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Diary - Tuesday 22 May 2012

22 May 2012

Middle-aged Diary writes: The 'Shall we have two goalkeepers in the squad?' traffic light is currently on green. That's the news.

On days like this, we all become like Grimsby Telegraph journalists, as Rob Smith observes while bringing us news of Nick Hegarty's rehabilitation in the Victorian Premier League. That's the state in Australia, in case you were wondering whether Hegarty had travelled back in time 120 years (and tried to take our Main Stand with him). 120 years ago was perhaps the prime of the Grimsby v Lincoln derby, which is the best I can do to link the fact that Rob Duffy and Peter Bore have both signed one year contracts at Sincil Bank. Whether we'll be moved to wonder, as Rob does of Hegarty, why we ever let them go may be determined by the results of the next Lincolnshire derby.

On days like this, themes suggested in a spirit of optimism by one diarist get legs as another has little choice but to pick them up. Richard Satterley, signing himself Man of Faith after the title given to his first letter in the CA postbag and reporting himself still bitten by the Mariners bug, suggests John Cleese and Ronnie Corbett to play Shouty and Shorty, an analogy which suggests that, in the pecking order of our co-managers' seniority, Paul Hurst knows his place.

That's it. Go outside and do something more interesting.