FOUR changes were made to the Hartlepool United starting line-up for their Johnstone's Paint Trophy game with Grimsby Town.

Leon McSweeney, Jonny Rowell, Armann Bjornsson and Colin Larkin all started, with Antony Sweeney, Adam Boyd, James Brown and Denis Behan missing out.

There was a place on the bench for Ritchie Jones, after a three-game absence.

HARTLEPOOL UNITED: Flinders; Haslam, Collins, Liddle, Austin; McSweeney, Rowell, Humphreys, Monkhouse; Bjornsson, Rowell. Subs: Cook (gk), Boyd, Behan, Jones, Fredriksen.

GRIMSBY TOWN: Colgan; Wood, Bennett, Atkinson, Widdowson; Fuller, Boshell, P Sweeney, Forbes; Jarman, Proudlock. Subs: Overton, Clarke, North, Akpro, Leary.

Referee: Nigel Miller (Consett)