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Diary - Friday 13 April 2012

13 April 2012

Tomorrow the Mariners play Wrexham, a match that your Manchester-based, Welsh Middle-Aged Diary always means to get to, but finds he can't, and tomorrow is no exception. I suspect if ever I did get to the Racecourse, I'd be depressed at the national stereotyping on display.

No-one seems to be taking too seriously our hopes of getting into the play-offs. Paul Hurst's argument that there should be an extra promotion place almost seems like an admission of defeat. Contracts are up for grabs; it's a chance to match ourselves up, see how far we have come, against the best proper team in the league. Blah blah... it's an end-of-season game, with Wrexham as good as condemned to the play-offs, and us as good as condemned to not being in them. If you go, keep the sheep jokes to a minimum, enjoy it for what it is, and if he is playing, enjoy the performance of Michael Coulson in particular, while you can.

Apparently Radio Humberside is reporting that Coulson has been offered a contract for next season on worse terms than the one that expires in May, which would leave him free to leave. It actually seems a bit strange he'd be covered under the provisions of the protection offered to clubs who foster young players, given that he is not a product of our own youth team, but there we go. Let's hold our breaths that I'Anson and Thanoj are being offered the terms that ensure they remain our future.