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Diary - Tuesday 13 October 2009

13 October 2009

As one door closes, a great philosopher once reflected, another one slams in your face - and never was this more apparent than to Grimsby Town fans yesterday afternoon. No sooner had we started to come to terms with a new month-long injury to Adam Proudlock - one of the apparently few players in the squad who aren't laughing in our faces while they wipe their arses on our ticket money - than the news emerged that The Jarman had broken his foot again and would be out for six weeks. Jarman, of course, is another member of that dwindling band of good guys: a skilful footballer who worked for the best part of a year to get himself in shape and seized his chance with the Mariners like his life depended on it, and if every member of the team had his attitude we'd be in the top three, not the bottom three - I could go on, but it only magnifies the pain. As another great philosopher once reflected, it never rains but it bastard pisses it down.

Today's turn at Tell The Telegraph We've Not Been The Best Lately But We'll Get Better Now, Honest falls to Nick Colgan. Someone should really start keeping track of these. "We can't accept conceding goals, we can't accept losing tackles," is the veteran netman's take on Town's troubles. "We can't carry two or three players in a game because we aren't a good enough team to do that. We need everyone firing, digging others out and having a go at each other in the right manner." In fairness, then, Colgan emphasises what needs to change rather than promising emptily, in the manner of most of his teammates, that it simply will, so let's give some credit for that - and the Diary is starting to warm to our new goalkeeper after some convincing performances between the beams were supplemented last Saturday with an excellent display of giving as good as he was getting from the Pontoon's resident fuckwits. More of that please Nick!

At least Town are going to get twenty thousand quid out of Antichrist Murdoch for their Dulux Cup tie against Leeds being on the telly. Can we spend it all on bringing Dean Sinclair back, Mr Fenty, sir?

Speaking of Mr Fenty sir, the Diary rather expected a deluge of overnight correspondence on the subject of the chairman unburdening himself at the weekend. Let's turn to the Diary's inbox and see what you had to say, then. "Vyvyan to SPG the Hamster in The Young Ones from the episode that featured either Motorhead or The Damned (who by coincidence are touring together in November)," writes Mark Wilson, correctly identifying the source of yesterday's phrase at the top of the page, although I think he said it to Rik as well. Never mind, folks. Here's a quick GTFC quiz to remind you of better times. See you tomorrow.