Grimsby Town 1-2 Blackburn Rovers

Familiar Face: Croft made first Grimsby apperance since leaving for Ewood Park.

The Mariners put on another good show this evening against Premiership side Blackburn Rovers. The boys went down 2-1, but looked just as good as they did on sunday. Mariners hero and current trialist Gary Croft, playing in his first game since leaving Town for Blackburn in 1996, supplied a decent cross for lanky centre back Rob Jones to score on 20 minutes after Blackburn failed to clear a corner.

5 minutes later Dominic Matteo headed in past Mildenhall to equalise, and on 29 minutes Jean-Paul Kamudimba was replaced by Terry Barwick after picking up a knock. Michael Reddy had a few chances to score, but Blackburn held there defence tight.

Rovers took the lead early on in the second half, Paul Dickov's pass falling place to a Matt Jansen strike that beat Mildenhall to put Blackburn 2-1 up. Town attacked once more but could not pull the game back.

Overall a decent pre-season. 2 wins, 2 draws and 2 loses.

GRIMSBY TOWN LINE UP
1:Steve Mildenhall
2:John McDermott
00:Gary Croft
4:Simon Ramsden
5:Tony Crane
12:Rob Jones
7:Jean-Paul Kamudimba
8:Paul Bolland
11:Andy Parkinson
9:Michael Reddy
10:Martin Gritton

SUBS
13:John Lukic
6:Justin Whittle
14:Terry Barwick
15:Gary Cohen
16:Jermaine Palmer
17:Glen Downey
18:Ciaran Toner
19:Gary Jones
00:Alan Lamb
00:Nick Heggarty
00:Paul Ashton
00:Paul Wilkinson