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Diary - Thursday 12 September 2002

12 September 2002

"I'm no quitter. I'm under no illusions how difficult the task is but I'll keep working hard and hope we turn the corner," says a defiant Paul Groves in today's Grimsby (Evening) Telegraph. Throughout the article, the G(E)T points out that Town's miserable start to the season is breaking club records. Seems Roy Castle's logic about beating the rest to be a record breaker was somewhat flawed.

Brazilian trialist Arturo Bernhardt made his bow for a team featuring reserves and youth in a private practice match at York yesterday. The goalscoring honours, though, went to Chris Thompson and Mark Newton in a 2-0 win. "We absolutely battered them," said coach David Lloyd. I mean Paul Wilkinson. Jamie Pollock played and is said to be working hard to reach match fitness.

The club's tearful appeal to Grimsby businesses for £20,000 to stop four YT players being sent to the workhouse has moved soft-hearted local firm MJ Fastenings into pledging five grand.