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Player Minutes
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| Evan Khouri | 1,779 |
| Cameron McJannet | 1,756 |
| Harvey Rodgers | 1,695 |
| George McEachran | 1,551 |
| Denver Hume | 1,383 |
| Danny Rose | 1,286 |
| Luca Barrington | 1,162 |
| Tyrell Warren | 1,130 |
| Kieran Green | 1,111 |
| Jason Dadi Svanporsson | 1,079 |
| Lewis Cass | 1,019 |
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| Sincil Bank |
Preview: Lincoln v Grimsby
By: Kevin Dolan
Date: 14/12/2006
AFTER three consecutive wins for the first time in nearly a year, a confident Grimsby Town make the short trip to take on out of form Lincoln City.
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After four consecutive play off-failures, Keith Alexander parted company with Lincoln by mutual consent in the summer, although his departure had been ominous since he was temporarily placed on leave mid way through last season. Alexander was subsequently appointed manager of Peterborough whilst The Imps promoted John Schofield from youth coach to head coach and installed John Deehan as Director of Football.
One time Lincoln midfielder Schofield is now reaping the benefits of his work with the club’s youth team and has made a bright start to his first season as a manager, gaining 20 points from the first 24 available, and maintaining a top 4 position throughout the season so far.
Lincoln currently lie in 4th place in League 2, one point from the automatic places; but after a strong start to the season, The Imps have begun to wobble in recent weeks. Four wins out of four in October put them on top of League 2, but since then things have started going wrong and they have lost five of their last six games, including exiting the FA Cup. Despite being the division’s top scorers, their weakness clearly lies in defence and they come into the game after a surprise 4-1 defeat at Chester. Their home form has been patchy and they have amassed the same points at home as Town, albeit from playing one game less.
Lincoln have two of the leading scorers in League Two with Jamie Forrester and Mark Stallard (left) on 13 and 7 goals respectively, and are comfortably the highest scoring side in the division. Ex-Mariner Martin Gritton has struggled to break up the Forrester-Stallard partnership and has mainly been used as a substitute, scoring two goals so far this season. Highly rated young midfielder Lee Frecklington, who has chipped in with six goals, defender Lee Beevers, goalkeeper Alan Marriott and Stallard have all started every league game this season; whilst like Town, The Imps also have three players in on loan and are likely to start with Nicky Eaden (Notts Forest), Shane Nicholson (Chesterfield) and Mathew Birley (Birmingham).
Ex-Mariner Jamie Forrester is League Two’s top scorer with 13 goals, although he has only scored in 6 games this season, recording hat-tricks against Barnet and Rochdale and one four-goal haul at Mansfield earlier in the season. The corresponding fixture last season witnessed Forrester’s first ever goal against The Mariners.
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Despite the upper hand against The Imps over the years, Town have to go back to September 1957 for their last league win (excluding play-offs)at Sincil Bank, a run leading up to last season’s 5-0 hammering. P 100 W 45 D 26 L 29 F 191 A 44 Lincoln Head-to-Head (16th on The Opposition Ladder)
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The last time Town made the trip to Sincil Bank was in October for the JP Trophy 1st Round when Town emerged victorious via a penalty shoot-out.
Lincoln Team: Marriott (Rayner, 26), Cryan, Beevers, Brown, Mayo, Amoo, Frecklington, Kerr, Gritton, Ryan (Stallard, 68), Mettam (Forrester, 68)
Grimsby Team: Barnes, McDermott (Croft, 59), Fenton, Whittle, Newey, Toner, Ravenhill, Boshell, Bore (Thorpe, 74), Jones, Hegarty Attendance: 2,019Â Â Report
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