Town survive by beating Barnsley if the Mariners beat Burnley! | |
| 09-Apr-2002 New Kit Unveiled Grimsby Town have revealed their new kit design for next season, which is once again sponsored by Dixon Motors. | |
| 09-Apr-2002 Scotland To Call Up Stuart Campbell! Scotland manager Berti Vogt is looking to call up Stuart Campbell of Grimsby Town for International duty. | |
| 09-Apr-2002 West Ham Reported To Be Watching Boulding! Reports today say that a premier club are watching Michael Boulding, Grimsby Town's leading striker.. | |
| 08-Apr-2002 Welcome Back Livvo! Who said what? Livvo talks about his return at Norwich and Paul Groves adds his comments on the game. | |
| 08-Apr-2002 We Should Have Won! Terry Cooke scored the equaliser but said we should have won against Norwich on Saturday. | |
| 08-Apr-2002 Norwich Report Card Dr Fishy has compiled match statistics and a report card for the Grimsby Town side that drew 1-1 with Norwich. | |
| 07-Apr-2002 06/04 Norwich 2nd Half Tony Butcher reports on Town's latest adventure: coming back from a goal behind at Norwich to rescue a point. | |
| 07-Apr-2002 Money Can’t Buy Me Livvo: Norwich Report Tony Butcher reports on Town's latest adventure: coming back from a goal behind at Norwich to rescue a point. | |
| 07-Apr-2002 Reserves Pipped At The Post For Promotion Paul Wilkinson has declared that his Reserves side have all but failed in their bid to win promotion. | |
| 06-Apr-2002 Terry Cooke's Up The Magic Debutant Terry Cooke scored an 84th minute equaliser for Grimsby at Norwich to earn them a point. | |
| 05-Apr-2002 Injury List 05/04 Peter Forrester brings you all the injury news ahead of this weekend's big clash with Norwich at Carrow Road. | |
| 05-Apr-2002 Livvo Wants To Play! Injured front man Steve Livingstone is nearing match fitness but knows he's down the pecking order at Blundell Park. | |
| 05-Apr-2002 Manager Reveals New Faces Could Start At Norwich Manager Paul Groves will have to change his starting line-up against Norwich as three players are doubtful | |
| 05-Apr-2002 Norwich Preview Town go into the first of the final trio of games against three of the Division's top sides needing several more points. | |
| 04-Apr-2002 Robert Taylor Returns To Mariners! Fomer Wolves striker Robert Taylor is reported to have rejoined the Mariners in a non-contract deal. | |
| 04-Apr-2002 Grimsby Town's Big Night! Grimsby Town's Player Awards Night is on April 22nd. Your Vote for player of the year is important. | |
| 03-Apr-2002 Statement From League The Football League have issued a statement regarding ITV Digital following the collapse of the TV company. | |
| 03-Apr-2002 Livvo Back In Action! Steve Livingstone makes his long-awaited return to action with a reserve game against Darlington. | |
| 03-Apr-2002 Robinson Pleased With Mariners Deal! Paul Robinson speaks about the past, present and future - and how he nearly never made it on deadline day! | |
| 02-Apr-2002 Sheff Wed Report Card Dr Fishy has compiled match statistics and a report card for the Grimsby Town side that drew 0-0 with Sheff Wed. | |
| 02-Apr-2002 Fear Is The Key - 2nd Half Tony Butcher's second half report Grimsby Vs Wimbledon. | |
| 02-Apr-2002 Fear Is The Key! Tony Butcher reports on the Grimsby vs Sheffield Wednesday game which ended in a 0-0 draw. | |
| 02-Apr-2002 Post Match Comments! Both managers said it was a tough game against Wednesday and particular mention was made of Broomes' performance. | |
| 01-Apr-2002 Stalemate Between Mariners And Wednesday Grimsby Town drew 0-0 with Sheffield Wednesday at Blundell Park. Allen had Town's two best chances of the match | |
| 01-Apr-2002 Great Coates to be "Hooligans' Wembley"? The Fishy has obtained a confidential FA report that suggests Town's new stadium will stage some England matches. | |
| 01-Apr-2002 Grimsby to play in Scandinavian League Sources in the Swedish media indicate that Grimsby Town are to be invited to enter a new Scandinavian League. | |
| 01-Apr-2002 Oh My Lord! Former Alloa Athletic apprentice and journalism student Richard Lord has signed a two year contract with Grimsby Town. |
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