Saturday 16 May 2015

MARINERS MEET ROVERS

I'm off to Wembley tomorrow to watch the Conference play off. This system of promotion has been in place since 1979-80. Lucky Barnet won this year's Premier division fairly comfortably and their reward is not to have the honour of playing at the National Stadium.
Instead, the two teams that came through the Conference play offs meet in North London tomorrow at 2pm. Bristol Rovers, relegated from the Football League last year after a 94 year stay, meet Grimsby Town, relegated from the FL in 2010.
Barnet came first with 92 points during their season whilst Rovers just came second with 91 points. Grimsby were 5 points short in third. The difference was the result of a number of draws earned by the Rovers, 16, compared to 11 by Grimsby although in fact Grimsby scored 74 goals, one more than Rovers and conceded 6 fewer.
The England “C” squad to play the ROI in June in Galway in a friendly, was announced recently and neither of these two Play Offs teams has a player on the list.

Grimsby is hoping to get 15,000 crowd to the stadium, aiming to help beat the Play Off record of over 42600, which was the result of the York City v Oxford United game in 2010.
Watch out for the Robin Reliant and the Mariner down Wembley Way.

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