Cod Almighty | Diary

We don't need to be lucky - just not to be unlucky

6 March 2025

Spring is springing all over the fens and your Guest Diarist is settled in a sunny spot to tell you all the things you already know, vent all the opinions you have already heard and mention how truly awful is hospital food. Thank heaven it is my poor wife who has to try to eat it rather than me. Two days ago there appeared on the same lunch plate cottage cheese, grey mashed potato and cold swede. Heston Blumenthal eat your heart out!

It is March and, true to form, the season has started. Anything can happen and any one result good or bad proves nothing. The bottom teams are fighting for their lives, the top half are dreaming of one big last push and Town are so unused to being in the top eight of the fourth division that there is not a single point of reference or comparison.

The club has sold 673 tickets for the early away game at leaders Walsall on Saturday. You can buy tickets on the day at the ground so we can confidently predict seven or eight hundred loyal, noisy Mariners fans to cheer them on. Walsall raced in to a big lead at the top, then had somewhat of a massive wobble followed by a sort of win-one-draw-one-lose-one run. Anything can happen but we travel there with a decent squad, the best away fans in the league and the confidence to have a real go.

I think it is such a shame that the weather patterns this winter have ended up with so many slow, heavy pitches. This Town side tries to play quick passing interchanges and you could see (especially in the first half hour) on Tuesday that passes were getting stuck and going astray. Ths is not anyone's fault but the Blundell Park pitch is one of the biggest challenges we face to win home games. The stuff the team have worked so hard on in training doesn't work as well on match day.

OK folks, gonna love ya and leave ya now, there's a brain scan upcoming and I need to get Dr Google's advice about Cushings disease. Keep buggering on. See yer.