Promotion? Don’t mention it.

Yes I know, no one got promoted by winning the League Cup and Lincoln City aren’t going to win the League Cup although on this form they’re going to take some stopping.

I was reminded of that episode of Blackadder when Danny Cowley took to the microphone after City’s demolition of Port Vale. It was the one where the actors in, you know, that Scottish play, had to go through an elaborate routine if the name of the play was uttered. So keen was the manager not to get anyone overexcited he rather overdid the stern schoolmaster, we haven’t won anything yet lecture.

It’s difficult not to be enthused though after the start Lincoln City have had with an away then home win and now a cup progression fashioned with a team consisting of many players who have not featured much to date. Well Cowley will have had plenty to think about on the journey home as the understudies threatened to upstage the leading men. What a problem to have.

In a way it’s a good time to play Grimsby Town. We’re buoyed by the start we’ve had, theirs has been indifferent. That’s got banana skin written all over it but if I had to put money on it I’d say, get those players on the pitch at half time Mr Jolley, get your flip chart ready, we’re coming to get you.

I know I’ve said it before but there’s never been a better time to be an Imp.