The romance of the FA Cup in Cleethorpes, ultimately, was limited to a good old-fashioned away following of 571 hardy yet boisterous souls from Weston-super-Mare.

The Seagull Army twice wildly celebrated second-half equalisers through Luke Coulson and their predatory striker Louis Britton before Grimsby substitute Kieran Green’s looping header settled the match and ended Weston’s stirring six-game run in the competition.