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Diary - Thursday 22 July 2004

22 July 2004

Hello you! All our regular and semi-regular Diarists appear to have disappeared today, so it's left to me, Mark Stilton, to come in and do a half-arsed rush job.

News, then. Well, the OS reports that Ben Chapman and Steve Croudson are back at the club. On trial I guess. Whether they'll be offered contracts or not remains to be seen - but Slade is looking to boost his squad with two or three more signings according to a report on BBC Humberside (the spoken word version). Also, the club is trying to help keep the new players fit and ready for action by making sure they don't contract the lurgy from fans, if the report on the OS is anything to go by. Unless they meant something else when they spoke of "expecting a healthy crowd" for the match with Scunny on Friday. 7.30 KO, £4 on the gate, Pontoon and Main Stand only - in case you're interested. We take it the previous match between Grimsby United and Scunthorpe Town has been postponed to make way for this one then, yeah?

Meanwhile, reports are filtering through the various messageboards that a Grimsby XI won 4-1 against Barton Town last night. The match was billed as a reserves match but included a few more trialists (of which no-one has heard of) and a couple of expected first teamers (Sestanovic, Macca). Goals came from Wheeler(2), Lightowler and a trialist who has yet to be indentified.

Over in GET land we're told that Stanno has successfully made it through the match at Barton whilst recovering from a back injury. Good news that, and it means he may be able to play against Scunny with fellow team mates Flemo, Parko, Bullo, Crowo, Ramso, Whito, Willo and Trialisto. Probably.

And thato is allo for todayo.