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Diary - Saturday 15 April 2006

15 April 2006

Though the Mariners stand one point outside the automatic promotion places with four games left to play, today's 1-1 draw at home to Shrewsbury leaves many fans with the sense that Town have blown it. This is unfortunate, since today's performance was the best for ages, excepting the lapse that handed the visitors their first-half goal (how is it that Russell Slade's side has the tallest defence in the history of association football and still can't defend corners?). The unhappy circumstances of a shit referee, a shit linesman, the Shrews' excellent goalkeeper Joe Hart, and away wins for Northampton and Leyton Orient (the latter courtesy of a penalty awarded by GTFC-phobic official Carl Boyeson) have naturally conspired to push the Mariners down to fourth place, and the Diary is yet to meet a single Town fan who thinks their side's chances in the play-offs would exceed those of the proverbial snowball in hell. But as we began by implying, a deficit of one point with 12 left to contest leaves a lot of potential outcomes yet.

Nice penalty from Goodfellow, anyway. Great performance from Goodfellow all round, in fact. Can we keep him please Russ?