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Diary - Thursday 29 November 2007

29 November 2007

Me and my big mouth. Yesterday's Diary, as the sharper-minded among you will remember fairly easily, reported - and indeed lamented - that former Town loafer Phil Jevons would not be available to his loan club Huddersfield for their FA Cup tie against the Mariners this Saturday. No sooner had the Diary uploaded, though, than the news broke that no, actually, he would. Jevons Gets Cup Green Light is the headline chosen for the story by the Grimsby Telegraph, which is coincidentally identical to the one used by the Terriers' official website. Why the change of heart? The white-booted one's parent club Bristol City had initially blocked Jevons from appearing, keeping him available to them for future rounds of the cup if needed, but the Robins apparently U-turned after the player nipped down to Bristol earlier this week to say to his manager Gary Johnson either "oh go on, pleeeease let me play, I'll be your bezzie" or "oh go on, pleeeease let me play, I really want to score against them Grimsby bastards who left me rotting in the reserves cos they were too tight to pay me appearance money". Yes, you can blame the Diary for his hat-trick.

The fates of Town's first team and reserve team seem to have been diametrically opposed in recent times. When Russell Slade's first team came within a shit play-off final of promotion, Grahams Rodgerses' second string went through the entire season without a win. Then, just as the first XI reverted to being rubbish, Stuarts Watkisses got the reserves beating everyone in sight. And now that the senior side has got two wins on the board, the stiffs are losing again, as in yesterday's 1-0 home defeat by Darlington. The editors of GTFC's superb new official website seem to have found Jonathan Byrne's phone number again, as the writer of those surprisingly decent match reports earlier in the season has returned to give a good account of the game and himself, from which it seems that Jamie Clarke got Phil Barnes in trouble - with a dodgy back-pass for the goal, I mean, not that he got him pregnant. Luke Foulkes watchers will already have noted that the promising young full-back continued his remarkable run of appearances for the Mariners' reserves despite having been both released and then loaned to Boston United until January.

Lastly today, you can never have too many football messageboards, and for that reason the Diary is able to announce the arrival of GTFC-Forum - "built for the fans by the fans", it says. There are no adverts, which is always pleasing to CA's eye, so let's wish it every success at whatever it is that messageboards are supposed to do.