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Diary - Tuesday 25 March 2008

25 March 2008

"Easter sends people into a giddy tizz, doesn't it," wrote Tony Butcher on Good Friday in an email to Cod Almighty as a whole, rather than the Diary, but I might as well have it since the Postbag seems to have been abducted by aliens for the 18th time in his short letter-page-editing career. Mr B continues: "Iffy O, Lincoln's temporary Iffy coach, is contemplating a late run to the play-offs. 'Don't write us off, anything is possible,' he says. No it isn't. They're six points behind even us, even." And an unfavourable comparison with the Mariners' chances of a top-seven finish may be just about the perfect way to emphasise the slenderness of Onuora's play-off hopes after the shocking performance from Town's defence in yesterday's home defeat by a very ordinary Brentford side. "I think since we got through to Wembley we haven't been the force we were," observed Lord Alan Buckley, whose team had suffered only one defeat in 16 games before qualifying for the final of the Dulux Cup but has lost three out of five since. Not that Lincoln securing a place in the play-offs tends to result in promotion, of course.

Still, if you think yesterday's Grimsby performance was depressing, it wasn't as depressing as this one.