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Diary - Thursday 26 February 2009

26 February 2009

Have we opened the curtains yet?

It's nearly midday and you have to go to work. C'mon, shape up; it's no time to wallow in the mire. You can't have your tea if you don't get up right now! What are we? Are we apple crumbles or sticky toffee puddings? Stand up and shout it from the rooftops: "I support Grimsby Town". Be defiant, be proud. We can hang monkeys and drown ducks in the summer if we need to.

I am Deviant Diary and I support Grimsby Town. Support - look it up in the dictionary.

After Tuesday's events action has been taken. Out-of-contract and out-of-luck keeper Mr Barnes looks likely to be replaced by Scunthorpe's next signing, the brilliantly named Shane Supple, a young Ipswicher. Well, Scunny do seem to poach our successful loanees, don't they.

Elsewhere in the division of despair, the wrong club has plunged into administration. Serial failures Darlington entered administration yet again yesterday. Is a measly 10-point deduction (the equivalent of four games unbeaten) sufficient 'punishment' for employing players for far, far too much money and not paying their debts? Not when they've done it before. Turf 'em out now, I say. We're through the looking glass here, people, for financial failure means zippedy doo-dah in football. Football finance is a funny thing, isn't it. How do those teams with no fans pay their players? Where do they get their money from? Are their boards above board? Shall we wait and see?

I'm claiming responsibility for the Quackers' latest insolvency - without my £7.50 for car park and matchday programme they couldn't afford to pay their left-back. Remember that if you go to the Chester.

While we're on about debt, a fine is probably coming the way of Mr Re-Newell after cogently reflecting upon patronising idiots. Idiots, yes, idiots. Did he call them idiots? Town aren't going to appeal against Lulu's sending-off though. What is the point? We'll only be patronised and last time we tried that Fenton got an increased ban. So appealing would be idiotic.

All of which may have a positive side - engendering a fortress mentality. Ah, but this is Grimsby, we'll all just moan at ourselves and sullenly sulk. Are Town and the town's spirit broken?

Start the fightback now. Go on. Stand up and be defiant. One, two, three, wahey.